{"id":66487,"date":"2017-12-20T21:50:41","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/halawi-moves-to-intelsat-after-9-months-at-oneweb\/"},"modified":"2017-12-20T21:50:41","modified_gmt":"2017-12-20T13:50:41","slug":"halawi-moves-to-intelsat-after-9-months-at-oneweb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/halawi-moves-to-intelsat-after-9-months-at-oneweb\/","title":{"rendered":"Halawi Moves to Intelsat After 9 Months at OneWeb"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><strong>Intelsat<\/strong> has appointed satellite industry executive Samer Halawi as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Assuming the role effective Jan. 9, 2018, Halawi will lead the company\u2019s global commercial operations, including the broadband, mobility, media, and government businesses, as well as the sales and marketing teams.<\/p>\n<p>Intelsat created the new role to accelerate the commercialization of its Intelsat Epic&nbsp;High Throughput Satellite (HTS) fleet and build additional focus on the introduction of new managed services, unlocking new applications to drive company growth. Halawi will also be responsible for leading Intelsat\u2019s engagement with key business partners such as <strong>OneWeb<\/strong> and <strong>Kymeta<\/strong>, as well as with leading distributors and Value-Added Resellers (VARs) across sectors.<\/p>\n<p>Halawi joins Intelsat with more than 20 years\u2019 experience in business development, telecommunications and global satellite communications. Most recently he served as CCO of Low Earth Orbit (LEO) start-up OneWeb for nine months. Halawi also served for six years as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for <strong>Thuraya Telecommunications<\/strong>. Other career experience includes positions at <strong>Inmarsat<\/strong>, <strong>Flag Telecom<\/strong> and <strong>ICO Global Communications.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we seek to expand our share of the growing global telecommunications sector, Samer\u2019s extensive background and expertise in mobility services and in bringing new products and services to market will be instrumental in guiding our commercial operations to capitalize on new, fast growing applications,\u201d said Intelsat CEO Stephen Spengler.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intelsat has appointed satellite industry executive Samer Halawi as its new Chief Commercial Officer (CCO). Assuming the role effective Jan. 9, 2018, Halawi will lead the company\u2019s global commercial operations, including the broadband, mobility, media, and government businesses, as well as the sales and marketing teams. Intelsat created the new role to accelerate the commercialization [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66489,"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-66487","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\/66487"}],"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=66487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66487\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}