Leadership across mission design, launch, spacecraft and infrastructure

Space systems engineer with extensive experience in Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) systems for rockets and missiles. A veteran Colonel of the Brazilian Air Force, he is an expert in Electronic Warfare systems, a flight instructor and a Squadron Leader. He also holds degrees in Computer Engineering from ITA and Aeronautical Sciences from the Air Force Academy (AFA).

Across a career of more than 30 years he has held key roles in the Presidency of the Republic (SAE-PR), the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MCTI) and the Air Force. He served as Executive Vice President and Head of the Space Systems Division at the Air Force Space Systems Coordination and Implementation Commission, and as Vice Director and Commander of the Alcântara Launch Center (CLA).

He contributed to government space policy, international cooperation agreements (TSA, SSA, RDT&E) and strategic plans to strengthen the Brazilian space industry, led the Brazil–Sweden High-Level Group on Aeronautics (including the GRIPEN program), and served as COO of Spaceport Brasil, a subsidiary of Theia Group, Inc.

He is currently Chief Space Officer at Emtech Global International (ETGI), COO at Omega Space and founder of Space Expert Technologies, whose client portfolio includes Astra Space, Innospace, Hyperion Rocket Systems and Alya Space.

Over a 43-year career he has worked as a project engineer on R&D, industrial and military projects such as Prólogo SA (Imbel) and Novadata SA, served as an innovation engineer at SENAI-DF, and held engineering management roles in private companies. His extension studies include Technology Transfer (CSTP, Canada), Technological Information (CRIQ, Canada), S&T Management (ENAP) and Technological Industrial Policy (NTHU, Taiwan).

For the past 24 years he has held management positions at the Ministry of Science and Technology focused on sectoral, enabling and strategic technologies — spanning space, defense, aeronautics, energy, nuclear, hydrogen, critical minerals, advanced materials and photonics.

He has managed large national and international programs, including the Gripen program in Sweden and the Operational Plan of the Alcântara Space Center, implemented research centers, laboratories and industrial infrastructure, and overseen six MCTI Sectoral Funds covering Energy, Space, Aeronautics, Minerals, Transport and Waterways.

He has represented Brazil in national and international bodies and forums such as BRICS, OECD, GSF, Mercosul, the EU, CNPEM and ARTEMIS. He is also CTO at Energy & Mines XC Tech and a researcher at UFG focusing on energy and hydrogen.

Executive with more than 30 years of experience scaling technology-driven organizations across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Brazil. He is the Chief Business Officer at Omega Space Systems, a space research and technology company, Chief Financial Officer at StoneGran Tech, a mining technology company.

He has led operations, risk and IT as COO at TouchSuite, directed global operations at SellersFi through a period of hyperscale growth, and led international expansion as CTO at Safrapay in the United States.

Earlier, he spent more than a decade at IBM in roles spanning project executive, business development, strategic planning and operations — including IT modernization programs for two of the largest private banks in Brazil — followed by business development and customer services leadership at ACI Worldwide. He co-founded SmarT Automation and was an MBA professor at FIAP for nearly 14 years.