Airbus Ventures’ Partner in Tokyo, Lewis Pinault manages the firm's activities in Asia Pacific while developing our Space-related portfolio across the globe. Trained as an engineer and planetary scientist, over the previous decade Lewis supported Airbus innovation projects connecting researchers, startups and sponsors. His prior BCG consulting career culminated in his Financial Institutions Partnership at Coopers & Lybrand. Concurrently a researcher at University College London’s Centre for Planetary Sciences, Lewis is an MIT graduate; he completed his London School of Economics MSc as a Fulbright Scholar, and a juris doctorate combining Planetary Geophysics and International Public Law at the University of Hawai‘i as a NASA Space Grant Fellow.