Scott Herman

Scott Herman is the CTO of Satellite Vu, a provider of high-resolution thermal imagery from its growing constellation of earth observation satellites. Scott is also a Board Director and Strategic Advisor for exciting new startups in the remote sensing and geospatial analytics industry, as well as being a Venture Capital advisor. Scott is a passionate evangelist for New Space startups, Satellite Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, AI-powered Analytics, Agile Development, and Cloud Computing, and their applicability for National Security missions. Scott is deeply involved in strategic planning, business development, product management, and software development. But at any given moment Scott is also supporting program management, production operations, concept incubation, community outreach & evangelism, industry mentorship, customer service, and investment activities. What a cool job! Scott has spent most of his career developing and deploying Remote Sensing, Earth Observation, Imagery Analysis, Sensor Fusion, Knowledge Management, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for the National Security community. He has been CEO of Cognitive Space, CTO of BlackSky, Chief Product Officer at Maxar, and deployed to geopolitical hotspots around the globe with the US National Intelligence Support Team. Scott is based in the Washington DC area and can be found at