Ciel
Satellite Group
104 - 240 Terence
Matthews Crescent
Kanata
Ontario
Canada K2M 2C4
tel: +1 613 599
4400
fax: +1 613 599 4455
email: info@cielsatellite.ca
url:
http://www.cielsatellite.ca
Kevin Smyth:
CEO
Dave Lewis: President and COO
Ciel Satellite is Canada’s
independent satellite facilities operator.
Ciel was founded in 2004,
received preliminary authorisation to operate a satellite at 129 degrees West
that same year, and began commercial operations in August 2005.
The
partners and shareholders in the Ciel venture are:
- BPC Telecommunications Corporation, owned
by Omers, one of Canada's largest pension funds, with more than $40 billion in
assets;
- Ottawa-based Smyth Satellite Holdings
Ltd., a Canadian satellite and telecommunications company established by Kevin
Smyth and Gerry Wall, Ph.D.;
- 620582 NB Ltd., an investment company led
by Brian Neill, the founder and former chairman of Star Choice Communications
Inc.;
- and SES Global S.A. which owns SES Astra
in Europe, and SES Americom in the US, and holds strategic investments in
AsiaSat in Asia, Ciel in Canada, NSAB in Europe, and Star One in Latin
America.
