GeoEye, announced April 21 the appointment of Paolo E. Colombi as vice president of International Sales.

Colombi has more than 25 years of experience in sales, operations and international management in high-technology and telecommunications systems and services. He will be directly responsible for all international business development and sales, and serve as a resource to more than a dozen regional affiliates and regional distributors around the globe.

Prior to joining GeoEye, Colombi was senior vice president of International Sales for Telular Corp. Before that he was executive vice president of sales for Lotus Interworks LLP and also served in various executive-level positions for Teleglobe International Corp. Previous to that Colombi had 12 years’ consecutive tenure for Sprint International and both for its predecessor company (GTE Telenet), and for its successor company (Global One). During this tenure he held the positions of president of Global One in Mexico; managing director of Sprint International France and vice president, system marketing and sales for Sprint International Southern Europe in Italy, among other executive positions.