INTELSAT was able to grow its
revenues from such services from less than US$10M to US$150M annually in the period 1997
through end-1999. Much of this success stemmed from Dr. Stevenson's initiatives in
pursuing pilot commercial services and "live via INTELSAT" field trials with
lead customers;
most notably with Telia, Teleglobe and BT. He is
frequently an invited speaker at premier technical and business events featuring Internet
applications and their international deployment.
Prior to having telecom and data service development
assignments at INTELSAT, Dr. Stevenson was Manager of the INTELSAT R&D group, and had
a wide range of involvement in both ground- and space-segment engineering.
Dr. Stevenson has authored many research papers and
has been the recipient of prestigious awards for publications of technical excellence
(e.g. winner of the 1990 IEEE P.K. McElroy Reliability Engineering Award). He holds
advanced degrees in electrical and electronic engineering from the Imperial College of
Science and Technology (University of London).
