{"id":54156,"date":"2023-01-20T20:57:41","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/arianespace-appoints-steven-rutgers-as-new-chief-commercial-officer\/"},"modified":"2023-01-20T20:57:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-20T12:57:41","slug":"arianespace-appoints-steven-rutgers-as-new-chief-commercial-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/arianespace-appoints-steven-rutgers-as-new-chief-commercial-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Arianespace Appoints Steven Rutgers as new Chief Commercial Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><b>Arianespace<\/b> has appointed Steven Rutgers to serve as its next chief commercial officer. Rutgers joins Arianespace from IoT startup <strong>Hiber<\/strong>, where he was vice president of sales.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He has a more than two-decade long career in the space industry and has worked with Inmarsat distributor Xanticm and with Stratos and Inmarsat, and he has worked across multiple sectors&nbsp; including satellite operators and the government, telecommunications, oil and gas, mining, logistics and fisheries industries.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers succeeds Emmanuel Franc, who Arianespace said left the company for an external opportunity after 2022 was a \u201crecord year in terms of order intake.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith over 20 years of global satellite commercial leadership experience, Steven is a strong addition to Arianespace\u2019s executive committee and to our commercial team. His international experience will definitely serve and strengthen our commercial ambitions and the long-term success of Ariane 6 and Vega C on the institutional and commercial markets,\u201d said Arianespace CEO St\u00e9phane Isra\u00ebl.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Arianespace is currently investigating the recent failure of its new Vega C rocket. Vega C, which was designed to bring more flexibility to Europe\u2019s lift-lift market, failed on its second mission. It will not fly again until the investigation is completed. Arianespace is also not launching with the Russian-made Soyuz rocket due to European Union sanctions with Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine. The company has two more launches of its legacy Ariane 5 launcher, and the first Ariane 6 flight is set for the end of 2023. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arianespace has appointed Steven Rutgers to serve as its next chief commercial officer. Rutgers joins Arianespace from IoT startup Hiber, where he was vice president of sales.&nbsp; He has a more than two-decade long career in the space industry and has worked with Inmarsat distributor Xanticm and with Stratos and Inmarsat, and he has worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}