SSTL appoints Toru Yunoki to develop its telecomms range
In his new role, Mr Yunoki (right) is responsible for promoting SSTL’s range of telecommunications solutions, including GEO platforms, subsystems and services to the global market. _300dpi.jpg)
Dr John Paffett, director of telecommunications and navigation at SSTL, commented “I am delighted that Toru has joined the company. He brings a wealth of experience in telecommunication satellite sales to this new role and I look forward to working with him to secure future sales of our products.”
The SSTL telecommunications product range – Geostationary Minisatellite Platform (GMP) – is designed to provide rapid, reliable, cost effective solutions to meet customer requirements for geostationary missions across a wide-variety of applications. The GMP provides a platform that envelopes a range of capabilities and requirements, both in terms of payload carrying capability and launch opportunity, with the objective to reduce the project specific non-recurrent engineering for each programme.
Mr Yunoki has extensive technical knowledge and experience of the telecommunications market. In his previous role as deputy general manager of the Civil and Commercial Space Department at Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO), he was responsible for bringing in orders and negotiating contracts from TURKSAT, Singapore Telecom and Superbird-7. In his 25 year career at MELCO, Mr Yunoki worked with commercial companies and space organisations across the world and is well-known and highly regarded in this field.
As a child Mr Yunoki lived in Vancouver, Canada and is fluent in Japanese and English. He graduated from Waseda University with a degree in Economics.
