Leadership

Tom Barton
CEO and Co-Founder

Karthik Govindhasamy
CTO and Co-Founder

Karthik is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Antaris™. Prior to Antaris™, Karthik served as the CTO at PlanetLabs, where he oversaw the development and deployment of all key software and hardware technologies, including TT&C protocols, communication systems, and mission control automation. With PlanetLabs, Karthik was instrumental in the development of the Dove medium resolution imaging satellite and the SuperDove medium-resolution imaging satellite. He also integrated the RapidEye constellation from BlackBridge and the SkyBox/Terrabella satellites into the Planet constellation. Prior to PlanetLabs, Karthik led engineering teams at Nokia and Microsoft, where he launched multiple award-winning mobile & computing devices, including the Microsoft Surface tablet, enabling several $100M+ businesses.

Tom Barton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Antaris™. Prior to Antaris™, Tom served as the COO at PlanetLabs. He oversaw organizational development including the hiring of CTO Karthik Govindhasamy as well as the CFO, SVP of Marketing, and Chief Revenue Officer. During his tenure, the company launched the first large-scale imaging constellations and acquired the high-resolution satellite business from Google/TerraBella/Skybox. Tom has held multiple CEO roles, including Rackable Systems (ultimately acquired by HPE). Rackable delivered server and storage solutions to hyperscalers, including the first implementations of AWS EC2 and S3 cloud offerings. He took Rackable public in 2005, which was one of the technology industry's most successful IPOs that year. Tom also held senior leadership roles at open-source pioneers Cygnus Solutions and Red Hat.