Senior Consultant

Pearson Associates

Bryan Pearson is a senior telecoms executive with a wealth of Board and Governmental level experience in strategic planning, operational management and development of both new and existing businesses in the UK and Overseas. He studied management sciences at Cranfield University, and Corporate Finance at the London Business School.

He joined British Telecom in 1964 and held a number of appointments in telecommunications management mainly in BT headquarters for 20 years, working in both the national and international areas. From 1981 he represented British Telecom’s and UK’s interests in a time of rapid growth for the international satellite sector and took responsibility for commercial involvement in the emerging satellite TV business.

In 1985 he became an independent consultant and worked for Sumitomo Corporation, British Aerospace, Citibank, Cable & Wireless, Defence Technology Enterprises, Mtel/Skypager (US), Railstar (US) and Britsat (UK), Geostar (US) and for the French National Space Agency (CNES). He also developed a privately financed alternative satellite TV business backed by Ferranti and Electra Investments, which ultimately led to the creation of Sky TV.

In the decade 1990 - 1999, he occupied a series of key management positions within major telecommunications companies (Cable & Wireless, Tele2, Millicom and Celtel) and their operating companies around the world including Bolivia, Columbia, Congo, Ghana, India, Luxembourg, Malawi, Paraguay, Philippines, Russia, Sierra Leone, Sweden, Tanzania, and Uganda. He was heavily involved in leading and guiding negotiations for licences and interconnection agreements with governments and regulators. He had a major role in establishing effective management teams and in restructuring and revitalising business in India and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Since 2000, he has been a Senior Consultant within Pearson Associates, providing a wide range of business development services in Europe and USA: raising capital for new telecoms companies, negotiating routes for US carriers into Africa and Europe, and being an expert witness in two successful actions by major US carriers.