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John Baughn retires as Chief Services Officer of SES

Baughn joined SES Networks from O3b Networks, where he led the Global Services team, driving service strategy.

Satellite operator SES has announced that its Chief Services Officer John Baughn has retired.

In a statement, SES said: “We are bringing our Service Operations and Engineering departments together under our Chief Technology Officer, Ruy Pinto, to simplify our workloads and increase our responsiveness to our customers.”

Baughn was appointed Chief Services Officer (CSO) in January 2019. He had been EVP of Global Services at SES Networks since 2017, responsible for the delivery of end-to-end services to customers and proving to be a change agent and innovator, driving modernisation and monetisation of networks.

Baughn has also previously worked as the Director of Commercial Management for Ciena in both the EMEA and APAC regions.