New Appointments
Within Alcatel Alenia Space
(20 October 2006) Olivier Badard is
appointed Vice-President, Sales and Marketing for Alcatel Alenia Space's
telecommunications activities, based in Cannes, France.
Olivier
Badard will report to Blaise Jaeger, Executive Vice President and General
Manager of Alcatel Alenia Space's telecommunications activities.
Eddie
Kato recently joined the company as Vice President and General Manager for the
Asia Pacific Region. In the scope of his position, he will head Asia Pacific
marketing and sales satellites activities and will report to Olivier
Badard.
Olivier Badard
From March 2003 till September
2006, Olivier Badard was Vice-President for Alcatel North America and a Member
of Alcatel North America's Senior Management Team. Prior to that, he was in
charge of telecom ground network solutions sales in the Americas. From 1992
till 2000, Olivier Badard held various sales and marketing managerial positions
with the Telecommunications Cable Division of Alcatel in the United States and
in Europe.
Olivier Badard holds an MBA in International Business from
the International University of San Francisco, California and a Bachelor of
Science from the University of Montpellier (France).
Eddie
Kato
Prior to his appointment, Eddie Kato was Vice President,
business development for Orbital Sciences Corporation's communications
satellites based in the US. Prior to Orbital, Eddie served as Director of
Marketing at Lockheed Martin from 1991 to 1997. Before that, Eddie worked for
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) in Tokyo, Japan.
Eddie Kato
graduated from the Yokohama City University majoring in International
Relations.
About Alcatel Alenia Space
Alcatel Alenia Space
is the European leader in satellite systems and at the forefront of orbital
infrastructures. Created in July 2005, the company brings together the vast
experience and know-how of Alcatel Space and Alenia Spazio to form a new
leading force in European space technology. Alcatel Alenia Space represents a
world-wide standard for space development that impacts everybody's future: from
navigation to telecommunications, from meteorology to environmental monitoring,
from defence to science and observation. Alcatel Alenia Space is an affiliate
of Alcatel (67%) and Finmeccanica (33%).
(source: Alcatel Alenia
Space)