In the presence of the top representatives of European space industry and institutions, among them ESA Director General Jan W\u00f6rner, Chairwomen of DLR Pascale Ehrenfreund and President of CNES, Jean-Yves le Gall, the “Women in Aerospace Europe\u201c (WIA-Europe) has awarded its lifetime achievement award 2016 to Candace Johnson in recognition of her achievements as a global serial entrepreneur, a telecom networks and infrasticture expert, an investor and business angel.<\/p>\n
Candace is co-initiator of SES ASTRA and the architect of SES Global, one of the world’s \u00a0leading satellite networks.\u00a0 She is also the founding president of Europe Online Investments S.A, Loral Cyberstar-Teleport Europe, the VATM, Oceania Womens Network Satellite (OWNSAT), Board Member of KAcific, the Global Telecom Women’s Network (GTWN), and the Global Board Ready Women (GBRW). Besides being a serial-entrepreneur and investor in multiple telecommunications networks, and startups, Candace has consistently initiated and promoted social and educational initiatives for women in the telecommunications business around the world. Currently, she is President of EBAN, the European Business Angel Networks and is promoting commercial investment in space.<\/p>\n
WIA-E chairwomen\u00a0Claudia Kessler emphasized the three \u201edriving forces\u201c behind the unparalleled success of Candace Johnson as the most successful and renowned woman in the man\u00b4s world of space high tech and telecommunications: “Candace has a firm belief:
\n– in the power of communications to transcend barriers and frontiers,
\n– in the effectiveness of networking through sophisticated infrastructures, and
\n– in the boundless inspiration of creativity. ”<\/p>\n
Candace Johnson is our age\u00b4s Leonardo da Vinci of human and technical infrastructures.\u201c<\/p>\n
Besides her engagement in numberless activities and positions Candace Johnson today focuses especially on new satellite technologies, be it earth observation and intelligence, satellite situation awareness, micro-launchers and new communication technologies via laser from earth to satellite.\u00a0 She is also looking now for technological ways to make telepathy tomorrow as normal as mobile communications today, since for the not-to-far future she foresses that it will be possible to communicate amongst people, continents, and galaies via brain-waves.<\/p>\n
Women in Aerospace Europe is a networking platform for women in aerospace; it aims at attracting more women to the aerospace sector, fostering the interests of women working in aerospace, and improving the access of women to leadership positions in aerospace. The organization provides specific educational programmes for women, advocates the political commitment to aerospace programmes and recognises achievements of women in aerospace. With its lifetime award which is granted once a year the organization highlights the achievements of the most outstanding female professionals in the aerospace sector in Europe and worldwide.<\/p>\n
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