Focus: People
June 15, 2021
Yves Feltes, the enigmatic marketing and communications executive who worked for SES for over 25 years, died this week in Luxembourg. Feltes was a well-known corporate communication executive in the satellite industry who worked with a number of the operators’ CEOs through the years. Feltes started at SES in 1990 and served for over 25…
June 14, 2021
Iridium Communications has tapped Greg Pelton from Pyron as the company's new CTO. The company announced Monday that Pelton will take over for retiring CTO Hermon Pon. As CTO, Pelton will oversee the technical aspects of Iridium's products and services and manage technology development and engineering. Pelton served as chief product officer at Pyron, an Artificial…
June 8, 2021
One of Blue Canyon Technologies co-founders, longtime CTO Stephen Steg will become the company’s CEO, the company announced Tuesday. Steg has been CTO since the company was founded in 2008, and he has overseen the development of BCT’s spacecraft and component designs. BCT is making changes to its executive team, a few months after it…
May 28, 2021
Inmarsat continues to refresh its senior management team with new two high-profile appointments to target the Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) market. Inmarsat announced May 27 it has appointed Jon Holmes as senior director of UAV Technology and Mark ter Hove as senior manager of European Market Development. The company said Holmes and ter Hove will…