Norsat International Inc. announced that George King has been appointed to the company’s board of directors. With 20 years of strategic, operating, finance and legal experience in the United States and Europe, King sits on a number of executive boards. He has served as a Section 16 Officer of a U.S. public company, and as a Director or Trustee of five private companies and two universities.

King’s distinguished corporate, entrepreneurial and professional career began in 1984 and most recently, he co-founded a consulting company that has since evolved into Magenta netLogic, a U.S. and U.K.-based telecommunications company.