spelfie – the space selfie, has announced the appointment of former Gartner International CEO Graham Norton-Standen as Chairman with immediate effect.
Norton-Standen has led, turned-around and grown companies with thousands of employees and many billions of dollars of annual revenues, including as CEO of information technologies leader Gartner International, and division president for technology leaders Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and Electronic Data Systems (EDS, now DXC Technology.)
He has served as Chairman, senior board member or advisor to a variety of organisations globally which include British Telecom (BT), Cable & Wireless, Deutsche Bank, Hewlett Packard, P&O, Reuters, Tata Group and Unisys, to name a few.
spelfie, an award-winning startup based in Glasgow, has made its mission to bring defence-grade real-time satellite imagery to the masses, by capturing sponsored events and its fans from space. Participants take a selfie on the app as an AIRBUS satellite passes overhead and the two images are combined to create the spelfie - an ‘out of this world’ check-in from space, optimised for social media. spelfie offers a carbon efficient alternative to traditional digital marketing strategies.