Overview
Fulvio Sansone is Chief Technology Officer and Founding Partner of neXat, a role he has held since February 2010. He is based in Brussels.
He has also held a number of advisory positions: senior adviser to the Secretary General of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association from February 2010 to January 2019, senior adviser to the European Space Incubators Network from March 2010 to June 2011, and associate partner at PTOLEMUS Consulting Group from August 2010 to August 2012. From March 2012 to September 2013 he was a member of the Galileo Specialist Task Force at the European Telecommunications Standards Institute.
Earlier he was external R&D director at Oracle from 2006 to 2009, head of the projects department at EBN, the European BIC Network, and Secretary General of the European Satellite Operators Association from 2002 to 2004, with a project management role at ERTICO from 2001 to 2005. He was innovation and development manager at SAIT RadioHolland from 1994 to 2000, following a contract with the European Space Agency, and began his career as a software engineer at Ericsson and then at Ansaldo Trasporti.
He took a Laurea in engineering at the Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II in 1990, an MBA at CUOA Business School, and studied audio engineering at the SAE Institute France.
Career history
In the news
- How can Europe’s space sector balance sovereign security needs with commercial scalability? neXat CTO Fulvio Sansone will be joining the panel “The Dual-Use Pivot: Navigating the Intersection of Sovereign Security and Commercial Scalability” at Space Tech Expo Europe in Bremen this November. Join Fulvio, alongside panel moderator Stuart Martin, and Matthias Johannes Wachter as they explore how dual-use innovation is shaping the next generation of space companies, the changing priorities of European space investors, and the
- neXat at the CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Brokerage Day Today, Fulvio Sansone Sansone, CTO of neXat , took part in the CELTIC-NEXT Proposers Brokerage Day, hosted at imec in Leuven, Belgium. Invited to share neXat’s journey as a successful SME, Fulvio presented our company, its evolution and vision, as well as our involvement in the MECON project. The presentation highlighted how the developments and experience gained through MECON fit into neXat’s broader technology roadmap and support our ambition to build increasingly flexible,
- neXat at the NTN Forum 2026 The evolution of Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) is accelerating, bringing satellite and terrestrial connectivity closer together and opening the door to new services, new business models and seamless multi-orbit connectivity. This week at ESA ESTEC in Noordwijk, Fulvio Sansone Sansone, CTO, Michel DOTHEY Dothey, CCO, and Ali Aghajani Aghajani, Product Manager, represented neXat at the NTN Forum’s Colloquium & General Assembly. It was a great opportunity to exchange with stakeholders from across
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