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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Ian Whitfield
(Member of the Advisory Board )
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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Yves Durand
(Co-founder, CTO)
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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Pascal Rogiest
(Member of the Advisory Board)
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General Manager of CLARENCE S.A., the AI-Enabled Truly Disconnected Sovereign Cloud of Luxembourg. Former CEO of LuxTrust. Former head of M&A at SES. Expert in space and cybersecurity.
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Jean-Marie Pasquet
(Co-founder, STE )
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.
Luca del Monte
(Member of the Advisory Board)
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Head of Commercialization Department and former head of Industrial Policy Division at the European Space Agency (ESA). Space cybersecurity expert. Former executive at Italian space agency and at Telespazio.
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Alessandro Golkar
(Member of the Advisory Board )
Chair of Spacecraft Systems, Technical University of Munich. Visiting Instructor, New Space Economy Course, MIT Professional Education Technology entrepreneur. PhD Aeronautics & astronautics, MIT.
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