Global Relief Technologies Names Paul Kollmer-Dorsey as Senior Vice President and General Counsel
SeacoastOnline
July 29, 2007
PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Global Relief Technologies (GRT), a provider of rapid data management services, announced the addition of Paul Kollmer-Dorsey as senior vice president and general counsel. Kollmer-Dorsey is recognized as one of the leading corporate lawyers in the satellite communications industry, where he has held significant operational positions. Kollmer-Dorsey brings extensive corporate legal, transactional and M&A experience in a technology-intensive industry to GRT, whose Rapid Data Management System® technology has been used in disaster relief and humanitarian assistance missions such as tracking conditions during Hurricane Katrina relief efforts, gathering information on the Afghan reconstruction, and maintaining troop protection systems in Iraq.
“We are thrilled to have attracted an executive with Paul’s experience and expertise in the global communications sector to join GRT’s management team,” Michael Gray, CEO of GRT said. “The leadership he brings to our mission is invaluable as GRT prepares to enter an exciting period of intensive growth,” Gray added.
“I am very pleased to join the GRT team at this time,” said Kollmer-Dorsey. “The CEO is a visionary. Its mission is compelling. GRT’s technology is innovative, effective and desperately needed. GRT’s financial strength, the quality of its customer base and its growing commercial success are all evidence of its great potential.”
Kollmer-Dorsey most recently served four years as vice president and associate general counsel of SES New Skies B.V., a global communications satellite operator headquartered in The Netherlands. At New Skies, he managed the company’s contractual and litigation matters on a global basis and played a key role in the back-to-back acquisitions of New Skies by the Blackstone Group in 2004 and SES Global S.A. in 2006.
Prior to that, Kollmer-Dorsey held a similar position with Lockheed Martin Global Telecommunications, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Kollmer-Dorsey has also served as associate general counsel to COMSAT Corporation, the United States signatory to the INTELSAT and Inmarsat intergovernmental satellite consortia. Kollmer-Dorsey played a key role in structuring and executing the transactions leading to the privatizations of Inmarsat and INTELSAT.
Kollmer-Dorsey worked with the law firms of Paul, Weiss Rifkind, Wharton and Garrison in Washington, D.C., and Nagashima & Ohno in Tokyo. He is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Stanford Law School.