A new Managing Director is heading up the operations at SES SIRIUS as he has just been named to this critical position. He is the former Vice President of Sales for the company and his name is Hakan Sjödin. He’ll start in his new position on September 10th, just in time, too, as the planned launch of the company’s latest investment, the Sirius 4 satellite, is just a couple of months away.
Sjödin said, “The satellite market is growing, partly because many new television channels are being launched and partly because the HDTV channels being introduced require significantly larger bandwidth than traditional TV channels. Sirius 4 will be a welcome response to the sharply increasing demand for transmission capacity. At the same time, the new satellite will extend the geographical coverage for SES SIRIUS to the east, which means new business opportunities in new markets.”


