Bob Fudickar

Bob Fudickar currently serves as Executive Director, NCAM. Before as Director of Engineering Excellence for LM Windpower, a GE Renewables company after previously serving as the Director of Business Development for NASA’s Michoud Assembly Facility since March 2012. NASA’s effort to commercialize their campus in New Orleans has become more aggressive since the Space Shuttle program ended in 2011 and with the advent of the Space Launch System program currently being implemented. He served as Technology Industry Director for the Louisiana Department of Economic Development (LED) from August 2005- February 2012. He brings 30 years of business development experience to the NASA/Jacob’s with an emphasis on technology, finance and capital markets. Prior to LED, he served as executive director of the Investor Relations Practice for ConsulttUS Group. He also served in technology related finance and investor relations capacities for Arthur Andersen, Avex Investments, and CenturyTel. He began his career as an investment banker with Paine Webber. His background demonstrates his command of international technology markets since his tenure with uniView Technologies, a leading technology bridge between China and the U.S. He focuses his efforts on working with universities, research organizations and businesses to promote research and development of new technologies in the state; the State of Louisiana’s point of contact for NASA; interact with technology companies to understand opportunities and obstacles to development; and lead team efforts to attract new technology businesses to the state and start new in-state ventures.

Bob sits on the Aerospace Alliance Board of Directors, Louisiana’s Committee of 100 for Economic Development. Prior engagements include Southern Growth Policies Board, the Louisiana Optical Network Initiative Management Council Board, Southern Technology Council Board of Directors, Louisiana Technology Council Board of Directors, Louisiana Immersive Technology Enterprise Commission, Louisiana Business & Technology Center at LSU and was a member of U.S. Senator David Vitter’s Aerospace Corridor Committee along being a prior engagement as a Commissioner of the New Orleans Regional Business Park. He’s been recognized with Baton Rouge’s Business Report Top 500 Influential People for the region in its inaugural (’23) and following year (’24)

He attended Louisiana State University and graduated from University of Louisiana along with a graduate degree from the University of Oklahoma’s Economic Development Institute.