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Guru Gowrappan left the President role by mutual agreement on January 22, 2025 while Craig Miller became Senior Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Viasat reaffirmed its fiscal 2025 targets on January 22, 2025 and on January 21, 2025 won a 4.82 billion USD NASA Near Space Network contract.
Master of the Leadership Shuffle and the Swiss Army knife of satellite communications
Viasat, a company so innovative it’s reimagined leadership roles as musical chairs and satellites as modern-day space therapists. The latest news? Guru Gowrappan, President for just under a year, is exiting stage left, but not before the obligatory “mutual agreement” send-off.
Apparently, his mission to integrate the $7.3 billion Inmarsat acquisition has wrapped up nicely, or at least nicely enough to hand him a gold watch and a LinkedIn endorsement. Gowrappan will stick around in an “advisory role” until April. Translation: he’ll be CC’d on a few emails while polishing his resume.
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