{"id":63816,"date":"2018-10-16T19:50:55","date_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/eutelsat-appoints-former-technicolor-exec-as-chief-innovation-officer\/"},"modified":"2018-10-16T19:50:55","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T11:50:55","slug":"eutelsat-appoints-former-technicolor-exec-as-chief-innovation-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/eutelsat-appoints-former-technicolor-exec-as-chief-innovation-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Eutelsat Appoints Former Technicolor Exec as Chief Innovation Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Gary Donnan will join <strong>Eutelsat Communications<\/strong>&nbsp;on Oct. 29 as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rodolphe Belmer. Donnan is tasked with defining Eutelsat\u2019s innovation roadmap, and with identifying and developing innovative initiatives across the Group. He will also focus on forging stronger links between Eutelsat and the external innovation ecosystem to step up the roll-out of emerging technologies throughout the company.<\/p>\n<p>Donnan brings experience in cross-functional and collaborative management. He joins Eutelsat after eleven years at <strong>Technicolor,&nbsp;<\/strong>where he conducted large-scale transformation projects and held several key positions in the fields of technology, research, and innovation, gaining expertise in the broadcasting industry. As a member of Technicolor\u2019s Executive Committee, he was successively Executive Vice President (EVP) for research and innovation, then EVP for technology and standards. Prior to joining Technicolor, Gary held similar research and innovation positions at <strong>Alcatel<\/strong>, including research and development for the deployment of fiber, cable, radio, and satellite networks in various parts of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Gary holds a degree in computer science and data processing, and a postgraduate degree in distributed and parallel systems from the University of Ulster (United Kingdom).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Donnan will join Eutelsat Communications&nbsp;on Oct. 29 as Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), reporting to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Rodolphe Belmer. Donnan is tasked with defining Eutelsat\u2019s innovation roadmap, and with identifying and developing innovative initiatives across the Group. He will also focus on forging stronger links between Eutelsat and the external innovation ecosystem to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":63819,"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-63816","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\/63816"}],"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=63816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}