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SIA Announces Changes to the Satellite Industry Association Executive Committee

Washington, D.C., June 28, 2024 – The Satellite Industry Association (SIA) today announced the SIA Board has elected Danielle Piñeres of Planet Labs PBC as the new Chair of the Association’s executive committee, following the retirement of Julie Zoller from Amazon. SIA’s Board also elected Peter Davidson of Intelsat as Vice Chair and Stacy Fuller of DIRECTV as Treasurer.

“I would like to thank outgoing Chair Julie Zoller for her much-appreciated service and leadership promoting SIA and the commercial satellite industry during the first half of 2024,” said Tom Stroup, president of the Satellite Industry Association. In her leadership role as Chair of the Executive Committee, SIA has continued to successfully advocate for an expanding and increasingly diverse commercial satellite industry. SIA wishes Julie well in her future endeavors and we welcome our new executive committee and the high level of satellite industry and regulatory expertise Danielle, Peter and Stacy bring to the Association.”

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; Northrop Grumman; 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.; ExoAnalytic Solutions; Inmarsat, Inc.; Kymeta Corporation; Lynk; Omnispace; Ovzon; Panasonic Avionics Corporation; Skyloom; Telesat and ULA. SIA Affiliate Members include: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP; AvL Technologies; Digital Locations, Inc.; DLA Piper; Genus Group; Globalstar; Hon Hai Technology Group (Foxconn); Hogan Lovells; Integrasys LLC; Keysight Technologies, Inc.; Media Broadcast Satellite; Orange Business; Orbital Research; Peraton; Plexus Corp; SD Government; Sheppard Mullin; Wiley and XTAR, LLC.

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