Speaker Biography

Janet Tinoco

Professor, Management and Marketing

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University

Janet K. Tinoco is a systems engineer and Professor of Management and Marketing at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, O’Maley College of Business in Daytona Beach, FL, US. Her expertise is in technical and strategic management, systems engineering, innovation and business policy, particularly with respect to defense and space systems. She has over 30 years of industry and academic experience in the US, Europe, and the Middle East. She has been involved in commercial space research with NASA and the US Federal Aviation Administration and works alongside Mr. Babb on spaceport research, including spaceport infrastructures and national airspace integration of commercial space and aviation activities. Dr. Tinoco has received several engineering and academic research awards; published in numerous academic journals; co-authored research reports for industry and government agencies; and has been an invited guest lecturer on spaceport development in the US and abroad.