About us
Who we are
Rivada Space Networks international and diverse team of experts and engineers who have spent their careers expanding the boundaries and potential of space, now united in pursuit of a single vision. Our team is truly global, just like the constellation we are working to create. Our management team is located at Rivada Space Networks’ Munich Headquarters, and our secondary office in Berlin.
Rivada Space Networks was founded in 2022 by Declan Ganley, Chairman & CEO of Rivada Networks. While Rivada Networks focusses on terrestrial connectivity, Rivada Space Networks adds the satellite part to the business model.
To achieve our ambitious goals, we're currently growing our family and looking for talented and visionary people to join us.
What makes us different
Our mission, simply, is to democratize space.
Rivada Space Networks is not simply building a constellation for consumers. We are building a constellation for people with a vision. We will build the network – but it is up to you how it gets used.
Ours will be the world’s first truly wholesale space network: The wireless high-speed bandwidth we offer will be available to buy, and instantly use, by anybody with a dream to build, better, or expand their own business.
Our joint vision is not only to offer our connectivity services but also to create a carrier-independent wholesale market for wireless high-speed bandwidth where unused capacities can be offered and bought. This approach will lead on the one hand to a much better utilization of capacities, on the other hand it disrupts the current model where carriers buy the right to use wireless spectrum and then tell their customers how, when and where they can buy wireless services.
Our Goal
The network we build will be the world’s most secure: Our satellites will transmit your data through peer-to-peer orbital laser communications, removing the threat of ground-based interference from bad actors.
It will be amongst the world’s fastest: Capable of transmitting your data from pole to pole, hemisphere to hemisphere, in milliseconds.
It will be the world’s most accessible: We are not just building a network for ourselves, but a tool which will launch a thousand ideas, and businesses. A truly global, secure, intranet, enabling companies and governments and individuals to connect across the globe without ever touching the earth.
It will be the world’s most advanced: We are not designing this network simply for today, but for tomorrow, and all the tomorrows to come. At launch, it will be the most technologically advanced constellation of its kind. Our commitment is that it will remain so, serving the needs not just of today, but of those with the ideas that will power and inform our shared future.
Our team
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Declan Ganley
Chief Executive Officer
Declan is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Rivada Networks and Rivada Space.
Across three decades in business, Declan has pioneered technology in wireless communications and public safety, where he is the co-inventor of 48 patented technologies.
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Dr. Clemens Kaiser
Chief Program Officer
Dr. Clemens Kaiser brings along more than 20 years of experience in the space business. He worked in top-level management positions both at industry and in an intergovernmental organization.
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Ann Vandenbroucke
Chief Regulatory Officer
In her former roles, Ann was responsible for global market access and spectrum issues. She has in-depth experience of the workings of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and securing universal rights to offer satellite services.
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Diederik Kelder
Chief Strategy Officer
Diederik Kelder has over 25 years’ experience in the satellite communications industry, which includes working for a number of the most prominent satellite operators in the areas of strategic planning, commercial planning and business development.
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Bruno Bechard
Chief Technology Officer
Bruno Béchard joins Rivada from the Orange Group where he held a number of Network and IT infrastructure management positions for operations in France and EMEA. In particular, he was network engineering director for the launch of the Tunisian affiliate, CTO for the Reunion affiliate, IT director for EMEA and Director of IT architecture for the Orange Group.
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John Guiney
Chief Operating Officer
John Guiney has more than 40 years’ experience in mission-operations leadership in the space sector, including direct participation in mission readiness for more than 50 satellite launches. Prior to joining OneWeb, he has worked in mission readiness and operations for Orbital ATK, Iridium, Lockheed, GE and the US Air Force.
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Ramona Treder
Chief Human Resources Officer
Ramona Treder has been with Rivada Space Networks since its inception and has a proven track record in building and developing high performance teams in media and technology companies. Ramona will lead the strategic and operational development of the team including creating a strong business culture for the organization as it scales up rapidly to deploy the Outernet, a unique, next-generation satellite constellation.
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Ronald van der Breggen
Chief Commercial Officer
Ronald brings along more than 30 years of experience in the terrestrial data-networking and satellite industry where he worked in leading management positions. Additionally, he acted as a strategic advisor and the author of many opinion pieces.
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Melanie Dickie
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
Melanie Dickie has over 30 years’ experience developing and implementing marketing and communications strategy and outreach programs for the satellite and space sector. Melanie will lead the go-to-market and corporate communications programs and act as press spokesperson at Rivada Space Networks.
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David McGowan
Chief Financial Officer
David has over 20 years’ experience in the terrestrial wireless and broadband networking industry, including key roles with NII Holdings and the Digicel Group. He brings expertise in strategic planning and investment and rollout of triple play services to the company.
