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Developing and leading Airbus Ventures’ investments in Asia, I am an explorer in search of other explorers, on a quest whose purpose seems clear — cherishing the biological and civilisational wonders of life on this unique home planet and responsibly stewarding its amazing and fragile biosphere, so that one day we can celebrate the discovery of complex life and civilisations on other worlds.Trained as an MIT engineer and NASA geophysicist, I take special interest in science-driven startups that can translate to these leaps in system advantage, attracting and clustering new value. Working closely with the Airbus mothership for over a decade, I have over 20 years experience investing & working with science & technology startups, and serve on the boards of several as director or observer.Prior to joining Airbus Ventures I also helped design and structure Royal Dutch Shell’s open innovation system for working with startup companies, guiding and integrating their Shell Technology Venture Fund and GameChanger initiatives. I led incubator and innovation centre design and engagement for the UK Government’s Digital Catapult, Electronic Data Systems, Shell, and others. Previously, I was a Financial Institutions Partner at Coopers & Lybrand in Singapore and Hong Kong, beginning my early consulting career at The Boston Consulting Group in Tokyo, after working with Japan's leading steel & shipbuilding enterprise in both engineering and corporate planning.I enjoy networking out to startups through my writing, speaking, and continuing research activities with UCL’s Centre for Planetary Sciences. Ever an explorer of the flights of imagination that drive us up the Vertical Axis from the deepest oceans to the stratosphere and beyond, I've advised both Google Lunar and Avatar XPrize teams, and always aim to highlight the unique role of startups around the world, in taking us to the next one.
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Partner, Japan & Asia PacificAirbus Ventures Oct 2015 - PresentMenlo Park, Ca, UsDeveloping and leading Airbus Ventures’ investments in Asia, aimed at the system elements boosting ascent to Z-Space, where we create new system value at each stage from ground to deep space. As our portfolio startups meet the interwoven challenges of Autonomy, Connectivity, Energy, Mobility and Security, they are set to free us from the constraints of gravity and bandwidth, releasing massive - and massively connected - system wealth. Trained as an MIT engineer and NASA geophysicist, I take special interest in science-driven startup opportunities that translate to systemic data-business advantages. -
Board DirectorInfostellar Aug 2017 - PresentShinjuku-Ku, Tokyo, JpAfter leading and securing Airbus Ventures' lead investment in Infostellar's $8 million Series A round, I'm delighted and energised to serve as a board director for this pioneering startup now paving the way to low-cost high-access deep space communications infrastructure. Infostellar seeks committed talented people ready to change the space industry today - and the way we communicate in space, forever. See https://www.infostellar.net/careers -
Board DirectorTelexistence Inc Nov 2018 - PresentOta-Ku, Tokyo, JpWith Airbus Ventures' lead in Telexistence's $8m+ Series A round, we’re particularly excited to see this brilliant convergence of all the strengths of the University of Tokyo’s Tachi Lab, the superbly relevant capabilities of our co-investors in telecom connectivity, AI and robotics, and above all the technical and entrepreneurial wherewithal represented by Telexistence’s founders and diverse, richly talented team. I'm honoured to join the board of a company pioneering the actual commercial deployment of a human/ robotic avatar capability, and look forward to promoting the many potential Telexistence applications throughout our Airbus mothership network. -
Board DirectorQ-Ctrl Nov 2021 - PresentChippendale, New South Wales, AuQ-CTRL offers advanced, intuitive and scalable quantum control engineering solutions - Making Quantum Technology Useful -
Phd Researcher; Viva Voce Passed February 2024Ucl/Birkbeck Centre For Planetary Sciences Aug 2014 - PresentLondon, Greater London, GbAs a research scientist I focus on the Search for Extraterrestrial Artefacts (SETA) in the Solar System, developing Machine Learning and other detection systems for micron-scale traces of Non-Terrestrial Artefacts, as well as algorithms & search systems for detection of Earth spacecraft hardware in high-resolution satellite imagery including NASA Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Narrow Angle Camera data sets.I closely collaborate with the Tanpopo Astrobiology team at JAXA's Institute of Space and Astronautical Sciences, and as a member of the UK SETI Research Network, I work with leading UK academics to raise SETI awareness and advance the Science, Sociology, and Policy of First Contact. -
Board DirectorTranscelestial Jan 2020 - PresentSingapore, SgTranscelestial delivers next-generation Free Space Optics for last-mile connectivity, testing and deploying secure, fibre-like last-mile connectivity at a fraction of the deployment time and cost of fibre. -
