Jay Wittner has been a space advocate for over 30 years.  He has been a member of the National Space Society and other space advocacy groups for over 20 years.  He has previously served as Vice President of Membership for NSS and is on the Society’s Buzz Aldrin Council.  Wittner founded the Southwest Florida Chapter of NSS which was named “The Most Promising New Chapter” at the 2007 Dallas ISDC.

He currently serves as President of Wittner Consulting.  Wittner Consulting focuses on business planning for new ventures and providing management and marketing consulting to retail businesses.  Prior to Wittner Consulting he served as a Financial Consultant with A.G. Edwards.  From 1990 through 2001 he served as Vice President of Jess Jewelers in Bradenton, Florida. His responsibilities included preparing budgets, creating financial models, developing financial statements, and analyzing multi-year business plans.

A native of Tampa Florida, Wittner graduated from Jesuit High School in Tampa and earned his bachelors of Business Administration from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. Mr. Wittner is an avid reader of science fiction and credits his early interest in space development to the Apollo Program, Robert Heinlein, Gerard O'Neill, Gene Roddenberry, and Harvey Wittner.