WHO WE ARE
Meet the team
Cyril Kubr
Co-Founder
Cyril is the deputy director of the European Space Agency Business Incubation Centre Switzerland.
Cyril is boosting high tech space startups in Switzerland
Grégoire Bourban
Co-Founder
Grégoire is the deputy director of the Swiss Space Center.
Grégoire is supporting space innovation in Switzerland
José Achache
Advisor
José is the director of AP-Swiss, the European Space Agency (ESA) Ambassador Platform for satcoms and integrated applications with the Swiss industry. Previously he was the director of the Group on Earth Observations, the director of Earth Observation Programmes at ESA, and the deputy director for Research and Technology at CNES, the French space agency.
José is the architect of COPERNICUS, the global Earth monitoring programme of the European Union
Adela Villanueva
Venture Partner
Adela has 15 years of experience transforming, accelerating and scaling large organizations, startups and businesses around the globe. She strongly supports space technologies and user-centered innovations.
Adela is helping Space4Impact accelerate its growth and facilitate high tech startups-corporate & public sector collaboration
Gaetan Petit
Co-Founder
Gaetan is a scientific advisor at the Swiss Space Center.
Gaetan is promoting space technologies
Edoardo Alberti
Consultant
Edoardo is the co-founder of the Swiss company Micos – “Engineering for Remote Sensing”. At Micos, Edoardo works as a senior system engineer and is responsible for sales & business development.
Edoardo is currently conducting an executive MBA at EPFL
Raphael Roettgen
Venture Partner
Raphael is the founder of E2MC Space Ventures and possesses a unique blend of space and financial expertise. He has 20 years of global financial markets experience in M&A and investing, at banks and hedge funds, and has also been a fintech entrepreneur in Brazil.
Since 2017 Raphael is involved in the space sector as an investor and advisor.
