SS/L Expands North American and Asian Marketing and Sales Teams

PALO ALTO, Ca, Oct. 25, 2005/Satnews Daily/ ¾ Space Systems/Loral (SS/L) has announced that Reed Burkhart and Synette Tom have joined the organization as sales and marketing directors. Mr. Burkhart will be responsible for clients in North America, and Ms. Tom for clients in Southeast Asia.

Burkhart, a 20-year veteran of the satellite and communications industries, has previously held positions in engineering, business development and consulting at Hughes Space & Communications (now part of Boeing Integrated Defense Systems), Hughes Communications, Imedia Corporation and Communications Capital Partners.

Tom has 17-years experience in the commercial and government satellite businesses. She has previously held positions in engineering, campaign management, and business development at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems.

Over the last two years, SS/L has booked orders for commercial satellites for a wide variety of applications: FSS, mobile telephony, digital audio radio service (DARS) and direct-to-home service providers. These orders came from leading operators such as DIRECTV, EchoStar, Intelsat, PanAmSat, XM Satellite Radio, ICO and TerreStar. SS/L leads the satellite manufacturing industry in technology innovation, reliability and on-time performance. 

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