Frank Salzgeber



Frank Salzgeber

Head of Technology Transfer Programme Office, European Space Agency (ESA)

Mr Frank M. Salzgeber is the Head of the Technology Transfer Programme Office at the European Space Agency (ESA).Prior this post he was the Head of Commercial Development in the European Astronaut Department of the Directorate of Human Spaceflight Microgravity and Exploration at the European Space Agency.

Prior to joining ESA, Frank held the position of Chief Operating Officer (COO and CFO) at an IT start-up headquartered in Munich, Germany, between 2000 and 2003, which he merged with CANCOM SA.Frank also spent seven years at Apple Computer (1993 – 2000) initially as an account manager and then as a sales manager, covering Central Europe. 

Being genuinely passionate about the importance of human space flight and the European Space Programme, Frank believes that ‘a society that stops exploring stops progressing’. 

Frank is a member of the boards of directors of European Business Network (EBN), Strategy Audit Advisor to Fraunhofer IIS, of the innovation advisory board of STFC (Science & Technology Facilities Council) and was founding chairman of the EIROforum (CERN, EFDA-JET, EMBL, ESA, ESO, ESRF, European XFEL and ILL) working group on Innovation management and knowledge /technology transfer.

Frank holds a degree in Industrial Engineering, is married, has two sons and lives in the Netherlands and Bavaria. 

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