Edgar Johansson - Chairman of the Board for the Colorado Space Business Roundtable

Edgar is the current Chairman of the Board for the Colorado Space Business Roundtable (CSBR) and sits on the board of the Colorado Space Coalition as well as the Mile High Chapter of NDIA. Edgar works for Red Canyon Engineering & Software as the Director of Business Development in this capacity he is responsible for the development of new business for Red Canyon in Colorado and across the nation. He is also the founder of Johansson & Associates LLC which supplies services that fills two specific needs on contract, business development as well as state and federal relations.

From 2004 through 2008 Edgar had an appointment as a Professional Research Assistant for the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Edgar’s responsibilities at LASP included Risk Manager on the TIM instrument for NASA Mission Glory as well as Risk Manager for TSIS on NPOESS.

Prior to Edgar’s experience at LASP he spent four years as the Director-Asia for the State of Colorado organizing eleven trade missions to the Far East representing over eighty Colorado companies that covering nine different Asian markets. During the same four years Edgar was also the Space Liaison to the Office of Economic Development & International Trade, the Governor’s Office, & the Office of Innovation & Technology. Edgar assumed these additional responsibilities in April of 2001 and implemented many new and dynamic programs that have added to the strength of Colorado’s economy and Colorado’s status in the global space and aerospace market.

Edgar is a graduate of the “Leadership Program of the Rockies” as well as the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder’s “50 for Colorado” program. Edgar was the recipient of the 2003 Distinguished Alumni Award from the University of Colorado, Denver where he holds a degree in Communication (focus on international business and Asian studies). Edgar has studied the Japanese language, culture and history in the United States at Metro State College, the University of Colorado and at the Japan Center for Michigan University in Hikone, Japan.

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