Meet our speakers
CEO,
Telekom Austria Czech Republic
Education: Engineering Degree from the Vienna TGM technical school
Professional Experience:
October 08 – present CEO and Chairman of the Board Telekom Austria Czech Republic
January 08 – September 08 Chief Marketing Officer, Deputy Chairman of the Board
Telekom Austria Czech Republic
Vice-President for Central and Eastern Europe Transaction Network Services
Mr. Bader spent more than 25 years in different positions in the telecommunication and IT industry mainly on sales and management positions. He worked for Telekom Austria, Siemens, Digital Equipment, Equant (now Orange Business Services), and Astrolink.
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Managing Director,
Borusan Telekom
Mehmet Baser was born in Istanbul in 1968. He graduated from Istanbul Saint Joseph French High School in 1987. He earned dual B.S. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Physics from Bogazici University. Mehmet Baser holds an M.B.A. degree from Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University.
Mehmet Baser started his career in United States in 1995. He worked as Key Account Sales Manager at American Power Conversion between 1995-1996 and Corporate Finance Senior Consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers Istanbul between 1997-1998. He then joined McKinsey & Company Istanbul in 1998 where he advised clients on operational improvement, strategy development, portfolio strategy and organization. Mehmet Baser joined Borusan Teknoloji Group as Strategic Project Manager and worked with group companies Time, Bnet and Pargem in a variety of improvement and development projects between 2001 and 2003.
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Director of Carrier Business and Wholesale,
lattelecom
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Ms Nadine Berezak-Lazarus, Managing Director,
BMP Telecomunications
Mrs. Nadine Berezak-Lazarus, French, graduated at the Grande Ecole Commerciale, ESCP-EAP and studied in Paris, Oxford and Berlin in 1987. From 1993 to 1999, she developed and led the broadband team of a leading German consultancy group. In 1999 she founded bmp Telecommunications Consultants and has held the position of managing director since. She has been involved in international broadband-related strategy projects using mature and innovative last mile technologies including DSL, LLU CATV, PLC, wireless (WiMAX, WiFi-mesh), FTTx, NGN and topics such as triple play, in-home networking, and fixed-mobile convergence.
Worldwide customers include high ranking service providers such as Electro-Com (Russia), France Telecom (France), GTS Central Europe (Hungary), Smart Telecom (Ireland); utilities such as Electricité de France, Electricity Authority of Cyprus; manufacturers such as Legrand (France), NEC (Japan) or Siemens (Germany); venture capitalists/incubators CMGI (France), Morgan Stanley (UK), BVCP (Russia ) or Durlacher (UK) and public/governmental authorities.
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General Manager,
Hungaro Digitel
Computer developer, served 4 years in Paris (commercial secretary, informatics and telecommunication) as coordinator of the French-Hungarian computer licence and know-how transfer project.
Headed the Commercial Section of the Hungarian Embassy in Algiers as commercial counsellor (1987-1991)
General manager of OPERATOR hungaria Hungarian-French telecommunication (radio paging) service provider.
From 1998 until 2007 CEO (and continues to be managing director) of HungaroDigiTel Plc. active in the professional satellite telecommunication (VSAT) field, a Hungarian-Portuguese joint venture. Parallel (1999-2003) he directed Eurotel Co. fibre optic telecommunication network operator in Budapest. Since December 2007 Head of Telecommunication Business Division of Antenna Hungária Ltd, a fully owned subsidiary of TDF.
Between 1994 and 1997 he was member of the board of directors of the Hungarian-French Chamber of Commerce and Industry. From 1996 he was a member of the Board of Directors of EPPA (European Public Paging Association) and chairman of its Emerging Markets Working Group. He was president of the Hungarian Federation for Electronics and Infocommunication between 1999 and 2004.
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Andrzej Binkowski (31) is the Managing Partner of Nordkapp Equity, the private equity firm, established in 2002, specialized in the financing and management of infrastructure and real estate projects.
Previously Mr. Binkowski was the Board Chairman and CEO of DRSA, one of the fastest growing telecommunications companies in Poland. In 2007 DRSA reached 84 mln PLN revenues, 5 mln PLN EBITDA, and 3 mln PLN of net profit. Mr. Binkowski was also a founder of DRSA and its shareholder. In November 2007 DRSA was sold to the PPWK S.A., an industrial conglomerate listed on the Warsaw Stock Exchange (estimated transaction value - 10 mln Euro).
