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ABOUT HISDESAT

2.4 Professional profile

and Quality

We continue to uphold the qualitative objective of

continual improvement in both the level of training

of internal resources as well as in the reliability of
procedures. The employee profile is highly qualified, with

over 68% of employees with high level degrees, some

19% with intermediate level degrees and some 13% of

Board of Directors of HISDESAT administrative personnel.

Astrium SAS, with some 60% of the same Board of Directors All this bears an impact on the primary mis-
18 and the Instituto Cartográfico de Cataluña, 19 sion of the organisation; excellence in the
with the remaining 20% of the share The Board of Directors comprises seven rep- provision of services to the client.
capital. resentatives of the shareholding companies,
bodies and institutions. Also in terms of quality, since 2008 HISDESAT
The creation of and participation in this has been in possession of the ISO 9001
Company on the part of HISDESAT provides Chairman of the Board (non-executive) Quality Management System Certificate
an accurate reflection of the growing ac- • Mr. Juan Antonio del Castillo Masete. granted by AENOR, valid both nationally and
tivity being undertaken in the field of Earth internationally.
Observation, in accordance with the Nation- CEO
al Satellite Earth Observation Programme • Mr. Miguel Ángel Panduro Panadero. Human resources
(PNOT).
Members The Company currently has 31 employees,
A Joint-venture was also established in • Mr. Antonio Cuadrado Rúa. who perform their duties at the company’s
Canada between COMDEV and HISDESAT, for • Mr. Fernando García Martínez-Peñalver. head offices and at the satellite operations As well as its own employees, HISDESAT al-
the provision of services using the AIS sat- • Mr. Andrés Sendagorta Mc Donnell. Control Centres of Arganda (Madrid) and so indirectly employs over 30 professionals,
ellite maritime traffic information system, • Mrs. Elena Pisonero Ruiz. Maspalomas (Canary Islands). ranging from operators and maintenance
through the Canadian company exactEarth. • Mr. Juan Corro Beseler. personnel, at the satellite control stations
HISDESAT’s shareholding is of 27%. In the last three years, human resources of Arganda (Madrid) and Maspalomas (Ca-
Secretary (non-member) have increased by some 37%, basically in nary Islands).
A collaboration agreement was signed with • Mrs. Araceli Pérez de Sevilla Pallarés. order to attend to the needs relating to the
the Norwegian Armed Forces for the devel- development of the company’s new pro- It also uses the equivalent number of em-
opment of the communications satellite, grammes and projects, within the frame- ployees at the control stations in Ottawa
HisNorSat. HISDESAT has an investment of work of the Earth Observation Programme (Canada) and Mount Jackson (Virginia, USA.),
56% of the total shares. (PNOTS) with Paz and Ingenio. through its investee company Xtar LLC.