Tomorrow.io Hires Ex-Maxar Executive Madhav Ragam to Lead Asia Pacific

A dedicated leader for a weather-exposed region

According to Tomorrow.io, Ragam leads its work in Asia Pacific with governments, meteorological agencies, defense organizations, enterprises and technology partners. He joined the company in August.

The company describes the region as one of the principal engines of the global economy and among the most exposed to severe and rapidly changing weather. Typhoons, intense monsoons, floods and other compounding hazards routinely disrupt communities, supply chains, shipping routes, aviation networks, energy systems and critical infrastructure, according to Tomorrow.io. Much of that weather forms over vast stretches of ocean and remote territory that ground-based systems observe poorly, which limits the data available to forecasters and decision-makers.

Shimon Elkabetz, CEO and co-founder of Tomorrow.io, said Ragam "led the commercial expansion of Earth intelligence across this region at Maxar, and he knows what its governments and enterprises need."

Ragam's background and priorities

Tomorrow.io says Ragam brings more than two decades of leadership across technology, geospatial intelligence and the space sector. At IBM, he helped architect government solutions for complex operational challenges. At Maxar Intelligence, now Vantor, he led the commercial expansion of Earth intelligence across Asia Pacific.

In his new role, his focus is on extending weather intelligence beyond the meteorological, defense and national-security communities where it has traditionally been concentrated. The company lists several goals:

• Helping disaster-management authorities deliver earlier warnings
• Augmenting sovereign meteorological capabilities with spaceborne observations
• Supporting safer aviation and maritime operations
• Helping energy, transportation and logistics organizations anticipate disruption before it reaches their networks

Ragam stressed that this does not require customers to replace existing systems. "Tomorrow.io can complement existing infrastructure, data sources, and operational workflows," he said, adding that the company would deliver additional intelligence today while DeepSky expands what will become observable tomorrow.

The satellites behind the offer

Tomorrow.io operates its own weather satellites. According to the company, it has launched 15 satellites since 2023, and its Gen-1 constellation of microwave sounders is in orbit and operating. The satellites read atmospheric temperature and moisture through cloud, and the constellation's global revisit now runs well below 60 minutes.

The company cites mid-term findings of NOAA's Commercial Data Program, in which its microwave sounders were found to produce "well-calibrated data, generally comparable to ATMS," NOAA's Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder.

Tomorrow.io is now building DeepSky, a next-generation, AI-native constellation. Its spacecraft will be substantially larger than the Gen-1 sounders, with more power, greater capability and lower latency. Each will carry five instruments covering the spectrum from radio and microwave to infrared and visible light, all observing the same column of atmosphere at the same moment. The company says DeepSky is designed to close observation gaps over the open oceans and the Global South, where early warning arrives late.

Software layer and what it means

On the software side, Tomorrow.io offers the Tomorrow.io Resilience Platform, which it describes as an agentic, end-to-end, multimodal geospatial workflow platform built on its AI forecasting and its own satellites. The company says more than half of the Fortune 10 use it. Its AI-powered weather agent, Gale, helps teams turn weather intelligence into operational decisions.

The appointment signals that Tomorrow.io wants a local presence in a region where, by its own account, observation gaps over oceans are most costly. For agencies and operators in Asia Pacific, it means a regional contact for the company's satellite data and forecasting tools, with the pitch that they can be added to existing systems rather than replace them.