Vicki Warker Joins Intelsat as Senior Vice President of Marketing

Pembroke, Bermuda, October 25, 2006

Intelsat is pleased to announce the recent appointment of Vicki Warker as the company's new Senior Vice President of Marketing. In this role, Ms. Warker is responsible for the company's growth initiatives and maximizing the company's performance in serving the video and network services customer groups. In addition, she manages all product development, product management and rationalization initiatives, and customer feedback and analysis to ensure Intelsat's products and services anticipate customer needs and market demand.

"With more than 20 years experience in telecommunications, Vicki has extensive experience in marketing, product management, customer service and channel management," said Jim Frownfelter, COO, Intelsat. "We expect that Vicki will contribute significantly to the integration and development efforts underway at Intelsat, and have great confidence in her ability to lead our global marketing initiatives."

Prior to joining Intelsat in mid-September, Ms. Warker served as Vice President of Marketing and Products within the Sprint Business Solutions organization, where she had responsibility for product marketing, vertical marketing, pricing and offer development for business customers. Prior to Sprint, Vicki held leadership positions at GE Global eXchange Services and Concert Communications where she served in a variety of channel management, product management and marketing capacities.

Warker holds Master of Science and Bachelor of Science degrees in Civil Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Intelsat Contact

Jodi Katz
jodi.katz@intelsat.com
+1 202 944 8223

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