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Phil Slack
President
Philip Slack is the president of International Launch Services (ILS), a leader in providing mission integration and launch services to the global commercial satellite industry. For the past twelve years, Slack was the vice president and chief financial officer for ILS, responsible for overall business management activities associated with the sale and launch of Proton launch services for commercial satellite customers.
Prior to joining ILS in March 2000, Slack was director of business management for The Boeing Company where he held overall responsibility for the business management activities for the Delta Launch Services unit. His career with Boeing began in 1988 and during the course of his career with the company he held several different positions within its Business Management organization.
Slack received his master's degree in business administration from the University of California, Los Angeles, and his bachelor's degree from California State University at Fullerton.
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Tom Tshudy
Senior Vice President & General Counsel
Prior to joining ILS in June 1998, Tshudy served as division counsel for Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space. Previous positions include director of business management for Reusable Launch Vehicle Programs and group general counsel at McDonnell Douglas Corporation and six years on active duty as an officer in the U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate Corps.
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Dawn Harms
Vice President Sales, Marketing & Communications
Harms brings to ILS over 20 years of experience serving the satellite and telecommunications industry, most recently as vice president for marketing and sales operations at Space Systems/Loral (SSL) in Palo Alto, California, where she was responsible for SSL’s sales operations activities. Prior to that post, Harms held sales and engineering positions at SSL. Before SSL, Harms worked in engineering and management capacities for Teledyne MEC.
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John Palmé
CTO & Vice President - Programs and Operations
Palmé has over 25 years of experience in spacecraft and launch vehicle design, integration, test, launch and operations. He previously worked with RCA Astro Electronics, General Electric Aerospace (graduating from the Edison Engineering Program), Martin Marietta, Lockheed Martin, and Orbcomm Global in designing, testing, launching and operating various types of spacecraft, including communications, remote sensing, Earth Science and advanced test beds. For over a decade, Palmé has overseen the reliability and quality programs and the integration and launch of commercial spacecraft on the ILS Proton launch vehicle. Palmé graduated from Villanova University with a BSME in 1988 and MSME in 1991.
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Joe Acheson
Acting CFO
Acheson has over a decade of experience in finance in the commercial launch Industry, most recently as the controller for ILS. Prior to joining ILS in 2000, he worked at SAIC in various finance positions. Acheson holds a Bachelor of Science in finance and an MBA in international business.
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