Meet The Team
Francesco M. Bongiovanni (Founder & CEO).
New Space entrepreneur. CEO-Founder of small satellites enterprise Orbital Solutions. Patent holder in satellite de-orbiting system. Former advisor in corporate finance, cross-border M&A and private equity. 40+ years international business and projects experience in America, Asia and Europe. Author, public speaker and composer. Holds Dr. Engr. and MBA (Harvard) degrees.
Bryan Powell
(Non-exec. director, investor)
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Entrepreneur and investor in a number of service industries. Built and developed an enterprise in the services sector in the UK that was later sold to a private equity fund in a highly successful exit. 30+ years of experience in managing companies and in M&A activities.
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Yves Durand
(Co-founder, Tech. strategy)
Former Director of Technology at Thales Alenia Space- Cannes. Led European Commission project ASCEND for space data centers. Former co-Chairman of Eurospace R&T Committee. Former Technical Manager of telecom satellites at Alcatel Space and Head of Future Telecom Satellites Systems Engineering at Aerospatiale. 40+ years experience in the space and satellites sector.
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Juan Villalonga
(Advisor)
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Former CEO of Telefonica, international telecom company. Former partner at Mc Kinsey. Former CEO of Credit Suisse First Boston in Madrid. Was praised by Harvard Business Review as one of the world’s top 100 CEOs.
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Jean-Marie Pasquet
(Co-founder, CTO )
Former Technical Director of the Centre de Compétences Plateforme Satellite et intégration (CCPIF) at Thalés Alenia Space. Former Director of the Avionics, Power and Propulsion Engineering Department; head of Satellite Engineering Department. Senior expert in avionics, space computing and satellite data handling systems. 40+ years experience in the space and satellites technologies sector.
Ian Whitfield
(Advisor )
CTO at Pure Data Centers Group and A Healthier Earth. Data center design authority and award winning business leader. Former CEO Red Engineering Design (data centers design and build specialists).
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