MDA has filled its last senior executive position with the hiring of Dr. Minda Suchan as Vice President of its Geointelligence unit. Of note, MDA’s executive organizational chart (below) now has a 50/50 gender split.
Earlier this year as MDA restructured it created three business units based on its long standing work. The Robotics and Space Operations unit is based in Brampton, Ontario is and led by former astronaut Tim Kopra, while the Satellite Systems is based in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec and is led by Joanna Boshouwers. The hiring of Dr. Suchan to lead the Geointelligence unit now completes MDA’s executive organizational structure.
MDA CEO Mike Greenley said on the hiring of Dr. Suchan, “we are delighted that Minda will join our executive team. With her impressive credentials in the intelligence community spanning engineering, sales and business development, strategic growth initiatives and acquisitions, she will be instrumental in positioning our geointelligence business to achieve strong growth, particularly in the global Earth observation and analytics sector. We look forward to Minda’s engagement with our workforce and broad customer community.”
Dr. Suchan who has a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Southern California, has considerable experience working in the Geointelligence field including with Raytheon, and between 2011 -2019 at Harris Corporation. At Harris, Dr. Suchan was Electronic Systems Vice President of Strategy and Business Development leading a team of 150.
While at Raytheon, Dr. Suchan “held a number of roles within the Space and Airborne Systems group at Raytheon Company, beginning as a senior physics engineer specializing in novel electro-optical sensors, serving as National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) Technology Fellow at various government sites.”
Dr. Suchan will be based out of their Richmond, BC office.