Ajay Kothari is president and founder of Astrox Corporation, an aerospace R&D company in the suburbs of Washington DC. He holds an MS and a PhD  in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland and a BS in Physics from Bombay University. Kothari has over 45 professional publications and was also awarded a national merit scholarship. He has been interviewed on television and has also authored more than 30 op-ed pieces. Kothari has acted in television shows and is also the first Indian-American member of the Screen Actors Guild (now SAG/AFTRA) for the Washington-Baltimore region. He is also an artist who has exhibited at ArtExpoNY and various galleries.