Space systems technology solutions company LinQuest Corporation has announced Timothy Dills as its new Chief Executive Officer and President.

DataPath announced today the appointment of Henrik Asbjørn of Copenhagen, Denmark, to the position of Senior Director, Head of Sales – Europe.

Asbjørn will have overall responsibility for sales and customer development for the company’s satellite and wireless communications products and systems and secure communications software.

The Global VSAT Forum (GVF) has announced the appointment of Irina Petrov to serve as its Vice President for Marketing and Membership with effect on March 5, 2019. 

At the PTC 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Satellite Markets and Research interviewed key excutives including Ronald van der Breggen, Chief Commercial Officer of Leosat; Gregg Daffner, President of the Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC); Brandon Seir, VP-Sales and Marketing, Kacific and New Space entrepreneur Gary Hatch. To view the videos, click on the aformentioned executive's name.  

At the PTC 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Brandon Seir, Vice-President, Sales and Marketing-Kacific.

At the PTC 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Ronald van der Breggen, Chief Commercial Officer-Leosat on their planned Low Earth Orbit (LEO) constellation.

At the PTC 2019 in Honolulu, Hawaii, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with Gregg Daffner, President of the Asia-Pacific Satellite Communications Council (APSCC) on the regulatory initiatives in the Asia-Pacific region.

Hughes Network Systems, a leading provider of broadband satellite networks and services, announced that the  IEEE has honored Dr. Lin-Nan Lee, vice president of Advanced Development at Hughes and Life Fellow at IEEE, with its “Distinguished Contributions to Satellite Communications” award. The IEEE, the world’s largest professional organization for the advancement of technology, presents this prestigious award to commend one industry leader for outstanding contributions to the advancement of science, technology and applications in communications.

To jump-start the 2019 year, Terrasat has recently surpassed shipping out 20K IBUCs worldwide, and it continues to charge forward by expanding its sales team. Terrasat welcomes Paul Gorton to the team as Director of Sales, EMEA, who will be combining forces with Ron Merritt, Regional VP of EMEA.

Iridium Communications has announced that COO Scott Smith has decided to retire effective March 15th and  the company is welcoming back to Iridium new chief operations officer Suzi McBride. McBride will assume this position effective as of February 11, 2019.