Christophe Valorge Appointed CTO of Thales Alenia Space

Cannes, France, May 13, 2020--Thales Alenia Space has appointed Christophe Valorge as Chief Technical Officer (CTO), effective on May 1st, 2020. He succeeds to Patrick Mauté who will be retiring.

Valorge has been Director of R&D and Product Policy at Thales Alenia Space in Toulouse since 2016. He has a long and proven track record in space industry. Holding degrees from the Ecole Polytechnique (1987) and the Sup'Aero aeronautical engineering school (1989), Christophe Valorge started his career in 1989 as an engineer at CNES, the French Space Agency. He was promoted to various management positions, from Advisor on Technical Policy in 2005 up to the roles of Deputy Director of Scientific Payloads and Imaging in 2008 and Deputy Director of Orbital Projects in 2011.

A joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space also teams up with Telespazio to form the parent companies’ Space Alliance, which offers a complete range of services. Thales Alenia Space posted consolidated revenues of approximately 2.15 billion euros in 2019 and has around 7,700 employees in nine countries.