[Via Satellite 04-22-2014] The May issue of Via Satellite highlights the important and ever growing role of women in the satellite industry. We chronicle some of the pivotal life moments that guided SpaceX President and COO Gwynne Shotwell, Intelsat General\u2019s President Kay Sears, and others as they decided to pursue careers in satellite.<\/p>\n
Additionally, we talked with industry leaders on the role of High Throughput Satellites (HTS), the tactics and strategies of U.S. defense companies and other timely topics. For a preview of this latest issue, here are the top ten quotes from Via Satellite\u2019s May 2014 issue:<\/p>\n
\u201cIn engineering it\u2019s not whether you\u2019re a man or a woman, it\u2019s how good you are \u2026 can you design this piece of hardware and will it work? It\u2019s a meritocracy and if you can do a good job, you\u2019re going to succeed, you\u2019re going to get recognized, you\u2019re going to progress.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Susan Miller, president and CEO, Inmarsat Government<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThere are women in key leadership positions, but we are missing women in important middle management roles. That is the test bed; that is where you create new leaders. In order to populate that, you need to have more women as new employees.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO, SpaceX<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cAfrica is just an oversupplied market for traditional capacity but still is a very good opportunity. HTS is not necessarily in the same demand in Africa as it is in Eastern Europe or the Middle East. It\u2019s just taking a lot longer [to penetrate] and is more challenging than expected.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Christopher Baugh, president, NSR<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cWomen can be tough but they can also be very compassionate. \u2026 They can be highly technical but they can also be very creative and compromising.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Kay Sears, president, Intelsat General<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cMobility is a high value market that can lead to much broader exposure for satellite if we succeed in making satellite as easy to use and manage in a mobility environment as cellular service.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Dave Bettinger, CTO, iDirect<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s almost infectious when you deal with people who love space and love satellites and the capabilities that they bring to what has always been a terrestrial environment.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Peg Grayson, president, MTN Government<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m still just as passionate about developing communications technology as I was back [when I started], so I know I\u2019ve made the right choice. The knowledge that we play a key role in global communications activities such as disaster relief, remote locations connectivity and important military operations certainly makes me feel like what I do every day is worthwhile.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Aimee Chan, president and CEO, Norsat<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve proposed that the United States partner with Japan for a protected hosted payload, where they provide the satellite and launch, and we provide the payload. They can be part of our protected satcom constellation and we can expand our resiliency in the Pacific region and improve our interoperability with Japan.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 Todd Harrison, senior fellow, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA)<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t think you really see any more challenges than you would if you were a guy. You\u2019ve got to do your job, you\u2019ve got to do the work, you\u2019ve got to build the relationships, you\u2019ve got to do all the things that are going to make you successful.\u201d \u2013 <\/i>Mary Cotton, CEO, iDirect<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cIn East Africa, particularly, there is a wonderful cohort of technology entrepreneurs, very often from India and Asia. They\u2019re making noise in the market. They\u2019re pioneering, aggressive, buying capacity early \u2026 East Africa to me feels friendly for business.\u201d<\/i> \u2013 David Williams, CEO, Avanti<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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