SYDNEY, March 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading global
communications infrastructure provider BAI Communications (BAI)
today announced its appointment of Andrew
McGrath to the position of global chief commercial officer
(CCO).
McGrath will be responsible for leading the delivery of BAI's
global commercial strategy, focusing on enhancing the company's
go-to-market approach across all its markets. Drawing on his
extensive experience in both telecommunications and infrastructure,
he will work with the team at both a global and market level to
deepen the engagement with industry and partners to define
solutions and models that will help accelerate both innovation and
sales with BAI's end customers. This role sits at the heart of
BAI's ambitious growth strategy as the business looks to
aggressively scale its solutions and operations over the next four
years, particularly across its existing geographies: Europe, North
America, and Australia.
Widely respected across the industry, McGrath brings over 30
years of experience and commercial acumen in designing and leading
sophisticated engagement programmes that bring industry partners
and peers together to jointly invest in mutually beneficial
communication infrastructure projects. He joins BAI following eight
years at Vodafone where he held the role of senior vice president
for Vodafone Carrier Services with responsibilities including
global sales and international business development. This follows
other executive level roles at Virgin Media, Verizon, and Cable
Wireless.
Commenting on his appointment, McGrath said, "BAI is a business
unlike any other. Its strong credibility in delivering large scale
connected public infrastructure projects stems from its unique
combination of deep engineering expertise and unrelenting drive for
innovation."
He added, "BAI is at an important stage in its lifecycle and the
opportunity that lays ahead is very exciting. BAI has clearly
defined neutral host and private network offerings that are
generating extremely strong interest from municipalities and mobile
network operators alike. This positions it perfectly to capitalise
on the fast-growing commercial opportunity and interest in evolving
the way connectivity is delivered at scale across our cities. I am
delighted to get the opportunity to join the company and its strong
leadership team and play a key role in helping to drive forward its
ambitious growth strategy."
Discussing McGrath's appointment, Group CEO, Igor Leprince, said: "We very much look forward
to welcoming Andrew to the team. Andrew's ability to identify new
market opportunities and gain stakeholder support right across our
broader industry, demonstrates a unique combination of relationship
skills and commercial acumen. This, alongside his skill in
advancing innovation, will make him a great asset to the BAI's
evolving business and transformative developments in the 5G and
neutral host space."
Based in London, McGrath will
commence his role on 3 May 2021
joining BAI's executive team and reporting to Group CEO,
Igor Leprince.
About BAI Communications
BAI Communications designs, builds, and operates cellular,
Wi-Fi, broadcast, radio, and IP networks around the world. We
are engineering experts and technology innovators with proven
experience in delivering the next wave of connectivity solutions
through long-term partnerships with broadcasters, transit
operators, governments, and MNOs. As a leading communications
infrastructure provider, BAI's neutral host solutions connect
people, enrich communities and advance economies. Our global
operations span Australia,
Canada, United Kingdom, Hong
Kong and the US, where we have a majority stake
in Transit Wireless.
For more information contact
Head of Marketing & Communications Sarah Roberts
P +61 2 8113 4739 | M +61 434 752 233 | E
Sarah.Roberts@baicommunications.com
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