Chairman

Mr. Jurewicz has over 30 years experience in the Aerospace/Defense, Communications, Electronics, Financial Services, Consulting and Information Systems industries. He has worked at senior levels in five Fortune 500 companies, including: United Technologies Corporation, Sperry, Thiokol, USAA, and SAIC. During those corporate years Ben has been successful as an internal entrepreneur, starting new divisions and successfully running business units. He has been a primary player in several corporate division sales and purchases, including the sale of a Sperry division to Tenneco and the purchase of a GE fuel cell division by UTC.

In Connecticut, Virginia, Utah, and Texas Ben has been involved with organizing private start-up companies. Currently, Ben is a principal in Better Business Designs, Inc., (BBD) a company that consults in start-up operations, providing strategy development, business planning, and financial sourcing. BBD has been under contract to EG&G to support the Greater Kelly Development Authority in strategic planning and finding funding for development since 2002. In addition, as one of seven local investors he is serving as Chairman and acting CEO for San Antonio Airlines. From 1999 through 2001, Ben was the Director of the Institute for Studies in Business at the University of Texas in San Antonio (UTSA) and taught Entrepreneurship. Since the beginning of 2005 he has been on the faculty of Embry Riddle University teaching evening graduate classes in Advanced Aerodynamics and Aircraft & Spacecraft Development.

Ben has undergraduate degrees from King’s College (A.B. Mathematics) and Penn State (B.S. Aerospace Engineering), two graduate engineering degrees from MIT (M.S. and E.A.A.), and an M.B.A. from the University of CT. Ben is very active in the City of San Antonio, as a initial Board Member of the San Antonio Technology Accelerator Initiative (SATAI), Co-Chair of the Aviation Cluster Group, and a founding Board Member of the Technology Advocates of San Antonio (TASA). He is an Associate Fellow in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) and has served as Chairman of both CT and UT Sections.

Early in his career, Ben was an elected Wetlands Commissioner in South Windsor, CT and served for ten years. Ben is married to Mary Dolan Jurewicz (for 35 years) and has lived in San Antonio for the last 12 years. Mary and Ben have three children: Justin, Matthew, and Elizabeth, all residing in San Antonio.