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
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for three years and took the company public on the
New York Stock Exchange
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. Mr. Steckel then moved on to become
Chief Executive Officer
A chief executive officer (CEO), also known as a chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization.
CEOs find roles in variou ...
of
Unefón in 2000, a company that he built from scratch, garnering 1.4 million subscribers, and more than US$100 million in
EBITDA
A company's earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization (commonly abbreviated EBITDA, pronounced ) is a measure of a company's profitability of the operating business only, thus before any effects of indebtedness, state-mandat ...
annually.
In 2005,
TV Azteca
Televisión Azteca, S.A.B. de C.V., commonly known as TV Azteca, 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 so ...
(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 chief executive or managing director, is the top-ranking corporate officer charged with the management of an organization, usually a company or a nonprofit organization.
CEOs find roles in variou ...
of
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 U ...
, 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 Communications Ltd., doing business as Eutelsat OneWeb, is a subsidiary of the French group Eutelsat providing broadband satellite Internet services in low Earth orbit (LEO). The company is headquartered in London, and has offices in P ...
, a global satellite-based communications company.
References
External links
Unefon's WebsiteTV Azteca's Website
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
Mexican businesspeople
Mexican people of German descent
Mexican chief executives
Chief financial officers
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