From Skeptic To President and CEO

摘要

When representatives from Tachyon Networks Inc. first approached Peter Carides, their aim was to sell the struggling satellite broadband provider to his employer, Equant Inc. Carides, who at the time was vice president of the Amsterdam, The Netherlands-based telecommunications firm and head of its satellite and wireless division, declined, saying he did not like the way Tachyon was run. Not long afterwards, Erik Anderson, chairman of Tachyon's board of directors, came back to Carides with another proposal. "He said to me, 'Well, how about you do it then?'" Carides recalled. "I said, 'Do what?' And he said, 'Run it.'" Fast-forward to January 2005, and Carides found himself, along with five former members of his management team at Equant, doing just that. Since then they have shifted Tachyon's focus from developed markets like Western Europe and North America to underserved regions such as Africa, Asia and South America; They also have placed greater emphasis on Tachyon's high-end services and customers.