Djuran, left. Murarka, right. Photos: E-Space

Greg Wyler-founded startup E-Space has added to its executive team, hiring Gunjan Murarka as CFO and Dalibor Djuran as chief satellite systems engineer. 

Murarka joins E-Space from smallsat manufacturer LeoStella, where he was also CFO. He previously worked at Microsoft, Amazon, and Siemens Communications. At E-Space, Murarka will be responsible for financial activities and reporting and overseeing the people and information technology organizations. 

Djuran joines E-Space from drone delivery company Volansi, where he led the company’s software development, avionics, and robotics teams. He was recently director of Satellite Manufacturing at Planet Labs and managed two manufacturing centers for Flextronics. Djuran will be responsible for systems engineering of E-Space’s global Low-Earth Orbit satellite constellation.

E-Space, announced in February, plans to build a multi-application satellite constellation that could potentially reach more than 100,000 satellites, serving business and government customers. Wyler says the constellation will emphasize a sustainable space infrastructure design. 

“Team E-Space is in a heavy growth mode, and we are fortunate to have so many qualified candidates who want to join our important mission. We are headed toward a period of tremendous global strategic execution which requires significant leadership and domain expertise to drive our core initiatives,” Wyler said. “I am confident Gunjan and Dalibor possess the right mix of experience, fundamental core strengths and depth of skill to uniquely add immediate business and engineering value, respectively.