Entrepreneurship
The following is a list of several non-profit and for-profit companies for which I have been involved in founding, co-founding or a major role in supporting as a part of the leadership/management team. In addition he is involved with multiple other companies for which he has share ownership as an investor.
Interstellar Research Centre
Legal Status: Research Division of Stellar Engines Ltd (active), 2019+
Role: Founder
Position: Director
Web Address: https://interstellarresearchcentre.org/
Mission: To conduct scientific research which leads to design readiness of a mature starship capability by around the year 2100. [UK]
Stellar Engines Ltd
Legal Status: UK for-profit Ltd Liability (active), 2011+
Role: Founder
Position: Managing Director
Web Address: http://www.sel.space
Mission: The mission of Stellar Engines Ltd is to conduct ambitious aerospace research research through scientific excellence. [UK]
Nebula Sciences Ltd
Legal Status: UK for-profit Ltd Liability (the company is no longer trading)
Role: Co-founder with Sam Harrison
Position: Director and Lead Scientist
Mission: The mission of Nebula Sciences is to lower the cost of access to near space for all. [UK/US]
Terra Altair Ltd
Legal Status: UK for-profit Ltd Liability (the company is no longer trading), 2016 - 2021.
Role: Founder
Position: Managing Director
Mission: The mission of Terra Altair is to conduct property, investment and wealth generation activities which contribute to education and research activities that advance the human position in access to deep space. [UK]
The Initiative for Interstellar Studies
Legal Status: UK pending non-for-profit limited by guarantee (active), 2012+
Role: Co-founder and originator with Robert Swinney
Position: Researcher (Previously President and Director Strategy and founding Executive Director)
Web Address: http://www.i4is.org/
Mission: The mission of the Initiative for Interstellar Studies (I4IS) is to foster and promote education, knowledge and technical capabilities which lead to designs, technologies or enterprise that will enable the construction and launch of interstellar spacecraft. There is also a U.S sister company titled the Institute for Interstellar Studies, incorporated in 2014, for which Kelvin served as the founding President and then served as the Chairman of the board until September 2018. [UK/US]
Icarus Interstellar
Legal Status: non-profit 501(3)c in the US, 20011+
Role: Co-founder with Richard Obousy, Andreas Tziolas, Robert Freeland, Adam Crowl, Pat Galea.
Position: Vice President European Operations, Secretary, Committee Chair until 2012. No longer involved.
Web Address: http://www.icarusinterstellar.org/
Mission: The mission of Icarus Interstellar is to realize interstellar flight before the year 2100. We will accomplish this objective by researching and developing the science and the technologies that will make interstellar flight a reality, igniting the public’s interest, and engaging with all those prepared to invest in interstellar exploration. [US]
100 Year Starship
Legal Status: Unknown post-2011.
Role: Co-recipient of the NASA/DARPA 2011 $500,000 award. Resigned in June 2012 and no longer associated.
Position: never defined.
web address: http://100yss.org/
Mission: We exist to make the capability of human travel beyond our solar system a reality within the next 100 years. We unreservedly dedicate ourselves to identifying and pushing the radical leaps in knowledge and technology needed to achieve interstellar flight, whilst pioneering and transforming breakthrough applications that enhance the quality of life for all on Earth. We actively seek to include the broadest swatch of people and human experience in understanding, shaping and implementing this global aspiration. [US]
The British Interplanetary Society
Kelvin is an active supporter and Fellow of the British Interplanetary Society, which is the oldest (1933) space based charity in the world dedicated to advancements in astronautics and space exploration. He has served on their governing council and was previously the Chief Editor of their premier technical publication, The Journal of the British Interplanetary Society (JBIS).
Legal Status: UK Charity Ltd by Guarantee (active), 1933+
Role: member governance team, Fellow, lead for technical publications
Position: Council Member, Chief Editor JBIS, Deputy Chairman Technical Committee, Member other Committees
Web Address: http://www.bis-space.com
Mission: The objects for which the Society is established are to promote the advancement of knowledge and the spread of education and particularly to promote the advancement and dissemination of knowledge relating to the science, engineering and technology of Astronautics. [UK]