GeoEye Executive Profiles

Mr. O’Connell is GeoEye’s President and CEO. GeoEye, headquartered in Dulles, Virginia, is a leading provider of satellite and aerial imagery and geospatial information. The company, with 400 employees, operates two Earth-imaging satellites, IKONOS and OrbView-2, two mapping aircraft, possesses an international network of regional satellite receiving ground stations and has advanced geospatial imagery processing capabilities. Key customers include the Department of Defense and intelligence community, strategic business partners, U.S and international resellers and commercial customers. GeoEye is traded on the Nasdaq exchange (GEOY) and is listed on the Russell 3000 index. GeoEye is launching its next generation satellite, GeoEye-1, later this year. GeoEye-1 will be the world's highest resolution and most accurate commercial Earth-imaging satellite, with a ground resolution of 0.41-meters or about 16 inches.

Mr. O’Connell has over twenty 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 January 2008, O’Connell was appointed by the Department of the Interior to serve on its National Geospatial Advisory Committee. In February 2008, 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. Also in October 2007, Deloitte named GeoEye as one of the Fast 50 companies in the Washington D.C. area, ranking the company number twelve. In June 2007, Mr. O’Connell was named “Entrepreneur of the Year” by Ernst and Young for Communications in the Washington D.C. region. The Washington Post ranked GeoEye number one of all companies in the D.C. area for 2006 revenue growth. 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 and is responsible for the overall management and direction of information technology; operations; international business; North American and government sales; engineering; customer service and order management; facilities and security; product management; and quality assurance and business processes. Mr. Schuster has over 28 years of experience in operational management primarily in the space applications and communication systems’ sectors. He also has extensive knowledge of the Intelligence community from both the government and commercial sectors’ perspective.

Prior to joining GeoEye, Mr. Schuster most recently served as president of Integrated Systems for BAE Systems. Before that, Mr. Schuster served at Harris Corporation as vice president of Programs within the Government Communications System division and was vice president of the Space Applications Operation at Loral Space and Range Systems. Preceding that, Mr. Schuster spent nearly twenty-two 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 Penn State 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. Mr. Dubois 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 most recently an adviser to the company on strategic and financial issues and also consulted for a number of start-up companies. Prior to that, he served as president, COO and CFO at DigitalGlobe, Inc. Previously, Mr. Dubois was CEO and CFO of an Indonesian Telecom company based in Jakarta and also served as senior vice president of Planning and Development for another large Asian conglomerate. In addition, Mr. Dubois was a strategy and operational consultant with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, based in Asia, and served in various financial functions with Exxon, Corporation. Mr. Dubois holds a Master of Management degree from Northwestern University’s JL Kellogg School of Management with concentrations in finance, marketing and accounting and a Bachelor of Arts degree in mathematics from the College of 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. Prior to joining GeoEye, Mr. Warren practiced law in the Northern Virginia and Washington, D.C. offices of Latham & Watkins LLP, an international law firm, for several years. Before 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; mergers and acquisitions; intellectual property and employment law for clients in high technology businesses, including satellites and communications, as well as management of commercial litigation.

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.