MTN Appoints Santos Venegas to Head Oil and Gas Group

Miramar, Fla., January 15, 2014 – MTN Communications (MTN) announces Santos Venegas has joined the company as general manager for its Oil and Gas Division.  A 35-year industry veteran and respected consultant, Santos most recently served as managing director for Latin America at Harris CapRock. 

Prior to that role, he was director of Corporate Development at Harris CapRock.  Serving the company for 28 years, Santos held various roles growing the organization and managing business development, operations, special projects and service delivery.  Prior to Harris CapRock, Santos held various technical roles in the oil and gas sector at Bibbins & Rice and Brown & Root.  In his new position at MTN, he will take the division’s strategy forward, further strengthening its operations and services position in the market. 

MTN is a global provider of maritime communications and content services.  Since launching the first stabilized satellite antenna for ships at sea in the early 1980s, MTN has been pioneering remote connectivity technologies that become longstanding solutions.  Today, the company serves most of the world’s cruise lines, as well as hundreds of yachts, commercial ships, oil and gas vessels, and military aircraft, ships, vehicles and facilities.  MTN Nexus, the company’s next-generation communications ecosystem, is the first hybrid C-/Ku-band and broadband wireless network that is delivering content with land-like speeds to vessels at sea.