Linden BlueLinden Blue received his Bachelor's degree from Yale University in 1958, and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree by South Dakota University of Mines and Technology. He is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program of the Harvard Businss School. He was correspondent for the Yale Aerial Expedition to South America (featured on the cover of Life magazine in 1957). He served in the U.S. Air Force Strategic Air Command, and, with his brother Neal, founded a cacao and banana plantation in Nicaragua. He was briefly incarcerated in Cuba prior to the Bay of Pigs Invasion in 1961. Mr. Blue was co-founder of Cordillera Corporation of Denver, and has served as president and CEO of Beech Aircraft Corporation, a director of Raytheon Company, CEO of Lear Fan Limited, executive vice president and general manager of Gates Learjet Corporation and managing director of Spectrum Aeronautical. He is vice chairman of General Atomics in San Diego, a leading scientific company focused on fission and fusion energy, high powered electro-magnetics and remotely piloted aircraft technologies for surveillance, intelligence and reconnaissance. Linden Blue is a fierce supporter of the liberties that can only be enjoyed in a society based on constitutional pluralism (democracy), free enterprise, and the rule of law. Read More Read Less