Andrew Sukawaty

Andy is a Co-founder and Investment Committee member of Corten Capital. He is also the Chairman of Inmarsat, having previously served as its CEO and Chairman between 2003 and 2012. He led the company through its privatisation and subsequent listing on the London Stock Exchange, and more recently led its delisting in a take private completed in 2019. Andy has worked with fellow Corten founders, Joseph Schull and Simon Begg, since 2006 when he joined the Board of Ziggo, the leading Dutch broadband services provider. As Chairman of Ziggo, Andy led the company through seven years of rapid growth and value creation, culminating in a highly successful IPO on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange of Warburg Pincus’ most successful investment to date in Europe.

A renowned entrepreneurial business builder, Andy is a pioneer in communications services who has been backed by some of the world’s leading private equity firms and led the IPOs of three PE-backed businesses. He was involved in launching some of the first US mobile phone systems and then crossed the Atlantic to start a UK mobile operator (which became T-Mobile UK). He went on to run NTL in the UK and later returned to the US to start up the US national mobile phone operator, Sprint PCS. Andy was Senior Independent Director at Sky and is a current board member of RELX.

Andy is a graduate of the University of Minnesota (MBA) and the University of Wisconsin (BBA).