Leosat, LLC, a company developing a low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation to provide worldwide coverage, today announced the appointment of Vern Fotheringham as Chief Executive Officer and outlined the company’s vision publicly for the first time since beginning its development in 2013.

The World Teleport Association (WTA) today announced that its Board of Directors has elected James Trevelyan, Sales Director at Arqiva Satellite & Media, as its new Chairman effective April 1.  Mr. Trevelyan replaces M. Brett Belinsky, Managing Director of EMEA at Encompass Digital Media, who has served as Chairman of the Board since 2011 and is stepping down from the Board at the end of his final term.  

SES announced today that Christophe De Hauwer has been appointed by the Board of Directors of SES as Chief Development Officer (CDO) and member of the company’s Executive Committee, effective 1 August 2015.

DISH Network Corporation (NASDAQ: DISH) today announced that President and Chief Executive Officer Joseph P. Clayton will retire from his position effective March 31, 2015. Clayton, who is a 42-year veteran of the consumer electronics industry, leaves the post he assumed in June of 2011. Clayton’s retirement from the DISH Board of Directors also will be effective March 31. DISH Co-founder and Chairman Charles W. Ergen, who has previously served as DISH’s President and CEO, will succeed Clayton in those roles.
 

The World Teleport Association today announced that Jorge Luis Villarreal Schutz, CEO of Mexico-based Elara Comunicaciones, has been named as its 2015 Teleport Executive of the Year. Villarreal will be honored during WTA’s Teleport Awards for Excellence luncheon on March 17 during SATELLITE 2015. The Teleport Executive of the Year award is presented to an individual for demonstrated entrepreneurship, leadership and innovation in the development or operation of a teleport-based business.

Globecast has today announced that it has completed a company-wide reorganization in order to enhance its position as a fully integrated media solutions provider, operating in a truly unified manner across all its territories and addressing the changing needs of its customers.

Olivier Barberot, Globecast CEO, said, “Globecast has expanded tremendously since its inception, and seen enormous success with its satellite and fibre services. We have listened to our customers and closely examined the next phase of our development using their responses and our market expertise.”

Boeing [NYSE:BA] is consolidating management of key defense and space development programs into a new organization called BDS Developement. Jim O’Neill is named president of BDS Development.

Satellite service provider Artel has named Paul Domorski to serve as interim president and CEO in the wake of the departure of Ted Hengst, who has left the company to pursue other interests.

SatService GmbH, a turnkey systems integrator based in the Lake Constance area of Germany has appointed Kai Koppenburg as Sales Director.  Koppenburg will be leading all of SatService's sales efforts worldwide.

Mark Rawlins, Eutelsat’s Director of Communication System Operations, has been elected as the new Chairman of the Space Data Association (SDA), an international non-profit association of satellite operators that supports the controlled, reliable and efficient sharing of space environment and RF spectrum data.