MEET THE DRIVING FORCES BEHIND AOS
Get to know the exceptional individuals who form the backbone of our organization. With their expertise, innovation, and unwavering commitment, our diverse team is dedicated to shaping a brighter future for seafarers, the shipping industry, and the global environment.
Greg Flessate
Senior VP & GM, AIS Business, ORBCOMM
With over 40 years of technological development and management experience in both the public and private sectors, the last 27 years of which with ORBCOMM, Mr. Flessate has held various management positions in product management, customer operations, sales, and marketing, and he drove the conception, commercialization, and management of ORBCOMM’s Automatic Identification System (AIS) vessel tracking business since its inception in 2004. He has been involved in developing and implementing numerous terrestrial- and satellite-based remote asset tracking solutions for the maritime and logistics industries. He holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UVA and an M.B.A. from George Washington University.
ANDREW CARREL
President of Data & Services, AAC Clyde Space
BA, M.Sc., Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge; M.Sc., Astronautics & Space Engineering, Cranfield University; PhD Electronic Engineering, University of Surrey Space Centre
Andrew is responsible for the Data and Services business line, which brings the benefits of space data to industries operating on land and at sea. His technical background includes space missions and artificial intelligence, with over 20 years of experience spanning the satellite manufacture and downstream application sectors.
JENNY GARDNER
Sr. Director of Digital Battlespace Solutions, Saab
Jenny Gardner is Sr. Director of Digital Battlespace Solutions at Saab and leads on strategy, innovation and experimentation concerning space, cyber, communications and C-UAS. Ms. Gardner has spent her career mainly in management positions in the ICT sector as well as serving UK Government as Director of UK Trade and Investment (DIT) for Sweden. Ms. Gardner established, in collaboration with Imperial College London, the Saab Innovation Hub to support Saab’s UK-wide network pertaining to technology R&D and she produces the podcast Zero Pressure, hosted by the UK’s first astronaut, Helen Sharman. She is since several years a member of the Working Group of Innovair, Sweden’s national strategic innovation programme for aeronautics.