Director of ManSat's London Office and Main Board Director - Dr Don Jayasuriya
Dr. Don (Jay) Jayasuriya is a Main Board Director of ManSat Limited.
Before joining ManSat, Jay operated a telecom consultancy in the UK, offering companies the opportunity to access the UK/European telecommunications markets. This primarily involved examining market opportunities for clients, and pursuing those opportunities by engaging in negotiations with relevant parties, including the commercial sector as well as the Government/Telecom Regulators. Most recently he has worked on two major projects – one on the deployment of broadband networks in the UK, and the other on the establishment of satellite Earth station and related communications in the UK.
Jay has more than 18 years experience in the telecommunications sector addressing regulatory and market aspects. As the Head of Mobile Services at UK’s Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), Radiocommunications Agency (RA) he played a leading role at international and European forums, such as the International Telecommunications Union (ITU – e.g. WRC and ITU-R Sector), the European Union and the CEPT (Conference of European Posts and Telecommunications, the collective of 43 European Radio/Telecom administrations) making a major contribution to the establishment of international/European regulatory frameworks for competitive service provision, licensing and frequency management. He was the architect of the European regulations applying to Satellite Personal Communications Services (S-PCS or GMPCS) enacted by the CEPT and the EU.
Jay has led a team of engineers in conducting detailed frequency co-ordination for satellite services. He has also led national delegations to various international co-ordination meetings and negotiations. In addition he has dealt with technical standards and, as well as his general involvement in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), he was the founder member and the first chairman of the ETSI committee responsible for preparation of technical standards for mobile satellite service.
Jay joined ICO Global Communications, a company planning to implement a global mobile satellite system to offer a satellite equivalent of third generation mobile services, in 1998. He held the position of Director, Regulatory Affairs at ICO Global Communications, with overall the responsibility for Regulatory activities, and with the specific responsibility for managing that company’s regulatory and market access strategy in Europe, Middle East and Africa. He also held the position of Vice Chairman – Europe at the international GMPCS MoU Group.
Jay obtained his B.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering from the University of London.
