Adel Al Saleh will become CEO of Luxembourg satellite operator SES as of February 2024. The company announced this on Friday. In mid-June, the group announced that former president, Steve Kollar, would leave the company at the end of June. A planned merger between SES and satellite operator Intelsat had previously collapsed.
Al-Saleh has been CEO of T-Systems International, an IT services provider and subsidiary of telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, since January 2018.
Moving from a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom to satellite operator Betzdorf: Adel Al-Saleh. Photo: Deutsche Telekom/Norbert Ettermann
Al-Saleh has been CEO of T-Systems International, an IT services provider and subsidiary of telecommunications company Deutsche Telekom, since January 2018.
SES interim CEO Ruy Pinto, who served as CTO of the Betzdorf-based company from 2019 to 2023, will continue to lead SES until the end of January 2024.
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He will then remain a member of the leadership team until June 2024 and will then assume the role of strategic advisor to the CEO. Milton Torres, who replaced Pinto as Executive Artistic Director on an interim basis, will continue in that role into the future.
Prior to joining T-Systems, Al-Saleh led a number of companies and spent nearly 20 years at IBM in various leadership positions. Al Saleh is a citizen of the USA and the UK.
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