{"id":58852,"date":"2020-10-09T17:42:18","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/hispasat-names-new-president-jordi-hereu\/"},"modified":"2020-10-09T17:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:42:18","slug":"hispasat-names-new-president-jordi-hereu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/hispasat-names-new-president-jordi-hereu\/","title":{"rendered":"Hispasat Names New President Jordi Hereu"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Jordi Hereu is now president of <strong>Hispasa<\/strong>t after the company\u2019s board of directors approved the appointment on Oct. 8. <b>Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales<\/b> (SEPI), which holds 7.41% of Hispasat\u2019s shares, proposed during an extraordinary shareholders\u2019 meeting that Hereu take over for Rosario Mart\u00ednez Manzanedo, who had held the position for about a year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hereu has held several positions in city government in Barcelona, and served as mayor of Barcelona from 2006 to 2011. He then co-founded the company <b>Fledge Barcelona <\/b>and presides over <b>IdenCity<\/b> and <b>Barcelona Plataforma Empresarial<\/b>, both specialising in strategic consulting.<\/p>\n<p>Hispasat is a Spanish satellite operator owned by <b>Red El\u00e9ctrica Group<\/b>. Earlier this year, the operator contracted with <b>Thales Alenia Space<\/b> to construct the Amazonas Nexus satellite, which will replace Amazonas 2 in the 61\u00ba West orbital position, and expand its capabilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jordi Hereu is now president of Hispasat after the company\u2019s board of directors approved the appointment on Oct. 8. Sociedad Estatal de Participaciones Industriales (SEPI), which holds 7.41% of Hispasat\u2019s shares, proposed during an extraordinary shareholders\u2019 meeting that Hereu take over for Rosario Mart\u00ednez Manzanedo, who had held the position for about a year.&nbsp; Hereu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58853,"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-58852","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\/58852"}],"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=58852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}