Speaker Bio

Rafel Jorda Siquier is the founder and CEO of Open Cosmos, a company that designs, manufactures, and operates satellites to help solve the world’s biggest challenges. He is an aerospace engineer from UPC with a Master’s degree in space technologies. Before founding Open Cosmos, he worked for the largest aerospace company in Europe, where he was funded for an MBA. He also worked for disruptive start-ups in space technologies and launchers at the beginning of his professional career. In 2015, he founded Open Cosmos. He has since led the company, raising nearly $60 million in investment, achieving over €100 million in annual contracts, and employing more than 100 people distributed between the UK, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. Open Cosmos has dozens of satellites contracted for activities as diverse as telecommunications, Earth Observation, navigation, and science, and is one of the few companies in the world that maintains a 100% success rate in multiple launched satellites. Additionally, we lead the OpenConstellation, a constellation that aggregates satellites from the United Kingdom, Spain, Portugal, and others, which is growing into one of the largest constellations of shared satellites with interest from countries and companies worldwide.