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Aidan joined SEACOM as Head of Business Development in early 2009. Previously in management consulting, Aidan developed and implemented a number of launch strategies for mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa. He also worked in South Africa consulting to several Financial & Government institutions in fields including Lean engineering and...

Paul is Chairman of Starcomms Nigeria Holdings, a Nigerian telecoms operator and a director of NASDAQ-listed Net-1 UEPS, a smart card-based financial services provider which operates in Africa, Iraq and the CIS. He is also Executive Chairman of Emerging Markets Payments Holdings (EMPH) and Chairman of MSCC (Egypt), which provides third party...

Joy Fletcher Director of Business Development BT Global Telecoms Markets Sub Saharan Africa Joy recently relocated to Johannesburg to support BT’s strategy to bring telecoms expertise to developing markets. She works closely with African telecommunications providers to help in the transformation of their business models and development of...

Jean-François FREMAUX is graduated from.- Ecole Centrale of engineering (France) worked more than 20 years in the defense field, to develop command and control systems: Naval Tactical Data System, Air defense system, Electronic warfare and C3I within THALES, formerly THOMSON-CSF.

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Mr. Ibrahima Guimba-Saidou leads the Africa Commercial Region under the newly formed OneSES organization. Ibrahima joined SES in January 2012. Prior to joining SES, Ibrahima was Senior Key Director and Managing Sales Director with Intelsat. He was responsible for the development and execution of various strategic Sales initiatives.

Aymeric GENTY, 42, Sales Director for France and Subsaharan Africa. Before joining Eutelsat in 2008, Aymeric spent 10 years in the TF1 Group where he led international developments and consultancy projects in Asia, the Middle East and Africa and held several positions such as Director of TF1 Consulting and Deputy Director of Development at...

Dr Bashir Gwandu was the Executive Commissioner in Charge of Licensing and Consumer Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) until Jun 07 and now is the Executive Commissioner (Technical Services) of the NCC. He was also the Acting CEO of the NCC from June to July 2010. After receiving his BSc in Physics from Usman Danfodiyo...

Born in Johannesburg, William Hearmon (Bill) is the Chairman of the African Broadband Forum……a trade association for operators in Africa. Bill has a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of the Witwatersrand, where he specialised in microwave systems and the stability of power systems. He then went on to a five-year stint for Siemens...

Dr. Edmund Katiti holds a Ph.D. in Telecommunication Systems Engineering. As Policy and Regulatory Advisor in NEPAD e-Africa Commission, he was responsible for the development of the Kigali Protocol and is overseeing its implementation. Before joining the Commission, Dr. Katiti served as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Kampala International...

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Christoph started his career at SES in 2003 when he joined the Market Research department. Since then he has been assigned to various Marketing and Business development projects within the SES group that have allowed him to gather knowledge and experience from around the world with a strong focus on emerging satellite markets. Last year he was...

Frans Lindeque is a professional technologist in light current engineering as well as a member of the South Africa Institute of Electrical Engineers. He has been involved with broadcasting signal distribution since 1975 and in particular with digital broadcasting and telecommunications services since 1994. He has held various key positions in...

Phillip Luff is Country Manager for Emerging Business at Discovery Networks in Central & Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa (CEEMEA), a division of the number-one nonfiction media company Discovery Communications. As Country Manager for Emerging Business, Phillip has management responsibility for Discovery’s portfolio brands in...

I started my career with Telkom SA in 1998 as a technical officer. I was responsible for type approval, first office application and high level support of Telkom transmission equipment. In 2001 I joined Siemens Telecomms as a system engineer and I implanted and supported Siemens equipment in SA, rest of Africa and Europe. In 2006 I joined a...

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Diarmid is in charge of Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s global wholesale and carrier business. He is responsible for the strategic direction of the business and driving profitability of the company’s core assets and partner relationships. His team of senior Directors is located across all regions managing suppliers, resellers and customer...

Mr. Soheil Mehrabanzad is an assistant vice president and general manager for the Middle East and Africa regions. He has been in the field of telecommunications for 22 years  fifteen of those years with Hughes Network Systems. Mr. Mehrabanzad started his career as a simulation software engineer and later was a software consultant with several...

Born and bred in the township of Soweto, Johannesburg, Thami Mtshali is a pioneering businessman who started off his career as a Chemical Engineer in the Petro Chemical Industry, working both locally and abroad. He then decided to actively pursue an entrepreneurial career in the Telecommunications industry co-founding WBS in 1998. WBS, which...

Job Ndege has over 17 years experience in the fields of Telecommunications, Data Networking, Software Design and Computer Systems. For the last 11 years, he has been extensively involved in the design and deployment of Satellite Communications VSAT networks for corporate interconnectivity and Broadband access. Key amongst his many achievements in ...

