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Speakers 
 Mr Henrik Anderberg,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ascade, Sweden
Henrik Anderberg joined Ascade as the CEO in May 2006. He brings more than 15 years of Executive leadership in Telecom, Software, Integration service and Consultancy organizations. For the last 10 years, Henrik has been working for IBM in Europe based out from Stockholm and Paris where he has held senior Executive positions including General Manager Business Innovation Services IBM Nordics, Complex Deal Executive IBM EMEA and Director of Outsourcing Sales IBM Nordic. In his most recent position as Senior Project Executive Stockholm Congestion Tax Program, Henrik managed one of IBM’s largest system development & operations projects with a value of more than 100 million USD. Prior to joining IBM, Henrik was the Managing Director and Chief Architect for a software consultancy company. He holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Stockholm.
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 Helmut Angst,
Senior Executive Vice President and Head of ICSS,
Deutsche Telekom
Helmut Angst heads up the international wholesale telecommunications division of Deutsche Telekom, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS). Prior to joining ICSS, Helmut has worked within the Deutsche Telekom Group for over six years, in various senior positions. Most recently, he was part of the national wholesale organization, heading up national carriers sales at T-Com.
Helmut Angst has a strong international experience having held international management positions in Europe, Asia-Pacific and in the US during his career. Before joining the Deutsche Telekom Group, Helmut Angst spent over ten years working at Digital Equipment in Germany, where he held several management positions. Notably, heading up the mobile services business group and leading public network management for Deutsche Telekom.
Helmut Angst graduated in communications engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany.
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 Nikhil B. Shah,
Vice President, International Development and Board Member,
MFA Forum, USA
Mr. Nikhil B. Shah is a Director of Mobile/Convergence Segment at Juniper Networks, where he is responsible for developing wireless infrastructure and fixed-mobile-convergence strategies, solutions, portfolio planning, and partnership initiatives. He also serves as a board member of the leading telecom standard body, MFA Forum (MPLS, Frame Relay, and ATM Forum), where he is also a VP of International Development. He has fourteen years of telecom-industry experience including product management, technical sales/marketing, standards, alliance management, professional services, and software engineering. His current focus includes positioning Juniper and partners’ portfolios in QoS aware multi-service packet transport, mobile RAN backhaul, backbone, and IMS-FMC networks.
Mr. Shah’s prior experience includes eight years at Alcatel-Lucent, where he was closely engaged with developing partnerships and integrated solutions with Juniper, Riverstone, and other data vendors. Prior to Lucent, he worked with Zeitnet (acquired by Cabletron) in ATM switching and network management, Tata Consultancy Services, and ISRO, India. He has frequently spoken at various industry conferences/events and has contributed to various standards development projects.
Mr. Shah received his Bachelors and Masters degrees in Computer Science from Gujarat/Mumbai universities in India and he holds a diploma in Business Management from Mumbai. He has also completed the Greater Boston Executive Program through the MIT Sloan School of management in Cambridge, MA.
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 Roger Barlow,
Chairman & CEO,
RJB Consultants Limited, Hong Kong
Roger Barlow is Chairman and CEO of RJB Consultants Limited. He is based in Hong Kong and advises clients on telecommunications strategic and operational issues.
Prior to the formation of RJB Consultants Ltd, Roger has worked for Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong Telecom, PCCW and Reach. He is currently an independent non-executive director of MobileOne Limited in Singapore.
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 Paul Berriman,
Head Of Strategic Market Development,
PCCW Limited, Hong Kong
Paul Berriman joined PCCW Limited in July 2002 and became Head of Strategic Market Development in 2004. He leads a team of experts with industry experience and market vision to perform an important role in strategic market direction and the product/technology roadmaps of the company. He has led successful projects like the NOW Broadband Television in Hong Kong and PCCW’s UK Broadband Project.
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 Owen Best,
President, Asia Pacific,
FLAG Telecom, Hong Kong
Before joining FLAG Telecom in June 1998, Owen Best was Vice President of Telstra Japan (1995-1998) and Regional Director for Telstra Korea (1994-1996).
He has over 22 years experience in the telecommunications industry, and has worked extensively in the Asia Pacific region in various senior engineering and operational positions with Telecom Australia, Telecom Australia International, OTC, and Telstra.
Owen has a Bachelor of Engineering Degree (Electronics/Communications), a Master of Engineering Studies, and an MBA - all from the University of Queensland, Australia.
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 Mr David Chalmers,
Executive Director, Sales, Asia Pacific,
VSNL International, Hong Kong
David Chalmers is currently the Executive Director for VSNL’s Asia Pacific Region, located in Hong Kong. David is responsible for VSNL’s voice business in the region under the Teleglobe brand.
With over 30 years experience in the Telecommunications industry he has held various management positions. He moved from Australia in 1998,and since then has held positions in Japan, Singapore and Hong Kong. Covering the Asian territory he has extensive management experience in the international carrier arena and an understanding of Asia that is well regarded by his peers.
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 Mr Amit Chawla,
Vice President, Global Business Units and Engineering,
Veraz Networks, USA
Amit Chawla is VP of Global Business units and Engineering at Veraz Networks. Amit has over 18 years of design, product management and market development experience in the telecommunications industry. Prior to Veraz, Amit was CEO of NexVerse Networks and led the merger of NexVerse Networks with ECI Telecom’s NGTS business unit to form Veraz. Prior to joining NexVerse Networks, he was VP Portfolio Management, Communications Server products at Nortel Networks for the packet-based Succession Networks.
