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Boeing Names New Head of Contracts & Pricing
Chicago/April 29, 2003/Satnews Daily/ — The Boeing Co. has announced the retirement of Robert J. Ingersoll and the appointment of Timothy P. Malishenko as corporate vice president of contracts and pricing.
Ingersoll, a 36-year Boeing veteran, has since 1999 been responsible
for policy, guidance and oversight of contracting processes across the $54
billion, Chicago-based aerospace company and has overseen company
compliance in contracts and pricing and export/Import matters.
Prior to his most recent assignment, Ingersoll served as vice president of Contracts and Pricing for the Military Aircraft and Missile Systems Group in St. Louis. In 1998, using an Alternate Dispute Resolution process, Ingersoll successfully resolved a major litigation for the AC-130U Gunship with the U.S. Air Force. This is the largest dollar settlement to date using this process.
Timothy P. Malishenko will replace Ingersoll as the vice president of contracts and pricing for Boeing. Currently, Malishenko is vice president of contracts and pricing, Boeing Integrated Defense Systems, where he oversees contracts, pricing and export management for operations, policy, processes and ongoing evaluations of business transactions and program performance.
Malishenko joined Boeing in February 2001, after serving 31 years in the U.S. Air Force. At the time of his retirement, he was director of the Defense Contract Management Agency in Washington, D.C. From 1995 to 1997, he served as the deputy assistant secretary of the Air Force (Contracting). In these positions, Malishenko served in a broad range of defense acquisition programs, including contract management, space, aeronautical, international and electronic systems.
Malishenko was a leader in the development and deployment of standard business systems in the Department of Defense (DoD). Further, he led the DoD effort that developed the end-to-end procurement process model and numerous common process initiatives.
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HMC Appoints Philip Adkins
April 29, 2003/Satnews Daily/ — Horizon Mobile Communications (HMC) has appointed Philip Adkins as Managing Director effective from April 16, 2003. He brings more than 30 years extensive experience in senior executive roles as a Managing Director, main Board Director (of a public company) and as a Senior Vice President in multi-national companies in both the maritime and finance sectors.
Philip
has worked in the shipping industry for P & O Plc (UK) and Jebsens
Rederi (Norway) and is qualified as a Chief Engineer (First Class). In
1986 he was invited to join ANZ McCaughan Dyson Securities in the City of
London and later, Banque Paribas Capital Markets as a Senior Pan-European
telecommunication and energy analyst.
After
a period as a corporate development consultant, Philip came to Thailand
with Standard Chartered Securities in 1995 and was appointed their Chief
Representative in 1996. He joined Seamico Securities Plc as a Senior Vice
President in their corporate finance department in April 1998 and worked
on many major projects involving mergers and acquisition, capital raising,
public company listing and corporate valuation/strategy reviews.
Mobile communication company HMC specializes in servicing the maritime industry with global satellite communications and packaged IT solutions. HMC has registered offices operating in Thailand, Singapore, Hong Kong, Japan, Australia, and Norway and has plans to establish an office in the USA. HMC works closely with international satellite operators including Inmarsat, Iridium Satellite LLC (Iridium II), AceS and Thuraya and was appointed last year as a first Tier provider (the highest category) for Iridium II.
Additional
information on HMC can be found on their website at www.horizon-mobile.com
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Washington/April 28, 2003/Satnews Daily/ —
Satellite radio service XM Satellite Radio has promoted a
number of key executives, XM President and CEO Hugh Panero has announced.
"We are delighted to promote these senior executives whose important contributions allowed us to rapidly reach one-half million subscribers, and put us on track to surpass the one million subscriber mark this year," Panero said.
Joe Titlebaum has been promoted from SVP/General Counsel to Executive Vice President/General Counsel
Neil Eastman from VP to SVP, Advance Applications, Engineering & Technology Department
Patricia Kesling from VP to SVP, Marketing and Operations
Tony Masiello from VP to SVP, Operations
Dan Murphy from VP to SVP, Retail Sales and Distribution
Jeff Snyder from VP to SVP, Repeater Operations
Daniel Battista from Director of Advance Applications to VP Product Development
Kevin Straley from Director to VP, Talk Programming
XM's satellite radio service currently has more than one-half million subscribers.
