{"id":82283,"date":"2012-10-19T19:46:21","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esoa-elects-cato-halsaa-as-new-chairman\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T19:46:21","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T11:46:21","slug":"esoa-elects-cato-halsaa-as-new-chairman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esoa-elects-cato-halsaa-as-new-chairman\/","title":{"rendered":"ESOA Elects Cato Halsaa as New Chairman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;[Satellite TODAY 10-19-12] <strong>Telenor Satellite Broadcasting<\/strong> CEO Cato Halsaa has been elected Chairman of the Board of the <strong>European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) <\/strong>effective immediately, replacing former <strong>Astrium Services<\/strong> CEO and now <strong>Astrium Satellites<\/strong> CEO Eric B\u00e9ranger, ESOA announced Oct. 19.<\/p>\n<p>\tAlong with Halsaa\u2019s election at the ESOA quarterly board meeting Oct. 19, <strong>Eutelsat <\/strong>CEO Michel de Rosen was confirmed as Vice-Chairman and <strong>Intelsat <\/strong>CEO David McGlade was elected as second Vice-Chairman.<br \/>\n\tIn his acceptance, Cato Halsaa thanked B\u00e9ranger for his 18 months of leadership and emphasized his plan to continue the association\u2019s policies stating, \u201cUsing the evidence from the Booz &amp; Company report, we will develop the European Commission\u2019s understanding that satellite is an inherent part of the future communications ecosystem, with a role that goes beyond that of bridging the digital divide.\u201d<br \/>\n\tHalsaa also added, \u201cI would also like to see the Commission take a holistic approach to managing and evaluating spectrum use in the future \u2013 an approach based not only on economics but also taking into account socio-economic factors and technical efficiencies.\u201d<br \/>\n\tThe ESOA is currently the only CEO-driven satellite organization to represent the world\u2019s largest operators with all regional European players together and aims to increase awareness on matters directly impacting the business interests of satellite operators, such as key spectrum issues and space and broadband policy.&nbsp;<br \/>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;[Satellite TODAY 10-19-12] Telenor Satellite Broadcasting CEO Cato Halsaa has been elected Chairman of the Board of the European Satellite Operators Association (ESOA) effective immediately, replacing former Astrium Services CEO and now Astrium Satellites CEO Eric B\u00e9ranger, ESOA announced Oct. 19. Along with Halsaa\u2019s election at the ESOA quarterly board meeting Oct. 19, Eutelsat CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-82283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82283"}],"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=82283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82283\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}