CEO of Spire Global
WSW 2024, Space & Climate Change
Honorary Chair

Peter Platzer is the CEO and co-founder of Spire Global, a leading provider of space-based data, analytics and space services. Prior to founding Spire in 2012, Platzer trained at CERN and the Max Planck Institute before turning to business with the Boston Consulting Group in Germany, Singapore, and Thailand. He spent nearly a decade on Wall Street as a quantitative trader before leaving finance in 2011 to focus on high-frequency and high-accuracy data in space. He advised on space commercialization at NASA Ames’ Space Portal while studying at the International Space University.