Neal S Lachman
Strategy Advisor / Business Consultant

Neal has more than 35 years of business experience, including 30 years in investing, finance, telecom, and technology.

Neal also serves as the founding CEO of Titans Space Industries, which recently launched the world's largest commercial space program. He is an expert in orbital infrastructure and has access to an international network of space and aerospace experts and executives.

Neal is a thoroughly experienced, energetic, and bold investor who is 'cut from entrepreneurial cloth.' He is also a pragmatic and strategic planner with a long-term business philosophy.

Neal is a telecoms pioneer and an outspoken entrepreneur; his opinion (often conveyed through White Papers since 2000) has earned him the respect from one part of the industry, as well as severe dislike from another part.

Neal takes pride in having correctly called most of the telecom and technology trends and developments since 2000, often contrarian to commonly understood trends. From 1998 to 2000, Neal and his younger brother Aniel pioneered satellite broadband for millions of users in the international residential markets, which was a novel business model. The brothers invested more than $2.5 million in R&D and marketing, including piloting the world's first multi-hundred megabit internet downlink on an Eutelsat satellite in December 1999, which they advertised in the Wall Street Journal and other global publications. Just a few months later, in 2000, the global telecom and technology markets crashed, subsequently ending the satellite endeavors. Instead, the brothers decided to focus on fiber optics.

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Since early 2000, Neal pioneered and evangelized, along with his brother Aniel, and Gregory Nemitz the Fiber-to-the-Home/Fiber-to-the-Premises industry, which at that time had no market, and is today a growing part of the $2 trillion telecom market.

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Active in the residential fiber industry since 2000, Neal sponsored and presented at the first major Fiber To The Home (FTTH) gathering in the world, which took place at the Rotterdam Theater, the Netherlands, in March 2002. As such, Neal, his brother Aniel, and Gregory Nemitz are widely recognized as the earliest pioneers in the now global FTTH industry.

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➟ Raised his first angel capital in 1989 (at age 18.5), and again in 1992 from a group of angel investors, including a direct investment from one of the Netherlands’ UHNW- and oldest business families
➟ Specialized (at age 22 – for his business mentor, a major real estate investor, and Management Buyout specialist) in finding real estate corporations with tax replacement reserve obligations. Neal’s success with this business allowed him to become an investor at a very young age
➟ 1992: Launched trial magazine for millionaires
➟ 1995: 28-year tech/telecom veteran
➟ 1995: Received 3 satellite broadcast TV licenses
➟ 1995-2000: Founding Managing Partner at Holland Advisory Services Ltd.- a boutique investment firm with several groups, including (media & retail) investments, business consultancy, and M&A
➟ 1998-2000: Pioneered Satellite Broadband (InternetHyperGate; see link)
➟ Since 2000, envisioned, introduced, popularized, and open-sourced numerous technology application concepts that are now widely used

➟ 2000-2003: Published the world’s largest Wi-Fi, Free Space Optics, and Fixed Wireless Access newsletter (sent to ~25,000 emails)
➟ 2000: Hired the then Director of the Research Institute for Advanced Computer Science (RIACS) at NASA  Ames Research Center, Dr. Barry Leiner, one of the fathers of the Internet, to the InternetHyperGate Advisory Board 
➟ 2000: Pioneered Fiber to the Home
➟ 2001: Hired Dr. Raj Reddy, the father of Artificial Intelligence (see link, p. 22)
➟ 2003: Founded 21st Century Infrastructures Consortium (see link)
➟ 2008: Hired Hollywood legend and angel investor Rutger Hauer as Creative Director
➟ 2008: Added NBA Hall of Fame legend and angel investor Rick Barry to NSL & Co as Partner
➟ Literally wrote “the book” (150+page white paper) on Next Generation Telecom Infrastructures (June 2007): “Building Communications Infrastructures for the 21st Century: A Multi-Billion Dollar Opportunity for Investors, Vendors and Partners”. Read by 2,000+industry and investment professionals
➟ Alerted telco industry (through published papers) on shortcomings of Broadband over Satellite (2000), PON (2003), WiMAX (2005/07), City-WiFi (2007), etc.
➟ Wrote an analysis in August 2012 on Google’s entry in the FTTH market. Was the Editor’s Pick on SeekingAlpha. The analysis was featured in a Forbes article
➟ In November 2012, published “Disastrous Flaws in FTTH Business Planning”, a wake-up call that shook the industry, and forced the industry to look for more robust business and development models

➟ From 2012 to 2018, wrote numerous 4G and 5G telecom consultancy papers for the FCC (USA), Ofcom (UK), and European countries.

➟ Cognitive Behavioural Therapist (accredited by ABC Awards) at MindPower Alliance; volunteering therapist for suicide-prevention, burn-out, and depressed individuals

Since 2019, Neal has been focusing on projects that will contribute to a better world for all living beings.

Neal's main focus is to build Titans Universe into the largest corporation in the world by 2035, generating multiple trillion dollars revenue from numerous disruptive projects, including lunar mining of precious metals, investments, aviation, telecom, media, technologies, transportation, robotics, automation, clean energy, (eco-)tourism, space commerce, and space tourism.

Neal has often overcome adversity, including two bankruptcies (1992 and 1998), and helped his companies and projects survive several recessions and economic downturns since 1997.

Neal is a truly modern, global executive who is of Indian descend, born in South America, and fluent in six languages: English, German, Dutch, Hindi, Urdu, and Surinamese, along with a good understanding of Punjabi, Spanish, French and Italian.

Neal is a citizen of the Netherlands where he grew up and lived for more than 25 years before moving abroad. Neal is a perpetual traveler and has lived in Vancouver Canada, New York City, London, and Sarajevo (Bosnia).

Some of Neal's most recent publications concern aerospace developments such as space travel, rocketry, and spaceplanes.

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