NSR Adds Prashant Butani to Senior Team

Wilmington, Delaware, January 8, 2014 – NSR  today announced the appointment of Prashant Butani to the position of Senior Analyst. Based in Mumbai, India, Butani will serve as a regional and applications expert on satellite communications for NSR.

At NSR, Butani’s areas of expertise include Satellite Capacity Supply & Demand, Direct-to-Home, Satellite Manufacturing, Satellite Launch and Emerging Media Applications. He will extend NSR’s on-ground presence in key markets such as the Indian subcontinent, Middle East and Africa based out of Mumbai, India.

Butani obtained his Master’s degree in Satellite Communications Engineering from the University of Surrey in Guildford, United Kingdom. During this time he was actively involved with the European Space Agency’s SSETI project for student-built space missions. He also worked closely with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (now part of EADS Astrium), the satellite manufacturing company on campus focusing on Spacecraft Engineering. Mr. Butani also co-founded the Surrey chapter of the UK Students for Exploration and Development of Space (UK SEDS) society.

After graduating with distinction, Butani worked with Inmarsat and Avanti Communications in London. At Inmarsat he studied RF engineering of COTM and COTP applications for BGAN’s Land Mobile extension. From there he moved onto Project Management for Avanti's Hylas-1 satellite. While at Avanti, Butani also consulted to the European Joint Research Centre and European Space Agency under FP6 and FP7 programs. Butani then moved back to India to join Bharti Airtel in their VSAT business in Middle East designing network solutions for banking and retail customers. For improving pre-sales process efficiency at Bharti, Butani was awarded the Yellow Belt in Six Sigma Quality Management. In India,  Butani has collaborated with the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay and S.P. Jain Institute of Management and Research in varying capacity.