Earlier this month, Viasat Inc. (NASDAQ: VSAT) expanded the firm's global leadership team with the addition of Jim Dodd, as President, Global Mobile Solutions; Peter Langkilde, as VP and Head of Broadband Services for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA); and Dr. Krishna Nathan, as chief information officer (CIO).
Rick Baldridge, President and COO at Viasat, said the company'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. Viasat is 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.
Jim will play a critical role in expanding opportunities and Viasat's customer base in domestic and international mobility markets, Peter will be responsible for growing the company's broadband services business throughout EMEA and Krishna will lead the firm's platform, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) deployment efforts across engineering, business and corporate segments.
With more than 30-years of aviation experience, Jim Dodd previously 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. He holds a BS in Physics from Arkansas State University and an MBA in Finance from Seattle University.
With 30-years of global mobile sector depth, Peter Langkilde formerly co-founded Virgin Mobile Middle-East and& Africa, Virgin Mobile Latin America as well as Virgin Mobile Central and 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.
With more than 25-years of next-generation IT expertise, Dr. Krishna Nathan joins Viasat as CIO. Prior to Viasat, Dr. 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. He holds holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from MIT and a Ph.D. in Engineering from Brown University.
