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Satellogic hires the former head of US spy-satellite intelligence as president

Satellogic has appointed Frank D. “Trey” Whitworth as president, giving the day-to-day running of a commercial Earth-imaging company to the man who directed America’s spy-satellite intelligence agency until 10 months ago.

The appointment was announced today by the company. Whitworth, a retired US Navy vice admiral, directed the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency from June 2022 to November 2025, an organisation of roughly 16,000 people.

He has been advising Satellogic since March and takes the role with immediate effect, reporting to chief executive Emiliano Kargieman. His remit is broad and unusually operational for a figure hired mainly for a contact book.

Satellogic says he will run internal operations, tie mission delivery to sales and marketing, and set strategy for the defence and intelligence product line. That is the commercial core of the business rather than an advisory perch beside it.

The career behind him is 36 years of military intelligence. Before the...

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