Amit holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from University College, University of London, England and a Masters of Science from the University of Manitoba, Canada.
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 Feng Chian,
Executive Vice President, President's Office,
Taiwan Fixed Network Co., Ltd
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 Dino Civitarese,
Managing Director,
Telecom Italia Sparkle Singapore
Dino Civitarese has 19 years experience in the Telecommunications Industry with international exposure in the last 12, of which 8 in Asia Pacific.
Dino joined Telecom Italia Sparkle in May 2006 as Regional Vice President Asia Pacific with the mission of strengthening the presence of TI Sparkle in the Asian market.
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 Byron Clatterbuck,
Vice President,
VSNL International, Hong Kong
He began his career in the telecommunications industry working for BT Hong Kong as Director of International Development, Asia. Mr. Clatterbuck was responsible for negotiating large investment opportunities that expanded BT’s presence and market penetration in Asia totaling $1.5B. Major investment projects included the acquisition of significant stakes in Japan Telecom, Smartone, LG Telecom and Hutchinson, to name a few.
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Simon Cooper,
Senior Director,
VSNL International, Singapore
Simon Cooper is a Senior Director within VSNL International’s Global Transmission Services (GTS) group. As part of the senior management within VSNL International, a subsidiary of Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), Simon is responsible for establishing and implementing strategies surrounding VSNL International’s global network investment and cost base.
Simon has a wide range of technical, commercial and project management experience. As a Senior Director for GTS, he works closely across all lines of businesses to identify VSNL International’s future needs and business opportunities. His core responsibilities also include working with VSNL International’s partners and technology suppliers.
Prior to his employment with VSNL International, he was at Level 3 Communications where he took a lead Engineering role in Level 3’s European Network Rollout, and project managed the Yellow T/A submarine cable network build which was a $150m project completed in less than 18 months. He also had roles in the Operations side of the business, specifically Customer Service Activation, before looking after Level 3’s $50M European Private Line Business.
In his earlier tenure with Cable and Wireless, he gained substantial knowledge of submarine cable systems as a Systems Engineer working on and leading many international connectivity projects both constructing new cables and repairing existing cables. Some of the major projects included The ECFS, Gemini and The Cayman-Jamaica cable systems.
In his personal achievements Simon participated in a Round the World yacht race during 2003. Simon has also completed the London marathon and in his free time he likes to travel or keep up with the independent music scene,
Simon Cooper graduated from the University of Nottingham in 1990 with a Bachelors degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering.
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 Cheung CW,
Consulting Director,
Ovum Consulting, Hong Kong
CW Cheung is the Consulting Director of Ovum Consulting Greater China based in Hong Kong. CW has worked with a number of leading telecom operators, service providers, vendors, regulators and management consultancies in the Greater China region for more than 24 years. He is an industry expert in a full array of fixed and wireless telecom operations encompassing industry competitive analysis, market entry strategy, strategy planning, telecom policy and regulation, business management and business operations management (including marketing, front office and back office operations).
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 Stuart Dobbin,
Head of Asia,
Cable & Wireless, Hong Kong
An empathy for Asia ever since he headed this way in June 1992, Stuart Dobbin has spent close to 15 years growing the Cable&Wireless businesses in various markets across Asia. For the last year, as Head of Asia, Stuart has been responsible for all of Cable&Wireless’ customer relationships and operations across the region both for MNC enterprise customers as well as Carriers.
With Cable&Wireless firmly focused on providing managed IP services to the largest Carrier and Enterprise users of telecoms, Stuart’s current challenge is transforming the customer engagement teams to selling solutions based on customers business needs. He has held several key roles in the company in Asia and in the head office in London including VP Asia Development and VP Global Carrier Services Asia before his current appointment.
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 Daryl Dunbar,
Director 21 CN, Portfolio Development,
British Telecom Group Plc, UK
As Director, 21CN Portfolio Development for BT Group, Mr. Dunbar is directing the portfolio strategy across all the lines of businesses. This activity involves assuring the BT Group has the right portfolio to meet its customer’s needs and group financial targets and to drive the requirement for convergent services and solutions for the future. He is responsible for bringing together innovations from across the business as well as outside of BT and by utilising customer insight, delivering them to the market as customer propositions. He delivers strategic analysis of commercial market and technology trends in order to assure the portfolio is fit for purpose now and in the future. Previously, he was Director 21CN Design and Development, where he was responsible for the end-to-end network, systems, service, and product designs and development for BT’s Global Network, including the 21st Century Network (BT’s Next Generation Network or 21CN). He meets regularly with the UK regulator, Ofcom, and this engagement led to a key role in the negotiations of the recent regulatory settlement with Ofcom, providing expert technical and commercial knowledge throughout the process. He is a veteran telecommunications engineer, entrepreneur, and executive, who has designed, deployed, and maintained global private and public networks. Prior to joining BT, he oversaw the turnaround and sale of a fibre network provider in the US and served as Vice President for a Fortune 10 corporation where he oversaw the global optical and IP network and all associated services. He has extensive and successful background in entrepreneurial ventures, including technology, strategy, corporate development, and venture funding and has served in various executive positions including COO, CTO, Chief Architect, co-founder and board member. These companies have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in venture and strategic funding, gained key clients and partnerships, and many have negotiated positive acquisitions.
