Adrián Steckel

CEO
OneWeb

Speaker: Keynote: SoftBank Managing Director Alex Clavel & OneWeb CEO Adrián Steckel

Adrian Steckel is the Chief Executive Officer at OneWeb, where he is responsible for overseeing the company's growth, long-term strategic development, fundraising, and commercial success.

Adrian brings extensive experience and passion for enabling connectivity across the globe to OneWeb. Since 1999, he has been building companies from the ground up and working to enable voice and data communications in countries around the world.

Adrian was the CEO of lusacell, a very successful mobile carrier in Mexico, which he sold to AT&T in 2015. He also led the buildout and operations of the fiber backbones in both Colombia and Peru in cooperation with their respective governments and during his time as CFO at TV Azteca, he took the company public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).

In addition, Adrian founded and built a cell phone company, Unefon, garnering 1.4 million subscribers and more than US$100 million EBITA annually. He also served as an investment banker at Dillon, Read & Co. Adrian holds a BA in History from Yale University.