Dan Getman. Photo: Capella Space

Capella Space has hired Dan Getman as the new vice president of Product, the company announced March 12. Getman joins Capella Space from Descartes Labs, where he was director of Product Management for the company’s Data Science platform. In this role, he focused on delivering analytics products designed to extract insights and trends from Earth imagery. Getman is also the former director of Emerging Technologies at Maxar Technologies. 

Capella Space is an Earth Observation (EO) startup that captures Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery via satellite, and provides insights to customers through an analytics product. Getman will lead Capella’s product team and development of the analytics product. The company said Getman will execute Capella’s roadmap to strengthen core its defense and intelligence use cases. Capella is also looking to expand into new verticals, and is exploring commercial use cases in disaster response, maritime domain awareness, conservation, climate change, mining, energy, and others. 

“Dan brings a new level of customer-centricity to Capella Space, bringing a wealth of experience in establishing product requirements based on a deep understanding of customers’ use cases as well as their pain points,” the company said in a blog. “This will ensure Capella’s delivery of the best SAR applications in the market, solving critical business and organizational challenges.”