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As President of Global Operations, Anthony Navarra has direct responsibility for managing our strategic relations with the independent gateway operators (IGOs) around the world. This role involves identifying new opportunities for additional gateways on the Globalstar system, developing opportunities for our acquisition of IGOs, and identifying the development of new IGO products that may be offered uniquely by the Globalstar network. Along with his additional staff responsibilities, Mr. Navarra is chiefly responsible for identifying and developing programs with various Government and Department of Defense (DoD) entities as well as the direct management of the legal & regulatory affairs functions for Globalstar. Mr. Navarra has been with Globalstar and its Predecessor since 1991. He served as Executive Vice President of Business Development until 1998 when he was appointed President. He has also been a director of Iloop Mobile, Inc., a mobile application software company, since September 2005.
Prior to joining the Globalstar project in 1991, Mr. Navarra was Vice President of both Engineering and Marketing at the Rolm Mil-Spec Computers division of Loral Corporation, where he was responsible for managing the product development of military computers, high-speed mass storage devices and satellite communications processors.
From 1984 to 1987, Mr. Navarra worked for TRW as business area director of Milstar satellite and terminal technologies. Prior to that, Mr. Navarra worked for Magnavox Research Laboratories and Government Electronics Company in developing, fielding and operating CDMA spread spectrum terminals on various DoD platforms.
Mr. Navarra holds a Bachelor of Science degree in physics from the University of San Francisco and a Master of Science degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California. He gained post-degree work experience in the theory of satellite communications while attending the U.S. Army Signal Corps at Ft. Monmouth, N.J. Mr. Navarra has continued post-graduate work at Stanford University in Business and Management. | 