Dr. Robert "Bart" Barthelemy, from Dayton, Ohio, USA, is the Founding Director of the Wright Brothers Institute and the President of the Collaborative Innovation Institute.

Dr. Barthelemy was the National Director of the National Aerospace Plane Program, where he reported to the White House and was responsible for the development of the nation’s hypersonic aerospace plane. While a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service (SES), he served as the Technical Director of the Air Force Wright Aeronautical Laboratories at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, the U.S. Air Force’s largest research and development (R&D) complex.

He has been a consultant to a variety of aerospace industry companies and federal government organizations, including Lockheed-Martin, Boeing, the Department of Defense and the Air Force Research Laboratory. Dr. Barthelemy was also a Visiting Scientist at the Software Engineering Institute and Carnegie Mellon University and Adjunct Professor at the University of Dayton.

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Bart's educational background includes a Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering from MIT, Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering and Physics from MIT, and a Doctor of Philosophy in Nuclear Physics/Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. He has published three books, “The Sky Is Not The Limit”, “Collaborative Innovation”, and “GodLight, Possibilities from the intersections of Science and Spirituality”. Bart continues to work at the Wright Brothers Institute and is involved in various academic and philanthropic pursuits.