Space Software Company Bright Ascension Hires New COO, CFO

From left to right: Richard Adams, Sales Director; Patricia Druken, COO; Anna White, Product Manager; and Laura Calder, CFO (Caption for the Bright Ascension picture)

Scottish space software technology provider Bright Ascension appointed Patricia Druken as its new COO and Laura Calder as its new CFO as it is getting set to launch its end-to-end HELIX suite of software products. The newly formed leadership team will focus on maximizing business growth opportunities and strengthening Bright Ascension’s position in global markets.

Druken will focus on providing management, leadership and vision to the newly formed commercial team to ensure the company meets its objectives in securing the market and revenue for its HELIX products. Calder is promoted to CFO, having served one and a half years at Bright Ascension as a Finance Manager.

HELIX is an end-to-end suite of highly integrated space software products, that will cover the entire mission development and management process from design, engineering, testing, operations and data or service delivery. It aims to make commercial space software significantly more accessible and easier to use for a large number of companies both in the upstream or downstream sectors of the market.

“As we prepare to re-shape the space software market with HELIX products, we are excited to see organisational changes that set us up for the future. As a flexible, employee-owned and employee-centred software technology company, we are also particularly pleased to be able to crack the gender diversity code and attain gender equality in our leadership team. We feel the gender gap is still significant in the technology sector and we are proud to be able to help fight the bias,” Louise Stevenson, Head of People at Bright Ascension, said in a statement.