Pierre Faucoup is the Chief Space and Defense Business Officer of The Exploration Company which builds reusable space vehicles that fly to space stations around Low-Earth Orbit and Moon – and return to Earth. He has served as CEO of CILAS, an ArianeGroup’s subsidiary in charge of laser equipment. Before, he held the position of executive at Airbus Defence & Space and ArianeGroup both in operational, and business roles, working as Head of Defence Earth Observation Satellites projects and successively as Head of Marketing & Sales for Defence activities. He began his career as military engineer for the French Ministry of Defence in various positions (Satcom, Cooperation, Programs). He graduated from ENSTA Bretagne and is an auditor of IHEDN.