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Global Eagle Entertainment

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Global Eagle Entertainment
Type of businessPublic company (NASDAQENT)
Founded2012
HeadquartersMarina Del Rey, California
Key peopleEd Shapiro, Chairman[1]
Dave Davis, CEO[1]
IndustryAviation
Websitehttp://geemedia.com
Current statusActive

Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. (GEE) is a company that provides media content, technology and connectivity products to the travel industry. It operates in the aviation and maritime markets.

History[edit]

GEE formed in January 2013 through the combination of three businesses:

  • Row44 [2]
  • Advanced Inflight Alliance (AIA)
  • Global Eagle Acquisition Corp [3]

Since 2013, GEE has completed the following acquisitions:

  • Post-Modern Edit LLC in July 2013 [4]
  • IFES in October 2013
  • Purple Inflight Entertainment in August 2014 [5]
  • Western Outdoor Interactive (WOI) in July 2015
  • Assets from RMG Networks in July 2015 [6]
  • Marks Systems, Inc. d/b/a Masflight in August 2015
  • Navaero Avionics AB in August 2015 [7]

Products[edit]

GEE’s products provide communications hardware and services that provide high-speed satellite-based Internet to airlines. Specific product and service lines include:

Connectivity[edit]

GEE’s connectivity products provides airlines with high-speed Internet communications services.

Content[edit]

GEE’s content business selects, procures, manages, encodes and distributes wholly-owned and licensed media content, video and music programming, applications, digital advertising products and games to airlines worldwide

Digital media[edit]

GEE's digital media products include applications, games and customer portals installed on aircraft worldwide.

Airline operations[edit]

GEE’s products for airline operations include Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and cloud-based operational data analytics systems.

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Executive Profiles". Global Eagle Entertainment. Retrieved Aug 24, 2015.
  2. http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323894704578107343914705094
  3. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=739793
  4. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=739793
  5. https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2014/10/15/673368/10102739/en/Global-Eagle-Entertainment-Acquires-Content-Assets-From-Indian-Distributor-Purple-Media.html
  6. http://investors.geemedia.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=920376
  7. https://www.runwaygirlnetwork.com/2015/08/06/global-eagle-makes-big-data-play-with-masflight-and-navaero-buys

External links[edit]


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