AST SpaceMobile, Inc. ASTS Chief Executive

What Abel Avellan says in public, and what their own SEC filings show they own.

Abel Avellan

Founder, Chairman & CEO · AST SpaceMobile, Inc.

Venezuelan-born engineer who founded AST & Science in 2017 after selling Emerging Markets Communications, and has run the company through its 2021 SPAC listing and the BlueWalker 3 and BlueBird build-outs. Holds Class C super-voting stock, so he controls the company's vote as well as its roadmap. The public face of AST: launch commentary, constellation milestones and operator partnerships all come from him first.

AbelAvellan
What they own

Ownership

Skin in the game
40/ 100
Level 2Aligned

Avellan owns about 40% of AST SpaceMobile, Inc., worth $9.77B at the last close.

SEC filings
34
Stake 156.9M reported shares ≈ 40.3% of shares outstanding — no 13G on file, so an estimate 35/35
Founder No career file yet — the founder axis scores zero until one exists 0/15
Tenure Start date not on file — tenure scores zero until it is 0/10
Track record No career file yet — prior companies score zero until one exists 0/15
Direction No open-market buys or sales in the last year 5/15
Discipline No late Form 4s in 34 filings · shares pledged as collateral 0/10

Score = stake band (35) + founder (15) + tenure (10) + track record (15) + 12-month direction (−10…15) + filing discipline (10). Every input links to a filing or to the career file; the bands are ours.

Reported · Forms 3, 4, 5 156.9M Every lot on the person's own filings, as of Aug 17, 2026
Paper trail On time No Form 4 filed outside the two-day window; form 144 flagged below
Reported AST SpaceMobile, Inc. shares Forms 3, 4 and 5 · as of 2026-08-17
050M100M150M200M 202120222023202420252026 Aug 17, 2026: award of 150,000 sharesMay 30, 2026: tax of 32,754 sharesMar 31, 2026: tax of 22,490 sharesDec 2, 2025: award of 250,000 shares 156.9M

Dots mark the months the activity below moved the line. Hover one for the filing.

How the stake is held
SecurityHeld viaShares
Class A Common StockDirect78,692,209
Class C Common StockDirect78,163,078
Reported as of 2026-08-17156,855,287
Held directly
100%
Vehicles
None
Share classes
2
Last filing
Aug 19, 2026
Activity · last 12 months 5 events folded from 5 filing lines · Every filing on EDGAR ↗
DateTypeWhat happenedSharesPriceValueNote
Aug 17, 2026 Award Grant or award · Class A Common Stock +150,000 — —
May 30, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock −32,754 $113.41 $3.7M
Mar 31, 2026 Tax Shares withheld for tax · Class A Common Stock −22,490 $82.87 $1.9M
Mar 24, 2026 Award Grant or award · Class A Common Stock +184,375 — —
Dec 2, 2025 Award Grant or award · Class A Common Stock +250,000 — —
Every issuer Abel Avellan files as an insider of
CompanyRoleReportedBeneficial% of class
ASTS AST SpaceMobile, Inc. This page Chief Executive Officer 157M
2026-08-17		 — —
ENT Global Eagle Entertainment Inc. Pres. & Chief Strategy Officer 494,840
2016-07-27		 — —

Reported is every lot on the person's own Forms 3, 4 and 5 — direct and through trusts. Beneficial is the figure stated on the latest Schedule 13D/G cover page, which can exclude shares the person disclaims and include options exercisable within 60 days, so the two are never added together.

Paper trail
  • Form 144 Form 144 filed 2026-06-22 announces an intended sale. Filing ↗
  • Pledge AST SpaceMobile, Inc. shares carry a pledge/borrowing footnote (first seen 2026-06-22): "In exchange for assuming these obligations, AA Gables 2 received an upfront aggregate cash payment of approximately $146.7 million. AA Gables 2 has pledged 2,500,000 common units of AST & Science, LLC (the "Pledged Securities") to secure its obligations under the Forward Contract" Filing ↗
  • Pledge AST SpaceMobile, Inc. shares carry a pledge/borrowing footnote (first seen 2025-11-19): "In connection with the Amendment, AA Gables received an aggregate cash payment of approximately $10.7 million, reflecting the economic effect of the Amendment to Forward Contract, and which is in addition to the $42.0 million aggregate upfront proceeds AA Gables received when the" Filing ↗
  • Form 144 Form 144 filed 2024-11-20 announces an intended sale. Filing ↗

34 filings under CIK 0001680225 · captured 2026-09-05 · All filings on EDGAR ↗

On the record with shareholders

Earnings calls

  1. Q2 2026 Aug 10, 2026 Avellan's argument was that the constellation AST is already flying is a platform, not a product: the same very large phased arrays and the same in-country gateway architecture that carry direct-to-device broadband can also carry government radar, emergency networks, IoT and, from satellite 47 onwards, edge compute — so the addressable market multiplies without the capital plan changing. Spectrum is the piece he keeps returning to, and he framed it as fuel: roughly 1,200 MHz tunable across low- and mid-band, about 100 MHz of access in the United States from the Ligado agreements plus partner spectrum, and 21 of Europe's top 25 operators wanting in. The manufacturing answer was the same argument in concrete: six satellites a month today, another 400,000 sq ft going up in Midland, and close to a million square feet when it is finished. Read the call · 4 quotes →
In their own words

Podcasts, interviews & articles

1 recorded appearance

2026

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