
Rupert Pearce
Chief Executive Officer
Rupert has been Inmarsat’s Chief Executive Officer since January 2012. He joined Inmarsat in January 2005 and between then and 2011 he was General Counsel and Senior Vice President, Inmarsat Enterprises. Previously, Rupert was a partner in Atlas Venture, a leading transatlantic venture capital investment boutique, specialising in the IT, communications and biotech sectors. Before Atlas Venture, he was also a partner at the international law firm Linklaters, specialising in corporate finance, mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions. Rupert received an MA (First Class) in Modern History from Oxford University and won the 1995 Fullbright Fellowship in U.S. 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, and is the co-author of Raising Venture Capital (Wiley). Rupert is a Member of the Board of Directors of the EMEA Satellite Operators Association (ESOA); Commissioner on the Broadband Commission for Digital Development; and Member of the Steering Committee of the Smart Africa Initiative.