Jerry Zeephat joins Outsight as Principal Senior Product Manager

Outsight is pleased to welcome Jerry Zeephat as Principal Senior Product Manager.

Jerry has spent his career in software, the last 15 years of it in aviation. Ten of those years were at SITA as Principal Senior Product Manager, building technology for air transport operators worldwide.

A career built alongside airport operators

That work puts him inside the daily reality of how airports run: their systems, their constraints, and the operators who depend on them. He knows what it takes to ship a product into mission-critical environments that run around the clock, and he brings working knowledge of the standards, integrations, and procurement that shape aviation technology.

As a product manager, Jerry works at the centre of the product. He partners with customers, sales engineering, and internal technology teams. He defines new features, sets priorities, and ships work that operators put into daily use. That blend of customer contact and technical depth fits the way Outsight has built its Spatial Intelligence platform.

What Jerry will lead at Outsight

Jerry will lead product work for the platform used by airport operators, a customer base that includes some of the world’s largest international airports across five continents.

Airports use Outsight’s software to understand how people and vehicles move through their sites in real time. That view helps them shorten queues, improve operations, guide passengers, and keep operations safe. Jerry’s work will connect that product to the operators who rely on it every day.

“We are pleased to welcome Jerry to Outsight. He has spent his career close to the operators we serve, and that experience will help us build even better products, that fit the way airports work today, and the way they will work tomorrow.”

Raul Bravo, Founder and President, Outsight

“Good products come from listening closely to customers and working alongside the teams that build them. Outsight gives me the chance to do that for airport operators at scale.”

Jerry Zeephat, Principal Senior Product Manager, Outsight

Beyond work

Jerry relocates from The Hague, a city we expect will miss him.

Away from work he plays video games on Nintendo and PS5, reads science fiction, and plays electric guitar, by his own account still a work in progress.

He paints, draws in Adobe Illustrator and Procreate, and travels widely. His new colleagues look forward to working with him!

About Outsight

Outsight’s Physical AI continuously digitizes the movement, behavior, and interactions of people, vehicles and robots at scale, producing real-time Spatial Intelligence built on 3D LiDAR data and enriched with other available data sources.

Operators of large, complex environments, including transportation hubs such as airports and train stations, sports and entertainment venues, road infrastructure, and industrial sites, rely on this Spatial Intelligence to enhance operations, improve visitor experiences, and strengthen safety and security.

We support customers across five continents from our offices in Paris, San Francisco, Singapore and Hong Kong, driven by the belief that accelerating the global adoption of Spatial Intelligence will lead to a smarter, safer, and more sustainable world.

Frequently Asked Questions

What does a Principal Senior Product Manager do at a Physical AI software company?

At a Physical AI software company, a Principal Senior Product Manager sits at the intersection of customers, sales engineering, and internal development teams. The role defines which features get built and in what order, translates operator pain points into technical requirements, and tracks work through to the version operators actually use in daily operations. In mission-critical airport environments that run around the clock, the PM also absorbs the procurement, certification, and integration constraints that shape what is feasible to ship.

Why does SITA experience matter for airport spatial intelligence product roles?

SITA builds and operates technology that air transport operators depend on globally, covering check-in systems, baggage processing, and airport IT infrastructure. A product manager who spent a decade there gains direct exposure to AODB integrations, airline SLA structures, and the multi-stakeholder decision processes that govern any new technology entering an airport. That background shortens the gap between a software vendor's roadmap and the operational reality airports live in, which is the gap where most airport technology projects stall.

What is the typical career path into airport technology product management?

Most airport technology product managers come from one of two routes: aviation operations (ground handling, airline ops, or airport authority roles) or enterprise software companies that serve the aviation sector, such as SITA, Amadeus IT, or ICTS. The SITA route is especially common because the company serves nearly every major airport globally, giving product staff broad exposure to operator workflows without needing to work inside an airport authority directly.

How does a Spatial Intelligence platform integrate with the systems airport operators already run?

A Spatial Intelligence platform typically ingests data from and pushes events to systems already present in the airport stack: AODB feeds (flight schedules, gate assignments), baggage handling system logs, access control systems, and digital signage controllers. On the sensor side, it can fuse LiDAR entity streams with CCTV video analytics, Wi-Fi positioning data, and automated people-counting solutions. Documented APIs expose every tracked metric and behavioral event, so operators do not need to replace existing infrastructure to add real-time spatial awareness.

What is the difference between product management in aviation software versus general enterprise software?

Aviation software runs in environments that cannot be taken offline for maintenance windows, are subject to regulatory oversight from civil aviation authorities, and involve procurement cycles that often span multiple years. A product manager in aviation must scope features around backward compatibility with legacy airport IT, safety-critical uptime requirements, and contractual SLAs tied to measurable operational outcomes like queue length or checkpoint throughput. General enterprise software product management rarely encounters all three constraints simultaneously.