Tom Stroup
As President of SIA, Tom is the trade association’s lead advocate for regulatory and policy issues of critical importance to SIA’s membership, including spectrum and licensing issues, defense and public safety matters, and export control and international trade issues. He also manages the day-to-day operations of SIA, including member communications, staff leadership and organization of SIA sponsored events. Tom became the president of SIA in December of 2014.
Prior to joining SIA, Tom was with Shared Spectrum Company (SSC), a leading developer of spectrum intelligence technologies, where he served as CEO. For more than a decade, he served as the President of the Personal Communications Industry Association (PCIA). Previous to his position at SSC, he founded and ran several companies in the technology industry, including Columbia Spectrum Management, P-Com Network Services, CSM Wireless, and SquareLoop.
Julian Fernandez
Julián Fernández is the CEO of FOSSA Systems, a Spanish and Portuguese scaleup which connects low-power IoT devices directly from space for industrial use cases using LoRa and has already launched 20 satellites since 2022. Julián has experience in remote asset management, LoRa communications, IoT deployments and space infrastructure, having launched the first Spanish picosatellite FOSSASAT-1 in 2019 at the age of 16 and later founding FOSSA Systems as a company at 17. He was chosen as a Forbes 30 under 30 in 2022. He has a background in telecommunications engineering, LPWAN technologies and satellite IoT networks. FOSSA has an office in Madrid and Lisbon.
Dr. Martin Haunschild
Dr. Martin Haunschild works at Mynaric as Business Development Manager Space/Institutional Affairs. Prior to that, he served as Managing Director of his own company for several years. One of the company’s goals was to build a 12-satellite constellation for the “Internet of Things (IoT) from Space.”
In 2004, Martin Haunschild was appointed “Coordinator of Aviation, Space, and Satellite Navigation in Bavaria” by the former Bavarian State Minister for Economic Affairs and Transport, Dr. Otto Wiesheu. In this role, which, among other things, aimed to promote regional, national, and international networking between industry, science, and politics, he founded the Bavarian aerospace cluster “bavAIRia e.V.”, which now has more than 300 members from the “scene.”
Haunschild began his professional career at MAN Technologie AG (now MT Aerospace GmbH) in the Strategy Development/Future Systems division, where he was responsible for, among other things, the satellite communications/navigation division. He then became responsible for innovation management at BMW Group AG and headed the Satellite Navigation and Telematics Services department for many years.
Dr. Martin Haunschild received his doctorate from the Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics/Chair of Flight Propulsion at the Technical University of Munich.
Dallas Kasaboski
Dallas is a Principal Analyst and Programme Head with Analysys Mason. There, he leads the company’s research and analysis on Space Infrastructure, including satellite manufacturing, launch, in-orbit services, lunar and more. Other areas of expertise include Earth observation and flat panel antennas.
Renato Panesi
Renato Panesi, an entrepreneur with a strong background in B2B marketing and sales, is co-founder and Chief Commercial Officer of D-Orbit.
In 2002, after getting an MSc degree in Aerospace Engineering, he joined Finmeccanica/Leonardo, an Italian multinational aerospace and defense firm, where he worked in R&D as aerodynamics and flight control systems engineer first and as project manager later.
In 2008 Renato got a PhD, with honors, in Advanced Flight Control systems. In 2009 he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to attend a Technology Entrepreneurship program at Santa Clara University, California, with additional courses and seminars at UC Berkeley and Stanford. A year later, after successfully completing the program, Renato got an internship position at the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California.
In 2011, Renato came back to Italy, where he co-founded D-Orbit. At the same time, he became marketing & sales Area Manager at Finmeccanica/Leonardo, in charge of sales activities of defense products in the Asia-Pacific region. After proudly signing various multi-million-dollar contracts, in 2015 Renato left Finmeccanica/Leonardo to start working full-time at D-Orbit as Chief Commercial Officer.