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 Paul Excell,
Chief of Operations, BT Group Technology,
BT
Paul Excell is Chief of Operations at BT’s Group Technology Office responsible for ensuring BT’s Innovation and Technology business delivers customer centric solutions for a 21st Century lifestyle. Particular areas of focus are BT’s ground breaking Convergence and Mobility solutions, BT’s £10Bn 21st Century programme, the Global Information Economy and the ‘Dividend’ stakeholders gain from end to end Innovation.
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 Tunde Fafunwa,
Chief Consultant,
Bayan Telecommunications Inc, Philippines
Tunde Fafunwa has more than 20 years of senior management experience in the Telecommunications and Information Technology field. He has led startups, mid-size companies as well as major initiatives in Fortune 500 companies.
Currently as Chief Executive Consultant, he has led the competitive repositioning and growth of Bayan Telecommunications Inc., a leading Internet and competitive fixed line provider in the Philippines. At the Bayantel, Tunde leads the 1,600 person, $180 million a year full service provider. The company has been competitively repositioned to deliver data and Internet revenue growth of 30% a year, with a significantly lower cost structure.
Previously he was Vice President, Marketing at Verizon subsidiary, where he was responsible for the product bundling of Landline, Cellular, Video and Internet to over 2 million customers with combined revenues of over $1 billion.
In addition, Tunde has held senior IT management positions in the financial and computer consulting industries. He is the founder of Resourcery Limited the largest network integrator in West Africa.
He is a frequent speaker and panelist addressing Internet and telecom infrastructure issues at international conferences. His articles and papers have been published in leading industry magazines and on the Internet.
Tunde has both a Masters in Technology Policy as well as an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (M.I.T.)
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 Ofer Gneezy,
President and CEO,
iBasis Inc.,USA
Ofer Gneezy is President and Chief Executive Officer of iBasis, a leader in international long distance, VoIP, and prepaid calling cards. As co-founder of iBasis in 1996, Mr. Gneezy is one of the true visionaries of the IP telephony industry and a recipient of Pulver.com's Industry Pioneer Award. He was an early believer in the power of the Internet to change global telecommunications and quickly established iBasis as the first provider of toll-quality Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service.
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 Paul Gregory,
Director, Marketing & Product Solutions, Business Support,
Cable and Wireless, Hong Kong
Paul Gregory has been with Cable & Wireless for twenty five years and has significant experience in Business development, Marketing and Product management. For the last 3 years, Paul has been based in Hong Kong where he has regional responsibility in Asia for Marketing and Product Solutions.
This year, Cable & Wireless will continue to extend its market leading managed IP solutions for Enterprise customers in Asia, focusing on the growth for data services though its MPLS IP VPN solutions and the voice segment through its VoIP offering.
Paul holds an MBA from Kingston University, UK.
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 Tariq Habib,
Head, Strategic Initiatives & Partnerships,
Emirates Telecom Corp (ETISALAT), UAE
Tariq Habib brought a decade of experience with entrepreneurial spirit in design & business management of complex ICT systems, in such areas as telecommunications, Internet and e-business, when he came on board in 1999. As Chief Technology Officer-Comtrust, he spearheaded Etisalat’s business diversification strategy based around emerging technologies in the area of Internet and e-business.
Soon after joining, in early 2000, launching of Comtrust was not only a big step for Etisalat but proved a pioneering and visionary step in sowing the seeds for digital economy. By creating a network of partnerships, Habib helped spur numerous initiatives in a region as wide as MENA and South East Asia. As a founder and architect of Comtrust and its services, he is well credited for creating the net positive effect on economies and intellectual capital of this region.
Today, as Head of Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships at Etisalat Corporate Marketing, Tariq Habib is directly responsible for the growth of future business through delivery of complex and integrated ICT solutions. He is also responsible for building strategic capacity by forging partnerships with the industry leaders.
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 Dr Ferrie Hu,
Chief Scientist Officer,
China Motion Telecom International, Hong Kong
As the Chief Scientist of China Motion Group, Mr. Hu is responsible for the group’s telecom network development, information technology planning and policy setting. Mr. Hu has been assigned as the Asia Pacific Director of WiMax Forum.
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 Ms Lanny Huang,
General Manager - Playboy TV Asia and Japan,
Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc., Hong Kong
Lanny Huang is the General Manager of Playboy TV Asia and Japan for Playboy Entertainment Group, Inc. She oversees television, broadband and wireless projects for
Playboy TV in the region. Her Hong Kong team works closely with tv, internet and mobile operators, ensuring Playboy’s top quality range of adult content. Lanny is from New York USA and has been in Asia for most of her career.
Lanny’s expertise extends to her twenty five years in domestic and international organizations, including Cable & Wireless Hong Kong Telecom – Interactive Multimedia Services, MGM Gold Network Channel, MEASAT Astro Malaysia, Hong Kong I-Cable TV, HK-TVB, in broadcast TV, pay TV, PPV and VOD. Before joining Playboy, Lanny was President of Yes Television Asia , where she headed the Pay TV venture in Hong Kong and in addition as content consultant for US Movielink’s International content and Korea SK Telecom’s TCC.
