KTEC Pipeline: PIPELINE Mentors

Bruce Ferguson has served as Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Edenspace Systems Corporation since co-founding the company in 1998. Edenspace, www.edenspace.com, is a plant biotechnology company that is a leader in the development of innovative energy and environmental applications that include low-cost crop feedstocks for production of cellulosic ethanol and other renewable fuels.

From 1997 to 1998, Ferguson was a visiting fellow at George Washington University's Center for International Science and Technology Policy. From 1982 to 1997, he was an executive at Orbital Sciences Corporation (NYSE:ORB), a space technology company he co-founded in 1982, serving in positions that included Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President and General Manager, Chief Financial Officer, General Counsel and member of the Board of Directors. The company currently has annual revenues of $800 million with more than 2,500 employees. Prior to his work at Orbital, Ferguson was an attorney in the corporate and securities department of the Chicago law firm of Kirkland & Ellis.

In 1981, Ferguson received his MBA from Harvard Business School and his JD from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received an AB magna cum laude in Government from Harvard College and an EdM from the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1976. He is a member of the Pegasus launch vehicle team that received the 1991 National Medal of Technology and is a 1999 recipient of the Harvard Business School Alumni Achievement Award. Ferguson chairs the the Development Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Carnegie Institution of Washington.