Management Team

Thomas Choi
Executive Chairman

Respected veteran and entrepreneur in the satellite and RF wireless communications industry. Former Satellite Executive of the Year 2012 and inducted into Satellite Hall of Fame 2017. Founder of Speedcast and ABS. Hughes Communications. Rockwell International.

Richard Pak
Group CEO

Richard Pak is the CEO of Airspace Internet Exchange Inc and Curvalux Inc. He has spent more than 25 years as an entrepreneur and senior executive in the IT, Telecom and Satellite sector. Original pioneer of internet broadcasting and streaming technologies at Broadcast.com and Yahoo! Inc. Most recent role was Chief Development Officer at ABS, a global satellite operator.

Mark Hanman
VP R&D and Operations

Mark joined CBNL in 2007 and since then has driven multiple product development programmes, transferred manufacturing to China and run the customer support department. Now Mark is responsible for all three areas and is passionate about bringing new mmWave solutions to the 5G FWA market.

Prior to CBNL, Mark held manufacturing and project management roles at Amino Communications, Lynx Printing, Option Wireless and Philips Consumer Communications.

Nicholas Goodwin
CFO

Nicholas joined CBNG in May 2022. Prior to this, Nicholas has operated a Finance Director for over 20 years in a range of sectors, both in the UK and overseas. He specialises in supporting management teams in growing businesses. He is a qualified chartered accountant.

Paul Wright
VP Sales and Customer Operations

Paul has worked for CBNG since 2003. During this time, he has worked in customer facing roles in technical support, design and planning and consulting before moving into general management and eventually leading sales. Paul set up CBNG’s offices in Africa and Asia and for 10 years had oversight of  network and associated turn-key services sales into Africa. Paul has been in the telecommunications industry for over 25 years previously working with Ericsson on GSM handset production and Hughes Network Systems as a satellite ground segment integration specialist. 

Paul now leads CBNG’s global sales team and he is highly focused on assisting customers to procure, plan, design and build VectaStar networks.

Paul has a HND in Electronics and Software Engineering, is Prince2 and ITILv4 certified and is also a Member of the IET and an Incorporated Engineer. He lives in North Yorkshire, married with three children, and has a passion for running long distances very slowly.