Paolo Minciacchi Appointed CEO of e-GEOS

Rome, Italy, ​May 10, 2020--The Board of Directors of e-GEOS, a joint venture between Telespazio (80%) and the Italian Space Agency (20%), has appointed Paolo Minciacchi as the new CEO of the company.

Minciacchi, born in Rome in 1963, graduated in Electronic Engineering from the La Sapienza University of Rome in 1989. He joined Telespazio in 1990, taking on roles with increasing responsibilities. In 2000, he was appointed as head of the technical services for engineering and operations at the Fucino Space Centre. In 2002, he joined the Earth Observation division of Telespazio, holding several management positions that will lead him to work to the plan for the inception of e-GEOS. In 2009, he took up the position of head of operational planning, industrial management and added value production in the newly created company. In 2011, he joined Spaceopal, an equal joint venture between Telespazio and DLR-Gesellschaft für Raumfahrtanwendungen, as technical director and member of the executive committee. In 2019, he is appointed as Chief Executing Officer of Spaceopal.

Roberto Ibba, the President of e-GEOS, said: "Today we welcome Paolo Minciacchi in his new and prestigious assignment and we thank Massimo Claudio Comparini for the outstanding work he carried out over the past four years, thanks to which the company has assumed an international leading position in the geoinformation sector.”

eGEOS offers a complete range of products and services in the Earth Observation and in the -spatial application domains, based on both optical and radar satellites as well as on aerial surveys.