Meet Our People
Michael Grigorian
President and CEO
Michael graduated from Imperial College with a Bachelor of Science degree in Physics, and went on to attain a master’s degree from University College London in Spacecraft Technology. He pursued a career in the space industry starting at Airbus, designing and testing communication payloads in the UK and France, and then MDA Space in Canada where his engineering role evolved into project management. He progressed to managing complex, multi-disciplinary engineering programs at UrtheCast and Space Alpha Insights before taking a senior position at aiRadar Inc. where he is involved in engineering management, company operations, supply chain management and business strategy. Michael is active in youth soccer, coaching on the field as well as being a member of the Board of Directors of the Marpole Soccer Club.
Terry Doyle
Vice President Sales
From 1958 to 1985, Terry was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Air Navigator. His last tour was as Commanding Officer 404 Squadron in Greenwood, NS. Following that, between 1985 and 1991 Terry was Sales Manager at three defence companies. He jointed MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) in 1991 and worked as Director Defence Sales until 2016. During that period, he booked sales of more than $1.2 billion, including the CP 140 Imaging Radar System and the Department of National Defence (DND) contribution to the RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM). In 2016, he joined Honeybadger Inc. as VP Sales, and aiRadar in 2023 in the same position. Terry has a BSc Honours Physics from St Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS.
Sam Frese
Director of Engineering
Sam has a BASc in Electrical Engineering with 10-years of experience working with coherent sensors. Sam started his career with UrtheCast as an electrical systems engineer working on a dual band spaceborne SAR. He has since carried on with his career working on radar systems with aiRadar. With both employers being startups or small businesses, he has got to wear a variety of hats. This has given Sam the opportunity to build up a broad set of skills within the electrical engineering discipline. This includes FPGA development, high-speed PCB design, embedded software, and system verification. With aiRadar, he has seen his skills pushing him towards a role in system engineering and bringing products to life from requirements through to verification.
Peter Fox
Founder
Peter Fox received his Ph.D. Electronic Engineering from the University of Cape Town, South Africa, in 1986, with a thesis on Electronically Focused Multiple Beam Side Scan Sonar. He took a position as Chief Engineer at Klein Associates in New Hampshire, United States, one of the leading Side Scan Sonar companies. After moving to Canada, he worked for Kongsberg Maritime as Engineering Manager, Product Manager Offshore and Naval Products and Senior Design Engineer. With MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates (MDA) he worked to define the requirements of the Multibeam Dynamically Focused Side Scan Sonar for the Canadian Maritime Coastal Defence Vessel (MCDV) programme. In 1998, while at MDA he was appointed Principal Engineer and Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Payload Lead Engineer on the RADARSAT-2 Mission, responsible for technical leadership in all aspects of the payload. In 2008, after the successful launch into space and commissioning of Radarsat-2, he returned to the underwater world of Kongsberg Maritime, where he architected and developed the M3 Sonar, which remains the gold standard of image quality in its class. In 2013, Peter joined UrtheCast as VP SAR. In 2018, he founded aiRadar, building a team with extensive experience in mmWave and cmWave active imaging to advance the commercial and military use of extremely compact, high resolution Active Electronically Scanned Arrays (AESA) mmWave radar.