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 Karl J.Weaver,
Mobile Device Specialist,
Newport Technologies
Karl J. Weaver is a Washington State-based International business executive with Mandarin Chinese Language and cross-cultural expertise. Karl lived and worked in Greater China for 10 years and has been involved in selling and marketing to China and India since 1985.
He has geared his professional career around developing business opportunities for wireless communications products to Asia-Pacific and Greater China markets in the emerging Pacific Century. He has been in the local Puget Sound wireless industry for a decade, helping three well-known high-tech companies expand Asian markets (Zetron, Metawave and Leviton Voice & Data). In 2002, Karl was the Greater China Account Manager and remote Seattle office representative for Protura Wireless (CA, wireless start-up) that designs internal (embedded) antennas for cell phones, smart phones, and PDA mobile devices.
Since 2003, He has been invited to deliver professional public speaking as he promotes the "Global Smart Phone Revolution", as well as, consulting on a nationwide road show for the Leszynski Group (Bellevue, WA), as their wireless mobility speaker on Tablet PC usage in productivity solutions (to increase work flow for wireless enterprise applications). In July, 2004, Karl was recruited down to Tempe, Arizona by Freescale Semiconductor and was Senior Technical Marketing/Business Development Manager and Smart Phone Evangelist. Freescale Semiconductor was recently launched by Motorola as a spin off of their Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS).
He is also a member of the Washington State China Relations Council and the Washington State Software Alliance. In late 1999, while working at Leviton Voice & Data, he was selected by the Seattle World Trade - Host Organization and the U.S. State Department to be the official liaison officer for the Hong Kong Government's WTO trade delegation, during the 3rd round of the Seattle WTO ministerial sessions at the Washington State Convention Center from December 1st~5th. Karl Hosted and managed the 25-person high-level Hong Kong government delegation for all logistic and minister-to-minister business meetings.
In mid-2005, Karl was recruited back up to Washington State as Greater China/Asia-Pac Business Development Manager for Intrinsyc Software International to sell/market “soleus” a Windows CE core based feature phone (OS) platform for mobile devices to Greater China handset OEM/ODM vendors. Karl continues to deliver public speaking on wireless technologies and is currently on a global speaking tour promoting the “Global Smart Phone Revolution – China: Mobile Digital Dragon & India: IT Super Tiger”.
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Jay Jayasimha,
CTO,
Veraz Networks, USA
Jay has over 18 years experience in the areas of Call Processing, Network Planning and Switching Systems Development holding positions at British Telecommunication, MCI, Link USA Corp (now Global Crossing), Qualcomm and now Veraz Networks. At Veraz Networks, Jay has been instrumental in developing the ControlSwitch™, with significant contribution in the areas of call processing, services and routing architectures. Jay is now involved in driving the ControlSwitch technological roadmap particularly for wireless networks and end-to-end QoS based multimedia session establishment over the IMS core ControlSwitch.. Jay has patents in the areas of call processing and Call Routing and is a member of IEEE/ACM.
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 Patrick Joggerst,
Senior Vice President, Global Sales,
NexTone Communications, Japan
Patrick joins NexTone with a distinguished career in the telecommunications industry. He began his career at AT&T, where he eventually managed the organization’s undersea cable business in the Americas. Joggerst joined Global Crossing at its beginning stages and built the sales team to 500 professionals worldwide. Most recently, he served as the SVP of sales and marketing at Telcordia, one of the world's foremost providers of software and services for IP, wireline, wireless, and cable networks.
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 Ajay Joseph,
Vice President, Network Architecture & Engineering,
iBasis Inc.,USA
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Vijay K. Aggarwal,
President, International Voice Business,
Reliance Communications Ltd, India
Mr. Vijay K Aggarwal is a Telecom professional with over 30 years of diverse experience in Telecom Marketing & Sales, Project Management, System & Procedures, Strategic Planning & Managing Organization. Vijay has successfully carried out profit centre responsibilities with various organizations including Reliance, Bharti (AirTel), L&T. He has been instrumental in establishing number of Green Field Technology Projects. He was instrumental in setting up India’s first private CDMA Network and Basic Service Operations in the telecom circle of Madhya Pradesh for Bharti.
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 Siew Kam Soon,
Managing Consultant, ICT Consulting,
Frost & Sullivan
Siew Kam Soon is the Managing Consultant with the ICT Practice – Growth Consulting team at Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific. He is the resident expert on Business Strategy Transformation, Organizational Development and Change Management.
Kam Soon focuses on providing customized consultation to global equipment vendors, service providers and the various ICT governing bodies and regulators in Asia Pacific countries (including Singapore, Malaysia and Eastern Europe). He has worked on numerous projects for clients including strategic mapping, market positioning, convergence pathing, change management planning and implementation, as well as market strategy consultation. His specialization is in market transformation strategy mapping and business model redesign. Kam Soon is the Content Convergence Practice Lead and have been engaged in numerous Convergence related events and road shows as speaker/panelist and workshop facilitator across Asia Pacific.
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 Aditya Kaul,
Senior Analyst, Emerging Wireless Technologies Practice,
Pioneer Consulting, UK
Aditya Kaul is Senior Analyst, Emerging Wireless Technologies Practice at Pioneer Consulting. His role includes writing and publishing reports on selected wireless technology markets, providing customised consulting services to Pioneer’s clients, and developing Pioneer’s business in European and Asian markets. Before working with Pioneer, Aditya led a group of analysts at Evalueserve, India which provided telecom industry research to clients worldwide.
