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April 26, 2007
Matthew O’Connell, President and CEO, GeoEye, 4-26-07
Matthew M. O’Connell is President and CEO of GeoEye. He was CEO of GeoEye’s predecessor, Orbimage, beginning in 2001. In January 2006, Orbimage merged with Space Imaging to form GeoEye, the world’s largest operator of commercial imagery satellites. In the fall of 2006, GeoEye became the first commercial remote sensing corporation to be traded on NASDAQ [GEOY].
Mr. O’Connell has over 20 years of experience in communications management and finance. Prior to joining GeoEye, he was a managing director at Crest Advisors, a New York-based private merchant bank that invested in and advised communications companies, and senior vice president of Legal and Business Affairs for Sony Worldwide Networks, a division of Sony Corporation specializing in radio and Internet programming. Before working at Sony, he served as senior vice president and general counsel of Osborn Communications Corporation, a publicly traded radio and television station operator. Mr. O’Connell began his career on Wall Street as a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Mr. O’Connell holds a B.A. in Classics from Trinity College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.
Space News named Mr. O’Connell one of the “10 Who Made a Difference in Space in 2006”.
Headquartered in Dulles, VA, GeoEye is the world’s largest operator of commercial imaging satellites. GeoEye was formed as a result of ORBIMAGE’s acquisition of Space Imaging in January 2006. The company is the premier provider of geospatial data, information and value-added products for the national security community, strategic partners, resellers and commercial customers. GeoEye operates a constellation of three Earth imaging satellites – OrbView-2, OrbView-3 and IKONOS – and possesses an international network of regional ground stations, a robust image archive, and advanced geospatial imagery processing capabilities. The company was listed on NASDAQ in September 2006.
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