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Two former Comtech CEOs — Fred Kornberg and Michael Porcelain — released a letter to shareholders on Monday arguing for a slate of eight new board members, and a strategic review for the company’s 911 business, among other changes.  Kornberg is the former longtime CEO of Comtech who led the company from 1976 to 2022.  Porcelain...

Ted Colbert, the head of Boeing‘s Boeing Defense, Space & Security (BDS) segment for more than two years, is leaving the company amid significant profitability worries, competition from startup defense firms and hybrid powerhouses, and a paring back of the segment’s overhead spending for items like work-related personnel travel. Colbert became president and CEO of BDS...

Eutelsat Group’s U.S. subsidiary, Eutelsat America Corp. and OneWeb Technologies (EACOWT), has announced a new executive team. EACOWT operates as a combined company after a merger earlier this year and offers Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) and Geostationary (GEO) satcom solutions for both U.S. government and commercial customers. Kevin Steen, who has been with OneWeb Technologies since 2022,...

Telesat hired a retired Canadian brigadier general to lead its ​​government go-to-market and business development strategy for the Lightspeed Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) network. The Canadian operator announced retired Brig. Gen. G. Michael Adamson as the company’s new senior director of Defense Strategy and Business Development on Wednesday.  Adamson was the inaugural Commander of the Canadian...

Rocket Lab has hired a new COO from the automotive industry to help the company scale manufacturing. The launcher announced Frank Klein as its new chief operations officer on Sept. 10. The appointment is effective Sept. 16.  Most recently, Klein served as COO at Rivian Automative, where he helped to transform Rivian from a low...

Space industry hiring firm Evona is launching a new executive search arm of the company called Gram Partners.  The brand is led by CEO Steve Finder, who had stints leading talent acquisition at Apple and SpaceX, along with Vice President of Client Success Melissa Scofield, who has more than 25 years of recruiting experience across...

Lynk Global named a new CEO on Monday, with other changes to its executive slate as the company works to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger.  Dan Dooley, who is Lynk’s current chief commercial officer, will become CEO, effective immediately.  Dooley has three decades of experience in the global communications industry...

John Finney, who founded satellite terminal company All.Space, is stepping down from his role as CEO. All.Space announced Wednesday that Paul McCarter will succeed Finney as CEO, effective immediately.  Finney was previously the chief commercial officer of O3b Networks. He founded the company in 2013 as Isotropic Systems to design a multi-orbit antenna to match...

Clay Mowry will lead the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) as the organization’s next CEO, AIAA announced Tuesday. Mowry succeeds Dan Dumbacher, who is retiring and will leave AIAA at the end of September. Mowry will start in his role on Oct. 1.  AIAA is the largest aerospace technical society with nearly 30,000...

Firefly Aerospace has appointed Millennium Space Systems CEO Jason Kim as the launcher’s new CEO. The appointment is effective Oct. 1, 2024, and Kim will join Firefly at the company’s headquarters in Austin. This news comes after Firefly’s previous CEO Bill Weber left the company in July amid reports of an inappropriate relationship with female...