SES Global on Sept. 10 announced the abrupt departure of Dean Olmstead as president of SES Americom, the companyโ€™s U.S. subsidiary. Olmstead will โ€œpursue other interests,โ€ according to a terse company statement.

Olmstead was one of the engineers of the 2001 purchase of GE Americom by SES. SES Global Chairman Romain Bausch and the companyโ€™s three-member management committee will assume the direction of Americom until a successor to Olmstead is found.