Dirk Hoke Joins Board of Directors of Spire Global, Inc.
November 16 2021 - 06:46AM
Business Wire
Former Chief Executive Officer of the Airbus
Defence and Space Division to Add Global Expertise to the Company’s
Board
Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or “the Company”), a
leading global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space
services today announced that it has appointed Dirk Hoke to the
Company’s board of directors. In his role, Mr. Hoke will work with
Spire’s leadership team to help drive adoption of the Company’s
solutions globally to key industry and government partners.
“It is exceptionally rare to come across someone like Dirk, who
is so well-versed in the applications of space, the scaling of
software solutions, and who has a rich network in the government
and defense arenas, in Europe as well as around the globe,” said
Peter Platzer, Spire’s Chief Executive Officer. “The experience he
brings with him will surely help Spire navigate the next phase of
our global growth, not just in the defense industry, but in all
industries that can benefit from using Spire to deploy their own
applications and sensors into space quickly and efficiently. I am
incredibly pleased to welcome him to Spire’s board of
directors.”
Mr. Hoke’s career spans 25 years and five continents in various
industries, often focusing on digitalization. He was most recently
Chief Executive Officer of the Airbus Defence and Space division of
Airbus SE and served as a member of the Airbus Executive Committee.
Before joining Airbus, he worked at Siemens AG, where he held
various executive-level positions including General Manager for the
Transrapid Propulsion and Power Supply Subdivision, President of
Siemens Transportation Systems China, the first Chief Executive
Officer of Siemens Africa and the Division Chief Executive Officer
of Industrial Solutions in Germany. He holds a degree in Mechanical
Engineering from the Technical University of Brunswick, Germany and
is an Alumni of the Young Global Leader Program of the World
Economic Forum.
“Spire is a company at the leading edge of the new space
economy, bringing unique data solutions to governments and
companies to solve some of their greatest challenges, particularly
those associated with climate change and moving towards net zero
emissions,” said Mr. Hoke. “I’m looking forward to working with the
company’s management team to expand Spire’s reach across industry
and geography, identifying new use cases for the company’s
space-based data solutions.”
About Spire Global, Inc.
Spire is a leading global provider of space-based data,
analytics, and space services, offering access to unique datasets
and powerful insights about Earth from the ultimate vantage point
so that organizations can make decisions with confidence, accuracy,
and speed. Spire uses one of the world’s largest multi-purpose
satellite constellations to source hard to acquire, valuable data
and enriches it with predictive solutions. Spire then provides this
data as a subscription to organizations around the world so they
can improve business operations, decrease their environmental
footprint, deploy resources for growth and competitive advantage,
and mitigate risk. Spire gives commercial and government
organizations the competitive advantage they seek to innovate and
solve some of the world’s toughest problems with insights from
space. Spire has offices in San Francisco, Boulder, Washington DC,
Glasgow, Luxembourg, and Singapore. To learn more, visit
http://www.spire.com.
Safe Habor Statement
The forward-looking statements included in this press release,
including the quotations of Spire’s Chief Executive Officer and
newly appointed director regarding Spire’s global growth and
expansion, reflect Spire’s best judgment based on factors currently
known and involve risks and uncertainties. These risks and
uncertainties include, but are not limited to, potential disruption
of customer purchase decisions resulting from global economic
conditions including from an economic downturn or recession in the
United States or in other countries around the world; relative
growth of its Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) and revenue; the risk
that the proposed acquisition of exactEarth Ltd. does not close;
the failure of the Spire and exactEarth businesses (including
personnel) to be integrated successfully after closing; the risk
that revenue and adjusted EBITDA accretion or the expansion of
Spire’s customer count, ARR, product offerings and solutions will
not be realized or realized to the extent anticipated; the ability
to maintain the listing of Spire’s securities on the New York Stock
Exchange; the ability to address the market opportunity for
Space-as-a-Service; the ability to implement business plans,
forecasts, and other expectations, and identify and realize
additional opportunities; the risk of downturns, new entrants and a
changing regulatory landscape in the highly competitive space data
analytics industries; developments in and the duration of the
COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting impact on Spire’s business and
operations, and the business of its customers and partners,
including the economic impact of safety measures to mitigate the
impacts of COVID-19; Spire’s potential inability to manage
effectively any growth it experiences; Spire’s ability or inability
to develop new products and services, and other risks detailed in
periodic reports Spire has filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission (“SEC”), including Spire’s Proxy
Statement/Prospectus/Information Statement, which was filed with
the SEC on July 22, 2021 and Spire’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q
for the quarter ended September 30, 2021, which was filed with the
SEC on November 10, 2021. Significant variation from the
assumptions underlying Spire’s forward-looking statements could
cause its actual results to vary, and the impact could be
significant. All forward-looking statements in this press release
are based on information available to Spire as of the date hereof.
Spire undertakes no obligation, and does not intend, to update the
information contained in this press release, except as required by
law.
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