About Arianespace

Latest milestones

• May 7, 2013
  Vega’s second flight from French Guiana marks the start-up of mission operations under Arianespace responsibility for this light-lift launcher. A trio of satellites, including Vega’s first commercial payload, are orbited during the successful mission.
• April 18, 2013
  Stéphane Israël is appointed Chairman & CEO of Arianespace, succeeding Jean-Yves Le Gall – who led the company since 2001 and earlier in April 2013 was named President of French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales).
• March 18, 2013
  Arianespace announces a three-satellite launch services contract for Intelsat, with the spacecraft to be orbited through 2017 by Ariane 5 vehicles from the Spaceport. The deal covers the 52nd, 53rd and 54th payloads that Arianespace will orbit for this leading provider of satellite services, continuing a nearly 33-year partnership.

Jean Max Puech - Senior Vice President, Finance

Jean Max Puech is Arianespace’s Senior Vice President, Finance, and has held this management position since April 15, 2009.

Puech originally joined Arianespace's Marketing department in January 1996 after holding management roles in the aerospace and rail industries. He subsequently was named head of the department, which was followed by his appointments as Vice President for Prospective and Strategy in December 1998, and as Vice President, Finance in January 2003.

A graduate of the Ecole Centrale de Paris engineering school, Puech also holds an MBA from the HEC business school.

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