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 Jay Kishigami,
Vice President, Service Strategy, Corporate Management Strategy Division and Executive Chief Producer, Convergence, Convergence Corporate Management & Strategy Division,
NTT Com Asia Limited, Hong Kong
From 1994 to 1999 he worked with NTT America as a vice president and general manager at IP HQs in the area of creating and promoting the Internet business both in US and in Japan. He coordinated ISP and Backbone between US and Japan.
With the years his center of activities changed from the fundamental study to business-oriented development. Recently he has led two main projects of RFID and Broadband related activities. He has been creating and promoting the concept of “metadata” for the RFID and broadband services. He was Secretary General at cIDf (Content ID Forum), which was founded by him and Professor Yasuda, University of Tokyo. He had been a member of GBDe (Global Business Dialogue on Electronic Commerce) as Sherpa who directly supports board member of NTT. He is also MOT Visiting Professor at Rikkyo University. He had been invited a lot of seminar and society. He is one of the columnists at Nikkei IT Forum and a member of some government sponsored committees.
He has been a number of chair and member at Government committee which includes RFID regulation, IPR issue, Broadband Content Distribution, and Web Archive project. He is a member of IEICE Japan, a leader at the Electronic Intellectual Property Society in IPSJ Japan and Distinguished Speaker of IEEE, committee at ARIB, INSTAC.
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 Fedor Krupyansky,
Vice President, Marketing Director,
TransTeleCom, Russia
Mr. Krupyansky joined TransTeleCom in 2005 as Vice-President, Marketing Director.
Before joined TransTeleCom Mr. Krupyansky took several leading positions at Golden Telecom, Inc., including Head of Marketing and Business Development Department. Mr. Krupyansky graduated from Moscow Technical University of Telecommunication and Informatics. He has Ph.D. degree in economic science.
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 Daniel Kurgan,
Chief Operating Officer,
Belgacom, Belgium
Mr. Kurgan joined BELGACOM Carrier Division in January 1997. Belgacomm as an International Account Manager. He graduated from Solvay Business School of The University of Brussels and has expansive management experiences in Belgacom. In 1999 he moved up to be the Head of International Relations & Sales and subsequently became the Sales Director for domestic and international wholesale division.
He took on the position as VP International Wholesale, in charge of Sales & Marketing, Buying & LCR, Customer Service and Network between 2002 to 2004.
In 2005, he was appointed as the VP Commercial of Belgacom International Carrier Services SA/NV, a spin off of Belgacom’s international carrier business managing the Sales, Stream Management, Marketing and Product Management
Currently he is the Chief Operating Officer of Belgacom.
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 Mr Ingvar Larsson,
President,
TeliaSonera International Carrier
Mr. Ingvar Larsson is President of TeliaSonera International Carrier since 2006.
He is responsible for all international carrier activities within the TeliaSonera Group.
Before joining TeliaSonera, Ingvar Larsson was employed by the Ericsson Group. With 20 years of experience from the IT industry as Consultant, Project Manager
and as Senior Manager for R&D, professional services and systems integration Ingvar Larsson has held various positions within Ericsson.
During 2002-2005 he held the position as Vice President and General Manager
Core Unit Service Network and Applications. Before that he was Head of Sales and Business Management within the Business Unit Global Services. Between 1999 -2001 Ingvar Larsson held the position as Service Business Line Director for Telecom Management and Professional Services. During 1999 he was Director for Region EMEA, Ericsson Business Consulting. During 1998 Ingvar Larsson was Director, Professional Services, Enterprise Networks. Before joining Ericsson Ingvar Larsson held a position as Vice President at Sun Microsystems AB.
Ingvar Larsson, born in 1951, holds a Master's degree of science in Electrical Engineering/Control Automation and Computer Engineering from Lund's Institute of Technology.
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Jan Larsson,
Senior Advisor,
TeliaSonera International Carrier, Sweden
Jan Larsson has worked for TeliaSonera International Carrier since May 1999 and has held a number of positions within the company, such as Voice Product Manager in Germany, Head of Voice Buying, Head of Voice Strategy & Analysis, general Strategy Manager and now as senior Advisor.
Jan has for his age gained a solid international experience by studying and working outside of his native country Sweden for extended periods of time, including more than five years in Japan and Germany. He has been a true pioneer in many fields of the international telecom wholesale business, such as already in 1999 pioneering in an extensive use of bilateral Voice Traffic Volume Agreements (his standard agreement is among the most commonly used in the Industry today) as well as contributed to the first wave of VoIP-deployment with the Telia VoIP Clearinghouse in 1999-2001. Throughout the years, he has put a lot of focus on creatively lowering the cost-base and creating new products in order to sustain profitability on a highly competitive market. Currently, he is working with the strategic planning and business development of TeliaSonera International Carrier, among other things focusing on the future network and its requirements and implications on current and future business models. TeliaSonera International Carrier has on overall ambition to be the Knowledge Leader of the industry. Jan is very much a part of this ambition, which is reflected in his contributing dialogues with the industry.
Jan holds a Master’s degree in International Business Administration and Economics.
