OUR TEAM

Ramu Potarazu

CEO

Ramu Potarazu is Chief Executive Officer of Lynk.

A tenured leader in the satellite industry, Ramu leads Lynk’s strategic commercial and capital market transactions. Widely recognized for creating shareholder value, he has served as CEO of EditShare and Binary Fountain. He is also the founder and former CEO of Vubiquity, now an Amdocs company (NASDAQ: DOX).

Before founding Vubiquity, Ramu spent 15 years in various leadership roles at Intelsat (1991–2006). He served as Intelsat’s Vice President of Operations and CIO in 1996, then became Vice President of Commercial Restructuring in 2000. In 2001, he was appointed President of Intelsat Global Service Corporation and served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Intelsat Ltd. from 2002 to 2006. During his tenure at Intelsat, the company grew substantially, expanding its global footprint and strengthening its market share.

Ramu holds a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics from Oklahoma Christian University, an MSc in Electrical Engineering from Johns Hopkins University, and is an alumnus of the Stanford Executive Program. He is a member of the Remuneration Committee of SES and serves on Lynk’s Board of Directors.

Steven Fay

CFO

Steven Fay is Chief Financial Officer of Lynk.

With two decades of experience as a strategic financial and operational executive, Steven has an extensive track record in business formation, fundraising, corporate finance, strategic development, business planning, and mergers and acquisitions.

Before joining Lynk, Steven served as SVP/Deputy CFO and a founding executive member of OneWeb, where he led the company’s formation and initial operations, raised equity and debt financing from strategic blue-chip investors, completed a joint venture with Airbus to enable high-volume, low-cost satellite manufacturing, and served on the Board of all OneWeb international subsidiaries. Before OneWeb, he led finance and operations teams at Sirius XM and Google.

Steven holds an MBA from The George Washington University School of Business and a BA from Dickinson College. He serves on Lynk’s Board of Directors.

Daniel P. Dooley III

CCO

Dan Dooley is CCO of Lynk.

Dan has three decades of experience as an executive in the global communications industry, building and managing teams that consistently achieve above industry standards in EBITDA and revenue. As Chief Commercial Officer (CCO), Dan oversees Lynk’s commercial strategy activities. Since joining Lynk in 2021 as CCO, he has developed and expanded the company’s strategic partnerships with Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) worldwide. 

He spent the bulk of his career at Sprint/Nextel as President leading their Wholesale, Wireline and International Business Units. Dan served 5 years as CRO of TOMIA – A Vista Equity Partner Company and earlier spent 2 years founding TruMobility, a USA-based MVNO. He also served as President and General Manager of Transaction Network Services leading their Telecommunications Service Division focused on Roaming.

Over the past two decades, Dan has been widely recognized for his industry leadership including being ranked #26 in the Global Telecom Business Magazine Power 100 list of the most influential global telecom executives. Dan received his MBA from Fairleigh Dickinson University and BS from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University in Bloomington IN.

Tyghe Speidel

Co-Founder and CTO

Tyghe Speidel is the Co-founder and CTO at Lynk. Tyghe manages and coordinates Lynk’s technology development activities, and coordinates internal engineering resources and priorities. Prior to Lynk, Tyghe was the Principal Spacecraft Systems Engineer at NexGen Space where he was responsible for system design and technology application on NexGen Space technical projects. Tyghe also worked as a Management Consultant for Accenture developing supply chain analytics and simulation capabilities for the DoD. While at Accenture, Tyghe founded and was the global lead for Accenture’s commercial space community of practice, which he created to develop a portfolio of projects and clients for the firm in the commercial space sector. Tyghe gained his experience in orbital mechanics, satellite navigation and control, and spacecraft systems design as a mechanical engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory working on terrestrial satellites and a Mars rover. He holds a BS and M. Eng in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Cornell University.

Geoff Willard

CLO / GC

Geoff Willard is Chief Legal Officer/GC of Lynk.

Geoff is the Chief Legal Officer and General Counsel at Lynk, where he leads the legal function and supports all aspects of the business.

Over his career, he has been a partner at Goodwin, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, and Cooley LLP, respectively. In these roles, Geoff has represented fast-growing companies and their investors in growth equity and venture capital financings and other offerings of equity and debt securities, mergers and acquisitions, buy-outs, strategic alliances and joint ventures, and various other transactional matters. He provided counsel on corporate governance, intellectual property, employment, general corporate, and other issues to my clients’ boards, managers, and founders.

Geoff has worked with startups and market leaders in the telecom (messaging, wireless, satellite, landline, terrestrial data), edge data center, software (principally SaaS and enterprise software), e-commerce, clean-tech, proptech, retail, education, edtech, fintech companies; digital and print media companies, as well as both innovative biotech companies and healthcare technology, equipment, and service providers.