Intelsat Names Schmidt VP of Marketing

Satellite services provider Intelsat S.A. announced that Karen Schmidt has been named as the company’s vice president of marketing, effective immediately.

Schmidt, a marketing executive with more than 25 years’ experience, will lead Intelsat’s product and marketing efforts for Intelsat’s portfolio of connectivity services for media, broadband, mobility and government customers. Functions reporting to Schmidt will include product management, product marketing and marketing communications. She will be based in McLean, Va. and report to Kurt Riegelman, senior vice president of sales and marketing. 

Schmidt was most recently the vice president of business marketing at Comcast Business, a division of Comcast, and a key member of the team that grew the division from inception in 2007 to 2014 revenues of $4 billion. Prior to joining Comcast Business, Schmidt held executive product and marketing roles at Network Solutions, Concert Communications and MCI Communications.