Prior to establishing DRSA Mr. Binkowski worked for Telekomunikacja Polska S.A. (TPSA). He was actively involved in the process of the Initial Public Offering (Privatisation) and in the Initial Bond Offering (the value of the transaction was one billion US dollars) as the member of the TPSA co-ordinating committee.
Later Mr. Binkowski worked as the Polish representative of Zephyr Telecommunications Inc., an American based international long distance operator co-owned by Motorola.
Mr. Binkowski graduated from Warsaw University - Faculty of Law, and post graduate studies at Harvard Business School and Warsaw School of Economics.
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Head of Interaoperability,
Vodafone Group
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Wholesale Director,
Novatel Bulgaria
Jana Bratanova started her professional carrier in telecoms at the Ministry of Post and Telecommunications in 1984.
After the separation of Post and Telecommunications activities in 1992, she joined the Bulgarian Incumbent – BTC-AD.
From 1992 to 1995 she worked at different position in Int’l settlement dept., Finance and Accounting, Treasury.
Between 1996 and 2004 she was headed the activities relating to the implementation of domestic interconnects, Billing of Key customers, planning of international network, Financial Management of Int’l Submarine cable projects.
After the privatization of BTC, from 2004 until July 2008, she was a Director of Wholesale business. As a head of Wholesale she was dealing with domestic and international, regulated and commercial voice and data services.
Since August, 2008 Jana Bratanova has moved to Novatel Bulgaria, a Wholesale Operator, owned by Magyar Telecom, where she took over the responsibility for the wholesale activities of the company.
Jana has over 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry.
She graduated from Economic University of Sofia with a Master degree in economics.
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Chief Corporate Strategy & International Expansion Officer,
Turkcell
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General Manager, Regulations, Legal and Interoperator Relations,
Tellcom Iletism
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Head of Wholesale Department,
Colt
François Eloy is the Managing Director of the Wholesale Business Division at COLT. François as joined COLT early in 2006. François is building COLT´s position as THE pan-European networking operator for data and voice services for other telecommunications and IT operators, and outsourcing partner for basic network services. Prior to joining COLT, François Eloy successfully established BT as a major player in France through its Major Business channel. François also spent 10 years at Equant.
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Chief Wholesale Officer,
Telefonica O2 Czech Republic
Pavel Jiroušek studied at the Department of Computer Systems and Technical Cybernetics at the University of Western Bohemia. In 2000, he earned his Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at the University of Pittsburgh. From 1992 until 1995 Mr. Jiroušek worked as Director of Marketing and Product Management for EuroTel Praha. From 1995 he has been active in ČESKÝ TELECOM (since July 2006 Teléfonica O2 Czech Republic, a.s.), where, in May 2001, he became Executive Vice-President of Wholesale Services. In November 2004 P. Jiroušek was appointed Chief International Business Officer and in November 2005 Chief Wholesale Officer in Telefónica O2 Czech Republic, a.s.
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Head Of Carrier Relations,
Iskon Internet
Zoran Korecic joined Iskon Internet in December 2005. As a Head of Carrier Relations Department at Iskon Internet, the second largest ISP and first Broadband Telecom in Croatia he is working closely with national and international telecom carriers and telecom authorities in country and worldwide. He is specialized in International and National Data and Voice Services, Carrier Relations, Telecommunication Law and Regulations.
Prior to joining Iskon Internet Mr. Korecic worked for a specialized telecom vendor company which represents various international brand companies.
Zoran graduated at University of Zagreb, Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences, and also Faculty of Electrical Engineering. He is finishing Master degree at Faculty of Economics & Business Zagreb.
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Chairman of the Board & CEO,
Iskon Internet
Prior to joining Iskon,Sasaworked with AppleCenter Novel for ten years, where he held the position of general manager for seven years. He has fifteen years of experience in the ICT industry, in sales, marketing and management. He is about to complete a business administration study (MBA program) at the Edinburgh Business School of the Heriot-Watt University.
He started his career with Iskon in 2000 as sales manager. Since 2002, he was a member of the Management Board in charge of sales, marketing, customer relations and public relations. At the General Meeting in October 2005, he was appointed Management Board member for a 5-year term. At the meeting of the Supervisory Board of Iskon Internet d.d. in June 2007, he was appointed CEO of the Company.
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Director Carrier Services,
Romtelecom
He studied Business Administration in the Netherlands and started in 1992 within KPN in different management positions. In 1997 he moved to Dublin Ireland and worked for Eircom in Pricing and later in National Carrier Services. In 2000 he moved to Prague Czech Republic to help Czech Telecom Wholesale with preparing for the opening of the Telecoms market and to develop the Hubbing business.
