Mark Brady
Entrepreneur and investor with decades of international executive experience with Satellite, PayTV, and Consumer Electronics industries. Successfully conducted business in dozens of countries.
Clients and project implementation for companies that included: Airspan, ARSAT, AT&T, GloboSat, Glowlink, Lucent, Motorola, NahuelSat, RuralWeb , SuperCanal , Tdh SA, Telesat , among others.
Currently
Founder and President – Advantage IT International Inc. International Telecom Consulting.
Founder and Managing Partner – Clarke Belt 2.0 an NGSO Communications Satellite Project.
International Advisor – nexTenna – A low cost electronically steerable flat panel antenna technology for cell phones to football sized antennas for Satellites.
Prior employment
VP at Oak Communications-TV/Com-Hyundai , assisted transition company from Analog Cable – Satellite /PayTV hardware vendor, to focus on a digital development of an industry 1st demonstrable 1-45Msps variable consumer Satellite modem and a 256 QAM cable modem. The development resulted in the industry’s 1st deployed Satellite DVB compliant systems in both the Americas and Europe. Total of 6 new DTH Projects launched, 5 in Americas and 1 in Europe.
VP Uniden USA, Ft Worth consumer electronics company, Regional, National Accounts and International sales, marketing and business development responsibilities. Within Satellite division launched 1st successful Analog Satellite PayTV network in Brasil ( became GloboSat). Launched 1st Satellite delivered PPV utilizing AT&T Satellite and ANI system (TVN).
Regional Sales Fla – Motorola C&E – Two way communications equipment sales.
Other Activity
Former Member of Board of Directors of (SBCA) Satellite Broadcasting & Communications Association
Speaker and panelist at numerous Industry trade events, and Governmental Regulatory bodies including ITU in Geneva.
Mr. Brady has earned Bachelors of Technology degree from University of North Florida and is based in Jacksonville Florida and a US Citizen.
Loves Family, Friends, Football, Flyfishing, and Florida.
Alvaro Gazzolo
Alvaro Gazzolo, CEO of Ingenu has decades (30 years) of International Sales, Business Development and M&A experience in “C” Level positions in growing and leading successful Technology companies, Pay-TV companies, Global Satellite businesses, IoT Platforms, Software companies and AI Platforms.
Mr. Gazzolo (Corporate Senior Vice President and Member of the Executive Team at PanAmSat, a listed company, NASDAQ:PAS) developed the Latin American and European markets for the first private satellite operator (PanAmSat) in 1989. In the mid 90’s as head of International he spearheaded all the international strategy of the company with Business Development and M&As. Mr. Gazzolo grew the business from US$2.0M per year to US$350.0M per year with US$2.0 Billion is back log agreements.
Mr. Gazzolo was formerly the CEO of IPTV Americas (LatAm, Europe and North America), an initiative to aggregate the top Pay-TV signals and convert these channels into IPTV/OTT format, for Telecommunications companies to provide Triple Play.
Recently, Mr. Gazzolo was the President for Kit Digital LatAm, the largest OTT Company in the world in 2012 (a listed company NASDAQ: KIT), where he deployed video platforms with Telcos and MSO companies in LatAm.
Most recently, Mr. Gazzolo was contracted as a consultant for different multinational companies eager to take advantage of his vast business development skills in international markets like the Americas, Asia, Europe, Middle East and Africa. Examples are: Ingenu, Digicel (Irish, Mobile company operating in Asia Pacific and the Caribbean), AT&T (QuickPlay) and ThinkAnalytics (UK, Analytics company).
Mr. Gazzolo was educated in England at University College London (UCL) as an Electronic Engineer (B.Sc. with Honors), received a master’s in “Microwaves & Modern Optics” and began a Ph.D. in “Optics” as a Research Assistant and Lecturer. Mr. Gazzolo speaks English, Italian, Spanish and is proficient in Portuguese. Mr. Gazzolo holds European and US citizenships.
Fabien Jordan
Fabien Jordan is Founder and CEO of Astrocast, a leading Satellite IoT service that enables asset tracking and two-way communications in remote areas of the world. Jordan is widely recognized for his work on SwissCube, the longest operating nanosatellite. He also worked as Technical Manager at the Space Exploration Institute in Neuchâtel, where he contributed to the design of two scientific instruments of the ESA ExoMars Rover Mission. Previously, he was Electrical System Engineer at the Swiss Space Center EPFL.
Thanks to his 15-year experience in space systems engineering and his early involvement in the CubeSat community, he became convinced that nanosatellite constellations would disrupt specific segments of the satellite industry and saw the NewSpace revolution coming. In 2014, together with an international team of experts from both the space and telecom industries, he developed a strong business model to provide global, direct-to- satellite Internet-of-Things (IoT) communications. Leveraging the industry-leading performance of Astrocast’s L-band IoT network, Fabien successfully positioned the first Swiss satellite operator as a front runner.
Supporting innovation, Fabien serves as an Early Investor and Advisor to ClearSpace and PICC Solution and is a Karman Fellow and a Platinum Sponsor of EPFL Xplore.
Flavia Tata Nardini
Educated in Italy and living in Adelaide, Tata is a co-founder and CEO of Fleet Space Technologies, an Adelaide-based space company focused on connecting the Internet of Things by deploying hundreds of low-cost nanosatellites around the world. Dubbed the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the ‘digital nervous system’ Fleet is creating will ultimately make it faster, simpler and less expensive to connect every device on Earth, transforming how businesses connect and gather vital information that can drive growth and change. Fleet’s nanosatellites have potential to revolutionise industries like agriculture, logistics and mining, and impact every aspect of life from measuring the effect of climate change in remote areas such as the Amazon to improving food production in Africa.
Jaume Sanpera
Currently, Jaume Sanpera is founder and CEO of Sateliot, the first satellite telecommunications operator that will provide global and continuous connectivity to all the elements that will make up the universe of the Internet of Things (IoT) under the 5G protocol. Previously he also founded and managed Eurona, a company that grew from 2M to 150M in sales in 6 years, which was listed at Spanish Mercado Alternativo Bursátil (MAB).
A lover of technology and innovation, he has a background in Telecommunications Engineering, a Master of Business Administration (MBA) and a Senior Management Program (PADE). His entire career has developed in parallel with technological development and his entrepreneurial spirit that has led him to found up to 9 companies such as, Cidec, Festuc, etc.