Management Team

Marc J. Eisenberg is our Chief Executive Officer, a position he has held as of March 31, 2008.  He was our Chief operating officer from February 27, 2007 to March 30, 2008. From June 2006 to February 26, he was our Chief Marketing Officer and from March 2002 to June 2006, he was our Executive Vice President, Sales and Marketing.  He was a member of the board of directors of ORBCOMM Holdings LLC from May 2002 until February 2004. Prior to joining ORBCOMM, from 1999 to 2001, Mr. Eisenberg was a Senior Vice President of Cablevision Electronics Investments, where among his duties he was responsible for selling Cablevision services such as video and internet subscriptions through its retail channel. From 1984 to 1999, he held various positions, most recently as the Senior Vice President of Sales and Operations with the consumer electronics company The Wiz, where he oversaw sales and operations and was responsible for over 2,000 employees and $1 billion a year in sales.

 

Robert G. Costantini is our Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, a position he has held since October 2, 2006. From October 2003 until September 2006, he served as Chief Financial Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary of First Aviation Services Inc., an aviation services company providing aircraft parts and maintenance services. >From 1999 to 2003, Mr. Costantini was the Chief Financial Officer of FocusVision Worldwide, Inc., a technology company providing video
transmission services. From 1986 to 1989, he was Corporate Controller and from 1989 to 1999 he was Vice-President-Finance of M.T. Maritime Management Corp., a global maritime transportation company. Mr. Costantini started his career with Peat Marwick, Mitchell & Co. Mr. Costantini is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Management Accountant, and a member of the bar of New York and Connecticut.

 

John J. Stolte, Jr. is our Executive Vice President, Technology and Operations, a position he has held since April 2001. From January to April 2001, he held a similar position with ORBCOMM Global L.P. Mr. Stolte has over 20 years of technology management experience in the aerospace and telecommunications industries. Prior to joining ORBCOMM Global L.P., Mr. Stolte held a number of positions at Orbital Sciences Corporation from September 1990 to January 2001, most recently as Program Director, where he was responsible for design, manufacturing and launch of the ORBCOMM
satellite constellation. From 1982 to 1990, Mr. Stolte worked for McDonnell Douglas in a number of positions including at the Naval Research Laboratory where he led the successful integration, test and launch of a multi-billion dollar defense satellite.

 

Christian G. Le Brun is our Executive Vice President and General Counsel, a position he has held since March 31, 2008. From April, 2005 to March 30, 2008, Mr. Le Brun was our Senior Vice President and General Counsel. Prior to joining ORBCOMM, from 1999 to 2005, Mr. Le Brun was an attorney with Chadbourne & Parke LLP, where he oversaw a broad range of transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, corporate restructurings and work-outs, as well as debt and equity financing arrangements involving publicly-held and private companies. In addition, from 1994 to 1999, he was a corporate attorney with Pullman & Comley, LLC. Mr. Le Brun received his J.D. from George Washington University Law School and his B.S. in finance from Lehigh University.


Current Directors

Jerome B. Eisenberg has been our Chairman of the Board since January 2006, he was our Chief Executive Officer and President from December 2004 to March 2008. Mr. Eisenberg has been a member of our board of directors since February 2004 and the board of directors of ORBCOMM LLC and ORBCOMM Holdings LLC since 2001. Between 2001 and December 2004, Mr. Eisenberg held a number of positions with ORBCOMM Inc. and with ORBCOMM LLC.  Mr. Eisenberg has worked in the satellite industry since 1993 when he helped found Satcom.  Prior thereto, Mr. Eisenberg was a partner in the law firm of Eisenberg, Honig & Folger; CEO and President of Helenwood Manufacturing Corporation, a manufacturer of equipment for the U.S. Department of Defense; and Assistant Corporate Counsel for the City of New York. Mr. Eisenberg is the father of Marc Eisenberg.

Marc J. Eisenberg has been a member of our board of directors since
February 2008. See "-Executive Officers" above.

