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Inmarsat CEO and executives

Executive Summary. Based on our data team's research, Rajeev Suri is the Inmarsat's CEO. Inmarsat has 1,500 employees, of which 24 are in a leadership position.
Here are further demographic highlights of the leadership team:
  • The Inmarsat executive team is 38% female and 63% male.
  • 54% of the management team is White.
  • 16% of Inmarsat management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 8% of the management team is Black or African American.
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Name & TitleBio
Rajeev Suri

CEO

Rajeev Suri's LinkedIn

Rajeev Suri (born 10 October 1967) is a Singaporean business executive and was appointed as CEO of Inmarsat in February 2021 He was previously the CEO of Nokia until 31 July 2020. Before being appointed Nokia's CEO in May 2014, he was the CEO of Nokia Solutions and Networks from 2009 and held various positions within Nokia since 1995. Suri became the CEO of Nokia when the sale of Nokia's phone division to Microsoft Mobile was completed, replacing Stephen Elop. He is an alumnus of Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Karnataka state of India.

Natasha Dillon

Chief People Officer

Natasha is responsible for creating and implementing Inmarsat’s people strategy, including developing excellent leadership, building an effective and capable organisation, delivering a compelling employee value proposition for its people and driving strong performance.

Alison Horrocks

Chief Corporate Affairs Officer and Company Secretary

Alison is responsible for Group wide risk, compliance and corporate governance. She acts as Company Secretary to the Board and its Committees. She is a member of the Executive Management Team and Chairman of the Trustee Company for the Inmarsat UK pension plans. Alison manages the teams in India, China and Russia and also the corporate marketing and communications team.

Andrew Sukawaty

Chairman

Barry French

Chief Marketing & Communications Officer

Barry French's LinkedIn

As Nokia’s Chief Marketing Officer, Barry has responsibility for all marketing, communications, government relations, industry analyst relations, and corporate affairs, as well as employee health, safety and security. He joined Nokia in 2006 and played key roles in the creation of Nokia Siemens Networks, its dramatic turnaround starting in 2011, the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, the revitalization of the Nokia brand, and the development of a high-performance culture and operating model in Nokia. Since taking responsibility for the Nokia brand in 2014, Barry has driven its transformation from an ailing mobile phone brand to a recognized innovation leader in the technologies that enable our connected lives.

Barry started his career in the world of political consulting, working with clients in the United States and in more than a dozen other countries who were seeking elected office or working to build support for significant policy initiatives, such as privatization and land reform.

During his career, he has worked at companies including the Sawyer/Miller Group, Dell, Raytheon, United Airlines - and even the CIA. He holds a master’s degree in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs in New York.

CORE EXECUTIVE COMPETENCIES include:

☆ Global Corporate Communications

☆ Board Governance

☆ Marketing Transformation

☆ Brand Management

☆ Demand Generation

☆ M&A Execution & Turnarounds

☆ Corporate Affairs & Crisis Management

☆ Employee Engagement

☆ Global Leadership & Alignment

Fredrik Gustavsson

Chief Strategy Officer

Fredrik was appointed as Inmarsat’s Chief Strategy Officer in June 2021, reporting to the company’s CEO, Rajeev Suri. A highly accomplished Strategy and Corporate Development Director, he has a proven track record of delivering substantial added shareholder value for companies across a range of industry sectors with a core focus on aviation and transport.

Prior to joining Inmarsat, Fredrik was a UK-based managing director of Teneo, the global CEO advisory firm and, from 2012-2019, was Head of Strategy and M&A at easyJet.

At easyJet, he was responsible to the Management Board across a broad strategy agenda and M&A execution, which included the acquisition of parts of Air Berlin, securing key airport slots for the multinational airline group and the company’s investment in the travel search engine DoHop.

Fredrik was also a Vice President of Investment Banking in the UK at Credit Suisse, the leading global investment bank, from 2006-2012. As a senior member of the team that applied Credit Suisse’s proprietary HOLT valuation framework, he helped to deepen client relationships through strategic and valuation advisory services across M&A and equity capital markets transactions.

From 2003-2006, he was a corporate finance and strategy specialist at McKinsey & Co in London.

Fredrik has an MSc in both Electrical Engineering and Financial Economics.

Jason Smith

COO

Jason Smith's LinkedIn

Jason Thomas Smith (born June 16, 1980) is an American businessman and politician who is the U.S. Representative for Missouri's 8th congressional district, serving since 2013. The district comprises 30 counties, covering just under 20,000 square miles of southeastern and southern Missouri.

Peter Hadinger

Chief Technology Officer

Peter became CTO in 2018. He leads the engineering teams responsible for delivering Inmarsat’s future satellites, network infrastructure, terminal technologies and spectrum resources. CTO delivers the differentiated and reliable global communications capabilities that make a difference in the lives of customers and ensure that Inmarsat remains a leader in enabling the connected world.

Stephen Davidson

Board Member

Tony Bates

Chief Financial Officer

Tony Bates's LinkedIn

Tony is responsible for the financial management of the Group including planning, control, capital structure and investor relations, the provision of financial and commercial support to decision makers across the Group, and a financial operations service.

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Name & TitleBio
Andrew Sukawaty

Chairman

Stephen Davidson

Board Member

Janice Obuchowski

Board Member

Rupert Pearce

Board Member

Rupert Pearce's LinkedIn

Rupert Edward Pearce (born March 1964) is a British lawyer and was formerly the chief executive of the satellite communication company Inmarsat.

Inmarsat leadership demographics

Inmarsat gender distribution in management team

  • The Inmarsat executive team is 38% female and 63% male.
  • Inmarsat is 38% female and 62% male company-wide.
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Male
63%
Company-wide: 62%
Female
Female
38%
Company-wide: 38%

Inmarsat executives by race

Management Team:
  • The most common ethnicity among Inmarsat executive officers is White.
  • 54% of the management team is White.
  • 16% of Inmarsat's management is Hispanic or Latino.
  • 15% of the management team is Asian.
Company-wide:
  • White is the most common ethnicity company-wide.
  • 53% of employees are White.
  • 17% of employees are Black or African American.
  • 16% of employees are Hispanic or Latino.
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