Laurent joined SES in 2005 and is currently in charge of supporting revenue and profitability growth in Africa and Asia as Vice President, Finance, Asia & Africa. Prior to that Laurent was responsible for Business Development activities in Africa. In that capacity he led the establishment of TopTV in South Africa with local investors and partners.

53 years old, he works for 30 years in the France Telecom group.He started its career by participating in the development of the French satellite program Telecom 1 in the 1980s, He launched the VSAT offer of France Telecom in 1990 and realized the engineering of the first Pan European VSAT network for the customer VISA in 1994. He participated...

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Mothibi Glenview RAMUSI is a qualified professional electronic systems engineer majored in telecommunications, broadcasting and satellite engineering. He is a graduate from Essex University, Colchester in the UK. He started his career as a systems engineer at Siemens. He was part of the team that developed the first ever community pay phone...

Chief Executive Officer: Emerging Southern Africa & Chief Strategy Officer: Emerging Africa Qualifications: Business Administration (Hons.); Cisco Certified Network Associate. Jacques Rautenbach is the Chief Strategy Officer: Emerging Africa, at Internet Solutions (IS). In addition to this role, Rautenbach holds the position of Chief Executive...

Candice is Account Director for Arc Interactive, a Creative App Agency based in Johannesburg South Africa. Arc specialises in the development and marketing of smartphone and tablet apps for the African market. With a keen interest and understanding of the potential, Arc firmly believes that mobile software, through affordable mobile devices, is a...

Sharon Ruso joined spacecom in 2011 as Presales Director for the African market, bringing his 20 years of experience in telecommunications, operations, satcom projects and solutions, design and execution for the new AMOS-5 satellite sales team. Mr, Ruso holds a B.sc and M.sc in global and corporate program and project management and is certified ...

Nigel Sinclair Thomson is CEO of 1toGo, a value added mobile Cloud unified communications service for business users, consumers and service providers. He is also the CEO of Zwana Unicom, the Sub Saharan Africa and South Asia Distributor for Communicate Systems and its carrier grade unified communications solutions.

Scott Sprague, Chief Operating Officer of Asia Broadcast Satellite (ABS) Scott Sprague is the Chief Operating Officer of ABS and is responsible for managing the global sales, marketing, and operations of value added services. Prior to joining ABS, Scott Sprague was the Senior Vice President, Global Sales for SES. During his tenure at...

Ross Thomasson is the regional director, Africa for Vodafone Global Enterprise, Vodafone's dedicated business-to-business team working with 600 of the worlds largest multi-national corporations. He has 30 years broad international experience in a variety of commercial, sales and director roles in both small and large companies and has been...

Thierry Tomiet has over 15 years experience in the Telecommunications industry. Since 2005, he is the MEA Director for IP&Data sales for Telecom Italia Sparkle. Prior to this, Thierry was the VP & Head of Sales of Tiscali International Network being also the Managing Director of the Spanish subsidiary during nearly 6 years. Before joining...

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As 03b Networks’ Regional Vice President, Omar Trujillo leads commercial development in the region. Prior to joining O3b Networks, Mr. Trujillo worked from 2003 to 2008 as Sales Director for Paradigm Communications, a VSAT satellite integrator and service provider in the UK, where he led the expansion of the company to offer solutions for GSM...

Regional Sales Director, Global Data Services – Africa Tata Communications. Steven van der Linde is the Regional Sales Director for the Africa Region for Tata Communications. He is responsible for the company’s growing data and mobile business in sub-Sahara Africa. Mr. van der Linde has been involved in the region for over 10 years, having...

Bart Van Poucke, Product Marketing Manager at Newtec responsible for multi-service satellite platforms . He obtained his electrical engineering degree at the KIHO, Gent, Belgium in 1996. After some years at Siemens Private Networks, he joined imec in Leuven, Belgium to work in the wireless research. In 2006 he moved to business development in imec ...

Yolande van Wyk is the CEO for eWallet Solutions at FNB. Yolande and her highly skilled and dedicated team are responsible for the development of innovative alternative banking solutions such as FNB’s eWallet business. Yolande joined FNB in 2004 and was part of the original Cellphone Banking team that revolutionised mobile banking in South...

Kevin Viret is the Regional Director : Africa for Yahsat, an Abu Dhabi based satellite communications company. Yahsat is the first hybrid (commercial and military) satellite communication system to be launched in the Middle East and Africa. In his current role, Kevin leads and manages the overall Africa operations of Yahsat. He is responsible for ...

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