Mr. Rob Singh has recently joined the MDA Space Executive Team as Vice President of Strategic Solutions, leading customer focused solutions and driving MDA global growth across space geo intelligence, robotics and satellite systems markets. Rob is also the founder and principal of SPARC Innovations, focused consulting on space architecture solutions and providing advisory services across the space industry.
Previously, Rob was the Co-Founder/CTO of Axta Space established with the goal of delivering optical solutions for space communications, on a mission to offer a revolutionary managed optical network services solution across multi orbit LEO/MEO/GEO domains to the industry. And prior, was the CTO of SpaceLink, where he architected the SpaceLink hybrid optical and RF communications transport relay services solution realized as a 4+ constellation of Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites optically interconnected and relaying in RF to ground.
Mr. Singh established a foundation with 25 years as Space Systems Loral and Maxar, initially in operations with responsibility as Executive Director of Communications Systems at SSL, then into strategic and architecture role, as Vice President of Strategic Initiatives and Chief Architect at Maxar Technologies. He has contributed to over 23 publications including writer of the SMAD graduate engineering textbook chapter on communications systems.
Mr. Singh holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Systems Design Engineering and a Master of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from University of Waterloo, as well as an Executive Leadership Development Certificate from the Wharton School and the Stanford Graduate Business School.
Rob also serves as Executive Chair of the AIAA Communications Systems Technical Committee, and as a committee member of the Los Altos Hills Town Council – Emergency Preparedness and Response Committee.