John-Paul Hemingway joins SES senior leadership team

Global content connectivity solutions provider SES has appointed John-Paul (JP) Hemingway as the company’s new Chief Strategy and Product Officer. The appointment underscores SES’s commitment to ideate, build and deliver the services and solutions that create the most value for SES customers and partners and their end users.

Hemingway will be driving SES’s growth strategy and translating the firm’s corporate vision into strategic action for its networks and video markets, which include target applications, strategic partnerships, portfolios of solutions and the space and network assets required to deliver them.

Steve Collar, CEO of SES, said: “The pace of innovation and change is unprecedented in our space and having been a leader in the industry for over 35 years we are putting in place the vision and focus to ensure that we will lead for the next 35.”

“2022 is a pivotal year for SES as we launch the infrastructure that will grow and develop our business for the next decade. JP at the helm of our growth strategy and as a partner to our sales teams will be an integral part of our success.”

The new role brings together the company’s corporate strategy, product, commercial operations, fleet development, innovation and marketing and communications departments, resulting in a flatter, leaner and more customer-oriented organisation.