SpaceCom 2017

Rupert Pearce
Chief Executive Officer
Inmarsat


Rupert Pearce joined the board of Inmarsat plc as an executive director in July 2011 and became our Chief Executive Officer in January 2012. Rupert joined Inmarsat in January 2005 as Group General Counsel and, between 2009 and 2011, additionally held the position of Senior Vice President, Inmarsat Enterprises. Previously, he worked for Atlas Venture, a venture capital company, where he was a partner working with the firm’s European and US investment teams on investment, mergers and acquisitions, divestment and corporate finance transactions and was a member of the firm’s investment and exit committees. He was previously a partner at the international law firm Linklaters, where he spent 13 years specialising in corporate finance, M&A and private equity transactions. He received an MA (First Class) in modern history from Oxford University and won the 1995 Fulbright Fellowship in US securities law, studying at the Georgetown Law Center. He has been a visiting fellow of the Imperial College Business School, London, lecturing on the school’s entrepreneurship programme. He is the co-author of the book ‘Raising Venture Capital’.

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