TeliaSonera International Carrier, fully-owned by the TeliaSonera Group, provides wholesale, capacity and IP services to network and service providers. The services are based on the wholly-owned European and trans-Atlantic fibre network, and the IP network with peering points in Europe and in the US. The international voice business is focused on international interconnect agreements and bilateral routes.
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 Calvin Lee,
Head of Asia Pacific and Middle East, Deutsche Telekom International Carrier Sales & Solutions,
Deutsche Telekom, Singapore
Calvin Lee is responsible for Deutsche Telekom carriers’ carriers business, International Carriers Sales & Solutions (ICSS), for the Asia Pacifc & Middle East region. Mr Lee joined the Deutsche Telekom group in Singapore 1997. Since then he has steered the growth of the business, and increased local presences in the region with set-up of sales offices in Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong. Under his lead, sales have quadrupled.
Prior to joining the Deutsche Telekom group, Mr. Lee was with Corporate Access, where he was involved in international VSAT service satellite communication for enterprise and carriers in the South and South East Asia regions. Mr Lee started his career in sales with IBM Singapore for IBM’s Global Services.
Mr. Lee earned his MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, and obtained an Honours Degree in Mechanical and Production Engineering from the National University of Singapore.
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 Diarmid Massey,
Managing Director Asia Pacific,
Nextone Asia Pte Ltd, Singapore
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 Christian Michaud,
Senior Vice President, Marketing & Business Development,
VSNL International
Christian Michaud is the Senior Vice-President of Marketing and Business Development for VSNL International, part of the $22 billion Tata Group. Mr. Michaud is responsible for developing the corporate marketing strategy as well as products, and product management for the company’s three lines of business: voice, data/IP and signaling.
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 Philippe Millet,
Vice President, Customer Marketing & Development, ICSS,
France Telecom
Philippe Millet is Vice President of Customer Marketing and Development for international wholesale carrier services at France Telecom Networks, Carriers & IT Division.
Philippe joined France Telecom in 1999 to manage an international customer relationship management outsourcing business unit. He went on to head the department in charge of operating France Telecom’s international network abroad, following the acquisition of Global One (now Equant). This experience prepared Philippe for the position he took up in 2001 as head of Equant Account Management at France Telecom. A key responsibility was ensuring the development of synergies between the two entities in network management, sales, finance and human resources. He took up his current position in 2002.
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 Masaaki Moribayashi,
President & CEO,
NTT Com Asia Limited, Hong Kong
Masaaki Moribayashi assumed his current position with NTT Com Asia (NTT CA), wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) the long-distance and global telecommunications arm of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) Corporation (NYSE: NTT) in October 2006. Mr. Moribayashi is now responsible for providing full range of ICT (Information Communication Technology) services in Hong Kong, including Network products, Data Center and Hosting solutions, and Systems Integrations. He joined NTT in 1984.
Mr. Moribayashi was one of the original OCN project members and contributed to start-up NTT Com’s first ISP business from September 1995 to June 1998. As a Director of Strategic Planning OCN Business Division, he designed network architecture, selected and tested multiple router/server vendors, selected international circuit vendors, and support developing products and services. Then he transferred to Verio Inc., as a Director of International Partnerships. At Verio, he was responsible for overall international reseller partnerships. In August 2003, he came back to NTT Com as a Vice President of NTT Com Global IP Network Sales and Marketing. He contributed in expanding NTT Com’s global IP business and quadrupled Japan–US IP backbone to 95Gbps, the industry's largest bandwidth to provide end users with fast, smooth global Internet connections.
He has a Bachelor of Science, Electronic Engineering from Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan and a Master of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from Alfred University, New York, USA.
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 Claus Mortensen,
Research Manager, Telecommunications Research,
IDC Asia Pacific, Hong Kong
Based in IDC’s Asia/Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong, Claus is Research Manager in IDC's Telecommunications group. He heads up IDC's Asia/Pacific Telecommunications research program covering fixed-line and IP-based communications examining the issues and major trends across the region. His research focuses on the opportunity assessment and the evolving dynamics of data services such as IP VPN, Frame Relay, Leased Circuits, ATM as well as voice services such as PSTN and VoIP.
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 Anna Mossberg,
Vice President, Business Development and Product Management,
TeliaSonera International Carrier
Anna Mossberg has 10 years of experience from working in the Internet and integrated communications area.
During 2005-2007 she held the position as Director Internet Services within Business Area Consumer in TeliaSonera Sweden AB. During 2002-2005 she held the position as Director Product Management for different areas within Mobile and Fixed Data Communication. Before that she was Vice President Strategy at Telia E-bolaget AB. 1998 -2000 Anna Mossberg held the position as Vice President IP Services in Telia International Carrier AB. She was also a Member of the Board in Telia International Carrier Polska z.p.o.o., Telia Carrier Hong Kong Ltd. and Telia North America Ltd. In 1997 Anna Mossberg took part in founding Telia Light AB, a VoIP Service Provider. In 1996 Anna joined Telia AB.
Anna Mossberg, born in 1972, holds a Master's degree of Science in Industrial Management & Engineering from Luleå University of Technology.
