Simon Chambers

Simon Chambers – a British national resident in France. Simon is the Managing Director and creator ofAxsysnav in Toulouse (2007), an innovation consultancy that has advised nearly 100 customers working in innovation. Clients are private businesses (for strategy and analysis) and public sector (for policy and advisory services). He is a certified mentor for the EU Copernicus programme and a registered coach for the H2020 SME Instrument, as well as a member of the IoT Valley in France since 2012, mentoring startups. Furthermore, he is active in newspace, the Copenhagen innovation fund, the Eurostars programme and the largest innovation fund in Moscow. He has experience in the European space and IT industries as an entrepreneur, a business development director, a software engineer for the European Space Agency and as CEO of a telecoms engineering firm in Toulouse.