Hosted Payload Alliance Elect 2015 Board Officers
Deerfield, IL, December 18, 2014–The Hosted Payload Alliance (HPA) Board of Directors has elected its Officers for 2015 consisting of Chairperson Nicole Robinson, Corporate Vice President of Communications and Government Affairs for SES Government Solutions; Vice-Chair
Nicole Robinson currently serves as the Corporate Vice President of Communications and Government Affairs for SES Government Solutions. In this position, she provides the strategic direction for all external marketing and communications initiatives and is responsible for the Government Affairs Strategy in the advocacy of innovative ways to utilize commercial satellites to deliver time and cost effective solutions to the government.
Rory Welch is the Director of Business Development at Intelsat General, where he leads critical customer engagement initiatives and business development strategies. He is responsible for designing and executing complex strategy and capture campaigns aimed at diversifying the company’s business by securing revenue in non-core mission areas such as hosted payloads, ground operations, flight operations and orbital serving.
Al Tadros is Vice President of DoD and Civil Business at SSL, a full-service provider of communications satellites and space systems. In this role he is responsible for applying SSL’s best value solutions, including hosted payloads, to U.S. Government mission needs. Mr. Tadros also develops and maintains relationships with U.S. Government agencies and manages sales and marketing activities.
Robert Clark is the Hosted Payload Manager for Harris Corporation, where he has worked since 1997 in a broad range of technologies and disciplines. Mr. Clark currently has responsibility to oversee and advise concept development, architecture, design, production and deployment of advanced technology systems for both commercial and government customers, with a focus on the hosted payload market. During his tenure at Harris, Mr. Clark led the successful proposal for the Air Force Space and Missile Center's Hosted Payload Solutions (HoPS) program. In addition, his roles as chief engineer and architect on the Aireon hosted payload and several of its auxiliary components have enabled numerous hosted payloads of several types for Harris Corporation.
HPA’s officers will work to advance the Alliance’s mission to promote the benefits of hosted government payloads on commercial satellites. In 2014, HPA coordinated a very successful Congressional Hill Day, speaking to many Congressional members and staffers about the benefits of hosted payloads. Looking ahead to 2015, the Alliance will build on that success with the incoming officers leading the way.
The Board Officers are elected in the fall of each year, with their terms beginning the following January.
HPA's Executive Members are: Airbus Group, Arianespace, Boeing, Harris Corporation, Inmarsat, Intelsat General Corporation, Iridium Communications Inc., Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, SES Government Solutions, and Space Systems/Loral.
