Mark Carmichael

Experience

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  MDA

  Aug 2000 - Jan 2019

  Led a significant team focused in the commercial and civil government markets who need operational monitoring services in the urban infrastructure, natural resource, energy and mining sectors. Led business development activities for ground system upgrades (including for DigitalGlobe) and new initiatives for other MDA ground system opportunities. Led costing, proposal, executive briefings, customer briefings and other aspects of the pursuit process. Worked on a variety of projects within MDA including naval combat training simulators, WorldView ground segment processor software, system test and deployment, O&M support, and more.

  • Director of Sales and Business Development - Maritime & Other Services

    Feb 2014 - Jan 2019

  • Manager Business Development

    Jan 2008 - Feb 2014

  • Various Technical and Leadership Positions In Engineering

    Aug 2000 - Jan 2008
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  Maxar Technologies

  Jan 2019 - Sept 2020

  Director of Sales and Business Development - Maritime

  Led a team of 15 specialized sales and capture professionals to ultimately exceed expectations and grow the Maxar Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) monitoring business. Developed various SAR/Electro-Optical (EO) product offerings that enabled our customers to address their most challenging security challenges that required day or night, all weather, near real-time monitoring.

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  MDA

  Sept 2020 - Jul 2022

  Director of Product Management

  Responsible for maritime situational awareness product management, rollout and financial success. Work across many teams to achieve our product development goals and deliver a new disruptive product that expanded MDA's business. Responsible for development and successful approval of the business model to obtain investment in the development of the product.

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  Satellogic

  Jul 2022 - now

  Leading development of new government markets in civil and defense sectors globally. Working with cross functional teams to present simple and effective product offerings into the market that address critical and challenging requirements for low latency access to actionable insights derived from our imagery.

  • VP of Imagery and Data

    May 2024 - now

  • Senior Director Business Development

    Jul 2022 - now