In 2003 he started as Director Carrier Services for Romtelecom in Bucharest Romania and he has been doing that since.
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Head of International Voice,
Croatia Telecom
Ljubinka Lončaric has been with Croatian Telecom Inc, the largest telco in Croatia, for the last 11 years. During this time she was involved in all areas of wholesale business. Since 2003 she is heading Int'l Voice.
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Vice President, Carrier Sales Europe International Wholesale Solutions,
Orange
Anne Morel is Vice President, Carrier Sales Europe for International Wholesale Solutions of the France Telecom Group, delivering services under its key brand Orange.
In this role, she is responsible for sales and new business development of the Group’s wholesale product range - covering bandwidth, Internet, mobile and voice - to European carriers, mobile operators and ISP’s.
Anne has over 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry, acquired in management positions spanning business development, telecom regulation and merger and acquisition. Notably, in some of her previous roles, Anne worked for France Telecom UK as Head of Business Analysis and later Managing Director, actively contributing to the development of the France Telecom Group’s business strategy in the UK market as well as to partnership and acquisitions work with such companies as Orange and Freeserve.
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Director Fixed Business Development,
MTS Group
Current position since January 2007 - Director of Fixed Line Telephony Business Development, Roaming and Interoperator Relations in Corporate Centre MTS Group. This job is very challenging as Mobile TeleSystems OJSC («MTS») is the largest mobile phone operator in Russia and the CIS and the mobile industry is fast growing and new technologies emerge regularly.
2004 - 2006 National Regional & Mobile Carrier Services Director in Golden Telecom
2001-2003 Startup of Sonik Duo (Megafon Moscow in Interconnect & Roaming part.
1998-2000 Startup of Kuban GSM in Roaming.
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Head of Roaming,
Mobilkom
Florian is Head of Roaming at Mobilkom Austria. He is responsible for: - Managing the roaming business of mobilkom austria group in 8 countries with ~ € 400m revenues - Creating synergies on revenues and costs through group-wide management - Realizing growth by reaching new customer groups and developing new products - Negotiating roaming cooperations with most important roaming partner groups - Leading a multi-national team of 25+ roaming managers working in Austria, Croatia, Slovenia, - Bulgaria, Serbia, Macedonia, Liechtenstein and Belarus
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Head of the section for non-voice services,
Telekom Srbija
Position:
Satellite Communications Engineer, Telekom Srbija (1996 – 1999)
Marketing Manager, Telekom Srbija (1999 – 2003)
Head of Non-voice Services Section, Telekom Srbija (2003 – to date)
Education:
Bachelor of Science – Electrical Engineering – University of Belgrade
Experience:
Assistant to the Operations Representative of Yugoslavia in INTELSAT and EUTELSAT
Participant to the ITU Study Group 3 meetings
Member of Working group for the establishment of Serbian Multiservices Internet Platform (SMIN)
Pricing – non-voice services
International sales and purchase – non-voice services
Wholesale – non-voice services
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Chief Director of Business Development,
JSC Kazakhtelecom
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Regional Director CEE - Global Voice Solutions,
Tata Communications
Marcin Raczkiewicz is the Regional Director of Global Voice Solutions for Tata Communications Central and Eastern Europe division, part of the $62.5 billion Tata Group. Mr. Raczkiewicz is responsible for voice sales, buying and bilateral agreements in twelve countries of CEE region.
Since joining Tata Communications (then Teleglobe), Mr. Raczkiewicz has occupied several positions since starting as Managing Director, Poland, where he focused on the IP local market. In 2002, Mr. Raczkiewicz was promoted to Regional Director in charge of Central and Eastern Europe and responsible for voice and data sales.
Previously Mr. Raczkiewicz has been working for Netia, a local telecommunications service provider in Poland. He is fluent in Polish, English and French authored a book on computer security in 1994.
A graduate of the Academy of Mining and Metallurgy in Krakow, Poland, Mr. Raczkiewicz has an MBA Mastere de Management Economique Europeen from SGH / HEC.
