Julien Cantegreil
Founder and CEO
Julien Cantegreil, PhD, is an entrepreneur with a passion for technology applied to solving massive challenges.
In a time of celebration of the 50th birthday of the Apollo 11 mission, he has founded SpaceAble to contribute to space exploration by improving the resiliency of LEO infrastructures.
He has accumulated a wealth of experience at a global level with projects spanning from Fintech at Strike Protocols in NYC to the Cabinet of the Minister of Economics in France, the Supreme Court Judges Network at Collège de France and Associate General Counsel of world leader Kering (60 billion market cap) during the group’s entire successful restructuration.
Fulbright Scholar to the US and Young Leader of the French American Foundation, Julien has dedicated time and leadership to numerous pro bono activities in the areas of ideas, youth, innovation, Europe and regulations. Currently, he is President of AsterIdea, a Paris-based not for profit dedicated to increase space awareness. Julien teaches Space and Entrepreneurship at Sciences Po in Paris.
An alumnus of the Yale Law School and the École normale supérieure (Paris, economics), he is an accomplished philosopher (agrégé) with an award-winning PhD in Law from the Sorbonne.