Lynk’s new CEO Dan Dooley. Photo: LinkedIn

Lynk Global named a new CEO on Monday, with other changes to its executive slate as the company works to go public through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) merger. 

Dan Dooley, who is Lynk’s current chief commercial officer, will become CEO, effective immediately. 

Dooley has three decades of experience in the global communications industry and previously served as president of Sprint’s International and Wholesale Divisions. He has been with Lynk since 2021 and grown the company’s list of mobile network operator (MNO) partners, including Rogers, Globe, TurkCell, 2Degrees, Spark, and Telstra.

Dooley replaces co-founder Charles Miller as CEO. Miller shared in a LinkedIn update that his goal was to develop a management team at Lynk and hand off leadership to executives with deep public company experience. Miller will provide strategic guidance during the transition. 

“As the co-founder of Lynk, I feel extremely fortunate to have built the team that discovered and invented satellite direct-to-standard-phone technology,” said Miller. “We proved the technology, changed national and international policy, and created a new category within the satellite and mobile wireless industries that could impact the lives of billions. Dan is the right person to take Lynk into the next phase.” 

Separately, Lynk also hired Dr. John M. Olson as president of strategic development, which includes the government sector. Olson recently retired as a two-star Air Force General, last serving as the Mobilization Assistant to the Chief of Space Operations in the United States Space Force. 

Lynk has developed satellites that can communicate directly with unmodified cell phones. The company is currently going through a SPAC deal to combine with Alex “A-Rod” Rodriguez-led SPAC Slam Corp. 

Slam Corp. and Lynk recently pushed back plans to combine to late December. The SPAC shares were delisted from Nasdaq with this schedule change, and are now trading on OTC Markets.