Leadership Team

Michel Forest is Telesat’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and is responsible for Telesat’s satellite operations, satellite and systems engineering, launch activities and program management.

Prior to becoming CTO, he served as Telesat’s Vice President of LEO System Engineering, where he led the end-to-end architecture and system performance of the advanced Telesat Lightspeed constellation.

Prior to joining Telesat, Michel held leadership positions in systems and antenna engineering at MDA Corporation (Now MDA Space) in Montreal.  He managed MDA payload engineering on large commercial programs for international customers, leading engineering teams in activities from architecture trade-offs through detailed implementation, including payload integration and test.

Michel earned an Electrical Engineering degree from Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal and a Master’s in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa.