Michele Castorina owns a master degree in Electronics Engineering from University of Roma TRE and a master in International Business Engineering. In 2005 he started to work in the aerospace sector between Italy and the UK for a leading Italian aerospace company. During this time he had several roles in business development and corporate strategy both in the Space Telecommunications and in the avionics, electro-optics, UAVs lines of business. In 2010 Michele joined ESA-ESTEC in The Netherlands working for the Telecommunications and Space Solutions Directorate; during this time he has focused on supporting European industry to develop downstream products and services using space assets (SatCOM, GNSS (Galileo/EGNOS), and SatEO). He has coordinated ESA cooperation between EC-GSA and EC-ERA for the rail sector, and he has initiated the ESA Space4Rail initiative. In 2019 Michele moved to ESA-ESRIN to the Earth Observation Directorate Φ-lab Invest Office in order to support the development of the co-founded InCubed programme with the objective to help the commercial Earth Observation sector in Europe to flourish. Today his main interest is to support the European industrial ecosystem (Space and non-Space related) to develop innovative and commercially sustainable products and services using Earth Observation solutions, connecting promising ideas with investors to generate growth for ESA member states.
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