CEO, Global & Wholesale Services,
SingTel
Sanjiv Aiyar joined SingTel in August 2007 as CEO, Global Markets & Wholesale. He leads SingTel’s growth in the global markets – delivering Telecom solutions to customers worldwide through the Global Offices. He also drives SingTel’s Wholesale business growth with international carriers and service providers.
Prior to joining SingTel, Sanjiv was President of Emerio Corp., an IT Managed Services company headquartered in Singapore with operations in 11 countries. He co-led the company with the founder CEO.
He spent 18 years with Hewlett Packard prior to this. He started with DIGITAL and stayed with the company through the Compaq-HP merger. He held several senior management positions in the Asia Pacific region. His last position was VP and Managing Director SE Asia region, overseeing the financial performance of the operations in ASEAN and some of South Asia countries.
|
|
Executive Vice President ,
Etisalat
Ali has held various posts in Engineering & Technical fields. He has been was Chief Engineer Transmission and Switching for Fixed and Mobile Network, Executive Vice President Operations, actively involved in various Corporation’s strategic activities both locally and internationally and Executive Vice President Carrier & Wholesale Services, actively involved in the Corporate’s Carrier & Wholesale Business Services
Ali has also been Chairman of the GSM Arab World and member of the GSM Association Executive Committee
|
|
COO,
Entanet International
James Blessing is Chief Operations Officer for Entanet International, part of the $200M IT distribution and services group Entagroup. An innovative and creative IT professional, he has over ten years’ experience of deploying Internet technologies and takes an active role in the Internet industry. He has been a council member of the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) since 2004 and is Chair of the ISPA broadband sub-group.
Prior to joining Entanet in 2005, James commanded the roles of Technical Support Manager and Technical Development Manager at Zen Internet where he was responsible for growing a large support team, product development and financial reporting. Previously he held senior project management and technical directorship roles in the design and build of consumer facing websites for high street brands and outsourced IT support to media companies. This followed an early career in radio in which he was involved in outside broadcasting, technical operation and programme production.
|
|
Head of Group Service Interoperability,
IP Alliance & Vodafone
|
|
EVP Personal Business Line,
Orange
Brigitte Bourgoin joined Orange in 2000 and is responsible for the management of all country operations outside France and the UK, contributing to the continued expansion of the Orange footprint.
Before joining Orange, Brigitte launched and developed France Télécom's international mobile activities from 1990 to 1999. In 1993 she was appointed General Manager of France Télécom Mobile International, the group company in charge of France Télécom's international mobile business development and operations (which consisted of 15 subsidiaries, most of which were transferred to Orange in 2000).
|
|
Executive Vice President, Product Management,
Deutsche Telekom
Claudia Buhne heads up the international wholesale telecommunications product management division of Deutsche Telekom and is in charge of Product Management for IP-VPN & Roaming, IP-Transit & Peering, Voice Services and Transport. Prior to being responsible for product development at ICSS, Claudia worked in various positions within the Deutsche Telekom Group for over eight years. Most recently, she was part of the national wholesale organization, heading up the product management for Interconnect Services at T-Com. Before joining the Deutsche Telekom Group, Clauia Buhne spent several years working in different sales and marketing positions outside of the telecommunications arena. Claudia Buhne graduated from the University of Siegen, Germany, as a "Diplomkauffrau" (approximates a master degree in business administration).
|
|
General Manager, Wholesale Business Unit,
Jordan Telecom
Clement Charron (Vice President Jordan Telecom Group/General Manager Wholesale Business Unit)
Mr. Charron has been the General Manager of the wholesale business unit since July 2006. Prior to that, he worked as Manager for the wholesale business unit since 2004, bringing with him extensive international experience from his days with France Telecom Group. In 1997, Mr. Charron led France Telecom's Representative Office in Jakarta, Indonesia (1997-1998) before moving to hold Sales and Business Development positions within the Wholesale Market at France Telecom Long Distance (1998-2000) and at Mobistar's (Belgium) Roaming and Interconnect department (2000-2004).
