Tekcapital (LSE:TEK), the AIM-listed intellectual property investment group, said portfolio company Vesari has appointed Professor Beatriz Soret to its Science Advisory Board, effective 1 September.
Vesari is described as developing a behind-the-meter, geothermal-powered hyperscale AI compute campus, and Soret's expertise sits squarely in the low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellite networking layer meant to feed data into that infrastructure.
Soret has more than twenty years' experience in satellite communications, holds 17 patents, one partly incorporated into the 3GPP LTE V2X Release 14 specification, and has sustained a long-running collaboration with the European Space Agency under its SatNex framework.
She previously worked at Nokia Bell Labs Denmark on 4G and 5G standardisation and at GomSpace on satellite constellation design, alongside academic posts at the University of Málaga and Aalborg University.
Clifford M. Gross, Tekcapital's Executive Chairman, said her standardisation experience "gives her a rare understanding of how a technology moves from theory to global deployment at scale."
Soret joins geothermal scientist Dr Joseph N. Moore, appointed 17 July, and satellite communications expert Dr Barry G. Evans, appointed 28 July, rounding out the board's coverage of Vesari's three technical pillars: geothermal energy, hyperscale power and heat management, and satellite laser data transmission.
Soret said she looks forward to "contributing to the networking architecture that will connect Vesari's orbital data-transmission layer to its compute campus."
News Intelligence what this means for the company
Tekcapital's portfolio company Vesari has appointed Professor Beatriz Soret, a satellite communications expert with 20+ years' experience and 17 patents, to its Science Advisory Board effective 1 September. Soret joins two earlier appointees (geothermal scientist Dr Joseph N. Moore on 17 July and satellite communications expert Dr Barry G. Evans on 28 July), completing Vesari's advisory board coverage across its three stated technical pillars: geothermal energy, hyperscale power and heat management, and satellite data transmission. The appointments signal Vesari is building credibility in the specialized domains underpinning its behind-the-meter geothermal AI compute campus concept, though the board remains advisory and the company's 12 US patent applications remain unexamined by the USPTO.
The sequential appointment of three domain experts across Vesari's core technical pillars suggests Tekcapital is methodically assembling credibility for a capital-intensive infrastructure play, but advisory board hires do not de-risk the core technical or commercialization challenges. Vesari's value to Tekcapital's portfolio rests on patent prosecution, regulatory pathway clarity, and eventual operational deployment—none of which this announcement addresses.
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