SPACE-BASED HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGING.
SEEING THE WORLD LIKE NEVER BEFORE

With over 25 years of business leadership and board experience, in both public and private companies, Derek Woods has a combination of operating, finance and transaction experience, focused on the satellite sector.

Prior to founding Hypersat, Mr. Woods was the Managing Director/President of ARTEL, a major provider of managed satellite and terrestrial communications networks primarily to the US Government and military. As MD at ARTEL, Mr. Woods increased revenues from $300mm to $450mm. Headquartered in Virginia, ARTEL had operations and infrastructure around the globe.

Previously, Mr. Woods was the CEO of Stratos Global Corporation, a satellite communications company, now part of Inmarsat. Mr. Woods, over five years, grew the company from a private start-up to a public company with revenues in excess of $500mm. At that time Stratos was the largest global distributor of Inmarsat, Iridium, MSAT and Globalstar services, as well as the largest provider of VSAT services to the offshore oil and gas industry.

Prior to Stratos, Mr. Woods was a partner in the law firm of Stikeman Elliott LLP, practicing securities law for clients that included Bell Canada, Teleglobe, Merrill Lynch, Morgan Stanley and RBC Dominion Securities. Mr. Woods practiced and is called to the bar in New York, Massachusetts, Ontario and Manitoba; he also practiced and is qualified as a solicitor in the United Kingdom, Wales and Hong Kong.

Mr. Woods obtained his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor/Bachelor of Laws degrees at the University of Manitoba. This was followed by a Master of Laws in International Finance at the London School of Economics and a Master of Business Administration (Honors) from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago. Mr. Woods has served on the boards of Inmarsat, Stratos, Artel, and the Satellite Industry Association.

Mr. Hutchinson has more than 20 years of experience in finance across a global auditing firm (Deloitte), a large publicly traded company (Vodafone Group), and other billion-plus companies within the telecom and natural resource sectors.  Mr. Hutchinson was the CEO of Ascent Resources, a London listed Oil & Gas company.  He helped bring the project from conception to ultimately a £50 million market cap company. Other leadership positions of note include Chief Commercial Officer for Digicel, a mobile telecoms operator across Caribbean & Central America with $1 billion in annual revenue, and Chief Financial Officer of Airnow plc, a London listed SAAS business.  He holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the University of Dundee, and a Master’s in Business Administration from Warwick Business School. He is a Chartered Accountant (FCA).

Mr. Helle is a 25-year satellite industry veteran with experience in integration, strategic growth, inter-company initiatives, customer service, and market communications.  As Chief of Staff with EMS Technologies, he was instrumental in developing and executing the strategy that led to increased shareholder value and ultimately the sale of EMS to Honeywell for $500 million.  Since 2011 Mr. Helle has worked as an independent consultant.  Clients include Honeywell, Hypersat, Inmarsat, Cobham, Astrium, Comdev, Kymeta, FLYHT, and Square Peg Communications.  Mr. Helle has attended executive education programs at Richard Ivy School of Business, London, Ontario, and at Stanford University, California.

Ms. Truly has 35 years of experience in the space, defense and intelligence markets.  Her career began at NASA Johnson Spaceflight Center working in Human Spaceflight Mission Operations where she participated in astronaut and flight controller training for a variety of missions from deploying communications satellites to remote sensing missions such as the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission. This experience led to roles at Army Space Command and The Boeing Company in strategic planning and business development. Ms. Truly has a Mechanical Engineering degree from Tufts University.