|
|
EVP Global Business Units,
Veraz Networks
Amit. Chawla has served as our EVP Global Business Units since 2007, and previously served as VP of Global Marketing and Product Management. Prior to Veraz, Mr Chawla served as the CEO of Softswitch Enterprises, Inc. and NexVerse Networks, Inc., and held various positions in executive management, marketing, product line management, and engineering at Nortel Networks.
|
|
COO, Global Data Business ,
Bharti Airtel
As the Chief Operating Officer for Global Data Business at Airtel Enterprise Services, Ajay is responsible for developing & executing strategy to maximize business profitability and enhance customer satisfaction for all the Domestic & International Data Products in Airtel’s Portfolio .
He is responsible for expanding Airtel’s data product roadmap , service capabilities and customer facing activities in wholesale Data Market both within India & Globally . Ajay also spearheads Airtel's strategy for the International Infrastructure including the Submarine assets and global footprints. Besides heading these strategic initiatives he is also responsible for Data products distribution strategy through Enterprise & SMB sales units within Airtel .
|
|
Agreements Strategy and Development,
Telefónica International Wholesale Services
|
|
Chief Executive ,
BT Wholesale
Sally Davis is CEO BT Wholesale and her role is to lead the Wholesale team in its delivery of existing business at the same time as exploiting new opportunities in an IP-enabled world. She also champions Wholesale's contribution to helping BT become number one for customer service. Sally is a member of BT’s Operating Committee.
Prior to this Sally was BT’s first Chief Portfolio Officer providing overall leadership for the shape and future of the company’s portfolio. Sally’s role was to apply a clear commercial logic to managing today’s portfolio whilst ensuring that we built innovative convergent services and solutions for the future.
|
|
|
Dino joined Vipnet after leaving Alcatel where he started his career in 1993. He achieved his first business success as a Logistics Manager, and in 1995 he became responsible for strategic controlling and organisation.
From 1997 until 2002 he worked as a financial project manager in Paris and then on managing controlling and logistics of telecommunication network software system divisions for Germany. From 2002 he was Telecommunication network operations and service Manager for Germany, Middle and East Europe, with headquarters in Stuttgart.
Dino was born in Stuttgart, Germany. After graduating from University of Stuttgart, department of economy, he won a doctor’s degree in 1992 for his thesis Strategic management of logistics. Since July 2003 he has held the position of Vipnet’s CFO and is member of Board.
|
|
Head of Gobal Strategy,
Swisscom
|
|
Vice President of International Affairs,
Telecom Egypt
|
|
|
Rinaldi Firmansyah serves as President Director and Chief Executive Officer of PT Telekomunikasi Indonesia, Tbk. (TELKOM) - a full-integrated infocom provider, publicly listed at JSX and NYSE, since March 2007. Prior to his recent appointment to this top post, Rinaldi Firmansyah held the position of Chief Financial Officer at the firm and was named as the best CFO by “Asia Money” in 2004 and by “Finance Asia” in the category “Best Managed Companies” in 2006. Prior to joining TELKOM, Rinaldi Firmansyah served as Director of Investment Banking, President Director and Vice President Commissioner, of PT Bahana Securities from 1997-2003. He was also the Head of the Audit Committee and Commissioner of PT Semen Padang in 2003.
Rinaldi Firmansyah is a Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA). He graduated with a degree in electrical engineering from the Bandung Institute of Technology and a Masters degree in business administration from the Indonesian Institute of Management Development (IPMI), Jakarta.
|
|
Head of Wholesale,
TeliaSonera
Mrs. Malin Frenning is Senior Vice President of TeliaSonera and Head of Wholesale & International Carrier within Business Area Broadband Services, TeliaSonera.
Malin Frenning has 10 years of experience from senior management positions within the fields of Carrier business and International Strategy and Product management.
