Quintron Systems, Inc. has appointed James St. Pierre as the new Director of Sales & Marketing.  In his new position, St. Pierre will focus on branding, promoting, and channeling the growth of Quintron Systems’ leading edge security systems.

Richard Finnegan, V.P. and General Manager, Security Systems Division, said St. Pierre has many years of experience and a vast amount of knowledge in the unified access control and intrusion detection market.

Andrew Jordan, previously CEO of Eutelsat Asia, has joined Eutelsat Communications’ Executive Commit

Thomas Van den Driessche has been appointed Newtec’s new Chief Commercial Officer and will lead Newtec’s global sales team to achieve Newtec’s ambitious growth objectives. He will also remain responsible for the company’s marketing strategy.

Eutelsat Communications announced the appointment of Jean-Hubert Lenotte as the Group's Director of Strategy. He succeeds Yohann Leroy who has been appointed Deputy Chief Technical Officer and Director of Engineering.

Intelsat's board of directors elected John W. Diercksen to serve on the board as an independent director effective today. Mr. Diercksen will also serve on the Audit Committee. Mr. Diercksen is currently an executive vice president of Verizon Communications, with responsibility for key strategic initiatives related to the review and assessment of potential mergers, acquisitions and divestitures.

 Content security provider Conax has named Andreas Binderlehner as new Director of Area Sales for the German-speaking countries.Binderlehner will be responsible for development of business opportunities and expansion of sales of Conax Conditional Access and DRM solutions to cable, satellite, DTH and DTT operators, ISPs and telcos in the “D-A-CH”