[SatNews] MTN Satellite Communications (MTN) announces the appointment of
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...Margaret (“Peg”) Grayson to the position of president of MTN Government Services (MTNGS). MTNGS is a Leesburg, Virginia-based subsidiary of MTN. Ms. Grayson joined MTN as CFO in 2011, bringing a strong leadership track record in the government and commercial communications markets. She is a member of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC). Due to her expertise in cyber security, Ms. Grayson has participated in several comprehensive studies designed to provide the President, through the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security, advice on the nation’s critical infrastructure sectors and their information systems. She co-chaired four published studies for the NIAC on infrastructure risks and vulnerabilities, as well as community resilience and recovery. Prior to joining MTN, Ms. Grayson held senior management positions inpolicy, regulatory compliance, risk management and finance at Honeywell Aerospace and Defense, Spacehab, Inc. and V-ONE Corporation. Ms. Grayson has served on the boards of public and private companies in healthcare and international risk management, and is on the Dean’s Council and Advisory Board of the School of Business at the State University of New York in Buffalo.
Also joining the company is Chris Leber as executive vice president, commercial business development.
Mr. Leber will drive the business development and strategy for MTN’s commercial market segments—the cruise, yacht, commercial, and oil & gas industries. Mr. Leber brings more than 30 years of extensive business development, strategy, sales, profit and loss (P&L), and marketing experience in the communications and satellite sectors. Most recently, he served as vice president of business development at ViaSat. He also served as vice president and general manager of VSAT networks at ViaSat. Prior to that, he held executive roles at Global Access International and Comsat Corporation/Lockheed Martin. Mr. Leber is a tenured leader in building and leading satellite and communications product and service initiatives, managing P&L, growing start-ups, and directing complex global satellite network projects.