During 2006-2007 she held the position as Acting Head of Business Unit Products and Services in TeliaSonera Sweden AB. Before that she held the position as Director Product Management for TeliaSonera Sweden AB. Between 2004-2005 she was Director of Strategy and Business Development within Business Area Consumer in TSSAB. During 1999-2002 she was Vice President Telia International Carrier and Director of Product Division. She was also a Member of the Board in Telia International Carrier Hong Kong, Telia International Carrier Polska and of the Internal Board for business Area Carrier and Network during 2000-2002. In 1993 Malin Frenning joined Telia AB.
|
|
VP Product Management & Marketing,
Belgacom International Carrier Services
Patrick George is currently heading the Marketing & Product Management organisation within Belgacom ICS after being Director International Transmission Network in charge of Engineering, Operations and Worldwide Field Operations where he deployed the first Pan European Next Generation Optical Backbone. Prior to Belgacom ICS, Patrick has been Senior Sales & Account Director at Mach, the leading clearing house worldwide and head of the Mobile Market Development at GTS-Ebone responsible for establishing Ebone as a key market player in the mobile data arena. In the late 90s, Patrick held different management positions within the product and marketing departments at Belgacom and WIN. He began his career as a research engineer for the research and development team of Belgacom after graduating as a Civil Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Liège. He also studied marketing at Insead, Fontainebleau.
|
|
|
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.
Prior to founding iBasis, Mr. Gneezy was president of Acuity Imaging, Inc., a multinational leader in industrial automation technology. Mr. Gneezy led Acuity to achieve significant increases in earnings, revenues and stockholder equity before successfully orchestrating the company's acquisition by RVSI, the second-largest company in the industry. The acquisition provided Acuity with strong financial backing and access to the semiconductor industry while delivering liquidity to Acuity investors. Previously, as president and CEO of Automatix, Inc., Mr. Gneezy led the turnaround of the company to growth and sustained quarterly profitability and managed its merger with Itran, Inc. to form Acuity. Mr. Gneezy is a graduate of the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University's Graduate School of Business Administration and has an M.S. in engineering from M.I.T.
|
|
Executive Vice President, Carrier Services,
du
Andrew Grenville has been at the forefront of the telecommunications industry for over 20 years. Prior to his role at du Andrew was responsible for managing and developing StarHub’s international voice and data. Andrew’s career with British Telecom (BT) spanned close to 10 years. In the early 90s, he held a post in Global Finance and played a major sales role in BT’s initial years in London. After this, Andrew was Alliance Director for StarHub (British Telecom’s Singapore venture). In this role, he was responsible for managing the overall relationship between BT and StarHub at the management and shareholder levels.
|
|
Head of Section International Co-ordination,
Bundesnetzagentur
Annegret has been Head of Section ‘International Co-ordination’ in German Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post since 2001. She holds key positions at the Independent Regulators Group (IRG, a group of European National Telecommunications Regulatory Authorities created in 1997) since 2001 and was appointed IRG Coordinator in September 2004.
Since 1997 Dr. Groebel has been working for the German Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Post, which was renamed Federal Network Agency for Electricity, Gas, Telecommunications, Post and Railway in July 2005. She is responsible for all contacts to other European and non-European regulatory bodies as well as for the contacts with the European Commission. Since July 2005 the coordination with the energy regulators including the relevant groups (CEER/ERGEG) were added. Since October 2005 she was promoted to become Chief of Staff (Managing Director) for all staff units reporting to the President (such as the litigation unit, press office etc.).
|
|
Director, Programme and Strategy Office,
Mobilink
Tahir Hameed, is director of strategry at Mobilink a subsidiary of Orascom Telecom, with a customer base of over 30 million . Mobilink places high importance to its coverage, which coverage in over 8000+ cities and towns in Pakistan as well as over 120 countries on international roaming service.
|
|
|
Michael Hecker joined MTS in May 2006, he currently serves as Vice President for Strategy and Corporate development.
Prior to joining MTS, Michael Hecker worked at A.T. Kearney Europe from 2000-2006 where he was occupied in the fields of strategy, marketing and finance in European telecommunication and consumer goods industries. Prior to that, he worked in several positions as a Junior Lawyer in Berlin and Brandenburg (Germany).
