Senior Management
Ronny Svang
President & CEO / CFO

Ronny joined Satlynx in 2007 as VP Finance & CFO following the acquisition by GE. He graduated from the Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration in 1995 and has since held various management and finance positions. Throughout his finance career Ronny has been involved in building businesses through organic growth and acquisitions. He has also championed and led significant restructuring and integration projects.

Previous roles include: Controller, Europe & International Marketing & Sales (Nycomed), Business Support Manager (Nycomed), Finance Manager, Global Logistics (Nycomed-Amersham), Finance Director, Imanet (Amersham), Managing Director, Malmoe R&D (GE Healthcare) and Vice President Finance, R&D (GE Healthcare).

 

Christian Stetter
VP Sales

Christian joined Satlynx in June 2000 and is responsible for all sales activities. He graduated from the University of Hannover in Economics and has since held various senior sales and marketing roles in the European telecommunications industry including mobile, terrestrial and satellite.

Previous roles include Account Manager (Proficom), Marketing Director (Martin Dawes Telecommunications Deutschland – Cellway), independent consultant (Mobistar), VP Sales and Marketing (Global One).

 

Andy Frost
VP Marketing & Business Development

Andy is responsible for Marketing & Business Development in Satlynx. He graduated from the University of Hertfordshire in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and has spent most of his career in product management and marketing. He is a member of the IET and a Chartered Engineer.

Former responsibilities include Group Product Manager, Internet for Business (BT Internet & Multimedia), Head of Product Management, Broadband (BT Openworld), Director Products & Services (World Online), Head of Consumer Division (Tiscali UK), VP Access & Value Added Services (Tiscali SpA).

 

Matthias Riede
VP Operations & Engineering

Matthias is responsible for all technical operations and engineering at Satlynx's network operational centre and teleports in Backnang Germany and Leuk, Switzerland. Matthias holds a Diploma and Doctorate in Telecommunications from the University of Stuttgart and is a member of the VDE, ITG and IEEE.

Previously, he has lectured at the University of Stuttgart and held responsibilities of Head of Network Operations (Bosch GmbH), Managing Director (Bosch Telecom Ltda. Sao Paulo), Managing Director (Gilat Europe GmbH).

 

Sonja Kreiner
Senior Manager HR

Sonja joined Satlynx in March 2008 and heads the Human Resources department. In addition she supports business growth strategies by driving global organization and staffing plans and talent development activities. Sonja started her HR career with IBM in 2000, before joining EON in 2001 and has held various international generalist and specialist HR roles over the past 7 years in Sweden, Bulgaria and Germany.

Sonja holds an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management in the Netherlands and a BA in Business Administration from the University of Cooperative Education Villingen-Schwenningen in Germany. .

 

Marc Buschta
Head of Leuk Teleport

Marc joined Satlynx in January 2008 and is responsible for the teleport in Leuk, Switzerland. Marc holds a Diploma in Electronic Engineering, majoring in Telecommunications and Information Technology from the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (1986) and is an Industrial Engineer graduate majoring in Marketing & Sales form the KS Kaderschule St. Gallen (1993).

Marc has many years experience in the IT industry and has worked in leading positions in the telecommunication industry since 1998. Previous roles include: Customer Service Engineer, Teamleader Technology & Capability Management, as well as Project Manager at Digital Equipment Corporation AG (Zurich); Operations Manager at MCI WorldCom AG (Zurich); Service Delivery Manager at COLT Telecom AG (Zurich).