Philip Davies
Philip graduated in Mathematics with honours from Nottingham 
University in 1978. From 1982 Philip worked in the Space sector 
where he spent 9 years working on-site in France, Holland and 
Germany. During this period Philip worked on a variety of satellite 
missions predominantly in the science and satellite communications 
fields. Following his return to the UK in 1990 spent the next 6 years 
as a technical manager on several high profile space projects including 
the Cassini/Huygens mission to Saturn, the Ariane rocket flight safety 
system and the European satellite navigation initiatives, EGNOS and 
Galileo.
Philip joined SSTL in February 2003 and is responsible for business 
development activities in Europe and North America. In 2003 he 
helped SSTL close the deal to build Europe's first navigation satellite, 
GIOVE-A, which was launched at the end of 2005. He was also 
responsible for several major contracts executed by SSTL such as a 
satellite for the US government's Los Alamos national laboratory, a 
satellite for a commercial customer in Spain and the contract with 
ESA for a second Galileo satellite. 
Philip hold a BSc, is a member of the British Computer Society and is 
a Charted Engineer.