Executive Team

Matthew O'Connell

CEO, President and Director

Mr. O'Connell is GeoEye's President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director.

Mr. O’Connell has over 20 years of experience in communications management and finance. He came to the commercial remote sensing industry in 2001 as CEO of GeoEye’s predecessor, ORBIMAGE. In January 2006, Orbimage merged with Space Imaging to form GeoEye, Inc. In May 2008, GeoEye was ranked number 82 in the Washington Post’s "Top 200" companies in the Washington, D.C. area based on 2007 revenue. In January 2008, O’Connell was appointed by the Department of the Interior to serve on its National Geospatial Advisory Committee. One month later, O’Connell was elected to the U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s (USGIF) Board of Directors and in October 2007 was presented with their Industry Leader award. In June 2007, Mr. O’Connell was named "Entrepreneur of the Year" by Ernst and Young for Communications in the Washington, D.C. region. Additionally, Space News named O’Connell one of the "10 Who Made a Difference in Space in 2006" and Via Satellite Magazine named O’Connell as "One to Watch in 2008."

Prior to joining GeoEye, Mr. O’Connell was a managing director at Crest Advisors, a New York-based private merchant bank that invested in and advised communications companies, and senior vice president of Legal and Business Affairs for Sony Worldwide Networks, a division of Sony Corporation specializing in radio and Internet programming. Before working at Sony, he served as senior vice president and general counsel of Osborn Communications Corporation, a publicly traded radio and television station operator. Prior to his tenure at Osborn, Mr. O’Connell was the assistant general counsel at Cablevision Systems Corporation, where he was responsible for acquisitions and finance, including the company’s initial public offering. Mr. O’Connell began his career on Wall Street as a lawyer specializing in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance. Mr. O’Connell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Classics from Trinity College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, and a Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School.

William Schuster

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Schuster joined GeoEye in December 2004 as Chief Operating Officer and is responsible for the overall management and direction of information technology, operations, international business, North American and government sales, engineering, customer service, order management, facilities and security, product management, quality assurance, and business processes. He has over 28 years of experience in operational management, primarily in the space applications and communication systems sectors. Mr. Schuster also has extensive knowledge of the intelligence community from both the government and commercial sectors’ perspectives.

Before coming to GeoEye, Mr. Schuster served as President of Integrated Systems for BAE Systems, Vice President of Programs at Harris Corporation within the Government Communications Systems division, and Vice President of the Space Applications Operation at Loral Space and Range Systems. In addition, he spent nearly 22 years with the Central Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Schuster has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and has completed numerous graduate-level management courses and programs, including the Pennsylvania State University Executive Management Program and the Mahler Advanced Management Skills Program.

Henry E. Dubois

Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Dubois joined the company in January 2006 and is responsible for the overall management and direction of GeoEye's corporate strategic and financial planning, corporate finance, accounting, fiscal reporting, and public company disclosure requirements. He has over 20 years of domestic and international management and consulting experience, specializing in strategic, operational, and financial issues for technology-based industries.

Prior to joining GeoEye, Mr. Dubois was an advisor to the company on strategic and financial issues and was also a consultant to a number of start-up companies. In addition, he has served as President, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer at DigitalGlobe, Inc., Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer of an Indonesian telecommunications company based in Jakarta, and Senior Vice President of Planning and Development for another large Asian conglomerate. Mr. Dubois also held a strategy and operational consultant role with Booz, Allen and Hamilton (now Booz and Company), based in Asia, and served in various financial functions with Exxon Corporation.

Mr. Dubois holds a Master of Management degree from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, with concentrations in Finance, Marketing, and Accounting, and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the College of the Holy Cross.

William L. Warren

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary

Mr. Warren joined GeoEye in January 2004 as General Counsel. He is responsible for all corporate legal guidance and counseling, contracts management, and human resource functions.

Before coming to GeoEye, Mr. Warren practiced law in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C., offices of the international law firm Latham & Watkins, LLP, for several years. Prior to that, Mr. Warren was an associate in the New York office of Baker Botts, L.L.P.

Mr. Warren's legal expertise is in general corporate law, including securities compliance and mergers and acquisitions. In addition, he specializes in intellectual property and employment law for high-tech clients in such areas as telecommunications and satellite technologies, as well as commercial-litigation management.

Mr. Warren received his Juris Doctor with honors from the University of Texas at Austin and is admitted to practice in Virginia, New York, and the District of Columbia.