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Connexion by Boeing Names Friedman Vice President of Marketing
Seattle/April 22, 2003/Satnews Daily/ — Connexion by Boeing, a business unit of Boeing Co. has named David Friedman as vice president of marketing for the mobile information services provider that brings high-speed Internet and intranet connectivity to travelers.
Friedman most recently was an independent consultant, and associated with The Northridge Group, where he provided strategic counsel to small to midsize companies and venture capital organizations. Previously he served as the vice president of marketing for U.S. Cellular, where he was the chief architect of marketing strategy. In that capacity Friedman had responsibility for advertising and branding, product development, e-business, distribution and customer relationship marketing.
In his new position, Friedman will be responsible for developing marketing and business strategies, promotions, collateral and market campaigns; competitor, product and market analysis, pricing strategies, strategic alliances and trade shows. He reports directly to Connexion by Boeing President Scott Carson.
"David brings proven experience to the Connexion by Boeing management team, particularly in the areas of strategy development and the marketing of consumer-facing services," said Carson. "His attitude, energy and leadership will help broaden consumer awareness of our service offering and ensure we're well-positioned in the marketplace when we begin full-scale rollout in 2004."
Friedman holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from New York City College, a master's degree in electrical engineering from Columbia University and a master's of business administration with an emphasis in economics from George Washington University.
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European Satellite Operators Association Elect Berretta Chairman
April
14, 2003/Satnews
Daily/ — Key executives of Europe’s satellite operators have
elected Giuliano
Berretta, Chairman of the Management Board and CEO of Eutelsat, as
Chairman of
the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA).
Berretta was elected last April
4 in Betzdorf (Luxembourg) during the ESOA Board meeting followed by the
yearly General Assembly
Berretta
will succeed Romain Bausch, President and CEO of SES GLOBAL whose term as
Chairman of ESOA has now expired, and Mr Berretta will lead ESOA through
its second year. Dan Goldberg, President and CEO of New Skies, was elected
Vice Chairman of the Board. Both appointments are for a one-year term.
During the meeting, the Board also agreed to pursue five priorities in 2003 as follows:
Provide
input into the development of the Green Paper on European Space Policy
at the levels of both the European Commission and European Space
Agency.
Represent
the views of European satellite operators in Europe and around the
world to help remove trade, regulatory and market access barriers
facing them.
Actively
support satellite service providers by stimulating the increase of
research and development funding for ground equipment and satellite
based applications.
Promote
the role of satellites in the European Commission’s e-Europe
broadband programme. e-Europe was launched in 1999 to bring Europe
on-line.
Continue to pursue the important issues of frequency use, frequency access and frequency availability for satellite communications, notably in the context of the upcoming WRC 03.
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Daniel J. Crowley Appointed President, Lockheed Martin Information Systems
Bethesda, Md./April 14, 2003/Satews Daily/ — Lockheed Martin Corp. has appointed Daniel J. Crowley as president of the company's Information Systems business, effective May 15. Crowley succeeds John Hallal, who is retiring from the Corporation.
Crowley, currently vice president of business development and advanced programs for Lockheed Martin Space and Strategic Missiles, Sunnyvale, CA, joined the Corporation as a cooperative engineering student in 1983 and supported a variety of military and commercial aerospace programs in Austin, TX. He later moved to the corporate staff with assignments including technology planning and establishment of Lockheed Martin's Centers of Excellence.
In 1996, Crowley became plant manager for Lockheed Martin Astronautics in San Diego, responsible for production of launch vehicle fuel tanks and other components, and later held director and vice president positions at Lockheed Martin Commercial Space Systems, where he was responsible for 12 geostationary telecommunications satellites and associated ground facilities. More recently, he was deputy program manager for special programs for the missiles and space business, and vice president and deputy program manager for the Theater High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system.
"Dan Crowley brings to his new assignment two decades of solid technical, program and operational management experience across a wide array of operating company, business area and corporate staff assignments," said Robert B. Coutts, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin's Systems Integration business area.
