Team
Management
Jean-Luc
Maria
Cofounder
Chief Executive Officer
Jean-Luc Maria is an aerospace engineer (he holds an aerospace engineering degree from ISAE-SupAero)
and has been a space project manager for 16 years at CNRS (French National Research Centre).
He has a system engineering background and became technical project manager on solar system exploration
missions (Venus Express, ExoMars, BepiColombo …).
He has been involved at various stages of a space payload
development, from call biding to realization, testing and delivery. He has then been responsible
of an AIT (Assembly, Integration & Tests) platform for space hardware integration and qualification.
Thanks to these experiences, he has a wide and comprehensive knowledge of the space hardware development cycle,
together with an extensive network in the space industry worldwide.
Jean-Luc Maria, cofounder of Exotrail and former CTO,
becomes Chairman and CEO of Exotrail in October 2021. Jean-Luc leads Exotrail’s vision and global execution
David
Henri
Cofounder
Chief Product Officer
David holds an engineering and corporate strategy degree from Ecole polytechnique,
the leading university for science in France. He completed his education with a Master
Degree from the University of Cambridge in Industrial Systems, Manufacture and Management.
David has an experience in the French Air Force and has been working at Swiss Space Systems,
a New Space start-up which designed a suborbital launcher for small satellites. He had an
engineer role in the Propulsion department. He then worked in a Corporate Venture Capital (ENGIE New Ventures).
David led Exotrail as Cofounder & CEO since its inception in 2015, bringing the company to over
50 employees, 20m€ raised and millions of contracts signed in the US, Europe and Asia. Since 2021
he occupies the Chief Product Officer position, where he oversees Exotrail’s product marketing and
strategy and manages the Product Owner teams on the company’s
three product lines (ExoOPS™, ExoMG™, and the SpaceVan™).
Nicolas
Heitz
Cofounder
Chief Operating Officer
Nicolas holds an Aerospace Master in Science Degree from ISAE-ENSMA, a Business Degree from ESSEC & Centrale Paris and a Financial Certificate from HEC Paris. Nicolas acquired a highly valuable experience in management during his 6-year job at ALTRAN, managing critical projects and large teams, then reorganization projects, as a Presales manager. Passionate with entrepreneurship, he cofounded, structured and developed his first start-up, Adionics as VP Finance & Administration. After 5+ years, more than 5M€ of fundings and a lot of successes, he decided to join Exotrail project and is now one of the 4 cofounders. Nicolas brings his entrepreneurship experience and his skills in finance, administration and operations as COO of Exotrail.
Paul
Lascombes
Cofounder
Chief Scientist
Paul holds an engineering degree from Ecole polytechnique and an aerospace
engineering degree from ISAE-Supaero in Toulouse. He started Exotrail during
his study at Polytechnique with David. Paul is an aerospace enthusiast and a
licensed pilot. He has a strong aerospace experience that he acquired during
various internships at Caltech (California), Swiss Space Systems and more
recently at Airbus Defence & Space in the Advanced Systems team.
Paul has the role of Mission Manager and R&D director at Exotrail. He is
specifically responsible of all the space mechanics and manoeuvres aspects
of Exotrail.
Sébastien
Dumenil
Chief Commercial
Officer
Sébastien has 20+ years of experience in International Sales, Marketing & Business Development. He started his
career on the Telecom & IT market holding various sales & marketing positions within companies such as Alcatel-Lucent
and Prosodie-Cap Gemini.
In 2009, he joined the space industry as Director Marketing & Sales within Arianespace and more recently he was
OHB France Director, an OHB SE subsidiary. Sebastien holds a Master’s Degree in Management from
Neoma Business School (Reims) and a Master’s Degree in Economics from Paris 12 University.
