Changes in SSC's Board of Directors
In conjunction with SSC’s Annual General Meeting yesterday, Joakim Westh was elected as the new Chair of the Board of SSC.
Joakim Westh has been a board member of SSC since 2024. He holds a M.Sc. in Aeronautics at Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) and M.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has a background as Senior Vice President of Group Function Strategy and Operational Excellence and member of Group Management at LM Ericsson, as Group Vice President and member of the Executive Management Group at Assa Abloy, and as Partner at McKinsey & Co.
"It is truly exciting to take on this assignment. The space industry is in rapid growth and development, which brings many opportunities," says Joakim Westh.
Joakim Westh is the Chair of the Board of Amexci, and a Board member of Saab, and Absolent Air Care Group. Joakim Westh replaces Anne Gynnerstedt who continues as a member of the Board.
For more information, please contact: Philip Ohlsson, Press & PR, +46 70 721 70 26, philip.ohlsson@sscspace.com
About SSC: SSC (Swedish Space Corporation) is a leading global provider of advanced space services, with more than 50 years of experience. We help space organizations, research institutes, commercial and institutional actors from all over the world to get access to space. With local presence on all continents and about 700 committed employees, we offer specialist expertise in satellite communications and satellite control services, spacecraft operations, rocket and balloon systems, launch services and flight test services, as well as engineering, operations and consultancy services for space missions. We enable successful space projects within Earth observation, telecommunications, security, meteorology, navigation and positioning, scientific research and other applications. Among our strongest assets are Esrange Space Center in northern Sweden, set out to be a leading provider of satellite launch services from mainland Europe, as well as one of the world’s largest commercial ground station networks for satellite communications. Read more at www.sscspace.com.
