Inmarsat Appoints Rajeev Suri as CEO (25 Feb 2021) Inmarsat has appointed Rajeev Suri as CEO, effective 1 March 2021. Rajeev will also become a director of Connect Bidco Limited, the holding company for Inmarsat. He succeeds Rupert Pearce who is stepping down as CEO of Inmarsat on 28 February 2021. Rajeev joins Inmarsat from Nokia where he was President and CEO for six years. Prior to that, he was the CEO of Nokia Siemens Networks for five years, a joint venture company that merged Nokia’s and Siemens’ networks businesses. Rajeev has also worked in senior advisory roles with private equity firms Warburg Pincus and Apollo