SES announces new ‘progressive’ finance executive
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SES announces new ‘progressive’ finance executive
Elisabeth Pataki, known as Lisa, has over 20 years of experience at various publicly listed multi-national aerospace and defence companies. She will succeed Sandeep Jalan who has been SES’s CFO since May 2020.
The appointment comes ahead of a likely approval for the acquisition by the Luxembourg satellite operator of Intelsat. Pataki, known as Lisa, has over 20 years of experience at various publicly listed multi-national aerospace and defence companies with strong background in company transformation and investment strategies.
She will succeed Jalan who has been SES’s CFO since May 2020. The two will work together before Jalan leaves the company on 31 July 2025.
“I would like to thank Sandeep for his steadfast leadership over the last five years where he has driven continuous execution improvement and transformation while strengthening the company’s balance sheet with a competitive cost of capital and delivering healthy cash returns to shareholders,” said Adel Al-Saleh, CEO of SES. “We are pleased to welcome Lisa as our new CFO. Lisa has extensive experience in the aerospace and defence ecosystem and has completed several successful M&A finance integrations.
Pataki joins SES from Aerojet Rocketdyne and has also served with Comet Group and RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation).
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Elisabeth (Lisa) Pataki will succeed Sandeep Jalan who has been SES?s CFO since May 2020. Lisa is a progressive finance executive with over 20 years of experience at various publicly listed multi-national aerospace and defence companies. She joins SES from Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Company.
The SES Board acknowledges Sandeep?s contribution to SES and wishes him success in future endeavours. Lisa will work closely with Sandeep to ensure a smooth handover before he leaves on 31 July 2025. Lisa joins SES from Aerojet Rocketdyne, an L3Harris Company, where she helped expand profitability through streamlining operations and prioritising capital investments for long-term growth.
As Group CFO for the Comet Group from 2020-2023, she drove EBITDA margin expansion of over 5 percentage points. In her 10-year progressive career (2005-2015) across RTX Corporation (formerly Raytheon Technologies Corporation), she held multiple finance roles and led the financial integration of Applied Signal Technologies, one of Raytheon?s larger acquisitions in 2011.
Source: https://www.broadbandtvnews.com/2025/06/06/ses-announces-new-progressive-finance-executive/