Michael Hecker was born in 1970 in Kiel (Germany). He is a graduate in International Politics and Administration of the Pierre-Mendez-France-University in Grenoble (France) and a graduate in Law (1. and 2. German State Exam) as well as Modern History of the Georg-August-University in Goettingen (Germany) where he holds a PhD in Constitutional History.
|
|
Senior Adviser, Service Market Department,
Norwegian Post and Telecommunications Authority (NPT)
Daniel Hegland, 33, joined NPT in January 2006, and his main fields of work include market analyses and regulation of the wholesale leased lines-, LLU-, and wholesale broadband market in Norway. Prior to joining NPT, he worked 5 years as a project co-ordinator for the telecom service provider Smartcall, a subsidiary of Get (formerly UPC Norway). His experience also includes working as a consultant at Telenor, and serving as a logistics officer in the Norwegian Air Force. Daniel holds a MSc in Business Administration from Agder University College, Norway.
|
|
Head of European ICT Policy,
Department of Trade & Industry (DTI)
Nigel Hickson was educated in Hertfordshire in England before going to the City University to study Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He joined the Department of Trade and Industry in 1982 and has worked in a number of sections including export controls, financial services regulation and information security policy.
He was seconded to the Confederation of British Business (CBI) in June 2000 to head up their newly formed E-business Group.
In July 2001 he joined the Government of Bermuda as the E Business Adviser to the Minister of Telecommunications and E Commerce. After three years in Bermuda he has retuned to the DTI (now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - BERR) as Deputy Director in the Europe and International Team. Here he is working primarily on EU ICT policy issues such as the Review on the Telecommunications Framework and on Spectrum policy.
|
|
Head of Mobile Community,
TeliaSonera International Carrier
Bernd Hoogkamp joined Teliasonera International Carrier in 2005. With over 9 years in the Telecommunications industry in various roles within wholesale, interconnection and the regulatory field, he has experience in contract negotiating, major account management, project management and new business development.
|
|
Product Manager, IP Services,
iBasis / KPN Global Carrier Services
As Product Manager, IP services, Mr Huisman is responsible for developing and marketing value added IP services targeting Mobile Network Operators and he successfully led the first IPX trial for iBasis. Reinier Husiman is also an active participant in GSMA workgroups.
Reinier has a strong experience in innovative mobile services for retail, business and wholesale customers. Previously he worked for Vodafone Netherlands and KPN Mobile and was in charge of product developments such as location based services, mobile music, GRX, mobile internet and IPX. In the past, he was KPN representative for various i-Mode alliance workgroups.
He’s also doing Consulting work for African child helpline projects. Reinier holds a master degree in International Business Management from the University of Maastricht.
|
|
|
Ole heads up the operations at TDC Wholesale - an established provider of international telecommunications with a long history of using our expertise in transmission and an extensive Pan-Nordic network including well-developed backbones in Germany with Points of Presence in several major European cities. TDC recently conducted one of the most scrwed bits of business in the industry with their 5-year voice outsorucing deal to iBasis giving Ole invlauable insigth into the valuable business proposition.
|
|
Executive Vice President,
NTT Commuincation Corporation
Mr Inoue took up his current position in 2004. He has worked for NTT since 1972 and his previous roles have included: Managing Director, NTT Europe Ltd; Member of the Board, NTT Communications Corporation; Vice President, Global Business Headquarters, Overseas Carrier Business; Vice President, North America & Europe Business Development; Executive Vice President, NTT America Inc. He holds a Master’s Degree in Electronic Physical Engineering from Tokyo Institute of Technology
|
|
CEO,
Telenor Global Services
Bjorn has been in the finance/telecom business for more than 20 years, after graduating from the Norwegian school of management (BI) in Oslo, Norway in 1988.
In 1988, Bjorn started his career as accountant in Deloitte.
