Frank Salzgeber

CEO and Founder

Frank Salzgeber is Partner and Co-Founder of Nadir Space Venture, Chairman of the Founding Committee of D-Orbit Saudi Arabia and an advisory board member of Alpine Space Ventures. He previously spent three and a half years as Vice Governor for Space at the Communications, Space and Technology Commission of Saudi Arabia, where he led ecosystem development, policy, regulation, venture capital strategy and human capital programmes for the Kingdom's space sector. Before that he spent nearly two decades at the European Space Agency, where he built and ran the ESA Business Incubation Centre network, the largest space startup incubation network in Europe; his team initiated more than 380 technology transfers and supported more than 1,500 startups. Earlier he founded a Munich IT startup, serving as CFO and COO, which merged with CANCOM IT, and spent seven years at Apple Computer in account and sales management across Central Europe. He holds a degree in industrial engineering and served two years in the German Air Force.