Maxar Technologies Appoints Gilman Louie to its Board of Directors
July 01 2020 - 3:06PM
Business Wire
Maxar Technologies (NYSE:MAXR) (TSX:MAXR), a trusted partner and
innovator in Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure, today
announced the appointment of Gilman Louie to serve on the company’s
Board of Directors. Louie will serve as a Director for a term
expiring at the Company’s 2021 Annual Meeting of Stockholders when
he will stand for election by the stockholders.
Louie, 59, has been the Managing Partner of Alsop Louie
Partners, an early stage venture capital fund, since 2006. He was
the Chairman of the Board of Vricon, Inc., from 2016 until its
acquisition by Maxar, which was completed today. Louie was the
first Chief Executive Officer and President of In-Q-Tel, the first
venture capital fund for the United States Central Intelligence
Agency, from its founding in 1999 until 2006.
Louie is also a director of Niantic, the world leading publisher
of augmented reality games, and Aerospike, an open-source,
flash-optimized NoSQL database built for enterprise to service
large-scale, high-speed transactional applications. He has also
served as an advisor to many Department of Defense advisory boards
and currently serves as a Commissioner of the National Security
Commission on Artificial Intelligence, an independent commission
that considers the methods and means necessary to advance the
development of artificial intelligence, machine learning and
associated technologies to comprehensively address the national
security and defense needs of the United States. He holds a B.S. in
Business Administration from San Francisco State University and has
completed the Advanced Management Program/International Seniors
Management Program from the Harvard University Graduate Business
School.
“We are exceptionally pleased to welcome Gilman Louie to Maxar’s
Board,” said Maxar Chairman Gen. Howell Estes III. “His experience
adapting and integrating cutting-edge technologies for defense and
intelligence applications makes him the perfect fit as we guide
Maxar toward its next phase of growth.”
“Serving with Gilman on Vricon’s Board of Directors provided an
opportunity to understand the depth of his expertise in many
areas,” said Maxar CEO Dan Jablonsky. “I look forward to working
with him and the rest of the Board as we develop game-changing
capabilities for our customers and create more value for investors
as a result of the Vricon acquisition.”
About Maxar
Maxar is a trusted partner and innovator in Earth Intelligence
and Space Infrastructure. We deliver disruptive value to government
and commercial customers to help them monitor, understand and
navigate our changing planet; deliver global broadband
communications; and explore and advance the use of space. Our
unique approach combines decades of deep mission understanding and
a proven commercial and defense foundation to deploy solutions and
deliver insights with unrivaled speed, scale and cost
effectiveness. Maxar’s 4,000 team members in 20 global locations
are inspired to harness the potential of space to help our
customers create a better world. Maxar trades on the New York Stock
Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange as MAXR. For more information,
visit www.maxar.com.
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key risks that are not identified that are not presently known to
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risks and uncertainties are amplified by the global COVID-19
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