In 1996 Bjorn was appointed chief accountant in Telenor Global Services, and in 1999 he was appointed as Chief Finance Officer in the company.
From 2006 Bjorn has been the CEO of TGS, a position he still holds.
|
|
Senior Manager, Product Development and Marketing,
TELUS
Nauman has more than 13 years of global, multinational and entrepreneurial work experience within the telecom industry – more specifically focused on the wireless sector by concentrating on product development, product management and consulting experience coupled with Project Management skill-set to help conceptualize and implement products and services ranging from pricing, managing smart phone launches, developing CRM solutions, evolving channel strategy to working on cutting edge technologies like NGN / MPLS network and fixed mobile convergence roll-out within Canada for Mobility Solutions. He is one of the pioneers of including "service and support" revenue as part of ARPU (besides voice and data) and linking it with TELUS most significant value proposition of superior client experience. TELUS has historically one of the lowest Churn and highest ARPU numbers in the competitive North America market. TELUS is a $9B annual revenue incumbent TELECOM player in North America.
|
|
Founder and CEO,
Xconnect
Eli Katz is the Founder and CEO at XConnect, an organisation which realises the vision of global end-to-end IP communications. XConnect is the world's first and largest provider of 'Plug and Peer' VoIP interconnection services dedicated to connecting IP communications providers and by-passing the legacy PSTN.
Eli co-founded and is interim chairman of the UK’s VoIP trade body ITSPA - the Internet Telephony Service Providers’ Association and has a distinguished track record in telecoms. In 1996 he joined Telco Global at its inception, and in 1999, as Managing Director, the company grew rapidly offering telecoms, internet & mobile services to one million customers with £250m annual revenue. He was a key player in the IPO of the US parent company.
Eli is the author of several VoIP directory and security patents. He is a frequent and dynamic speaker on the topics of VoIP Peering and Regulatory issues, sharing his expertise at numerous international conferences. He graduated from Imperial College in 1992, with a first class honours in Computer Science.
|
|
Executive Vice President, International Carrier Sales,
Deutsche Telekom
Heribert Krautkremer, EVP International Carrier Sales, is the Head of Sales for International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), Deutsche Telekom’s International carrier division.
Mr Krautkremer has held several executive positions within the Deutsche Telekom Wholesale team including: EVP Global Carrier Relations Management, EVP T-Account Management and EVP International Carrier Sales. Mr. Krautkremer's extensive knowledge of the International Telecommunications industry combined with his time spent within the Deutsche Telekom group, holding numerous executive responsibilities interfacing with T-Mobile, T-Online and T-Com, positions him well for his current role as EVP International Carrier Sales.
|
|
CEO,
Belgacom International Carrier Services
Daniel Kurgan graduated from Solvay Business School (Brussels) in 1987 and started his carreer in various international sales and business development positions in 3 SME's before becoming Contracts Manager at SABCA, Belgium's biggest aerospace company, where he negotiated major industrial sales, subcontracting and purchase contracts. Daniel joined BELGACOM's Carrier Division in January 1997, coinciding with the start of carrier commercial operations, as International Account Manager and became Head of International Relations and Sales in 1999. From 2000 Daniel was Sales Director for domestic and international wholesale and in 2002 he became VP International Wholesale. In 2005 he was appointed VP Commercial of Belgacom International Carrier Services SA, a JV of the carrier business of Belgacom and Swisscom. In 2006 he was promoted COO of BelgacomICS the eighth largest carrier worldwide with annual revenues of 1billion. Later that year he became CEO.
|
|
International Business Director,
Telecom Argentina
|
|
Deputy Director of Strategy,
National Communications Authority
Robert joined NHH in 2007. Previously he worked at IBM, Hungary, and spent more than 10 years in various (later managerial) positions at both the incumbent (T-COM) operator and later the largest fixed line alternative operator (Pantel, HTCC) in a turbulent era of competition here in Hungary. Until his public service as deputy strategy director, Robert mostly dealt with business development of many new-age telecom services, including ULL, VoIP, and FTTH as well (other project included: IP-VPNs, MLL, Int.MLL, CS/CPS, Softswitch etc.) Also Robert dealt with business analysis on emerging opportunities such as CATV and VoCATV, VoIPo3G (mobile VoiP).
