David L. Brown

As a NASA engineer, David Brown designed the landing gear on the Apollo Lunar Landing Module for America's first mission to the Moon.

An author of several books on investing, and Founder of Sabrient Systems, David serves on the Director's Council at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

David served both as Chairman of the U.S. Science and Technology Commission, and Chairman of the New Millennium Committee of the Planetary Society. An avid avian enthusiast, his garden is filled with over two dozen bird feeders, each dedicated to a specific species, that brings him joy every time he looks out his window.