At an awards ceremony held on the first day of the SATCON Conference and Exhibition in New York City, the Third Annual Vision Awards announced winners in three categories:   Gary Hatch, Co-founder and CEO of ATCi Communications won the Visionary Executive of the Year; Integrasys’ Satmotion Pocket won the Innovative Product of the Year and Advantech Wireless won the Most Promising Company of the Year. 

ABS announced the appointment of Dolores Martos as the Managing Director of the Americas.   In this position, Dolores is responsible for leading the sales, business development and operations for the Americas markets.  Dolores is based in Washington DC and reports directly to ABS CEO Tom Choi.

This article includes MILCOM 2014 Interviews: 

Interview with Jack Waters, CEO, Xiplink, Interview with Rick Lober, VP-Defense and Intelligence Div., Hughes Network Systems, Interview with Andrew Ruszkowski, Chief Commerical Officer of Xtar

ITU’s 19th Plenipotentiary Conference roundly endorsed Houlin Zhao of China as its next Secretary-General. Zhao will take office on 1 January 2015 for a term of four years, with the possibility of re-election for one additional four-year term. The election took place in Busan, Republic of Korea, during the Plenary session of the PP-14 conference this morning. Zhao won the position with 152 votes, from 156 ballot papers deposited. He contested the position unopposed. 

SpeedCast International Limited, today announced that Keith Johnson has joined SpeedCast as senior vice president / General Manager in charge of Energy services globally.  In this role, Johnson will oversee all of SpeedCast’s business activities for the Energy sector (Oil and Gas in particular), including strategic planning, program management, business development and global sales for SpeedCast’s worldwide operations.

Wavestream, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Gilat Satellite Networks Ltd. ) providing solid-state power amplifiers for mission-critical defense and broadcast satellite communications systems, announced today the appointment of Wavestream past President and co-founder James Rosenberg as CTO.

At IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Timofei Abramov, Commercial Director and Grigory Baitsur, Director of Technical Department of Intersputnik on their company's future plans.

At IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Jorg Rockstroh, Senior R&D Engineer, Work Microwave on their new DVB-S2 modulator launched at the show.

At IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Satservice Managing Director Michael Ulbricht on the new products they are highlighting at the show.

At IBC 2014 in Amsterdam, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with spoke with Andreas Bernhardt, CEO and Petra Visuri, Head of Product Management and Marketing, ND SATCOM on the latest developments in their company and the new SKYWAN 5G product they are showcasing at the exhibition.