Adrián Steckel is a Mexican businessman, and was CEO of global internet satellite company, OneWeb.

Career

Mr. Steckel worked five years at TV Azteca where he was involved in programming production and managing the musical division of the company. He was

Chief Financial Officer The chief financial officer (CFO) is an officer of a company or organization that is assigned the primary responsibility for managing the company's finances, including financial planning, management of financial risks, record-keeping, and financ ...

for three years and took the company public on the

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. Mr. Steckel then moved on to become

Chief Executive Officer A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Unefón Unefon is a Mexican mobile telecommunications brand used by AT&T Mexico, a subsidiary of AT&T Inc., used for prepaid products. The company was partially owned by Grupo Salinas and Mexican media group Televisa, and its network was CDMA only, us ...

in 2000, a company that he built from scratch, garnering 1.4 million subscribers, and more than US$100 million in

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annually. In 2005,

TV Azteca TV Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V. is a Mexican multimedia conglomerate owned by Grupo Salinas. It is the second-largest mass media company in Mexico after Televisa. It primarily competes with Televisa as well as some local operators. It owns two national ...

(one of the two largest producers of Spanish-language television programming in the world) named Mr. Steckel as President and

CEO A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a central executive officer (CEO), chief administrator officer (CAO) or just chief executive (CE), is one of a number of corporate executives charged with the management of an organization especially ...

Azteca America Azteca is the Spanish word for Aztec. In English, Azteca or Aztecas may refer to: Animals * ''Azteca'' (ant), a genus of ants * Azteca horse, a breed of horse Games * Azteca, a world in the online game of ''Wizard101'' Sport * Aztecas de la UD ...

, the company's wholly owned broadcasting network focused on the U.S. Hispanic market. Mr. Steckel was the CEO of Iusacell, a mobile carrier company in Mexico, which he eventually sold to AT&T in 2015. Steckel previously served as the CEO of

OneWeb OneWeb (legally Network Access Associates Ltd) is a communications company that aims to build broadband satellite Internet services. The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in Virginia, US and a satellite manufacturing facility ...

, a global satellite-based communications company.

References

External links

Unefon's Website

TV Azteca's Website
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