About Us
Rocky Persaud, B.A.Sc, B.Sc.
Rocky Persaud is President and Owner of IPX. He is completing a M.Sc. at the University of Toronto, developing geological models of sedimentary basins on Mars. He was a Science Collaborator on the Haughton-Mars Project, and was a crewmember of Flashline Mars Arctic Research Station during the 2001 field season. For two years he was President of Mars Society Canada, and later Vice President of Research.
Before entering the field of planetary geology, Rocky obtained his first bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Toronto. Rocky was coordinator and Principal Investigator for Expedition One at the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah in 2003. During Expedition Two, he continued his analogue geological studies in the Australian desert. Under his leadership, Mars Society Canada initiated a training program for MSC volunteers who wished to serve on future research expeditions. Rocky's 20-expedition research program of field science, field operations, crew social-psychology and simulation studies is a systematic approach to learning all the necessary lessons before a successful expedition to Mars could be accomplished. He has formed IPX to provide a stable organization for the management of those analog research expeditions, with the intent to pay for them through contracts with space agencies, commissions on space tourism sales, and revenue brought in via exploration technologies brought to the Earth market. The skills he has picked up over the previous six years working with the world's top scientists in Mars analog studies provided a diverse background to make IPX the next stage in an interesting and exciting career.