[Satellite TODAY 06-17-13] SES announced that the company’s President and CEO Romain Bausch plans to step down from his position at the next annual general meeting of shareholders in April of 2014. During a meeting last week, SES’ board of directors selected Karim Michel Sabbagh as Bausch’s successor. Sabbagh will join the company on Sept. 1 as CEO designate and, following a transition period, will officially take up the position of president and CEO on April 3, 2014.

 

     Sabbagh, 49, has been a member of SES’ board of directors as well as of its audit and risk committee since April 2011. Prior to joining SES, he was a senior partner and served as global and regional practice leader for communications, media and technology along with other leadership forums at Booz & Company, which he joined in 1998.