Ian A. Rivard is a consulting aerospace structures and stress engineer with over two decades of industry experience. Coming from an aviation family, aircraft have always been a significant part of his life. After completing his university education, Ian worked in the private sector supporting several aircraft OEMs. He later expanded to space launch and satellite projects with a major OEM, focusing on reusability. Ian has supported projects in all phases of product life cycle, from new designs to product support, repairs, MRB, fatigue, and fracture. Throughout his career, he has utilized classical methods for composites and metallics to address structural challenges, in recent years he has been honing a focus in finite element analysis and the development of best practices and methods.

Eric Roulo is the President and Senior Analyst at Roulo Consulting, Inc. He has over 20 years of experience in aerospace, defense, and transportation analysis with an emphasis on training engineers and initial sizing. His experience includes providing support to companies including Raytheon, NASA, SpaceX, Virgin Orbit, Moog Aircraft Group, Orbital Sciences, Northrop Grumman, Goodrich Aerostructures, and many in the 'new space' field. He started his career at Space Systems/Loral, working on telecommunication satellites before branching out to support most of the major legacy primes on projects including military and commercial aircraft, spacecraft, and rockets. He has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and has secured a patent for the active steering of an appendage on a spacecraft using piezoelectric actuators.