Dr Xavier Bertrán is the newly appointed Chief Product & Innovation Officer at SES. His focus is on innovating, developing and implementing SES’s product & services, as well as developing and delivering new systems for SES and its customers.
Xavier joined SES in 2022 as SVP for European Programmes, leading in particular SES’s involvement in the Infrastructure for Resilience, Interconnectivity and Security by Satellite (IRIS2) Programme as well as other new projects and initiatives.
Before 2022, Xavier careered with Airbus, the aircraft manufacturer, where he held several executive positions and led business areas worldwide for Airbus including Upgrade Services, Diversification Programmes and Airbus ATR SAS as Chairman and Managing Director. Before that as an executive in the Space & Defence division of Airbus, Xavier was also the Deputy Director for the Galileo PPP programme with the European Commission.
Xavier also served as a Member of the Board Directors of several companies including KID Systeme GmbH, Airbus Interior Services S.A.S, ATR GIE. He was also a non-executive Director at Skytra Ltd. Xavier earned a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology (RWTH) in Aachen and a Global Executive MBA from the IESE Business School in Barcelona. As a volunteer, he also served on the Board of the International School of Toulouse (IST) from 2015 to 2021.