Buford Ray Conley

In 1989, Conley was one of ten students on an Academic All Star Team according to local reporting; at the time, he was a senior at Fleming County High School and was a resident of Hillsboro, Kentucky.[1] Conley has published research on the performance of hybrid rocket propulsion and the design of space tethers with Robert Forward, and in the area of evolutionary pressures on emergence of diseases with Joon Yun. He also researched cold fusion at MIT. His advancement of Child's Law is often cited in related to ion propulsion.[2]

Conley began his investing career at the investment fund Oak Hill Capital and later at Palo Alto Investors.[3][4][5] Later, as Managing Partner of Finance Technology Leverage, he was Executive Chairman of Space Infrastructure Services LLC (SIS) in partnership with Space Systems Loral and DARPA to commercialize a $305 million robotic servicing satellite.[6][7][8][9] He served on the board of directors of Aeries Acquisition Corporation, a publicly listed company[3] and as the CEO of Benetic, a financial services technology company.[10][11]

• Conley, Buford Ray (May 1995). ""Utilization of Ambient Gas as a Propellant for Low Earth Orbit Electric Propulsion"" (PDF). Masters Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA: 24, equation 3.43 – via dspace.mit.edu.
• Conley, Buford R.; Doux, John D.; Lee, Patrick Y.; Bazar, Kimberly A.; Daniel, Stephanie M.; Yun, Anthony J. (January 1, 2005). "Integrating the theories of Darwin and Bernoulli: Maladaptive baroreceptor network dysfunction may explain the pathogenesis of aortic aneurysms". Medical Hypotheses. 65 (2): 266–272. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2005.03.006. ISSN 0306-9877. PMID 15922098.
• Lewin, Andrew; Dennis, Joseph; Conley, Buford; Suzuki, David (July 6, 1992). "Experimental determination of performance parameters for a polybutadiene/oxygen hybrid rocket". 28th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit. Nashville, TN, U.S.A.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi:10.2514/6.1992-3590.
• Forward, Robert; Conley, Buford; Stanek, Clay; Ramsey, William (July 6, 1992). "The cable catapult - Putting it there and keeping it there". 28th Joint Propulsion Conference and Exhibit. Nashville, TN, U.S.A.: American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. doi:10.2514/6.1992-3077.
• Yun, Anthony J.; Lee, Patrick Y.; Doux, John D.; Conley, Buford R. (January 1, 2006). "A general theory of evolution based on energy efficiency: its implications for diseases". Medical Hypotheses. 66 (3): 664–670. doi:10.1016/j.mehy.2005.07.002. ISSN 0306-9877. PMID 16122878.