{"id":71801,"date":"2016-02-25T22:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/measat-appoints-new-cto-edmund-kong\/"},"modified":"2016-02-25T22:48:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:48:26","slug":"measat-appoints-new-cto-edmund-kong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/measat-appoints-new-cto-edmund-kong\/","title":{"rendered":"Measat Appoints new CTO Edmund Kong"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 02-25-2016] <b>Measat<\/b> has selected Edmund Kong as the company\u2019s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Formerly the product line chief engineer at a leading aerospace manufacturer, he has 20 years of experience in the satellite industry.<\/p>\n<p>Kong will focus on developing Measat\u2019s long-term technology strategy. He will be responsible for understanding technology trends in the satellite and communication sectors, and in developing opportunities for the company. Kong will also be involved in new satellite procurements.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is an exciting time for the communications and broadcasting industries, with technology change creating many new challenges and opportunities,\u201d said Kong. \u201cTo be able to meet our customers\u2019 needs moving forward, and continue to develop the business, it is important that we understand how technologies are likely to evolve and how we can benefit from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kong holds a PhD in Aeronautics and Astronautics from <b>Massachusetts Institute of Technology <\/b>(MIT) and spent four years at <b>MIT Space Systems Laboratory <\/b>as a research scientist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 02-25-2016] Measat has selected Edmund Kong as the company\u2019s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Formerly the product line chief engineer at a leading aerospace manufacturer, he has 20 years of experience in the satellite industry. Kong will focus on developing Measat\u2019s long-term technology strategy. He will be responsible for understanding technology trends in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71804,"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-71801","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\/71801"}],"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=71801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}