Executive Moves

Jens Tellefsen, former vice president of products at data platform firm Quantifind, has joined Orbital Insight to serve as head of product.

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Janet Kavandi, a 25-year veteran of NASA and former director of the agency's Glenn Research Center, has been appointed senior vice president for the space systems business area at Sierra Nevada Corp. She will oversee the area's space technologies and spacecraft, space exploration systems and propulsion and environmental systems units, SNC said Monday.

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CNSI announced on Tuesday that Kelly Loeffler has joined the company as the vice president of deals, strategy & capture. Loeffler will be responsible for developing and executing the company’s growth strategy and identifying, developing and evaluating partnership and investment opportunities.

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Noel Heiks, formerly president and chief operating officer at Duos Technologies, has joined Emcore’s board of directors.

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Accenture announced on Monday that Aaron Faulkner has joined Accenture Federal Services (AFS) to head its federal cyber practice. He will lead the design, development and delivery of innovative cybersecurity solutions for all of AFS’ U.S. federal defense and civilian agency clients.

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Mike Thomson has been appointed as permanent chief financial officer of Unisys, the company announced on Monday. His appointment is effective immediately and he will report directly to Peter Altabef, chairman and CEO of Unisys.

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Mathew Soltis, former global public sector head for the Amazon Web Services marketplace team, has joined application delivery networking technology provider F5 Networks as head of cloud revenue and field operations in the Americas region.

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Retired U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James Cartwright and Terry Broadman, a 35-year Alliant Techsystems veteran,  have joined the advisory board of Firefly Aerospace.

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Maxar Technologies announced on Thursday that Chris Shank has joined the company as the vice president of National Security Space, effective Monday.

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Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin has hired Steve Squyres, a professor of physical sciences at Cornell University, to serve as chief scientist of the aerospace company, GeekWire reported Wednesday.

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Mike Innella, former principal consultant at Strategic Results Consulting, has been appointed chief operating officer at MetaPhase Consulting, G2XChange ETC reported Wednesday.

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Rod Fontecilla, formerly senior vice president and chief technology officer at Altamira Technologies, has been appointed chief innovation officer and chief data scientist at Dovel Technologies.

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