Chris Ivory, brings over 32 years of senior-level experience in the satellite and telecommunications industry, more than half of which has been working directly with Abel Avellan, AST SpaceMobile Founder and CEO. He has been with AST for 6 years building and leading Commercial operations, relationships with MNO’s, revenue generation,  government affairs and is the CEO of AST’s government business AST SpaceMobile Defense. Before AST, he was executive vice president and GM of commercial solutions for Globecomm where he served as business unit leader for satellite services across all commercial vertical market segments.

Prior, Ivory served as vice president of land solutions for Global Eagle and senior vice president of government, enterprise and channel partners for EMC. He also held leadership positions with several other telecom companies in the U.S., Mexico and Argentina.