Meet the panellists
Published 22 November 2023
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1. Victoria Christmas
Victoria Christmas founded Orange Tree to provide specialist expertise to companies on developing their bidding strategy and key proposals. She works across multiple sectors supporting industry and academia to develop sound actionable strategies and managing bids. She has worked with over 200 space companies in the last five years enabling them to unlock opportunities in the space sector. She has worked with ESA and the UK Space Agency driving UK companies to secure funding and commercialise new development. Her bidding career spans twenty years across defence, commercial and academic sectors. Victoria is an award-winning bid professional, a trained mentor and a STEM Ambassador with a passion for developing capability in others.
2. Adam Brocklehurst
Adam is a Chartered UK and European Patent Attorney with 25 years’ experience in IP, including time in top London private practices and in-house at a global engineering firm. He works with a growing client base in space and related sectors, from start-ups to multi-nationals, on early-stage advisory work, strategic IP work for more mature client businesses, and all other aspects of generation, protection and exploitation of IP. His focus is on practical and intelligible advice concentrating firmly on a client’s business strategy. Adam has been a member of the UK IP Office’s Research Expert Advisory Group and of the CBI’s IP Committee, and has spoken on IP strategy at various space sector events.
3. Andy German
Andy German is a systems engineer and MBA with over 30 years space experience in public and private sectors across the space applications domains of EO, PNT and satcom, both upstream and downstream, in UK and Europe. He has focused much of his efforts over the last 10 years into defining and refining the UK’s space strategy, with the aim of making the UK the best country in the world to build a space company. He was lead for satellite applications at the former Innovate UK Space Team, helping UK space companies grow and acting as UK delegate to ESA’s applications programme. He is an independent consulting engineer since 2020.
4. Dale Wylie
Dale Wyllie is a Senior Payload Systems Engineer within the Office of the Chief Engineer (OCE) at the UK Space Agency.
As part of the OCE, Dale provides technical oversight and guidance on a variety of projects where the UK Space Agency is a stakeholder, focusing on spacecraft payload and scientific instrumentation. Dale has supported Agency-funded programmes such as the UK’s National Contribution to ISS Microgravity Experiments, National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP), Space-Based Solar Power (SBSP) Innovation Programme as well as UK contributions to Bilateral Space Science and Exploration Missions. Dale also engages in internal studies within his role in the OCE, which includes technical feasibility studies to answer questions posed to the UK Space Agency and the OCE team.
Dale has a background in Ground Segment Software Engineering, working on mission planning tools and flight dynamics software. Dale previously studied Physics and completed a postgraduate Masters degree in Astronautics and Space Engineering.