Company · Telecommunications · Media
Global Eagle Entertainment
Company with a satellite-based connectivity platform plus content, digital media and operations solutions products. In 2016 it agreed to acquire Emerging Markets Communications for $550 million in cash and shares.
Of the 1 person here linked to Global Eagle Entertainment, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
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1 person at Global Eagle Entertainment
Joined by acquisition Past
Role
President and chief strategy officer (expected, on the EMC acquisition), 2016
Source
· medium confidence. The source says he was expected to take this role when the deal closed. No source opened this session confirms the start or end of the tenure.
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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