NEWSAT HIRES FORMER UNWIRED LTD FOUNDER AS A DIRECTOR
December 23rd 2007 01:16
NewSat Ltd has appointed Chris North as non-executive director, and his extensive experience in developing technology companies such as Unwired Ltd is an excellent skill-set fit with the current NewSat board comprising John Walker chairman, Adrian Ballintine ceo, and Chuck Ellison.
Chris North co-founded Unwired Ltd in 1997, and was also the founder and managing director of Wattle Park Partners Pty Ltd, a Canberra-based consultancy that provides strategic, regulatory, economic and technical advice and services in all aspects of telecommunications and the media.
Over the past 15 years, North's company has undertaken projects for major telecommunications and broadcasting companies, governments and regulatory agencies in Australia, the US, Europe and Asia.
Prior to establishing Wattle Park Partners, North was a senior career executive with the Australian government for 25 years, holding key positions in a range of government departments and federal ministers' offices.
He was the chief-of-staff for two federal government ministers and a central player in the Australian reform of telecommunications and broadcasting regulation in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
NewSat recently landed a major Western Australian government and The Department for Communications, Information Technologies and the Arts contract for broadband services in the Kimberleys.
NewSat also has announced its submission to the Federal Government’s Regional Telecommunications Independent Review Committee for a dollar for dollar contribution to a private public partnership raising $400 million to launch a fully Australian-owned and operated geostationary communications satellite.
- From MediaBlab
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