Mr. Cummings has 40 years experience in aircraft design and development, product design, and education. He retired from Boeing as a Technical Fellow in 2004 and started The Center for Innovation, which focuses on presenting Creativity Workshops to industry, universities and government agencies. He holds 24 patents in a variety of fields. In addition to his experience in the United States, Mr. Cummings has worked for DASA and RFB in Germany, BAE in England, Aeromacchi and General Avia in Italy, and PRomavia in Belgium. He has also worked with the Russian aircraft design bureaus Mikoyan and Yakovlev in the United States. Mr. Cummings’ last position at Boeing was as manager of the Exploratory Concepts Group within Advanced Design at Boeing’s internationally recognized Phantom Works in Huntington Beach, California. He also designs, builds and operates motorcycles for which he currently holds 12 World Land Speed records, all set at Bonneville Salt Flats, Utah.