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 Shih Mu Piao,
Vice President, Mobile Business Group,
Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd, Taiwan
Mu-Piao Shih is Vice President and Spokesman of Mobile Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
In 1979 he joined Telecommunication Laboratories, DGT, MOTC, and took the position of a Chief Research Engineer in 1993. He was appointed as Managing Director of Mobile Communications Department, Mobile Business Group, Chunghwa Telecom Co., in April 1997 and promoted as Deputy Chief Engineer, Chief Engineer and Vice President of the business group on October 2000, October 2001 and March 2005 respectively.
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 Claire Paponneau,
EVP, International Wholesale Solutions,
France Telecom
Claire Paponneau is Executive Vice-President of International Wholesale Solutions, providing innovative services to more than 1000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers. Before taking up her current position in 2002, Claire was Executive Vice-President of International Networks.
Claire joined France Telecom in 1984 and has been involved in the management of networks, services and video planning as well as finance, planning and information systems. She was also responsible for setting up a unified organization of multicultural teams in 2000 following the France Telecom Group’s acquisition of Global One (later to become Equant, the world leader in the corporate services market).
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 Laurie Patten,
Senior Consultant,
Spectrum Strategy Consultants, Hong Kong
Laurie is a Senior Manager at Spectrum, and has been at the company for six years. He has extensive experience across many aspects of the media sector both in the UK and throughout the world, including public sector broadcasting, pay television, production, and radio. He has spent time working across Spectrum’s offices, in Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Brazil. Prior to joining Spectrum Laurie spent a number of years working as an economist for the UK Government in a variety of capacities.
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 Ross Pollack,
Senior Vice President, Distribution, Asia,
Sony Pictures Television International, Hong Kong
Ross Pollack is SPTI’s Senior Vice President, Distribution, Asia, a position he assumed in 2004. Based at SPTI’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong, he heads SPTI’s Licensing group Asia-wide and is responsible for distribution of all Sony Pictures filmed entertainment, acquired product and SPTI-produced product content in the region.
Prior to his promotion, Pollack was Senior Vice President, Business Development, Asia, since 2003. Pollack worked closely with the regional team to identify and develop new business opportunities in Asia for SPTI’s three main lines of business – licensing, international production, and international networks.
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Ampai Pornprasertsakul,
Deputy Director, IPTV Software Development,
True Internet
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 Kerry Ritz,
Managing Director,
Vonage, UK
Kerry Ritz is Managing Director of Vonage Limited (www.vonage.co.uk), the UK subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp. He is responsible for leading the company's operations, planning, development, expansion and profitability in the United Kingdom. He has now taken on the mission to bring Internet telephony to the mass market in the U.K. by taking advantage of his extensive international brand building experience in the Internet, telecoms and consumer and retail sectors.
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 Robin Russell,
Chief Executive Officer,
Australia Japan Cable, Bermuda
Robin has over thirty years experience in the telecommunications industry, the last five as CEO of AJC. AJC construction was completed on time and under budget in 2001. After four years of operation, AJC has established itself as a provider of economical and reliable connectivity with Australia. Before AJC, Robin was Telstra’s GM, Indonesia, with multiple roles as President Director of Telstra’s flagship Indonesian company, Telstra Nusantara; an executive director of the fixed line joint venture, MGTI; and a non-executive director of the trunk mobile company, Jastrindo Dinamika. Robin had a 20-year career in corporate finance and information technology with Telstra before his Indonesian assignments. He holds a Master of Commerce degree from the University of New South Wales.
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 Mr Rajesh Sawhney,
President,
Reliance Entertainment, India
Mr. Rajesh Sawhney is a key member of the Reliance - ADAG leadership team.
As President, Reliance Entertainment, he is spearheading Group’s foray into the media and entertainment space. His core focus is to build significant presence and create value for Reliance in the Entertainment eco-system, across content and distribution platforms.
He is leading the Group’s content initiatives in Movies, Music, Sports and Gaming, Internet & mobile portals and delivery across the emerging digital distribution platforms like digital cinema, IPTV, DTH and mobile TV.
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Mukul Sharma,
Vice President, Enterprise Sales, Asia Pacific,
VSNL International, Singapore
Mr. Mukul Sharma is the Vice President, Enterprise Sales for VSNL International’s Asia Region, based in Singapore. As part of his regional responsibility, he manages the sales teams in Hong Kong, Japan, Australia and Singapore to provide telecommunication solutions to multinational companies with global networking needs. These solutions focus on connectivity to both India and key global business hubs.
Mr. Sharma has been with the Tata Group for 11 years and with VSNL for over 3 years. Before taking up his current assignment, he headed two of the largest business segments for VSNL in India—Information Technology and IT-enabled services—providing services to Fortune 500 companies in Asia, with specific focus on India. He has worked in the telecoms industry since 1996, with experience in mobile, fixed line and international services. He has been a regular speaker at various industry-specific events, such as those organized by Nasscom in India.
In addition to his experience with the Tata Group, Mr. Sharma also worked with Sasken Communication Technologies, heading their Asia sales operations. Mr. Sharma graduated from the prestigious Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), from where he joined the Tata Administrative Services (TAS). He is a certified examiner of the Tata Business Excellence Model, (TBEM), which is based on the Malcolm Baldridge National Quality Award.
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 Jeffrey Soong,
Chief Executive Officer,
Broadband Network Systems Ltd, Hong Kong
Jeffrey Soong is the CEO of Broadband Network Systems Ltd, a leading Asia-focused IPTV enabler providing service operators with technology integration, content aggregation and strategy consulting.