Crowley earned a bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering and a master's degree in manufacturing systems engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He also received a master's degree in management from the Stanford Graduate School of Business as a 2000-2001 Lockheed Martin Sloan Fellow. He is a registered professional engineer in Texas and holds memberships in the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, the Institute of Industrial Engineers, the Society of Manufacturing Engineers and the American Society for Quality Control.
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Darby Sanchez Appointed as Chief
Executive Officer, GlobeCast Asia
Paris/April 4, 2003/Satnews Daily/ —
Satellite broadcast provider GlobeCast has announced that Darby Sanchez
has been appointed as Chief Executive Officer of GlobeCast Asia, according
to GlobeCast Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Christian Pinon.
GlobeCast - a subsidiary of France Telecom - is the world's largest provider of satellite transmission and production services for professional broadcast, enterprise multimedia and Internet content delivery.
As CEO of GlobeCast Asia, Ms. Sanchez will be responsible for overall direction and management of the company's operations in the Asia Pacific, which comprises a master control center and access to teleport facilities in Singapore, and liaison offices in New Delhi and Tokyo. Based in Singapore, Ms. Sanchez will assume the position at the end of April following the departure of Doug Triblehorn.
Darby Sanchez joined GlobeCast in 1999, as the Vice President, Latin
America Sales based at GlobeCast America in Miami. Prior to
GlobeCast, Ms. Sanchez was the Director of Sales, Latin America for L3
Communications-Satellite Transmission Systems; and, previously, Senior
Manager, Ibero-America Sales for General Instrument Corporation.
GlobeCast is the global leader in satellite transmission services for
professional broadcast, enterprise multimedia and Internet content
delivery. Operating 16 offices and teleport earth stations throughout
Europe, America, Asia, Australia, the Middle East and Africa, GlobeCast
offers the complete range of satellite broadcast solutions, including TV
channel distribution,
Internet delivery, newsgathering, DTH distribution, sports backhaul,
program origination, studio production, events mobile production, foreign
language conversion and audio distribution.
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Baltimore/April 2, 2003/Satnews Daily/ — Northrop Grumman Corp.'s Electronic Systems sector has appointed F. Suzanne Jenniches vice president and general manager of its newly formed Government Systems Division.
A 29-year veteran of Northrop Grumman, Jenniches had most recently served as vice president of the Communications Systems business unit for the company.
The new Government Systems Division comprises homeland security, automation and information systems, and communication systems. The primary products and services for both domestic and international defense and government agencies include postal automation and material handling; air traffic control communications and navigation systems; command, control, communications and intelligence military communications; satellite ground stations; information security and a variety of security sensors and systems that support homeland defense initiatives.
Jenniches is also responsible for Electronic Systems subsidiaries and sites located in Cincinnati, Ohio; Gaithersburg, Md.; Peterborough, England; Oslo, Norway; Gentilly, France; Bourg-les-Valence, France; Mechelen, Belgium; and Shanghai, China.
After joining the corporation in 1974, Jenniches has served in a number of positions of increasing responsibility including operations program manager for the B-1B electronically scanned antenna and the APQ-164 offensive radar systems.
In 1986, she was appointed manager of Systems & Technology Operations where she was responsible for transitioning defense avionics hardware programs from engineering into smooth high-rate production.
Upon receiving a Bachelor of Science degree from Clarion State College in 1970, Jenniches began her career in science as a high school biology teacher. In 1979, she attained her master's degree in environmental engineering from Johns Hopkins University evening school and has completed extensive post-graduate work in international affairs at The Catholic University of America. In addition, she has attended the Harvard Business School Program for Management Development.
Jenniches is past president of the National Society of Women Engineers and was awarded the Achievement Award in June 2000 in recognition of outstanding leadership in manufacturing innovation and for setting the highest standards of excellence in producibility engineering.
Jenniches serves as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board and the National Research Council Committee on Commercial/Military Integration. She serves on the Board of Directors of MICROS, Inc., a publicly traded point of sales and software systems provider.
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