Craig is UKSA’s Investment Director, responsible for the UK Space Agency’s innovation and levelling up priorities, and owns the Catalysing Investment value proposition. The Investment Directorate forges strong relationships with space investors, suppliers and customers, creates opportunities to bring new investment and revenues into the sector, and leads the delivery of Agency programmes such as the National Space Innovation Programme, the Space Clusters Infrastructure Fund, Unlocking Space for Business, ESA ARTES and ESA GSTP. Craig’s team is also responsible for the Agency’s commercial function.
Prior to joining the UK Space Agency, Craig worked at SatixFy UK, where he helped grow the company from an SME to a public firm, spent five years as Innovation Lead for Space at Innovate UK, and six years at Airbus Defence and Space.
Craig holds a PhD from Leicester University.