Satellite Industry Association Announces Executive Committee Officers For 2025

Washington, D.C., January 16, 2025 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today announced the SIA Board of Directors has elected the following persons as executive committee officers for 2025: Danielle Piñeres of Planet Labs PBC as Chair, Peter Davidson of Intelsat as Vice Chair and Stacy Fuller of DIRECTV as Treasurer.

“Over the past 12 months, the commercial satellite industry once again launched thousands of satellites into orbit, continuing to expand in importance and provide more and increasingly vital services to government, enterprise and consumer customers around the world,” said Tom Stroup, president of the Satellite Industry Association. “In 2024, thanks to the tremendous work of the Association, the Executive Committee and its members, SIA continued to successfully advocate for an industry undergoing unprecedented growth. Our 2025 executive committee brings a strong level of regulatory and leadership expertise while once again representing the industry’s broad range of new and incumbent space technologies via both NGSO and GEO satellites.

“In 2025, we look forward to working together with the incoming Administration to ensure the evolving space policy and regulatory regime supports America’s continued and long-term innovation and space industry leadership throughout the new year and beyond.”

Danielle Piñeres is Deputy General Counsel and Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Policy at Planet Labs PBC where she advises on policy and licensing matters before the FCC, NOAA, and other government agencies.  She serves on the Advisory Committee on Excellence in Space and has served on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration’s Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee and on the FCC’s World Radiocommunication Conference Advisory Committee.

Before joining Planet, Ms. Piñeres was Vice President and Associate General Counsel at NCTA – The Internet & Television Association where she represented the interests of the cable industry on wireless spectrum policy, supply chain, and cybersecurity matters, and where she developed particular expertise in unlicensed and shared spectrum issues.  Ms. Piñeres was previously an Associate at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP where she represented clients in FCC rulemakings, compliance and licensing matters before the FCC and OFAC, and foreign investment reviews.  Ms. Piñeres is a graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center and the University of Idaho.

Peter B. Davidson is Vice President of Global Government Relations and Policy at Intelsat

Peter B. Davidson has served as the VP of Global Government Relations and Policy at Intelsat since August of 2020. Prior to that, he served as Deputy Dean for Strategic Initiatives at the Antonin Scalia Law School at George Mason University, General Counsel of the U.S. Department of Commerce, SVP of Government Affairs at Verizon Communications, General Counsel of the U.S. Trade Representative, VP Government Affairs at USWEST and Qwest, General Counsel and Policy Director for the Majority Leader of the U.S House of Representatives, and Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice.

He is a native Minnesotan, and graduate of Carleton College and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Stacy Fuller is Senior Vice President, External Affairs at DIRECTV. In this position, she is responsible for overseeing all federal, state and local legislative and regulatory issues impacting the company. Prior to joining DIRECTV in 2005, Ms. Fuller was Media Legal Advisor to former FCC Commissioner Abernathy. Before serving in the government, she worked at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom, LLP, Discovery Communications, Inc., Alston & Bird, and Wiley, Rein & Fielding.

Ms. Fuller is a graduate of Emory University School of Law and the University of Michigan.

About The Satellite Industry Association
SIA is a U.S.-based trade association providing representation of the leading satellite operators, service providers, manufacturers, launch services providers, and ground equipment suppliers. For more than two decades, SIA has advocated on behalf of the U.S. satellite industry on policy, regulatory, and legislative issues affecting the satellite business. For more information, visit www.sia.org.

SIA Executive Members include: Amazon; Comtech; DIRECTV; EchoStar Corporation; Eutelsat Group; HawkEye 360; Intelsat S.A.; Iridium Communications Inc.; Kratos Defense & Security Solutions; Ligado Networks; Lockheed Martin Corporation; Planet Labs PBC; SES Americom, Inc.; Spire Global Inc.; and Viasat Inc.  SIA Associate Members include: ABS US Corp.; The Aerospace Corporation; Artel, LLC; AST Space Mobile; Astranis Space Technologies Corp.; The Boeing Company; Eutelsat America Corp + OneWeb Technologies; ExoAnalytic Solutions; Integrasys LLC; Kinematics; Kymeta Corporation; Omnispace; Ovzon; Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Skyloom; Telesat and ULA. SIA Affiliate Members include: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP; AvL Technologies; COMSAT; Digital Locations, Inc.; DLA Piper; Globalstar; Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn); Hogan Lovells; Keysight Technologies, Inc.; Media Broadcast Satellite; Orbital Research; Peraton; Plexus Corp; Quadsat; Sheppard Mullin; Wiley; Xairos Systems Inc., and XTAR, LLC.

Media and PR Contact: Dean Hirasawa
Satellite Industry Association
Email: dhirasawa@sia.org
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