Space & Satellite Professionals International (SSPI) today announced the results of 2019 elections to its Board of Directors. The SSPI membership has elected six new Directors and re-elected four Directors to serve three-year terms beginning May 8. Newly elected and re-elected Directors include:
Ariane Cornell, New Glenn Commercial Sales Director – Americas, Blue Origin
Jonathan Crawford, President & CEO, The SPACECONNECTION
Jonathan Hofeller, Vice President of Commercial Sales, SpaceX
Jason Juranek
Aaron Lewis, Vice President, Arianespace
Arnulf Kjeldsen, CEO, Kongsberg Satellite Services
Barry Matsumori, CEO, BridgeSat
Nicole Robinson, Senior Vice President, SES
Dr. Walter Scott, CTO, Maxar
Billie Sims, Vice President, Hunter Communications
The Board also appointed Mike Safyan, Planet’s Senior Director for Launch and Global Ground Station Networks, and Sharyn Nerenberg, Director of Corporate Communications at Hughes Network Systems to complete the terms of directors resigning from the Board in their favor.
“SSPI’s Board of Directors represents a unique blending of new space and veteran space companies,” said executive director Robert Bell. “The established and emerging companies of commercial space have so much to learn from each other, and so much to contribute to the success of the entire sector in making a better world while achieving unprecedented commercial success.”
Continuing in service on SSPI’s Board of Directors are:
David Myers, President, Communications Sector, Peraton (Chair)
Thomas Van Den Driessche, CEO, Newtec (President)
Michael Antonovich, CEO, Eutelsat Americas
Tony Gingiss, CEO, OneWeb Satellites
Christopher Johnson, President, Boeing Commercial Satellite Services
Keith Johnson, COO, Speedcast
David Kagan, CEO, Globalstar
Ric Vandermeulen, Vice President and General Manager, Government Satcom, ViaSat
Elizabeth Evans of Reed Smith LLP serves as General Council.