Sebastien Piro

Sebastien Piro has extensive work experience in the space industry. Sebastien started their career in 2000 as a Research Engineer in Fluid Mechanics at the CNRS. In 2001, they joined the Centre National d'Études Spatiales as a Mission Analysis Engineer.

From 2001 to 2008, Sebastien worked at Thales Services / CNES as a Guidance & Flight Dynamics Operations Engineer. During this time, they were involved in the Launch and Early Orbit Phase of various CNES LEO Satellites. Sebastien also provided expertise support for attitude and orbit control concepts and algorithms.

In 2008, Sebastien joined Thales Alenia Space (THALES ALENIA SPACE) as a LEOP Mission Director / Flight Operations Director for GEO Satellites. Sebastien was responsible for the successful LEOP of six GEO Communication Satellites.

Sebastien continued their career at Thales Alenia Space (Thales USA Inc.) from 2010 to 2013 as a Globalstar 2 LEOP Mission Director & Ground Control Segment Manager. Sebastien led LEOP missions and managed the Ground Control Segment for the Globalstar 2nd Generation Satellites.

From 2012 to 2016, Sebastien worked as an IRIDIUM NEXT Satellites Operations Engineering & LEOP Mission Control Team support at Thales Alenia Space. Sebastien also served as the IRIDIUM NEXT Lead Mission Director & Satellite Team Leader from 2016 to 2019, supporting 8 IRIDIUM NEXT Launch & Early Orbit Phases.

Sebastien then took on the role of Intrapreneur / Business Development at Thales Alenia Space from 2019 to 2021. In this position, they led a small internal start-up venture called "#Satellite" and explored potential business opportunities in the New Space & Digital Ecosystems.

Currently, Sebastien is working as the Business Development and Sales Director at Exotrail since 2023.

Sebastien Piro pursued an online course in technology entrepreneurship at Stanford University in the year 2012. Additionally, from 1999 to 2001, they attended IM2/Ecole Centrale Marseille, where they earned a Master's degree in Aerospace Engineering.