Sandro Barros

Director, Global Aero Sales in SES

Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

About

• Manager/Sales/Technical Profile with over 25 years experience over Telecommunications & Satellite Network Projects, working at Satellite Equipment Manufacturers , Satellite Service Providers and as a Satellite Operator. • Very Successful Sales History including several international awards. • Career started as R&D being continually promoted over Technical Support Engineer, System Engineer, Operations Manager, Post Sales Manager, Pre Sales Manager, Sales Manager, Sales Director, General Manager, Regional Director and Global Director Positions. • Telecommunications Engineering Graduated (PUC Rio University), MBA in Corporate Finance, Certified at Several Satellite Technical & Commercial Training Programs.

Experience

  • SES Satellites (9 yrs 1 mo)
    • Director, Global Aero Sales
      Jan 2023 - Present · 3 yrs 6 mos

      Commercializing SES Unmatched Multi-Orbit Global Aero Network More details on https://www.ses.com/find-service/commercial-aviation

    • Director, O3b mPOWER Global Commercial Development
      Apr 2020 - Jul 2023 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Building on the proven commercial success of our first-generation Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellite constellation, O3b mPOWER provides unprecedented system flexibility, performance, and scale to extend new, bandwidth-intensive network services and applications—and exponentially more opportunities—to under-served markets. System-wide innovations provide multi-gigabit links for the delivery of high-bandwidth services anywhere, so you can offer differentiated services at cloud scale, optimise network performance, and lower the total cost of ownership per unit of capacity. More details: https://www.ses.com/networks/networks-and-platforms/o3b-mpower

    • Regional Director, Brazil & Southern Cone
      Jun 2017 - Apr 2020 · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Responsible for Fixed Data Opportunities in Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay SES Networks ( https://www.ses.com/networks)

  • General Director, Brazil at O3b Networks
    2014 - 2017 · 3 yrs

    O3b Networks (http://www.o3bnetworks.com) - “Fiber Speed, Satellite Reach” O3b's next-generation network combines the reach of satellite with the speed of fiber, providing customers with affordable, low latency (roundtrip satellite latency of less then 150msec) and high bandwidth connectivity (up to 1.2 Gbps per satellite beam) over multiple MEO satellite steerable beams that can be placed anywhere 45 degrees North/South of the Equator

  • Gilat Brasil (Subsidiary in Brazil of Gilat Satellite Networks) (10 yrs 1 mo)
    • General Manager
      2008 - 2014 · 6 yrs

    • Sales Director
      2007 - 2008 · 1 yr

    • Sales Manager
      2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs

  • Pre-Sales and Post Sales Manager at Telespazio Brazil
    2001 - 2004 · 3 yrs

  • Sales Engineer at Gilat Brasil (Subsidiary in Brazil of Gilat Satellite Networks)
    2000 - 2001 · 1 yr