A Bit of a Jolt: Seeing Ed Leave
Friday I was more than a bit surprised to see a headline splashed all over the satellite industry online trade journals. Ed Horowitz had resigned as President and CEO of SES Americom. This announcement seemed a bit close to home for me since I recently left SES Americom myself after a 36 year stint.
Ed always had a bright hello for me when we crossed paths, which was fairly frequent even though my office was across the country from the Princeton NJ headquarters of SES Americom, in the Seattle Washington area. You will correctly deduce that I did quite a bit of traveling.
Ed was pointed in sharing his admiration of the longevity I had accumulated at SES during one of our early meetings, when he had occasion to be present when my boss was presenting me my 35 year award. Recently Ed was kind enough to add a recommendation to my LinkedIn profile. So, it is not surprising that because I still feel a certain closeness to the company I worked for so long, I now feel a little emptiness for the company when seeing Ed leave. I will join a group of many who wish the very best to Ed in his new endeavors, and hope that we will have every reason to stay in touch.
It is almost a kind of culmination for me to the upheavals we have been witnessing in the industry over the past few years, with all the mergers, acquisitions, and high level management changes. Yet there are certain to be more of these changes ahead.
