Vivek Suresh Prasad

Senior Analyst

Bangalore, India

Mr. Prasad has been involved in the Space Industry since 2010, he began Consulting for NSR in 2019. Prior to his Consulting work with NSR, he was leading the Frost & Sullivan Space Research Program as Industry Principal. At Frost & Sullivan, he has authored reports on market research topics encompassing Small-satellites, Mega-constellations, Enterprise broadband & Satellite Communication market and has led multiple client-centric consulting assignments including the UK Space Agency Spaceport business model.

Mr. Prasad is an ex-ISRO (Indian Space Research Organization) scientist and has worked in the System Integration Group of ISRO Satellite Centre Bangalore for 7 years (2010-2017). His responsibilities included Satellite Configuration studies, System Integration, Mass properties management, Launch interface studies, and Project Management. During his tenure at ISRO, he has worked on seven satellite projects including SARAL: An Indo-French Satellite and ASTROSAT: India’s first dedicated astronomy satellite. He was also a core team member responsible for the design and development of ISRO’s first Nano-satellite platform, INS-1A & INS-1B.

Mr.Prasad holds Aerospace MBA degree from Toulouse Business School-Indian Institute of Management Bangalore and B.Tech. Mechanical Engineering degree from SASTRA University. He has also worked as M.S. Research Scholar at Indian Institute of Technology Madras, 2009-2010, where he analyzed insect aerodynamics/micro aerial vehicles using computational fluid dynamics techniques.