Andy Palmer-Felgate | Submarine Cable Engineer
Meta

Andy is responsible for marine engineering and planning of submarine cable systems at Meta, and serves
on the Executive Committee of the International Submarine Cable Protection Committee. Andy has been
intricately involved in a dozen trans-oceanic cable builds over the last seven years. Prior to joining Meta
in 2016 Andy spent a decade with Verizon and working on submarine cable construction, operations and
maintenance primarily in the Asia-Pac region. Earlier in his career Andy was part of the Marine Operations
team at Alcatel Submarine Networks. Andy holds a MSc in Hydrographic Surveying from UCL, a BSc in
Ocean Science from the University of Wales, and a Diploma in Law of the Sea from the Rhodes Academy.