Greg Pelton has been hired as Iridium Communications chief technical officer (CTO). He succeeds Hermon Pon, who has retired. Pelton was chief product officer at artificial-intelligence company Pryon and before that was vice president of collaboration and devices at Avaya, Polycom CTO and vice president for infrastructure engineering and led Cisco's corporate technology center. Solvay has promoted Carmelo Lo Faro to president of its materials segment from president of its composite materials business unit. The materials segment includes both specialty polymers and composite materials. Paul Bate has been appointed UK Space Agency CEO, charged with boosting the UK space industry's commercial and scientific contributions. Bate was vice president for commercial at Babylon Health. Before that, he was managing director for National Health Service services at Babylon.
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