Company · Telecommunications · founded 2000
Emerging Markets Communications
Provider of communications services to maritime and other mobility markets. Its founder, Abel Avellan, was its CEO when Global Eagle Entertainment agreed in 2016 to buy it for $550 million.
Of the 1 person here linked to Emerging Markets Communications, 1 is a founder and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: thedigitalship.com. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
1 person at Emerging Markets Communications
Founder Past
Role
Founder and CEO, 2000–2016
Source
· high confidence. The Digital Ship says EMC was founded in 2000 and calls Avellan its founder and CEO; the AST SpaceMobile Wikipedia page says he founded it in 1999. The 2016 end is the date of the Global Eagle deal announcement.
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Abel Avellan
Founder, chairman and CEO of AST SpaceMobile, which is building satellites meant to connect directly to ordinary phones; earlier founded the satellite services firm EMC and sold it for $550 million in 2016
Venezuelan-born engineer · some · college degree