Richard Hadsall – CTO

With a reputation as a satellite pioneer and industry innovator, Richard Hadsall has brought years of experience and accomplishments to his position as CTO at MTN Satellite Communications, and CTO of MTN Government Services, a subsidiary of MTN. From his entrepreneurial beginnings in 1976 as founder and CEO of Crescomm, a telecommunications product manufacturer, and Crescomm Transmission Services, Inc., a satellite common carrier, to his role as co-founder of MTN, Hadsall has played a pioneering role in the development of the maritime telecommunications industry.

In 1984, Hadsall founded MTN’s teleport facility in Holmdel, NJ as a video and data communications center. The teleport resides on the original grounds where Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, sent and received the first spark gap wireless radio telephony signal to Europe. Most recently, Hadsall played an instrumental role in creating and overseeing the development of the company’s Santander International Teleport located in northern Spain, which routes MTN’s core business for C-Band and Ku-Band in the Middle East and IOR regions.

Hadsall’s engineering and development capabilities have also led to key technological advances that have helped major networks such as ABC, NBC, CNN, and many foreign broadcasters report on major live events across the world, and have provided critical information and coverage for heads of government, the military, and U.S. Embassies. Key accomplishments include creating and deploying the “Bloom-mobile” for NBC to provide live coverage “On The Move” for anchor David Bloom in Kuwait and Iraq; providing live broadcast capabilities for ABC’s Good Morning America Whistle Stop Tour from a moving train; and the first to broadcast live from a submarine while the ship was submerged and sailing 50 feet below the Atlantic ocean.

Hadsall received his education at the American Institute of Engineers, and the Newark College of Engineering, now known as the New Jersey Institute of Technology.