LeoLabs hires former Maxar public sector head as CEO
Tony Frazier takes up the CEO role at LeoLabs after having previously led Maxar's public sector Earth intelligence business. Courtesy of LeoLabs.
By
Ross Wilkers
This eight-year-old Silicon Valley outfit operates a global radar network that tracks objects in space.
LeoLabs, a maker of mapping and space surveillance products, has hired former Maxar Technologies executive Tony Frazier as its next CEO and he will join on Friday.
Frazier will succeed LeoLabs' co-founder Dan Ceperley, whom the company said Monday will move over to the role of chief operating officer and oversee engineering funtions.
The Silicon Valley-headquartered firm started in 2016 and operates a global radar network that tracks objects in low-Earth orbit. Since its inception, LeoLabs has also stood up a commercially owned catalog of objects and activities that feed into its data analytics platform for space operations.
LeoLabs has fetched $120 million in capital to-date, including a $29 million funding round announced in mid-February to further develop and scale its end-user applications and partner integration efforts.
In January, LeoLabs received selection as one of three providers of commercial data to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Office of Space Commerce. The agency is looking to further build out its space traffic coordination system.
Along with government agencies, LeoLabs counts commercial satellite operators and systems integrators as among its industry teammates.
Frazier spent 13 years at Maxar and its predecessor businesses DigitalGlobe and GeoEye. He most recently worked as vice president and general manager for Maxar's public sector Earth intelligence business.