Eddie Kato
President & Managing Director
Astroscale Japan
Eddie serves as President and Managing Director of Astroscale in Tokyo, Japan. Astroscale Japan is one of the business units under Astroscale Holdings (others are Astroscale US and Astroscale UK), and employs about 200 people. Astroscale Japan covers businesses in Asia Pacific and Middle East. Astroscale offers various On-Orbit Services (OOS) including active debris removal (ADR), In-space situational awareness (ISSA), end of life satellite removal (EOL), GEO life extension (LEXI), etc. For this assignment, Eddie is stationed in Japan after spending more than 30 years in the US.
Prior to Astroscale, Eddie successfully built and ran his own strategic advisory firm, HISe, Inc. for 8 years, mainly serving Asian clients. Prior to this, Eddie worked at Thales. He served as CEO of North American subsidiary (Washington DC, USA), Senior VP at Headquarters (Cannes, France), and VP & GM at Asia Pacific Office (Beijing, China).