David Williams

David was the co-founder and CEO of Avanti, a start-up company which pioneered the use of Ka band satcoms to deploy a fleet of four high throughput geostationary telecom satellites serving EMEA. The company counted the British Government as its largest customer, for very high resilience, high security communications services. David served as Founder Chairman of the Advisory Board of Seraphim Space Ventures, a $100m high technology venture capital firm based in London, a project which he initiated UK Government support in 2014. Prior to this David was an investment banker, financing international telecoms businesses. David has a BA Hons Degree in Economics and Politics from the University of Leeds. David was granted the Queens Award for Export in 2015 and Quoted Company Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2006.