Guy Joined Avanti in 2004 and is Chief of Operations, Avanti Communications Group plc and is responsible for all aspects of the operations and service delivery, including Satellite, Gateway Network and Customer operations centres. Guy was part of the team that specified the HYLAS spacecrafts and was responsible for the procurement of the HYLAS 1 ground segment and for the design of the real-time diversity switching gateways. Guy has led the team to establish a multi-vendor and flexible service platform including the development of Avanti’s own Operational Support System (OSS) software.
Before joining Avanti, Guy started in the satellite television business in 1986 working for NEC and then Amstrad, then for 10 years working at Eutelsat in Paris as Head of Network Development during which time he was heavily involved in the development of the two-way broadband services.