In Robert's current position he is responsible for crafting NCAH (NHH) competitive strategy in various fields, one of which is Next Generation Networks, (which largely covers the topic of the panel.)
|
|
|
Kathryn Morrissey, President, AT&T Wholesale is responsible for directing world-wide sales and sales operations for the wholesale segment including wireless carriers, systems integrators, cable companies, RBOCs, PTTs, ISPs, Content Providers and traditional resellers. She supports a sales organization located in over seventy countries that provides a comprehensive suite of products and services including traditional voice, data, and IP as well as value add services including call center solutions, VPN, directory assistance, card services, and teleconferencing.
In addition, Kathie oversees the buying and routing management of international voice services for the consumer, business, and wholesale units within AT&T.
|
|
Head of Roaming,
Mobilkom Austria
|
|
Director, Voice Evolution Strategy,
Tata Communications
Claus started his career as a software developer and Delivery Support Specialist in Nokia Denmark before moving, in 1999, to the Philippines where he held several positions within Nokia. Eventually he moved onto the largest mobile operator Smart Communications in the Philippines. Here he was appointed as the Senior Advisor with focus on strategic engagement toward Associations and Organization like the GSM Association, Wireless Broadband Alliance and others. During which time he also held the position of Chief Technology Advisor for Infocom Technologies, an ISP and Call Center outsourcing company.
In October 2007 he recently joined Tata Communications and assumed the post of Director overseeing the development of their global voice evolution strategy.
|
|
Head of Telecoms Technology,
Ofcom
Since joining Ofcom in 2004, as Head of Telecom's Technology, Chinyelu’s work has focused mainly on Next Generation Networks, Numbering and Risk and Return. Prior to Ofcom, Chinyelu worked for Hammatan Ventures, a US technology consultancy, where she was a Partner, developing the GSM market in Nigeria and South Africa. Previously she was Director of Market Development with Teligent in the US and before that Director of Product Strategy at Global Telesystems in the UK. She has also worked for Cable & Wireless in the UK and Nortel in the UK and France. Chinyelu is a Chartered Engineer with a BEng in Electrical Engineering from Imperial College and an MBA from Manchester Business School.
|
|
Executive Vice-President, International Wholesale Solutions,
Orange
Claire Paponneau is Executive Vice-President of International Wholesale Solutions of the France Telecom Group in which the key brand is Orange. The France Telecom Group provides 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 the France Telecom Group 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 acquisition of Global One (later to become Orange Business Services, the world leader in the corporate services market).
|
|
Senior Roaming Specialist,
Telenor
Torbjorn has worked for Europolitan, Vodafone and Telenor during 14 years with Network Management, CoreNetwork, roaming and interconnect.
During the last 5 years he has focused on quality and how to improve Global quality for all services.
Torbjorn is an active member of GSM Assosiation IREG and subgroups and also working with Global Roaming Quality on the behalf of GSMA, and Telenor Group. He works as the Senior Roaming Engineer and SS7 coordinator for Telenor Sweden.
|
|
Director Technological Development,
Vimpelcom
Natalya Rudenko is Technological Development Director at Vimplecom a telecommunications operator, providing voice and data servicing, covered through a range of wireless, fixed and broadband technologies. The Group includes companies operating in Russia, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Georgia and Armenia
|
|
Commercial Director,
Rostelecom
In 1992 Ms. Rumyantseva graduated from the Moscow State Technical University, department of "Automatic control systems of the production process", majoring in "automated designing systems". Since 1996 till 2004 she worked with Sovintel, where she step by step assumed positions as Customer Support Manager, Sales Manager, Senior Sales Manager, Head of Sales Department and hereinafter Sales Director.
