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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.

Hong Kong, June 17, 2015 – Asia Satellite Telecommunications Co. Ltd. (AsiaSat) announced a new organizational structure for its sales and marketing team.  Under the new organisational structure, both sales and business development teams will be headed by Philip Balaam. Under his expanded role as Vice President, Sales and Business Development, Phil will assume new responsibilities in driving sales activities in all Asian markets while continuing to oversee the company’s business development initiatives.  

Singapore, June 10, 2015--Tripleplay, a supplier of digital signage, IPTV and video streaming software solutions, has announced the appointment of a new, highly experienced Managing Director for its Asia Pacific territory, Paul Christy.

Paris, France, June 2, 2015—Effective June 15, Paul Molinier will be appointed as CEO of Viaccess-Orca, a provider content protection and delivery solutions, and a subsidiary of the Orange Group. Paul Molinier will take over responsibilities from François Moreau de Saint Martin, who has joined Orange Business Services as vice president of industry and IT large accounts. 

McLean, Virginia,  June 1,  2015--Satellite operator Intelsat S.A. (NYSE: I) today announced that Karen Schmidt, a veteran marketing executive with more than 25 years’ experience, has been named as the company’s Vice President of Marketing, effective immediately.

Tempe. Ariz., May 13, 2015--Comtech EF Data has announced the promotion of Louis Dubin to Senior Vice President, Product Management. In this role, Dubin will lead the company’s Product Management organization and direct CEFD’s primary technology and marketing thrusts.

View video interviews with key executives at the NAB 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada including: Jonathan Crawford, CEO-The Spaceconnection; Olivier Barberot, CEO-Globecast; Roger Franklin, CEO-Crystal; Steven Corda, VP-Business Strategy and Planning, SES; and Peter Ostapiuk, Head of Media Services, Intelsat. To view the interviews click here.

Video interviews with key industry executives from Satellite 2015  in  Washington, D.C. including Dan Prushnok, CEO-Qunitech Electronics and Communications; David Myers, CEO-Datapath; David Hershberg, CEO, STS Global; Sherry Ann Supelana, Head of Global Engineering-ABS-CBN; and Grant Whipple, Director of Sales and Business Development-Winegard.  To view or download the videos, click here.

Hauppauge, N.Y. – April 14, 2015 -- Globecomm announced that Jonathan Kirchner has joined the executive team as Senior Vice President of Corporate Strategy & Product Management. He will be reporting to Keith Hall, Chief Executive Office and  will lead the development of Globecomm’s long-term, global corporate and product strategy.

Bangalore, India, April 6, 2015--Dr M Annadurai has assumed the office of Director, ISAC on April 1, 2015. He took over as Director, ISAC from Dr S K Shivakumar, who retired on March 31, 2015.