Sherille Ismail

About Sherille Ismail

Sherille Ismail leads the international regulatory affairs team at Intelsat, focusing on market access and licensing for GEO and multi-orbit satellite networks and services such as mobility, cell-backhaul, and enterprise solutions. Sherille is also a frequent speaker and participant at international forums on topics such as innovation and connectivity in the satellite sector, protecting spectrum for satellite use, and the need for market access reforms. Previously, he held senior management positions at the FCC and the US House of Representatives. While serving in the FCC’s International Bureau, he organized and led workshops for foreign regulators, on topics ranging from promoting competition, interconnection pricing, transparent regulatory policies, separation of the regulator from Ministries, spectrum allocation. Sherille joined the FCC in 1996, after serving as a member of the joint congressional conference committee staff that negotiated the Telecommunications Act of 1996. He also worked on numerous other antitrust, civil rights, and international issues (e.g, working with the UN to restore democracy to Haiti after a military coup) during his tenure as a senior legal advisor to Rep. John Conyers on the U.S. House of Representatives’ Judiciary Committee. Sherille is a graduate of Georgetown University\'s School of Foreign Service, and Georgetown University Law Center. He was born in Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) and lived with his family for a short time in Zambia. He first came to America as a student delegate to the World Youth Forum which brought together students from 32 countries for a three-month stay in New York and Washington D.C.

Experience

1. Associate General Counsel

   Intelsat

   May 2020 — Present · McLean, VA, US

   Leads the regulatory team responsible for global advocacy and obtaining and maintaining all required approvals issued by foreign regulatory bodies, including for the operation of Intelsat\'s satellites and licensing of satellites by foreign administrations, as well as licenses for Intelsat’s mobility products and services.

Education

• Georgetown University

  B.S.

  1972 — 1976

• Georgetown University Law Center

  J.D.

  1978 — 1981

• St. Thomas College Mount Lavinia

  “A” levels