In October 2004 Olga Rumyantseva was appointed Deputy Commercial Director – Head of Marketing Department with Rostelecom. Since April 2005 she filled the position of Commercial Director of Rostelecom.
|
|
Head of Regulatory Economics,
Vodafone Group
Jonathan Sandbach received a BA lst class degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of York, an M.Sc in Statistics passed with distinction from the London School of Economics, and a Ph.D from City University, London. He joined NERA (National Economic Research Associates) in 1990, working on a wide range of projects for clients in telecommunications, postal and other utility industries, across Western Europe, East Asia and the Americas.
Dr. Sandbach joined Cable & Wireless in 1998 as a regulatory economist. In October 1999 he was promoted to Director, Economic & Regulatory Analysis for the Cable & Wireless Group. In January 2003 he moved to become Vice President, Government and Regulatory Affairs for Cable & Wireless Asia, based in Tokyo.
In May 2004 Dr. Sandbach joined Vodafone Group as Head of Regulatory Economics, within the Group Public Policy Department.
|
|
|
Dave Schaeffer founded Cogent Communications in August 1999 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Under Mr. Schaeffer's leadership, Cogent became a top 5 carrier of Internet traffic in the world with a presence in over 20 countries. Mr. Schaeffer has led the efforts of 13 successful acquisitions, propelling Cogent's network into Canada and Europe. Mr. Schaeffer has successfully founded and operated six other businesses prior to Cogent. These businesses span a wide array of industries from communications to commercial real estate. Mr. Schaeffer holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, where he was also a Ph.D. candidate in Economics. His diverse background and entrepreneurial successes have enabled him to build management teams that constructed and operate the only facilities-based, non-oversubscribed multinational network of its kind.
|
|
Director Strategy & Business Innovation,
Telefonica
|
|
Competition Policy Director,
Ofcom
David Stewart is a Competition Policy Director within Ofcom’s Competition Group, leading Ofcom’s work on mobile and numbering policy. During 2008, Ofcom is conducting a mobile sector assessment to consider its overall strategic approach to regulation of the sector. Mr Stewart was previously Ofcom’s Director of Investigations, responsible for Ofcom’s work to enforce competition law, resolve disputes (for example, concerning access and interconnection), enforce regulatory rules and to act to protect consumers from unfair or illegal practices, across the telecommunications and broadcasting sectors. Prior to joining Ofcom in April 2005, he held a number of roles in the international and UK telecoms industries, including Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs for Cable & Wireless’ ‘national telcos’ division and Director of Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy for Energis Communications. He previously worked as a lawyer in private practice.
|
|
Director of Partner Services,
Cable & Wireless
Ian was appointed Director of Partner Services in September 2007. Previously he spent 22 months as Director of Solutions Support with responsibility for the in life customer management and the operation and management of C&W's global network. Before Cable and Wireless Ian spent 18 months with Energis Communications working within the Technical Platforms are of the business.
Prior to working in the Telecoms industry, Ian was with British Airways where he spent 14 years, latterly as General Manager Global Direct where he implemented one of the company’s key transformational programmes. He previously held roles as Head of Direct Sales, Customer relations and Executive Club Operations amongst others.
|
|
Head of Wholesale,
Austria Telekom
Josef is fiirst management level and authorized legal representative at Telekom Austria.
He is in charge of the marketing and sales activities for both the domestic and international wholesale market and Managing Director of Telekom Austria’s foreign subsidiaries; Jet2Web Hungary Ltd., Jet2Web Slovakia s.r.o. and TA Mreza d.o.o. (Slovenia)
|
|
|
|
|
|
- Do you have a story to tell to the world largest carriers?
- Do you have an ability to service multinational client’s cross-border requirements
- Do you have expertise in this market that you want to share in front of Europe’s largest audience?
- Have you benefited from a product or service that could help others?
If your answer is yes to any of the questions above please contact us to find out how you can help develop the programme for your peers.
| |
Target your market!
For details contact
Iain Pitt
|
|
|
|
|
