14 April 2021

Vikas Grover joins Avanti Communications Group as its new chief technology officer. Grover was recently the founding chief information officer (CI0) at OneWeb, where he led global networks, IT platforms and security. Prior to that, he was the CIO and executive vice president technology planning at Vodafone India.

Grover will succeed Scott Richardson, who will be leaving the company.  

Avanti chief executive officer Kyle Whitehill, said: “I am delighted to welcome Vikas to Avanti. Vikas is an accomplished Leader in the Telecoms field with a background including Mobile and Satellite organisations. He is also a highly regarded people leader and I have no doubt he will make an excellent addition to Avanti and our executive committee. I would also like to recognise Scott Richardson’s contribution to Avanti over his 15 years tenure, we wish him the very best for the future.”