Simera Sense
Simon Beswick is an experienced finance and management professional currently serving as Managing Director UK at Simera Sense since March 2025. Beswick has held various senior roles, including Senior Adviser and Chief Financial Officer at Orbex from 2019 to January 2025, where business growth expanded from 18 to 200 employees and involved significant fundraising efforts. Previous positions include Chief Financial Officer at Synectics plc, General Manager at Teledyne Bowtech Ltd, and Managing Director at Tritech International Limited, contributing to various successful transformations and market expansions. Beswick's extensive background also includes key financial leadership roles at Midland Heart and Rohm and Haas Electronic Materials, where significant mergers, acquisitions, and business model restructurings were executed. Simon holds an MBA from Saïd Business School, University of Oxford, and has completed executive governance training at Cambridge University and the Financial Times.
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Simera Sense
At Simera Sense we produce optical payloads for space in a more cost-effective way than any company by using lean procedures while maintaining performance. Our approach allows us to respond quickly to customer needs and push the limits for optical payloads. The Simera Sense team thrives at the sweet spot where cutting-edge technology, old physics and creative people meet to create earth observation solutions. We are a dynamic team of scientists, mechanical, hardware, firmware, electronic and optical engineers with a passion to develop complex systems that operates in extreme environments. Collectively we do have more than 200 years of experience developing satellite systems. Our optical payload products are developed with decades of knowledge, world class infrastructure and hands-on experience. The Simera Group has a shared history with the South African small satellite industry and for the past 10 years designed, manufactured, assembled, integrated and tested optical payloads for local and international customers. We are proud of our employees that worked on all the major space related and satellite projects in South Africa over the last 30 years.