CARLSBAD, Calif., March 5, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Viasat Inc.
(NASDAQ: VSAT), a global communications company, today announced
the expansion of its global leadership team with the addition of
Jim Dodd, as president, Global
Mobile Solutions; Peter Langkilde,
as vice president and Head of Broadband Services for Europe, Middle
East and Africa (EMEA); and
Dr. Krishna Nathan, as chief
information officer (CIO).
"Viasat's growth and expansion into a more global company
requires the ongoing addition of highly talented people to the
team. The addition of Jim, Peter and Krishna represent a big step
in that evolution. These are three highly-respected leaders in
their fields. They are passionate visionaries with decades of
experience successfully leading global organizations and programs,"
said Rick Baldridge, president and
chief operating officer at Viasat. "We're confident Jim, Peter and
Krishna will complement Viasat's current management team. They are
all great collaborators and will be instrumental in driving global
initiatives around the ViaSat-3 constellation launch and our next
phase of accelerated services growth."
Baldridge continued, "Jim will play a critical role in expanding
opportunities and our customer base in domestic and international
mobility markets, Peter will be responsible for growing our
broadband services business throughout EMEA and Krishna will lead
our platform, automation and artificial intelligence (AI)
deployment efforts across engineering, business and corporate
segments."
- About Jim Dodd: With more
than 30-years of aviation experience, Jim
Dodd joins Viasat as president, Global Mobile Solutions. In
this role, Jim will broaden Viasat's mobility opportunities,
strategically aligning current and future satellite capabilities
with global mobility sector needs. Areas of focus under the global
mobility umbrella include: business aviation, commercial aviation,
connected cars, maritime and railway transportation, to name a
few.
Prior to Viasat, Jim held a number of senior-level aviation
management and engineering roles at The Boeing Company. He focused
on complex Department of Defense/international contracted programs,
overseeing strategic planning, execution, engineering and business
development.
Jim holds a BS in Physics from Arkansas State
University and an MBA in Finance from Seattle
University.
- About Peter Langkilde: With 30-years of
global mobile sector depth, Peter
Langkilde joins Viasat as vice president and Head of
Broadband Services, EMEA. In this role, he will
oversee Viasat's broadband services growth with respect
to leading residential, business and community internet
opportunities across EMEA—setting the stage for the launch of
ViaSat-3 services in the upcoming years.
Prior to Viasat, Peter co-founded Virgin Mobile
Middle-East & Africa, Virgin
Mobile Latin America as well as Virgin
Mobile Central & Eastern
Europe. He was co-founder and CEO
of Afrimax Vodafone, the African mobile network
operator; co-founder and president of Reliance WiMAX World, a joint
venture with Reliance of India;
and founder of End2End, a global mobile data infrastructure
provider, which served many of the largest mobile
providers in the world. In addition, Peter held a number
of senior leadership, executive and
operations roles across leading companies such
as BellSouth, TDC, Millicom and Leap Wireless
International.
Peter is chairman of Virgin Mobile Middle-East &
Africa and serves on the
board of directors for Virgin Mobile Latin America. He holds
a M.Sc. in International Business Strategy from Aalborg
University.
- About Dr. Krishna
Nathan: With more than 25-years of next-generation
IT expertise, Dr. Krishna Nathan
joins Viasat as CIO. In this role, he will lead the Company's
digital transformation and platform initiatives, using analytics,
customer-experience-centric processes, data-driven decision-making,
automation and AI to enable the Company to quickly scale
globally while responding to changing market dynamics.
Prior to Viasat, Krishna was the CIO of S&P Global, where he
led a change management effort to embrace new business models based
on emerging technologies like blockchain and AI. He also drove the
migration to a cloud-based model. Prior to this role, he held
various senior leadership and engineering positions at IBM, leading
research and product efforts in AI and machine learning, storage
and next-generation cloud data center architectures.
Krishna holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Brown University.
About Viasat
Viasat is a global
communications company that believes everyone and everything in the
world can be connected. For more than 30
years, Viasat has helped shape how consumers, businesses,
governments and militaries around the world communicate. Today, the
Company is developing the ultimate global communications network to
power high-quality, secure, affordable, fast connections to impact
people's lives anywhere they are—on the ground, in the air or at
sea. To learn more about Viasat, visit: www.viasat.com,
go to Viasat's Corporate Blog, or follow the Company on
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