- Pascale Sourisse
Pascale Sourisse (born
1962 ) is a French businesswoman.Born at
Nantes , Pascale Sourisse graduated atEcole Polytechnique and at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. She held management positions at the Compagnie Générale des Eaux (Vivendi) in 1984/85, and Jeumont-Schneider (JS) Telecom in1985/86. Between 1987 and 1990, Pascale Sourisse worked for France Telecom as head of the enterprise network division for the greater Paris region. She spent four years at the French Ministry of Industry and Foreign Trade as head of the Consumer Electronics and Audiovisual Communication Division.She is President of [http://www.eurospace.org/Eurospace Eurospace] , the Association of European Space Industry, an international non profit organisation which gathers 90% of the european space industrialists. Pascale Sourisse is Chevalier of the Legion of Honour and Chevalier of the National Order of Merit.
Pascale Sourisse joined Alcatel Space in 1995, as Director, Strategy and Planning. In 1997 she was named President and CEO of SkyBridge LP, a company incorporated in Delaware, USA, to develop and operate a global broadband satellite based network and deliver broadband services.
In July 2005 she was nominated President and CEO of
Alcatel Alenia Space (former name of Thales Alenia Space, and previously CEO of Alcatel Space since January 2002). She is a member of Thales's Executive Committee.In May 2007, she was appointed President and CEO of
Thales Alenia Space .On May 1, 2008, she was appointed senior vice president for Land and Joint systems division of
Thales Group . [Sourisse Takes New Position At Thales, April 17, 2008 [http://www.satellitetoday.com/st/headlines/22742.html www.satellitetoday.com] ]References
External links
* [http://www.thalesaleniaspace.com/ Thales Alenia Space website]
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