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Marc Boucher
Retired General Walter Natynczyk Tasked to Lead the Canadian Space Agency [Watch], SpaceRef Canada
“Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced today that General (Retired) Walter John Natynczyk, former Chief of the Defence Staff, is to become the President of the Canadian Space Agency, effective August 6, 2013”
Marc’s note: I’ve included a 30 minute interview from Canada’s version of C-SPAN, CPAC, from a show called Beyond Politics. It gives you an idea who Walter Natynczyk is.
Marc Boucher is an entrepreneur, writer, editor, podcaster and publisher who has worked in space media for more than 25 years. In 1999 he co-founded SpaceRef with Keith Cowing. The new media company grew into a network that included NASA Watch and The Astrobiology Web. After selling SpaceRef, he joined Multiverse Media, which later merged with SpaceNews. There he helped steer the combined company toward more multimedia, a subscription paywall and intelligence products, and pushed for a mobile app. He is also the founder of SpaceQ Media, Canada’s space news and market intelligence publication.
Marc started his first Internet content business in 1992 and hasn’t looked back. When he’s not working, he loves exploring Canada and the world and expanding his photography skills.
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It seems like every space nation has to be run by a general at least once.
But they’re not all created equal. Natynczyk is very much a people person. He has achieved results in his career because his people appreciate that he’s been in their corner day to day, working on their behalf, which is the most important task of a leader, and a task at which many bosses clearly fail. I predict that he will succeed at the CSA in the same manner. The only real problem he faces is that the current annual CSA budget will just about fit in his pocket. So much to do and so little money.