Tuomas Tikka

Tuomas Tikka is the founder, CTO, and board member at Kuva Space, a hyperspectral satellite company. He holds a MSc. (Tech.) in space technology from Aalto University in Finland. During his doctoral studies at Aalto University, he was one of the key people who worked on building Finland's first satellite, which launched in 2017, and received Finland's Engineer of the Year Award for it in 2018. In 2016, he co-founded Kuva Space (previously Reaktor Space Lab) to commercialize nanosatellite technology and related services and served as CEO for the first five years, and is now CTO.