Via Satellite presents six nominees for the 2023 Satellite Executive of the Year award, to be announced at the Via Satellite awards luncheon on Wednesday, March 20, at SATELLITE 2024.
Chris Kubasik, CEO of L3Harris — Led L3Harris Space Systems to 7% growth in 2023 and won ~$1.8 billion in SDA PWSA awards for 36 satellites. Closed acquisitions of Aerojet Rocketdyne and Viasat’s Tactical Data Links business. L3Harris Communications Systems delivered 20% year-over-year growth.
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Eva Berneke, CEO of Eutelsat Group — Executed the OneWeb acquisition, creating the first GEO/LEO combined operator. OneWeb backlog near 1 billion euros, up 66% year-over-year. Closed a multi-million-dollar LEO distribution partnership with Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom.
Kathy Warden, CEO of Northrop Grumman — Space segment grew 14% in 2023 and became the company’s largest unit. Won ~$2.8 billion in SDA awards to build 130 LEO satellites — more than any other vendor.
Mike Greenley, CEO of MDA — Won a $2 billion Telesat Lightspeed contract (198+ satellites, largest award in MDA history) plus an L3Harris SDA Tranche 1 Tracking Layer antenna contract and the SatixFy Space Systems acquisition.
Peter Beck, CEO of Rocket Lab — 10 annual launches in 2023 (second only to Falcon 9), first reused Rutherford engine flight, and a $500 million SDA prime contract for 18 satellites — Rocket Lab’s largest award ever.
Stuart Daughtridge, Chairman of the DIFI Consortium — Led the Digital IF Consortium to ~60 member organizations and released DIFI Standard v1.2.0. First-ever Plugfest achieved ~90% interoperability across 13 vendor systems. VS
