Spire Global, Inc. announced the appointment of Seyed Miri as Director of Space Services for Australia and New Zealand. Miri is an entrepreneur and seasoned business development executive with more than 20 years of experience working in the Earth observation and location intelligence industry in Australia and New Zealand. He is based in Melbourne, Australia, and will report to Kamal Arafeh, Senior Vice President of Global Sales.

In this role, Miri will lead business development, client relationship management and the overall expansion of Spire Space Services, the company's Space-as-a-Service (SPaaS) business, in Australia and New Zealand. Miri has held senior positions with several multinational companies, including Airbus Defence and Space-Intelligence and Jacobs (SKM). He received a master's degree in applied science with a focus on remote sensing and a postgraduate diploma in Geographic Information Systems (GIS) from Massey University, New Zealand.