Pieter van Duijn

CTO Systems at Loft Orbital

San Francisco Bay Area

About

Active in the Space and Defence & Security business since 1990. Work experience as : Electronics Engineer, System Engineer, Project Manager, Technical Director, Business Development, CTO/CEO Active explorer of links between R&D / technology and business cases. Promotor of international partnerships and co-operation. Active fields / areas of involvement: Small Satellites (NewSpace), Ground Segment, Ground Support Equipment, Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Nano-Micro Satellites, UAV/RPV sensors and communication systems, SIGINT/ELINT (Defence & Security), System Engineering, Earth Observation. Exploring concepts for AR and VR.

Experience

  • Loft Orbital (8 yrs 6 mos)
    • CTO
      Dec 2019 - Present · 6 yrs 8 mos

    • Chief Engineer | Head of Payload Interfacing & Data Handling
      Feb 2018 - Present · 8 yrs 6 mos

      Responsible for Mision and System Level Engineering, Flight technology / Data Handling. Mission Manager for Loft's 1st commercial micro satellite mission.

  • founder/director at T4-Aerospace BV
    Sep 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 11 mos

  • CEO at HEAD Aerospace Netherlands
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2018 · 2 yrs 1 mo

  • Group CEO (CTO/BD) at SSBV Aerospace & Technology Group
    Feb 2011 - Jul 2015 · 4 yrs 6 mos

  • Satellite Services B.V. (20 yrs 7 mos)
    • Business Development Director & CTO
      Jan 2005 - Feb 2011 · 6 yrs 2 mos

    • System Engineer | Project Manager | Technical Director
      Sep 1994 - Jan 2005 · 10 yrs 5 mos

    • Hardware / Firmware Engineer
      Aug 1990 - Sep 1994 · 4 yrs 2 mos