Jim Frownfelter

Chairman

Richard Sanders

Director

Richard is a partner at Permira, a global private equity firm that advises funds with a committed capital of approximately €20 billion.

Richard is Co-Head of the TMT Sector and is currently responsible for building Permira’s technology efforts globally.  He has worked on a number of transactions at Permira including Asia Broadcast Satellite, Freescale Semiconductor, Inmarsat, Intelsat, NDS and Wireless Information Network.

Prior to joining Permira, Richard worked for Morgan Stanley in London in the M&A and High Yield Capital Markets divisions.

Richard has a degree in Classics from Oxford University, England, and an MBA from Stanford Business School, USA, and is a Fulbright Scholar.

Nic Volpi

Director

Nic is a principal at Permira, a global private equity firm that advises funds with a committed capital of approximately €20 billion.

Nic has worked on a number of transactions including Asia Broadcast Satellite, Aearo Technologies, Freescale Semiconductor and Intelsat at Permira. He is a member of the Financing Group and TMT group within Permira.

Prior to joining Permira in 2004, Nic spent four years at Brera Capital Partners where he worked on middle-market buy-outs. Prior to that, he worked at Index Securities in Geneva and spent three years in the Financial Institutions Group at Merrill Lynch in New York.

Nic has a degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, USA, an MBA from Stanford University, USA and lived in Japan for over 17 years.

Alex Emery

Director

Alex is a partner and Co-Head of Asia at Permira, a global private equity firm that advises funds with a committed capital of approximately €20 billion.

He has worked on a number of transactions at Permira including Arysta LifeScience, Cortefiel, DinoSol Supermercados, Galaxy Entertainment Group, Holmes Place and New Look.

Prior to joining Permira, Alex spent five years at McKinsey & Company in London. He was previously a Business Analyst for Braxton Associates and began his career at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Osaka, Japan, where he worked with French companies seeking to enter the Japanese market.

Alex has degrees in Political Science from Yale University, USA, and in European Politics from the College of Europe, Belgium. He also has an MBA from Kellogg Business School, USA.

Thomas Choi

Director

Thomas Choi is a satellite entrepreneur with over 18 years of experience in the Satellite and Aerospace industry. He is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Asia Broadcast Satellite Limited (ABS). Prior to ABS, Tom founded Speedcast, a valued added satellite service company that is a joint venture between AsiaSat. He spent more than five years as a business development executive at Hughes Communications International, and served as a technical staff member at Rockwell International. He has a MBA and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering both from the University of Southern California.

Robert Wardrop

Director

Bob is Co-CEO of Belvall Capital SA a Luxembourg-based specialty finance business providing debt financing to European mid-sized companies.

Mr. Wardrop, started his career in Brand Management with Procter & Gamble Canada in 1979. From 1982 to 1991 he was the founder and CEO of Digital Media Networks, a Canadian company that provided satellite data services to retailers across the US and Canada. After moving to Europe in 1991 he spent the next eight years leading business development and project finance assignments on behalf of European companies engaged in satellite-related projects. From 2000 to 2009 he was Managing Director of Anschutz Investment Company overseeing private equity investments in Europe.

Bob is a Canadian with a Bachelor of Commerce (Honors) degree from Queen’s University in Canada, and an MBA from the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago.

Willy Chow

Director

Willy Chow joined ABS as the CFO since the inception of the company in Oct 2006. Willy has over 16 years of finance and strategy experience in the IT & telecommunication industry across Asia Pacific. Prior to joining ABS, Mr. Chow was the Senior Director, Strategic Investments for Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) and served as a Director of the Board and Executive Vice President, Corporate Development for Speedcast.

Willy is a CFA charter holder and holds a MBA from the University of London and a BSc degree in Electrical Engineering, University of Toronto.

Louise Park

Director

Louise is the Managing Director of Citco (Bermuda) Limited.    Louise worked in a company secretarial role for several large multinational companies in London before joining Citco in Cayman in 2007; she took over responsibility for the Bermuda operation in June 2008.

Louise is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators and graduated from Nottingham Law School with a LLB in Law.