Rivada Appoints Mustafa Afifi as Sales Director-Middle East

Munich, Germany, April 30, 2025 – Rivada Space Networks has expanded its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) team with the appointment of Mustafa Afifi as Sales Director for the Middle East region. Afifi will focus on sectors including Telcos, Regional Satellite Operators and Satellite Resellers/Integrators, providing the most demanding enterprise and government customers with Rivada’s highly secure, high-bandwidth, global connectivity network.

Joe Apa, Rivada’s VP of Sales for EMEA, said: “With more than US$16 billion of business globally for its unique LEO network and a growing number of key regional partners, we are seeing a huge uptake in our business in the Middle East region, underlining the growing appetite for our uniquely secure space-based network.” Apa added: “The Outernet’s ability to meet the requirements of the Middle East’s connectivity providers in terms of security, latency, capacity, and coverage is a game-changer for the region. With his extensive experience in the telecoms and ICT sectors with Vodafone, Nokia, Ericsson and Siemens across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, I’m delighted to welcome Mustafa to the Rivada team.” 

Rivada Space Networks GmbH is deploying the first true “Outernet”: a global, low-latency, point-to-point connectivity network of LEO satellites. By connecting its satellites with lasers, Rivada will provide resellers and B2B customers with the ability to securely connect any two points on the globe with low latency and high bandwidth. The constellations, comprising 600 low-earth-orbit communications satellites, will represent a fundamental change in the availability of secure, global, end-to-end enterprise-grade connectivity for Telecom, Enterprise, Maritime, Energy and Government Services markets. Rivada Space Networks is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rivada Networks, Inc.