Executive biographies
Approved biographies and photography for the Executive Board.
Short-form biographies below; full biographies are on each person's profile page. High-resolution approved photography is in the media kit. Please use the approved portrait rather than a conference photograph.
Saskia Bakhuis
Co-founder & Chief Executive Officer · Delft
Saskia co-founded Terravek in 2007 with Merijn Vroegh, initially to commercialise a laser-altimetry processing toolchain the two had built inside the DIAG geodesy group. She ran delivery and sales personally for the first four years — the Noordwal dyke survey of 2008 was a contract she wrote, flew and invoiced herself.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/saskia-bakhuis
Merijn Vroegh
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer · Delft
Merijn wrote the first 40,000 lines of what became ORBIS. His doctoral work on error propagation in airborne laser altimetry is still the basis of the quality model Terravek ships with every delivery.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/merijn-vroegh
Lars Ehrenfeld
Chief Financial Officer · Delft
Lars joined in 2014 when Terravek was 180 people and running on a spreadsheet-based forecast. He built the finance function that carried the company through the Photonwerk and Cardinal Grid acquisitions, the Series B, and the shift from perpetual licensing to ORBIS Cloud subscription revenue.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/lars-ehrenfeld
Priya Ramanathan
Chief Operating Officer · Singapore
Priya opened the Singapore office in 2017 and was appointed COO in 2021. She owns the operating cadence of the company: the quarterly business review, the delivery organisation, facilities, procurement, and the regional field offices.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/priya-ramanathan
Ingrid Halvorsen
Chief Information Security Officer · Tallinn
Ingrid built Terravek's Security Operations Centre in Tallinn from a two-person team into a 24/7 function covering the corporate estate, ORBIS Cloud and the ground segment. She reports to the CEO and has a standing quarterly slot with the Supervisory Board's Audit Committee.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/ingrid-halvorsen
Tomasz Wieczorek
Chief Information Officer · Delft
Tomasz runs corporate IT, identity, end-user computing and the enterprise application estate — the Microsoft 365 tenant, the Atlassian Cloud site, the ERP, and the identity federation that sits behind sso.terravek.com.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/tomasz-wieczorek
Élodie Marchand
Chief Scientific Officer · Toulouse
Élodie established the Toulouse office in 2015 and founded Terravek Labs in 2018. She sets the research agenda, owns the publication policy, and decides what moves from Labs into product.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/elodie-marchand
Nuno Ferreira Alves
Chief Revenue Officer · Delft
Nuno owns global revenue: direct sales across EMEA, APAC and the Americas, the reseller and systems integrator channel, and pre-sales solution architecture.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/nuno-ferreira-alves
Katrin Wiegand
Chief People Officer · München
Katrin joined with the Photonwerk acquisition in 2016, where she had been head of HR, and was appointed Chief People Officer in 2020. She owns talent acquisition, reward, learning, and the graduate and internship programmes.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/katrin-wiegand
Owen Radcliffe
General Counsel & Company Secretary · Bristol
Owen joined as part of the Cardinal Grid acquisition, having been that company's general counsel, and took the group role in 2022. He covers corporate governance, commercial contracting, IP, export control screening and the company secretarial function for all eight entities.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/owen-radcliffe
Ilaria Bonetti
Chief Marketing Officer · Delft
Ilaria owns brand, demand generation, the web estate, events and press and analyst relations. She arrived in 2020 to a company with excellent engineering and, by her own description, 'four different logos in active use'.
Pronouns: she/her · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/ilaria-bonetti
Daan Kruithof
Chief Product Officer · Delft
Daan joined in 2013 as Terravek's first product manager and became Chief Product Officer in 2022. He owns the product portfolio — ORBIS, GRIDSCAN, TIDEWATCH, AGRISENSE, FIELDKIT and ATLAS — and the roadmap that is currently consolidating all of them onto one tasking and delivery fabric.
Pronouns: he/him · Full profile: terravek.com/about/people/daan-kruithof
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