Chairman And Board DirectorAtlas Ai Jan 2020 - Jul 2024Palo Alto, California, UsNow set for Growth stage opportunities, AtlasAI found its origins in Stanford’s Sustainability and Artificial Intelligence Lab, (https://www.atlasai.co/) and continues to simplify land-based analytics and prediction with the power of advanced AI applied to satellite imagery and data sets from other sensors. For an exciting example of some the latest research they're involved in, in state-of-the-art methods for satellite image generation and the first large-scale generative foundation model for satellite imagery, see https://samar-khanna.github.io/DiffusionSat/. -
Board ObserverLeolabs, Inc. Jul 2020 - Jun 2023Menlo Park, California, UsLeoLabs is the mapping platform for space - allowing No Surprises - as they secure safe and sustainable operations in Low Earth Orbit. With their network of ground-based, phased array radars, LeoLabs produces high-resolution data on objects in LEO, providing unparalleled support for industries that rely on satellite services. -
Member Of The Seraphim Space Advisory BoardSeraphim Capital Aug 2018 - Jul 2021London, England, GbThe world's first Venture Fund dedicated to financing the growth of companies operating in the 'new space' ecosystem, Seraphim invest in companies that are transforming global industries through application, use and enhancement of satellite and drone enabled data. The Advisory Board dissolved with the successful public listing of Seraphim Capital's investment trust in July 2021. -
Director, Corporate DevelopmentSpire Global, Ltd Aug 2016 - Jul 2017Vienna, Virginia, UsLeading Airbus Ventures due diligence work on Spire Global, thereafter I joined Spire on a concomitant year's assignment as corporate development director looking after their satellite data services business and product opportunities in ship- and aircraft-tracking, as well as in high-resolution weather prediction and precision geolocation services, particularly in Japan. Recently Spire opened its European headquarters in Luxembourg, and successfully closed its $70 million Series C round. Spire continues to look for exceptional people to join its fast-growing team: Challenge yourself, apply today! http://spire.com/careers/ -
Space Innovations AdvisorSatellite Applications Catapult Jan 2015 - Jul 2016Didcot, Oxfordshire,, GbSatellite Applications Catapult (the 'Space' Catapult) is one of a network of centres established by Innovate UK, the Government's research and innovation agency, to accelerate the take-up of emerging technologies and drive economic growth. A not for profit company, it provides facilities, platforms and expert knowledge to enable the translation of ideas from concept to market.As Space Innovations Advisor to the Catapult, I facilitated Big Ideas sessions and opportunities between the Catapult and small and large Aerospace companies, including Airbus Defence and Space. The Catapult also sponsored my service as Director of Lunar Missions Labs, helping set up an online collaboration platform crowdsourcing direct contributions to the Science, Mission, Education and Marketing teams of Lunar Mission One, a robotic drilling mission to the Moon. This work helped identify other instances where such a platform can be applied other Space and Catapult / Innovate UK collaborations. -
Senior Innovation FellowImperial College London Jan 2015 - Jun 2015London, GbSix month Fellowship serving as the Director of the Natural Environment Research Council's 2015 School for Environmental Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Imperial College -
Digital Catapult Innovation Centre DirectorInnovate Uk'S Digital Catapult Sep 2013 - Sep 2014London, GbAn initiative of the UK Government's Technology Strategy Board (now Innovate UK), the Digital Catapult set out to build Digital Platforms and Acceleration Capabilities for UK-based innovators to advance their ideas in ways that are faster, less risky and more successful. A key aim is driving engagement between small companies and large companies. To this end, as the Innovation Centre Director, I led and completed the site selection, construction procurement, and conceptual design & outfitting of its new world-class 20,000 sq.ft. facilities that opened Autumn 2014 in the burgeoning digital technology hub of Kings Cross & St Pancras rail stations. -
Founder And Managing DirectorBox Jan 2006 - Sep 2013London, GbAs a Creative Innovation practice, Box Exchange was established to help clients discover and speed the value of Disruptive Technologies, mixing large technology corporates and startups and researchers over Open Innovation Platforms. A spin-out of Electronic Data Systems hosted at the London School of Economics while I was a Visiting Fellow there, Box's blend of science & technology expertise with organisational & behavioural insight set out to focus on Combinations of Disruptive Technologies and Convergence of Networks into New Communities - the Impact-Multipliers dramatically altering the landscape and boundaries of business and society.Box clients were distinctively explorers, seeking early understanding and new opportunities arising from significant emergent patterns. From organising diversely networked Future Energy research teams, to applying Behavioural Economics to social mobilisation for climate change, Box achieved early and major successes in helping to identify, design, and facilitate the skills, tools and partnerships required for both corporates and startups to master the innovation opportunities of complex systems. -
