Artur Mendes | VP Sales
Angola Cables

Artur Mendes: VP Sales, Angola Cables Artur Mendes is the Sales and Marketing Director of Angola Cables. Artur has more than 20 years of experience within the global telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Angola Cables in 2013, Artur spent 12 years working for Nokia, holding various positions at Nokia Mobile Phone and Nokia Multimedia Network Terminals.  As Sales and Marketing Director for Angola Cables, he is currently responsible for the commercial sales and marketing portfolios for the three mega projects being undertaken by the company: The Monet subsea cable network which has been in operation since the end of 2017 that connects Santos, in São Paulo to Fortaleza, Brazil to Boca Raton in the USA.   The recently commissioned South Atlantic Cable System (SACS) linking Luanda, Angola to Fortaleza in Brazil. The SACS cable is the first and fastest link between Africa and the Americas with the lowest latency and provides a more direct routing for internet traffic in the Southern Hemisphere. The third project is the upgrade to the Angola Cable’s Tier III Data Centre in Praia do Futuro on the Ceará coast of Brazil. The data centre incorporates the SACS and Monet submarine cable landing stations. The advanced upgrades being made to the data and collocation centre are due to be completed in April this year.