Marco Fuchs has been a member of our board of directors since February 2004. He has also been a member of the board of directors of ORBCOMM LLC since 2001 and of ORBCOMM Holdings LLC from 2001 to February 2004. Mr. Fuchs is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Managing Board of OHB Technology A.G., positions he has held since 2000. From 1995 to 2000, Mr. Fuchs worked at OHB Orbitale Hochtechnologie Bremen-System A.G., first as a Prokurist (authorized signatory) and then as Managing Director. Prior to that, he worked as a lawyer from 1992 to 1994 for Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in New York, and from 1994 to 1995 in Frankfurt am Main.

Hans E. W. Hoffmann became a director in conjunction with ORBCOMM's initial public offering in November, 2006.  He currently serves as President of the Bremen United States Center and Vice President of Bund der Steuerzahler Niedersachsen, positions he has held since 2001.  Mr. Hoffmann was the President and Chief Executive Officer of ORBCOMM LLC from 2002 to 2003. Prior to joining ORBCOMM LLC, Mr. Hoffmann served as the President of STN Atlas Elektronik GmbH, a 5,200 person Germany-based corporation that manufacturers products for the aerospace, navy equipment and military
markets, from 1994 to 1997.

Gary H. Ritondaro became a director in conjunction with ORBCOMM's initial public offering in November, 2006.  He is the Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of LodgeNet Entertainment Corporation (entertainment, marketing and information services for the lodging and healthcare markets), a position he has held since 2001 and
has also served as Senior Vice President, Finance, Information Systems and Administration of LodgeNet since July 2002.  Prior to joining LodgeNet, Mr. Ritondaro served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Mail-Well, Inc., an NYSE-listed manufacturer of envelopes, commercial printing and labels, from 1999 to 2001.  From 1996 to 1999, Mr. Ritondaro was Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for Ferro Corporation, an NYSE-listed international manufacturer of specialty plastics, chemicals, colors, industrial coatings and ceramics.

Didier Delepine has been a member of our board of directors since May 2007 upon his election by our stockholders at our 2007 annual meeting of stockholders. Mr. Delepine served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Equant (now Orange Business Services) (global data networking and managed communications) from 1998 to 2003. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Delepine served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Equant’s network services division and as Chairman and President of Equant’s Integration Services division, Americas. From 1983 to 1995, Mr. Delepine held a range of senior management positions at SITA, the global telecommunications and technology organization supporting the world’s airlines. Mr. Delepine was a director of Intelsat, Ltd., a global provider of communications services from 2003 to 2005 and Eircom Group plc, an Irish communications company, from 2003 to 2006.

John Major has been a member of our board of directors since April 2007. Mr. Major is President of MTSG (strategic consulting and investment), which he founded in January 2003. From April 2004 to October 2006, Mr. Major also served as Chief Executive Officer of Apacheta Corporation, a privately held mobile, wireless software company. From August 2000 until January 2003, Mr. Major was Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Novatel Wireless, Inc., a wireless data access solutions company. Prior to August 2000, he was the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Wireless Knowledge, a joint venture of Qualcomm Incorporated and Microsoft Corporation. From 1997 to 1998, he serves as President of the Wireless Infrastructure of Qualcomm. Prior to that for approximately 18 years, he held various positions at Motorola, Inc. the most recent of which was Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Mr. Major is Chairman of the board of directors of Broadcom Corporation and a director of Lennox International, Inc., and Littelfuse Inc.

Timothy Kelleher has been a member of our board of directors since March 2008, and previously served as a member of our board of directors from December 2005 to June 2007.  He is a Managing Member of PCG Capital Partners Advisors II LLC (investment management), focusing on providing growth capital to established companies, and was previously a Managing Director of Pacific Corporate Group, which he joined in 2002.  Prior to joining Pacific Corporate Group, Mr. Kelleher was a Partner and Senior Vice President at Desai Capital Management Incorporated from 1992 to 2002, and held positions at Entrecanales, Inc., L.F. Rothschild & Co. Incorporated and Arthur Young & Co.