my name is nealy tucker and on behalf of the "washington post" i would like to introduce you to our first guest who is a stunner. it is impossible to imagine the modern world without our first guest. one of her college thesis or college thesis became one of the first satellite television companies. she was also the president of the first company to commercially offer gps devices in cars. after that, she created sirius xm and one of the founders of the idea of satellite radio. it is not a bad start to your career. she loves sirius -- left sirius more than 20 years ago to found a company to assist her youngest daughter who was at the time dying of a then incurable lung disease. the resulting company is managed therapeutics, now a 6:00 million dollars biotech and based in silver spring. it has expended, if not saved the lives of tens of thousands of people, including they are daughter genesis who is now in her 30s. ladies and gentlemen, martin roth blat is also the recipient of this year's billy jean king leadership initiative award devoted to lgbt issues and puts her in an interesting issue