WESTGARTH Alastair

WESTGARTH
Alastair

Chief Executive Officer of Loon

Loon

Date of Birth 10 April 1964

Age 62 years old

In the rating #232 Chief Executive Officer

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Biography

Alastair Westgarth is the CEO of Loon, an independent business within Alphabet that is working to bring internet access to unserved and underserved communities around the world via a network of balloons operating on the edge of space.

Career

Over a 30 year career in the cellular industry, Alastair has built and run a number of wireless telecom technology companies in the United States and around the world. He came to Alphabet in 2017 from Quintel Solutions, a cellular antenna company where he was CEO. Prior to that, Alastair served as a Vice President at Nortel and Director of Engineering at Bell Mobility.

Education

Alastair holds an electrical engineering degree from Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Project closure Alphabet, Google's parent company, is shutting down its Loon high-altitude balloon ...
22 January 2021

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Project closure Alphabet, Google's parent company, is shutting down its Loon high-altitude balloon internet transmission project. Loon CEO Alastair Westgarth wrote this on the company's blog. Also, he said: "Although we have found a number of partners, we have not been able to find a way
22 January 2021

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