Krupal Patel, former global account manager at Amazon Web Services, has joined Maxar Technologies to serve as senior director of national security space business development, according to his LinkedIn post.
He brings to the role knowledge in strategy, business development and satellite systems engineering. At AWS, he was a sales leader who handled its business with Maxar and conducted sales strategy development with C-Level customer executives.
Patel’s career also includes time serving as account executive at NetApp, senior manager at Ball Aerospace and program manager at Boeing‘s satellite systems-focused business arm.
According to Patel’s LinkedIn profile, his early industry experience was with the former Rockwell company, where he served for over six years as member of the technical staff.