Mr Soong has over 20 years of experience in the fields of entertainment, technology, and international finance, and is a recognized expert on the subject of entertainment and technology convergence.
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Mr. Pansak Srisap,
Senior Manager, International Wireline Business Development Department,
TOT Public Company Limited
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 Thomas Tai,
Senior Vice President, Asia Pacific,
VSNL International, Hong Kong
Thomas Tai is VSNL International’s Senior Vice President for the Asia Pacific Region. Joined VSNL in 2005, he is responsible for the company’s day-to-day operations and all sales and marketing efforts targeted to the carrier and enterprise markets in Asia. Tai plays a key role in the global strategy initiatives taken by VSNL as it expands its customer facing activity in key global markets.
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 Ihab Tarazi,
Vice President, Global Network Planning,
Verizon Business, USA
As Vice President of Verizon Business’ Global Network Planning organization, Ihab Tarazi oversees one of the largest facilities based communications networks in the world. Ihab Tarazi is responsible for the network planning and development of Verizon Business’ seamless global voice, data, IP and Transport networks which span more than 2,600 cities in 140 countries touching six continents.
Mr. Tarazi has been with Verizon Business for over 15 years and has served in a variety of engineering and management positions. Under his leadership, Verizon Business has been able to expand network capacity significantly and reduce costs every year, while delivering improved network performance.
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Harvey Thomlinson,
Manager, Asia Pacific,
Pyramid Research
Harvey is Pyramid Research’s Manager Asia Pacific based out of Pyramid’s Hong Kong office. A fluent Mandarin speaker, Harvey also oversees coverage of the China market for Pyramid. He also has a strong background of directing Asia regional research in fields including VoIP, convergence, terminals, and NGN. Earlier in 2006, he led a major custom project for a tier-one infrastructure vendor looking at IP applications in a number of Asian markets and he is currently engaged in a major study of telecoms/media convergence opportunities for another global organization. Recent work in 2006 has included business plan support for a 3rd mobile-operator license opportunity, and financing structure due diligence on mobile operator network upgrade plans in two countries. Prior to joining Pyramid, Harvey held a number of telecoms industry research and advisory roles in both the UK and Asia. He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he got a First in Modern History & Economics. Subsequently he read for his MSc. in Quantitative Finance at Westminster Business School, and he has also been a visiting student at Duke University, and Shanghai Europe-China Business School. Harvey is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and seminars.
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 Peter Thomson,
President & Managing Director, Asia,
Macquarie Telecom, Singapore
Peter Thomson is the founder and president of Macquarie Telecom in Asia, a position he was appointed to in 2000 when the Singapore office was set up as part of Macquarie Telecom’s regional expansion plans. His responsibilities include spearheading Macquarie Telecom’s Asian business, growth and marketing strategy, driving corporate branding, and overseeing the company’s regional sales teams, account management, service and product development functions.
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K Vidyasagar,
Head, Carriers Sales,
Bharti AirTel, India
Is a Post Graduate Diploma holder in Business Administration. Industry Experience spanning over 18 years in Service, Sales and Business Operations. Worked with industry major such as Compaq, Digital and Olivetti focusing on Selling Services and Integrated Solutions. With telecom liberalization in India, joined Bharti, in the year 2000, in the ISP division and later moved on to Carriers division in Bharti to head their Carrier Sales. He has been responsible for Strategising and providing leadership to Carrier Sales business. He is responsible in building long term relationships with Large Carriers and other Service Providers in India.
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Suresh Viswanathan,
Program Director,
Orange Business Services, India
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 Ricky Wong,
Chairman & Co-Founder,
City Telecom, Hong Kong
Mr. Ricky Wong Wai-kay is the co-founder of the Group, who is the chairman of City Telecom (HK) Limited and Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited. Mr. Wong graduated in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1985 and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics, and possesses many years’ experience in telecommunications and computer industries. Upon graduation, Mr. Wong joined IBM and launched a business venture of his own in Canada in 1989.
In 1991, Mr. Wong set up City Telecom Incorporation in Canada. A year later, he returned to Hong Kong to set up City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. to provide competitively-priced IDD services. Under the leadership of Mr. Wong, City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. has played a major role in the liberalization of the telecommunications market in Hong Kong. Invested in its own network, the wholly-owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, is one of the major fixed network operators in HK. Its network, which is the world’s largest Metro Ethernet IP network, is connected by self-built fibre backbone to provide 1000, 100 and 10 Mbps broadband Internet access, telephony, IP-TV and corporate data services.
The group was successfully listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in August 1997 and the Nasdaq National Market in the USA in November 1999, which marked significant milestones of the company.
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 Hou Ziqiang,
Chief Technology Advisor,
China Netcom
Mr Hou is a professor of the Institute of Acoustics, China Academy of Science (CAS). Mr. Hou was the Secretary General of the Chinese Academy of Sciences from 1988 to 1993, and Director of the Institute of Acoustics CAS from 1993 to 1997. Mr. Hou is also an Committeeman of the Telecommunication Science and Technology Committee of the Ministry of Information Industry (MII) and independent Non-executive Director of China Netcom Group Corporation (Hong Kong) Ltd., He has won the 1st Class Chinese National Award of Science and Technology Progress.
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