Elisabeth Pataki is to replace Sandeep Jalan as chief financial officer at SES.
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).
