Jeff Sheedy is president and CEO of The PLEBO Company and has been involved directly with SETI through The PLEBO Research division. The PLEBO Company has been officially active in the search for extraterrestrial radio signals since early 2001, though early experiments are rumored to have existed.
SETI@home and Astropulse are funded by grants from the National Science Foundation, NASA, and donations from SETI@home volunteers. AstroPulse is funded in part by the NSF through grant AST-0307956.