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London, UK, August 14, 2013-- Vislink announced a significant strengthening of its sales management staff with the hiring of John Dulany as Business Development Manager for the Broadcast Division and Richard Harvey as Product Line Manager for Satellite & Video Compression Solutions.

Mclean, Va., Aug. 9, 2013--Iridium Communications Inc. announced the promotion of two Company executives, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick and S. Scott Smith, expanding their roles to further round out its leadership team and support the development of Iridium NEXT, Iridium's second-generation satellite constellation.

London, UK, August 8, 2013--iSat  announced the appointment of Daniel Kuflom to lead iSat business development in the rapidly growing and technologically challenging Broadcast market sectors. Formerly Director of Engineering for the Eritrean Ministry of Information. Daniel is extremely knowledgeable and competent in the design, specification, system integration and operation, maintenance and support of broadcast communication systems, from studio to listener or viewer. 

Beit Shemesh, Israel, August 1, 2013--Foxcom announced that it has expanded its sales presence in the USA with the recent appointment of two regional sales managers. Randy Witten will serve as Director of Government Sales. Randy brings more than 20 years’ experience supporting commercial, civilian, DoD and the Intelligence Community.

Levallois-Perret, France – July 25, 2013 – Dalet Digital Media Systems, a provider of Media Asset Management solutions and services for content producers, has appointed Massimo Berardi to the newly created post of General Manager, Dalet-Italy. Berardi, a broadcast industry veteran and a founder of the Italian company Gruppo TNT, joined Dalet in 2010 with the acquisition of TNT.

Denver,Colo., July 9, 2013--Harris Broadcast has appointed Charles Vogt as CEO. The 25-year information technology and communications leader joins Harris Broadcast following nine years as President and CEO of GENBAND where he led a company transformation that encompassed six acquisitions, including Tekelec SSG, NextPoint Networks and Nortel’s VoIP Business.

View video interviews with key executives from the Satcom Africa 2013 exhibition in Johannesburg, South Africa.   Featuring interviews with: Felix Damiba, Managing Director, Africa  Asia Broadcast Satellite; Nabil al Shanti  COO, ARABSAT; Omar Trujillo,VP-Africa and Latin America,O3b Networks; Jerome van der Putt, CCO and Fulvio Sansone, CTO, SatADSL and  Pradeep  Unni, EVP–Marketing and Sales, MEA,Thaicom.  To view the videos click here.

At the NAB 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada, Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador interviewd key industry executives including: Brian Morris, SVP-Media and Entertainment, Globecomm Systems; Roger Franklin, President, Crystal Solutions; Arnaud Perrier, VP-Solutions Marketing, Envivio; Lisa Coelho, CEO, GlobeCast Americas; and  Thomas Wrede VP– Reception Systems, SES.  To view the videos, click here.

New York City,  May 1, 2013--Lou Zacharilla goes back and forth with with Steve Collar, CEO of O3b Networks.  His venture is designed to empower large numbers of people where they live, whether “home” is a remote Pacific Basin community or one in the hills of Pakistan or Africa.  We discussed the vision of a profoundly interconnected world.

During Satellite 2013 in Washington, D.C. Satellite Markets and Research Editor-in-Chief Virgil Labrador spoke with key executives including Steve Collar, CEO, O3B Networks ;Jack Waters, CEO of Xiplink; Ofer Greenberger, CEO of Orbit Communications Systems ; Dolores Martos, VP-Sales, Latin America and Steve Bunke, VP-Sales, North America of SES ; Timofey Abramov, Commercial Director of Intersputnik ; Jordi Bosom, Director of Strategy and Business Development of Hispasat and Hagay Katz, Head of VSAT business, Gilat Satellite Networks.  To view the videos click here.