Strategic Security Officer to join executive committee of SSC

To meet the strategic security challenges in the global environment, Stefan Gustafsson has been appointed Strategic Security Officer and member of the SSC executive committee.

At present Gustafsson is Managing Director of LearningWell Stockholm AB, a top management consulting firm, among other areas specialized in management and governance structures of large organizations, strategy, risk and security, especially Cyber Defense.

Earlier Stefan Gustafsson was head of incident and crisis management at the Swedish energy corporation Vattenfall.

With a career in the Swedish Military, Gustafsson had his last military position as head of department for Strategy and Policy analyses and long term planning. His career as well includes positions as Head of Naval Operations and he has headed and participated in several international projects for the EU, US, NATO and others in the domain of international and military affairs.

-I welcome Stefan Gustafsson as a member of the SSC executive committee, says Stefan Gardefjord, CEO of SSC.

-Strategic security issues are increasingly important for SSC's customers. Our operations comprise deliveries of advanced space services to civil customers as well as customers within the defense sector all over the world. With Stefan Gustafsson in the company I am convinced that we are well equipped to manage the strategic security issues and to meet our customers’ demands.

Stefan Gustafsson assumes his position April 1, 2013.

Point of contact: Stefan Gardefjord, CEO, SSC, tel. +46 73 3980005, stefan.gardefjord@sscspace.com

As a global provider of advanced space services, SSC enables governmental agencies, companies and other commercial or research institutes to help Earth benefit from space.