Clovis Baptista Neto, chairman of Hispamar Satelites. Photo: Hispasat

[Via Satellite 06-09-2016] Hispamar Satelites, the joint venture of Hispasat and Oi, has appointed Clovis Jose Baptista Neto as the new chairman of the board of directors. Hispamar Satelites shareholders elected him to the position at the company’s shareholders meeting held in April.

Baptista Neto served from 2000 to 2015 as executive secretary of the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission (CITEL), an entity of the Organization of the American States (OAS). From 2008 to 2010 he also served as director of the OAS Department of Science, Technology and Innovation.

Prior to that, Baptista Neto served as a special adviser to Brazil’s minister of communications, and as head of Anatel’s office of international affairs in Brasilia. His other past experience includes serving as chairman of the board of Telepisa from 1995 to 1998, representing Brazil in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) council from 1995 to 1999, negotiating on telecommunications services with the World Trade Organization (WTO), and carrying out technical and managerial functions of Embratel.