CEO & President - BEGST founder Gary Swangin is currently the astronomer and manager of the Panther Planetarium (Paterson NJ) which is geared toward high school students. Previously, he was director of the Newark Museum Planetarium in Newark, NJ for nearly 16 years.

CIO - Linda is an award-winning marketing, communications, writing, and editorial professional with experience in journalism, advertising, public relations, education, and corporate communications. She has worked for Movado, The Record (newspaper), Orechio Communications, and several advertising agencies.

Graphics Specialist - Isaiah leads the creative process with a combination of knowledge and experience in diverse areas. His expertise covers logo design, web design, photo manipulation, graphic design, and video editing.

BAFTA- nominated Executive Producer (feature documentary ‘One Deadly Weekend in America’) and a regular member of BAFTA jury panels. Jon is the founder and CEO of an independent production company, Astronaut Films. Based in London, England but with a global outlook, our focus is premium documentaries for the International and UK markets. Focused on find and tell the world’s most interesting stories and work with the best directors. Astronaut are rep’d by ICM Partners.

Alan Hirshfeld, Professor of Physics at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and an Associate of the Harvard College Observatory, received his undergraduate degree in astrophysics from Princeton and his Ph.D. in astronomy from Yale. He is the author of Starlight Detectives: How Astronomers, Inventors, and Eccentrics Discovered the Modern Universe, Parallax: The Race to Measure the Cosmos, The Electric Life of Michael Faraday, and Eureka Man: The Life and Legacy of Archimedes. He is a regular book reviewer for the Wall Street Journal and lectures nationwide about science history and discovery.