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Dr. Neil Mackay is vice president of corporate development with EMS Technologies Inc. and president of the company’s SATCOM division based in Ottawa Canada.
Under Mackay's leadership EMS SATCOM enhanced its leadership position in both the aeronautical and emergency management markets and launched a promising entry into the land mobile market.
Mackay has extensive experience as a senior executive in the fields of aviation and satellite communications including advanced systems used in remote sensing.
Mackay joined EMS Technologies in 1993 following it’s acquisition of Ottawa-based CAL Corp. where he was president and CEO. EMS SATCOM was created from CAL.
Today EMS SATCOM is a leader in developing and supplying satellite-based high-speed data communications equipment to its aeronautical land mobile maritime and emergency management customers. EMS SATCOM employs approximately 300 people and has sales and development offices in the United States the UK. and Australia.
Mackay has held the position of CEO of a number of telecommunications and aviation companies including GEAC Computers in Toronto Innotech Aviation Ltd. in Montreal and the Trinidad and Tobago Telephone Company. He is a recipient of the CBAA lifetime achievement award for service to the aviation industry.
Before entering corporate management in 1979 Mackay was an associate professor at Queen's University in Kingston Ontario Canada where he lectured at the undergraduate and post-graduate levels in the fields of electronics communications and signal processing. A holder of major research grants and contracts Mackay led a team of researchers in the fields of guided radar optical processing and communications systems. He is the author of some 40 publications.
Mackay obtained his B.Eng from McGill University in Montreal. He holds a Ph.D. in communications engineering from Sydney University Australia.
He served for a decade on the Board of Directors of B.W.I.A. International and Caribbean Cargo Airlines and was a founding member of the Ontario Aerospace Council. | 