Global Industries Vice President, Eds (Now Dxc.Technology)Electronic Data Systems 2002 - 2006West Hartford, UsI came to EDS (today DXC.technology, from the merger of HP Enterprise Services and Computer Sciences Corporation) with the mandate to help build a ‘new consulting model’ to bring clients through new processes of innovation and discovery. With government services forming the company’s core client base, it became a key opportunity to tie research and innovation to mandates for academic-to-business knowledge transfer. After a series of successes with both private and public sector clients, by 2004 I had secured major funding to build a new global innovation centre for the company, tied to specific research streams at the London School of Economics. EDS ‘BOX’ was conceived as a more effective and collaborative client engagement model, to deepen the company’s innovation and external partnering capabilities. BOX helped close and deliver on landmark clients, and its achievements were credited as ultimately key to EDS' successful acquisition by Hewlett Packard. -
Researcher, Consultant And Author, Nasa Space Grant FellowNasa - National Aeronautics And Space Administration 1997 - 2002Washington, Dc, UsNASA Space Grant Fellow at the University of Hawaii, emphasis on management and organisation science for research-led organisations. Applying principles and precedent from the laws of the oceans and outer space to Internet-technology related issues of intellectual property, privacy and liability. This three-year programme combined International Public Law and Planetary Geophysics; in the course of it I worked as a NASA contractor on asteroid materials and their mining potential, and completed projects on earth remote sensing for disaster risk reduction for the Asia-Pacific region. NASA and Space Generation delegate to the Third UN Conference on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space, Vienna 1999.Also my dotcom years! Consulting for Proxicom (acquired by Dimension Data in 2001), leading consumer-driven assessments and solutions for B2B implementations. Developed DiData’s 'Networked Economy Corporation' concept into a practical sequenced framework tool for integrating DiData reference architecture, solution sets, partner prototypes and offerings.Research-Practitioner with the Lego Foundation-sponsored Imagination Lab in Lausanne, developing hands-on methods using Lego bricks for building individual and team identity, role play scenarios, and competitive landscape construction that we would later advance into Box’s pioneering 3D Innovation methods. In later years while at EDS and Box I would help build and execute licensing models for 'Lego Serious Play', and become a member of Lego's LSP Partner Council. This would culminate in my concurrently becoming a senior director at Lego in 2008 and my leading a short-lived joint venture attempt, aimed at using LSP in combination with Lego's intuitively powerful on-line children's game, for business applications. -
Financial Institutions Director And PartnerCoopers & Lybrand (Now Ibm Global Business Services) 1995 - 1997Armonk, New York, Ny, UsIndustrial partnering for financial institutions, diversified conglomerates and startup companies. -
Manager And SubcontractorGemini Consulting 1990 - 1994Paris, France, FrTokyo office manager and later subcontractor for Southeast Asia region. Major consumer electronics and heavy industry engagements. -
Senior ConsultantThe Boston Consulting Group 1986 - 1990Boston, Massachusetts, UsM&A, High Technology and Operational Effectiveness Practices in Tokyo and Boston. Merger & Acquisition work for Japanese and US consumer, retail and financial institutions. -
Engineering Advisor And Corporate Planning AnalystJfe Steel Corporation 1982 - 1985Chiyoda-Ku, Tokyo, JpNihon Kokan (now JFE Holdings) Kawasaki Shipyard engineering advisor, for minesweeping and Antarctic research vessels, including final commissioning work for the accomplished icebreaker Shirase AGB 5002. Extensive work assisting design, safety and construction for LNG carriers, offshore oil rigs and major pipeline projects. Later as an analyst for NKK's Corporate Planning department, I facilitated JV’s for underwater robotics, subsea mining, and subsea tunnel construction. Advised and recommended international diversification investments for engineering divisions, leading to joint venture work in the US and Europe; in conjunction with with these investment strategies I became a Professional Associate at the East West Center, Honolulu Hawaii.
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Development
Lewis Pinault Education Details
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Massachusetts Institute Of TechnologyFar East Studies -
The London School Of Economics And Political Science (Lse)Fulbright Scholar
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University Of Hawaii At ManoaInternational Public Law And Planetary Geophysics
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Birkbeck, University Of LondonGeology
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