Mark Gilroy – CEO Sky and Space
— Xavier Kris
NASHVILLE, TN, UNITED STATES, October 4, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Sky and Space Company Limited, (Sky and Space) the award-winning nanosatellite service supplier, introduced trade veteran Mark Gilroy as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In addition, the Company appointed Sky and Space co-founder, Meir Moalem, as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Mr. Gilroy instantly assumes govt management of the corporate and is appointed to Sky and Space’s Board of Directors.
Mr. Gilroy’s appointment comes at a important junction for Sky and Space as it should launch its subsequent era of IoT centered nanosatellites in 2023. In addition to overseeing the worldwide operations of Sky and Space, he’ll work with the Board of Directors to implement a North American market development technique.
Mark has nearly 30 years of expertise in satellites, telecommunications, media, software program, and know-how sectors. Mr. Gilroy was most not too long ago CEO at Fornetix, a cybersecurity firm specializing in excessive efficiency key encryption automation, entry controls, and authentication providers. His time within the satellite tv for pc and telecommunications sector consists of govt positions with ProtoStar, Mabuhay Satellite Systems, Loral Space & Communications, and as a founding member at Orion Satellite Systems. Mr. Gilroy was additionally President at First Pacific Company Limited the place he centered on financing satellite tv for pc, applied sciences, and telecommunication corporations.
“During this time of accelerated digital transformation at companies large and small, there is no better person to lead Sky and Space than Mark Gilroy,” mentioned Xavier Kris, Chairman of the Board of Sky and Space. “Mark is a 30-year veteran of the satellite tv for pc house, with deep trade data, and as a former funding banker has robust ties to the monetary group. Mark was the Board’s stand-out candidate to steer the business and seize the large market alternative that lies forward.”
Richard Davis, a Sky and Space Board Member and the Managing Member of ArgoSat Consulting, a boutique advisory agency specializing within the house trade added “I have been fortunate to know Mark for the last fifteen years. When the Company’s Board of Directors started looking for the right person to take this exciting business to the next level, I immediately thought of Mark. His industry knowledge and relationships in the satellite, IoT and cybersecurity industries are the perfect fit for Sky and Space.”
Mr. Moalem steps into the pivotal function of COO. A former pilot and Lt. Colonel within the Israeli Air Force, the place he was awarded Israel’s National Security award, Meir co-founded Sky and Space in 2015. Before founding Sky and Space, Meir was a particular venture supervisor at UAS, Space and intelligence division, IDF, the place he led the MEIDEX experiment on Space Shuttle Columbia because the venture supervisor for Israel’s first astronaut flight.
“I want to thank the Board of Directors for trusting me with this opportunity,” mentioned Mark Gilroy. “I am proud and excited to work with Meir and Chief Engineer Meidad Pariente to take the company they founded, and its advanced technology, to the next level. The company has invested significant time and passion into developing one of the most ground and space-breaking platforms in the industry today. I can’t wait to be part of this extraordinary team and I look forward to helping drive and support its success.”
“I am very excited to have Mark on-board,” mentioned Meir Moalem. We are lucky to have him on the staff and I sit up for serving to him set up Sky and Space because the main supplier of nanosatellite IoT providers.”
The Company appears ahead to asserting extra hires quickly because it builds out a U.S. based mostly govt staff.
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