Leadership & Governance
Dr. Manfred Krischke Manfred Krischke has been awarded a PhD in aerospace engineering from the Technical University of Munich. He was the Founder and CEO of RapidEye – a successful start-up, which uses satellites to map and monitor agriculture and forestry. He also was the Managing Director of Intermap GmbH and VP at Intermap Corp - an innovative geospatial solutions company, traded on the Toronto Stock Exchange, which employed at that time over 950 people worldwide. He has been a Senior Advisor to Spacetec Capital Partners, a venture capital company specializing in early stage investment and consulting services for established hi-tech companies and governmental agencies. The first seven years of his professional career he was Business Development Manager at the space technology company Kayser-Threde GmbH in Munich, Germany. |
Peter Müller-Brühl |
Vincent Dessard Currently runs his own investment company and acts as a Business Angel investor. International Senior Consultant in Geospatial Distributed Systems & Spatial Data Infrastructures. In 2007, as CEO and owner, he successfully sold IONIC group to Hexagon (Leica Geosystems Geospatial Imaging, Erdas). In 1999, he co-founded IONIC Software in Belgium, and, in 2001, co-founded IONIC Enterprise, IONIC’s presence in the USA. Major contributor to the International Organization for Standardization (ISO/TC211) and Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC). Held various positions at Siemens. Master Degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Liege, Belgium. |
Tilman Mueller-Stöfen |
