Peter Girvan is Vice President, Asia-Pacific at Viasat. He is responsible for building Viasat’s presence and business regionally across the Commercial and Defence markets, as well as working with partners and prospects in preparation for the launch of the ViaSat-3 satellite platform in the region.

Peter has 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry with senior management and engineering roles at nbn, Nortel Networks, Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent.

During his tenure at nbn, Peter led the integration and validation efforts for all new Network and IT Operational Support System (OSS) capabilities before deployment to the national broadband network and was a member of the CTO and Engineering Senior Leadership teams. At Nortel Networks, Peter was directing the team that successfully rolled out the Telstra CDMA network and served as a member of the Asia-Pacific Operations Senior Management Team managing the Asia-Pacific Technical Support team.

Peter has degrees in Engineering and Business from Monash University (Caulfield) and an MBA from Latrobe University. He has lived and worked in Australia, USA, Thailand, Singapore and Hong Kong.