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Head of Wholesale Department,
HT Mostar
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Adam Sawicki was appointed CEO of GTS Central Europe in May 2008. Earlier, he was a founder and long-time president of the Polish TeliaSonera branch, and managed the company’s development in North America and Western Europe. At the same time, he acted as Managing Director of TeliaSonera’s London branch. After graduating from the Faculty of Economics and Management at the University of Stockholm, he worked for the Swedish telecom – Telia AB, later Telia International Carrier. He was a member of the management board at TeliaSonera Wholesale (TeliaSonera AB group). His career started in Ericsson.
Apart from his studies, he participated in special management training programs at the Harvard Business School, Stanford University (USA), IMD (Switzerland) and INSEAD (France). He is fluent in English and Swedish, and also speaks Russian and French.
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Ms Tatjana Shah- Nararova, Head of Carrier Relations Strategy Department,
MTS Group
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Special Advisor,
Croatia Telecom
• 2007/T-Com/Special adviser for business development, International Carrier Sales
• 2004/T-Com/Senior consultant, Product Development department
• 2003/HT-Hrvatski telekom/ Portfolio Manager , Product Development department
• 2000 – 2002/HT-Hrvatski telekom/Product & Project Manager , Product Development department
• 1998 – 2000/HPT/Development Manager, Research Department in regional centre
• 1996 – 1998/HPT/Engineer, Optical Network
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Managing Partner,
Hardiman Telecommunications Ltd.
Darragh is the Managing Partner of Hardiman Telecommunications (www.telecoms.net) based in Europe, Middle-East and Asia. Darragh heads up the London-based European (WE, CEE, SE, MEA) practice focusing on M&A diligence in CaTV, Mobile, Fixed-Line, Broadband and Telecoms Infrastructure.
Darragh’s specialist expertise includes corporate valuation, technology strategy development and critique, business case development and analysis in addition to capital project management and structuring.
Examples of recent M&A assignments include:-
Due Diligence on Acquisition of Central European Cable Operator
Detailed Commercial, Technical and CapEx analysis of European Incumbent Telco
Development and Launch Management of new Middle-East Mobile Operator
Development of Commercial Strategy and Valuation for Eastern European Fixed/Mobile operator
Development of valuation assessment and analysis of European towerco
Detailed Operational and Strategic assessment and business Plan of Asian CaTV MSO
Darragh has held senior management positions in the Telecommunications and IT industries based successively in Washington DC, Los Angeles, Paris, Dublin and London. Industry specific expertise includes wireless and wireline broadband communications, Broadband and Broadcast Cable and OSS.
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Commercial Director,
Croatia Telecom
Zarko Sutlar is executive director for wholesale at Croatian Telecom Inc. (T-HT). He entered this position after several years leading the international wholesale. In the period of preparation for the liberalization of the Croatian telecommunication market he had managed corporate projects of wholesale strategy and business development in the same company. The projects aimed at repositioning of the Croatian incumbent to achieve high competitiveness and remain dominant in the fully demonopolized wholesale market. Mr. Sutlar's background is in IP: since 1995 he had organized and managed the first and the largest commercial ISP business in Croatia.
Mr. Sutlar holds the Master of Science degree in electrical engineering in the field of telecommunications and IT; he broadened his technical education and background with number of general management and financial courses and seminars at GSBA Business School in Zurich and Hawksmere Business School in London and IEDC Business School, Bled. He is the author of more than 50 scientific and professional papers and articles.
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Head of Wholesale,
Telekom Austria
Joe Trimmel ist leading the Wholesale Business Unit of Telekom Austria and Managing Director of it´s international subsidiaries in Hugary, Slovenia, Slovakia, Croatia, Romania & Bulgaria.
Josef holds a Master Degree in Legal Studies and graduated with a Degree in Electrical Engineering. During his Carreer within the telecommunication industry, Josef led serveral business and technical key-projects in numerous departments.
He is actively participating in a lot of different Advisory and Management Boards.
In 2007 he was apointed as the Supervisiory Board Chairman of Telekom Austria TA´s foreign telecommunication providers.
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Managing Director,
3C Hungary
Stefan Tsvetkov, 38, is currently Managing Director of 3C Telecom (Hungary), the business unit of the Hungarian DKH Telecommunications group.
Bulgarian by birth, Stefan has lived in Hungary since 1990 and he has spent over 12 years at senior level within the telecommunications industry throughout Hungary, Russia, Bulgaria and Central Europe working a variety of senior sales and management roles with IBM Global Services and AT&T Business.
He recently managed the integration of the company in the structures of the mother company and the planning of the group's regional expansion.
A graduate of The Technical University of Budapest, Stefan is married with one son.
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Evgeny Moskalev
