Jason Forshaw

Reporting to VP Commercial, leading the BD team of 9 staff including BD, bid, product strategy managers and space situational awareness team, experiencing growth of UK company from origin to near 200 staff.

Promoted to Head of Future Business in Mar 2020, reporting to UK MD.

• BD & Bid – bid authority, responsible for the delivery of all European bids & proposals (mainly ESA ARTES, ESA ITT, UK SST), through complete lifecycle – funder engagement (business case development, grant ask), consortium & supply chain formation, proposal development, negotiations through to contract award • brought in over GBP 35 M of grant funding to the business over 90 bids (cumulative) • bids include… Show more

Promoted to Head of Future Business in Mar 2020, reporting to UK MD.

• BD & Bid – bid authority, responsible for the delivery of all European bids & proposals (mainly ESA ARTES, ESA ITT, UK SST), through complete lifecycle – funder engagement (business case development, grant ask), consortium & supply chain formation, proposal development, negotiations through to contract award • brought in over GBP 35 M of grant funding to the business over 90 bids (cumulative) • bids include institutional, commercial and cross diverse areas including debris removal, in-orbit servicing, refuelling, docking plates, collision avoidance

• Sales – supporting sales process: revenue modelling and pipeline development, cross-coordination with sister companies (US, Japan, Israel), sales capture plan development, end customer engagements • Key Account Manager / Account Primary for UK Space Agency (flagship institutional customer)

• Strategy & Product Management – instigated roll-out of a product management approach across the business • planning for and roadmapping technologies, capabilities, products and services • alignment of customer needs, service value proposition, and service capabilities • missions include: ELSA-d, ELSA-M, COSMIC (UK ADR) Show less

One of the founding staff of the UK Astroscale office in 2017, reporting to the UK MD and former CCO (Chief Commercial Officer) to address a mix of business, regulatory and technical activities. Primary office in UK with significant (monthly) travel to Japan HQ.

• BD & Bid – Bid manager for over 30 bids, including ESA Space Safety, ESA ARTES (D/TIA), ESA D/STS, ESA D/OPS, NSTP, UK SBS, UK SST, DASA ranging from £200K to £30M+. Bids of note include: PPP funding with constellation… Show more

One of the founding staff of the UK Astroscale office in 2017, reporting to the UK MD and former CCO (Chief Commercial Officer) to address a mix of business, regulatory and technical activities. Primary office in UK with significant (monthly) travel to Japan HQ.

• BD & Bid – Bid manager for over 30 bids, including ESA Space Safety, ESA ARTES (D/TIA), ESA D/STS, ESA D/OPS, NSTP, UK SBS, UK SST, DASA ranging from £200K to £30M+. Bids of note include: PPP funding with constellation OneWeb; ARTES C&G “ELSA Phase II”; ESA Service-Offer Request for provision of GNC, ground segment & operations; SSA / SST; in-orbit servicing & refuelling

• Regulatory & Policy – Licensing Manager for ELSA-d mission (licenses, insurance, spectrum, safety, cyber) – the world’s first mission to go through the key operational stages of a full debris removal mission, bringing valuable experience from licensing RemoveDebris • supporting insurance acquisition from our broker including insurance briefings to underwriters in London • contributing to development of global ADR policy including industrial working groups such as CONFERS, EOF, ESA CPO • a key participant in the UK In-orbit Servicing working group, now part of UKspace

• Strategy & Engineering – Strategy development and roadmapping for services & products across the Astroscale business • subject matter expert in ADR and GNC, including: fostering original development of ELSA-d mission CONOPS with complex Rendezvous and Proximity Operations (RPO)

• External & PR – Coordinating technical papers cross-business, presenting at or chairing debris sessions at ESA, NASA (co-chair for debris remediation at NASA’s 1st Orbit Debris conference), IAC, UN (delegate at inaugural UN World Space Forum as panellist on Space Sustainability), WSBW panellist • PR support including panellist at ELSA-d press launch event, press engagements (e.g. BBC World Service on air, NPR radio) Show less

Reporting to centre director, Prof. Aglietti, in a business development capacity, roles include: funding acquisition & bid management, stakeholder engagement, marketing

• Bid lead or support for several projects, ranging from £250K to £5M: ESA ITTs, UKSA NSTP3, CEOI, British Council, international partnership (IPP) and knowledge-transfer (KTP) programmes for space infrastructure provision and CubeSat EO services for various developing countries

• Consortium dissemination manager… Show more

Reporting to centre director, Prof. Aglietti, in a business development capacity, roles include: funding acquisition & bid management, stakeholder engagement, marketing

• Bid lead or support for several projects, ranging from £250K to £5M: ESA ITTs, UKSA NSTP3, CEOI, British Council, international partnership (IPP) and knowledge-transfer (KTP) programmes for space infrastructure provision and CubeSat EO services for various developing countries

• Consortium dissemination manager for RemoveDEBRIS mission coordinating: publications, conferences (22 globally), marketing, PR, press engagement & spokesman (radio, TV, papers, documentaries) which resulted in global mission coverage, highlights including: BBC News (6 pm, 10 pm), BBC World Service Newsday, BBC Newsnight, The Guardian, Reuters, CNN, TEDx (London)

• Lead exhibitor (project manager) for the prestigious Royal Society Summer Science Exhibition “Cleaning up space junk” (14,000 visitors), coordinating event, recruitment, training of 32 exhibitors

• Academic work: lecturer (joint) for Advanced Guidance, Navigation and Control (master’s level course), creation of 45 published works (cumulative at Surrey) including 10 journal papers and 29 conference papers Show less

Engaged as PM for 3 projects: 2 × EU industrial research consortiums, 1 × commercial contract

• Consortium project manager for RemoveDEBRIS (€15.2M, EU FP7), one of the world’s 1st missions in debris removal, testing net and harpoon in space, and launching to the ISS with SpaceX – led ~60 staff across 10 partners in 6 countries including SSTL, Airbus DS (UK, DE, FR), and coordinating the development of SSC’s payloads including two nano-satellites (DS1, DS2) and a dragsail

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Engaged as PM for 3 projects: 2 × EU industrial research consortiums, 1 × commercial contract

• Consortium project manager for RemoveDEBRIS (€15.2M, EU FP7), one of the world’s 1st missions in debris removal, testing net and harpoon in space, and launching to the ISS with SpaceX – led ~60 staff across 10 partners in 6 countries including SSTL, Airbus DS (UK, DE, FR), and coordinating the development of SSC’s payloads including two nano-satellites (DS1, DS2) and a dragsail

• Consortium project manager for SpacePlan 2020 (€0.7M, EU FP7) leading 6 staff (including Airbus R&T division) to provide harmonised technology strategy guidance to EC across 5 space domains, resulting in 37 technology roadmaps • planning & chairing of 8 specialist roadmapping workshops

• Project manager (4 staff) for Intrepid (Airbus DS), an air-bearing satellite control testbed custom-designed for Airbus Friedrichshafen / DLR – through full lifecycle from design, manufacture to installation & commissioning, with on-site field service support (1 month in Airbus Germany)

• Service Oriented Active Debris Removal (ESA), provided GNC / tether dynamics modelling to SSTL Show less