Javier Trujillo

Javier Trujillo leads SES’s strategy for digital ground infrastructure, covering user terminals, gateway modem platforms, the network management system, and their orchestration. After working as a researcher and completing his PhD on active phased array antennas at the Technical University of Madrid, he joined SES in 2015. Since then, he has held various roles across the organization – from ground, payload and constellation modelling and sizing as an Advanced Systems Senior Engineer; to developing the mPOWER lead-to-fulfilment process as Program Integration Manager.

Currently, as a Senior Manager Digital Ground Development, he is focused on leveraging Terrestrial Network advances in virtualization and Cloud-RAN to facilitate the integration of the 5G ecosystem into Non-Terrestrial Networks. He is presently leading the technical development of the IRIS2 User Terminal, aiming to deliver a cost-competitive solution designed to meet the system’s demanding security requirements.