Skylo Announces New Go-to-Market Team Amid Rapid ‘Direct-to-Device’ Service Growth
11 Julio 2024 - 7:00AM
Business Wire
Paul Hanton from Google joins as VP of Carrier
Partnerships
Pete Saladino from Samsung Mobile joins as
Global Head of Marketing
Vijay Krishnan from Intel joins as VP of
Strategic Partnerships
Skylo Technologies, the pioneer in ‘direct-to-device’
non-terrestrial network (NTN) communications, has brought on three
key leaders to help scale industry engagement amid rapid growth.
Following the launch of direct-to-device service in North America
and winning Best Non-Terrestrial Network solution at Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona this February, the company is quickly
expanding its market presence to allow for millions of devices to
access this complementary network for mobile operators.
Paul Hanton has been named as the company’s first VP of Carrier
Partnerships, Pete Saladino joined as the company’s first Global
Head of Marketing, and Vijay Krishnan has joined as VP of Strategic
Partnerships to lead business development efforts with chipset and
device partners.
“Skylo is bringing together the entire industry from world-class
smartphone and IoT chipset providers to the top mobile network
operators to harness the incredible power of standards-based NTN.
Our direct-to-device service is built upon 90+ patents beyond the
standards, enabling the mobile ecosystem to easily plug in and
provide expansive satellite connectivity to their customers with
scale, efficiency, and reliability,” said Parth Trivedi, CEO and
Co-Founder of Skylo Technologies. “Satellite connectivity
investments are no longer niche decisions for carriers, with most
major modems certified by Skylo, and Android having incorporated
satellite into its latest release. Both OEMs and carriers alike are
looking to Skylo for ways to deploy direct-to-device across their
subscribers, and our exceptional GTM team will help ensure that our
customers can quickly take advantage of this new capability.”
Prior to joining Skylo, Paul Hanton was at Google leading
Carrier partnerships in the Americas, responsible for the
commercial introduction and launch of Google’s Pixel devices. At
Skylo, Paul will help mobile operators provide deeper and broader
customer solutions, minimizing the need for their capex or spectrum
investments, and providing complementary services from their
current SIM. Pete Saladino spent 13 years at Samsung Mobile where
he led carrier marketing and national promotions for the Galaxy
brand in the US. Pete will manage the go-to-market process as well
as brand strategy and execution. Vijay Krishnan comes to Skylo
following a distinguished career at Intel Corporation where he led
multiple lines of business as GM and P/L owner. Vijay will lead
Skylo’s efforts to integrate with a broad ecosystem of chipsets,
components, and devices.
Mobile network operators can reach Paul at
paul.hanton@skylo.tech. Global chipset designers and manufacturers
can reach Vijay at vkrishnan@skylo.tech. Interested marketing
partners can reach Pete at pete@skylo.tech.
About Skylo Technologies
Skylo Technologies is a global Non-Terrestrial Network service
provider based in Mountain View, CA, offering a service that allows
smartphone and IoT cellular devices to connect directly over
existing satellites. Skylo’s direct-to-device service is now live
across four continents, with more than 50 million square kilometers
of coverage, in partnership with multiple satellite operators,
mobile network operators (MNOs), Tier-1 chipset makers, and OEMs.
Devices connected over satellite are managed and served by Skylo's
commercial NTN vRAN, featuring a 3GPP standards-based cloud-native
base station and core. Skylo works with existing satellite
operators, network operators, and device makers to provide
subscribers an anywhere, anytime connectivity solution that
seamlessly roams between terrestrial and satellite networks.
Skylo's focus is on enabling connected services for people outdoors
and connected workflows across three main verticals: Industrial
IoT, automotive, and mass-market consumer devices.
For more information, visit www.skylo.tech, contact
info@skylo.tech, or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.
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