Mobile Satellite
Ventures Appoints Gary Sharpe Vice President, Investor Relations and Corporate
Communications
(21 June 2007) Mobile Satellite
Ventures LP (MSV) announced today that Gary Sharpe, with more than 25 years of
experience in financial and corporate communications and media, has joined the
company as Vice President for Investor Relations and Corporate
Communications.
"Gary's extensive experience in global
institutional investor targeting, capital-markets transactions, and corporate
communications and governance will help us increase awareness of the company
with key audiences at this important juncture in MSV's development," said Scott
Macleod, MSV Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.
Mr.
Sharpe has served as corporate officer or consultant for investor relations and
strategic communications at companies in the telecommunications, energy,
biotechnology, manufacturing and financial services industries in a career that
began in 1982. From 1997 to 2000, he led investor relations at Comsat
Corporation, which was the largest investor in satellite consortia Intelsat,
Inmarsat and New Skies. He also has directed communications in 15 capital
markets transactions valued at more than US$ 4 billion.
Mr. Sharpe
earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Washington, and has completed
graduate studies in finance and accounting at the University of
Pennsylvania-Wharton School, as well as course work toward the Chartered
Financial Analyst credential through the CFA Institute. He is a past president
and/or director of National Investor Relations Institute chapters in Seattle,
Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.
About Mobile Satellite Ventures and
SkyTerra Communications, Inc.
MSV's MSAT-1 and MSAT-2 satellites deliver
mobile wireless voice and data services to primarily for public safety,
security, fleet management and asset tracking in the U.S. and Canada. MSV is
developing a hybrid satellite-terrestrial communications network, which it
expects will provide seamless, transparent and ubiquitous wireless coverage of
the United States and Canada to conventional handsets. MSV holds the first FCC
license to provide hybrid satellite-terrestrial services. MSV plans to launch
two satellites for coverage of the United States and Canada, which are expected
to be among the largest and most powerful commercial satellites ever built.
When completed, the network is expected to support communications in a variety
of areas including public safety, homeland security, aviation, transportation
and entertainment, by providing a platform for interoperable, user-friendly and
feature-rich voice and high-speed data services. MSV is majority owned and
controlled by SkyTerra Communications, Inc.
(source: Mobile Satellite
Ventures)