Minoru Ueda
Deputy General Manager, Civil and Commercial Space Department
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation
Minoru Ueda is Deputy General Manager, Civil and Commercial Space Systems Department, Space Systems Division at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO). He has graduated from Instrumentation Engineering Department of National Kobe University and has joined in MELCO in 1983. His responsibilities for the business development are for the all-around space products and services in MELCO, including spacecraft systems and its components. He has participated in some of significantly important space programs for the global market, such as Superbird-C2, ST-2, Turksat-4A&4B as an administration & planning manager. Before the present position, since May of 2018, he had been General Manager, Space Systems Division of Mitsubishi Electric Asia Pte Ltd in Singapore and had been participating in many potential new space programs in Asian region and now continues to work on them from the present position of MELCO HQS.