Paul Bhatia is the Managing Director of Geospatial Ventures Limited and a European Space Agency (ESA) Business Applications Ambassador for the UK.

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Paul is responsible for the overall direction and management of the activities of GVL. He is an ESA Business Applications Ambassador for the Midlands and North of the UK.

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His role is to help companies access funding from ESA Space Solutions in order to grow their businesses. 

Manpreet Bhatia is the Operations Director of Geospatial Ventures Limited.

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She is responsible for day-to-day operations and finances as well as organisation of events and training programmes for GVL. 

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She is a highly experienced and qualified education specialist, teacher, business owner  and project manager. 

Allen Wong specialises in digital circuit design, IoT firmware development, and systems integration, with expertise in product design, testing, and manufacturing.

Allen's experience ensures the transformation of GVL's innovative ideas into functional, reliable, and market-ready products.

Luis specialises in the space segment, focusing on mission design and analysis for projects such as SPRITE.

This includes simulating and modelling of satellite constellations for satcom applications, and spacecraft systems design.

Zhenming has 10+ years of experience in InSAR and satellite data processing, focused on environmental safety and infrastructure monitoring. He uses techniques like StaMPS and SBAS to detect ground deformation with high precision in all conditions.

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He builds automated SAR workflows with ISCE, SNAP, StaMPS, and MintPy, using data from Sentinel-1, ALOS, COSMO-SkyMed, and TerraSAR-X. He is also ready for NISAR data and cost-effective Chinese SAR solutions.

Dr Chris Hill is GNSS Chief Engineer at Geospatial Ventures Limited, responsible for the development and testing of GNSS products within the company.  

He is currently managing the development of a Real-Time Kinematic GNSS receiver for both asset tracking and geodetic monitoring.

Dr. Craig Hancock is a Reader in Geospatial Engineering at Loughborough University, UK. Previously, he served as Head of Civil Engineering and the Geospatial Research Group at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China.

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Craig has published over 100 research articles and been an investigator on 20 funded projects. His research focuses on GNSS error mitigation, geospatial monitoring, and digital twins. 

Dayou Chen is a PhD researcher at Loughborough University, supervised by Professor Craig Hancock, and a graduate of Imperial College London.

His work focuses on AI for engineering, including data processing, model development, and spatiotemporal analysis. Funded by Willis Towers Watson’s TECHNGI programme, he develops AI methods for information extraction and decision-making, and is currently contributing to project CORE.

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Mr. Angel Arcia Gil is an expert in Project Management, Small Satellite development, and GNSS. He is currently working with GVL as a consultant and has been instrumental in various Cubesat projects, particularly in TT&C and Ground Station subsystems.

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Recognized as an Emerging Space Leader by the IAF in 2021, Angel also holds a Master’s in antenna design from Georgia Tech.

 Oshadee Jayamanne j a PhD researcher at the University of Nottingham, supports the team in assessing the performance of GVL’s positioning devices, helping to understand how they operate in different real-world conditions.

Her role includes reviewing and analysing collected data using a variety of software tools.

Saeed is GVL’s InSAR specialist, applying satellite radar data to monitor and analyse changes across the Earth’s surface. His work transforms complex geospatial information into clear, practical insights that support ground-movement detection, infrastructure monitoring and informed decision-making across a range of projects.

Jessika oversees our  marketing, leading our social media and website content strategy and supporting broader efforts to enhance visibility through analytics and targeted outreach.

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A Psychology graduate from the University of Leicester, Jessika brings a valuable perspective to our marketing approach, helping us incorporate psychological insights into our communications and audience engagement strategies.

This summer, we’re pleased to welcome Elaine Opoku to GVL as our Marketing Intern. 

Elaine graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a degree in Fashion Marketing and Branding, and she’ll be putting her knowledge and creativity into practice as part of our team.  

Elaine will help manage our social media channels and website, supporting our communications, and wider marketing activities. 

Our 2026 interns, Rory, Pushkar and Finlay, supported a range of projects across positioning technology, environmental monitoring and data analysis.

From testing GVL’s technology and analysing field data to exploring new ways of improving accuracy and performance, their work brought fresh ideas and valuable insights to the team while contributing to the continued development of our solutions.

​This summer, our interns Daniel and Isioma are collaborating with us to develop a client-facing dashboard for InSAR monitoring on our CORE project.

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Daniel is helping build the interactive Power BI interface, creating the map and time-series chart components.​ Isioma is conducting data analysis and processing, using Python and QGIS to analyse trends and prepare the data.​

This year, we were pleased to welcome Jacob for a week of work experience through his school.

During his time with us, he supported the marketing team, engaged with our engineers, and gained insight into our various InSAR and GNSS systems. We’re excited to see where his journey takes him next.

Last year, we were pleased to have welcomed six interns through various programs. They have supported both the technical and non-technical aspects of our company, significantly advancing our market progress.

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Their positive contributions have encompassed marketing, business development, market analysis, and project development. We are confident that their learning journey will continue successfully, and we look forward seeing to their future achievements.