Maxar Intelligence has appointed Dan Smoot as CEO, effective November 6, 2023, completing an exciting phase of investment in the business' senior leadership talent. Daniel Jablonsky, who has been serving as interim CEO of Maxar Intelligence, will transition to the Board of Directors. Smoot is an accomplished technology executive with over 30 years of management experience at some of the world's most successful software and IT companies, including senior executive positions at Salesforce, Cisco and VMWare.

Most recently, he served as CEO of Riverbed Technology, where he led the IT company's transformation from a hardware provider to a software-focused business that today serves national security agencies and 95% of the Fortune 100.