Kacific Appoints General Manager and VP-Sales and Marketing

Singapore, January 30, 2014-- Start-up satellite operator Kacific Broadband Satellite announced the appoinments of Jacques-Samuel Prolon as General Manager and Eley Querner as Vice President, Sales and Marketing.

Jacques-Samuel has over 15 years’ experience in senior telecommunications and IT roles. Before joining Kacific he spent a decade working for language technology solutions, Appen Butler Hill, helping take it from startup to a global leadership position. As Senior Vice President Operations, he led project teams in North and South America, Europe, Asia and Australasia. Prior to that he worked for Altran Europe, providing project management and infrastructure optimisation services to Philips, Solvay Group, BASE, Sud Presse and British Telecom.

Jacques-Samuel holds an eMBA from the AGSM and two master degrees, including a telecommunications engineering degree from a French grande ecole, Telecom Sud Paris.

Based in Singapore, Eley is responsible for business development and sales of Kacific’s broadband capacity to telecommunications operators, ISPs, government and multinational agencies and large enterprises.  Eley will work closely with governments, network operators and other significant stakeholders to provide large scale satellite-based solutions to improve broadband access. 

Eley has over 20 years’ experience in telecommunications, much with Alcatel, later Alcatel-Lucent. Working in France, Germany, China, Singapore and Indonesia, mostly in regional positions, she held senior roles in business development, presales, sales, contract and bid management. She has spent the last two years consulting to technology companies and assisting them to develop their sales and go to market strategies in Asia-Pacific.

Eley holds MSc and BS Degrees in Computer Engineering from Middle East Technical University, Turkey.

Last month Kacific announced plans to launch a Ka Band High Throughput Satellite to provide enhanced broadband to 40 million people in the Pacific including the Pacific Islands, New Zealand, eastern Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.