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London, UK, September 24, 2015--Inmarsat has announced the appointment of Sam Matar as Director of Airline Market Development, with responsibility for expanding the company’s airline customer base and revenues in the North America market.

Hamburg, Germany, September 22, 2015–Transas, a global leader in high-tech equipment, software and system integration for the maritime industry, today announces the appointment of Frank Coles as its Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors for Transas Marine.

McLean, VA, September 22, 2015--Catherine Melquist, a marketing executive with more than 20 years of experience in the satellite industry, has joined Sage Communications as senior vice president of its Satellite division.

Washington, DC, September 14, 2015 – LeoSat Enterprises, an emerging company with plans to launch a constellation of up to 108 low-earth-orbit communications satellites, has named industry veteran Mark Rigolle as the company’s new chief executive officer.  

Montreal, Canada, September 10, 2015–Advantech Wireless announced that Steve Richeson has joined the company as Senior Vice President, Global Sales and Business Development. Steve joins Advantech  from his most recent position at Harris Corporation where he was instrumental in establishing a sales pipeline for the Communications Solutions business unit of Exelis (formerly ITT Defense) prior to its US$ 4.6 billion acquisition by Harris.

Indiana, PA.  August 25, 2015--Quintech Electronics & Communications, Inc. announced the addition of Serafin Morales as the new International Account Manager, Mexico, Central and Latin America (CALA).

Video interviews with key industry executives from the Latin American Satellite Communications and Broadcasting Summit  (LATSAT) 2015 in Mexico City organized by Euroconsult, including: Dolores Martos, MD-Americas and Erwin Mercado, VP-Sales-Latin America of ABS; Ignacio Sanchis, Chief Commercial Officer-HISPASAT; Omar Trujillo, VP-Sales, Latin America and Africa-O3B Networks;  and Julio Villafañe,  VP-Commercial, Latin America-North of SES. To view the videos click here.

Dallas, Tex., July 22, 2015 – Imagine Communications, a global leader in video and advertising solutions serving the media and entertainment, multichannel video programming distributors and enterprise markets, today announced the promotion of Ramnik Kamo to the position of Chief Marketing Officer. In addition to overseeing Imagine Communications’ overall marketing strategy, Kamo will be responsible for business development, partnerships and merger and acquisition activities.

Melville, NY, July 20, 2015-- John Branscum, President of Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., will succeed Robert McCollum, President of Comtech EF Data Corp., who will be retiring on July 31, 2015. Branscum, who has more than 30 years of industry experience, joined Comtech in 2008.

Seattle, Wash.,  July 20, 2015 – BlackSky Global, a satellite imaging-as-a-service company, announced today that it has tapped software and services veteran Rakesh Narasimhan as its executive vice president and general manager to lead engineering, sales, marketing and operations for its web scale satellite imagery data platform, effective immediately.