Telecom World Congress 2012 - list of speakers 

Jens Backes heads the Access Services category at Deutsche Telekom in Europe. He is responsible for Europe-wide product management for service quality, roaming, security, insurance, and access software. Jens has fifteen years of experience in the telecommunications sector, thereof ten years with Deutsche Telekom and T-Mobile, where his previous...

Nathan Bell is Director for Global Products and Marketing at Telstra Global based in Singapore, where he is responsible for leading Telstra’s suite of global products and driving the company’s overarching marketing strategy. The role comprises building the company’s product strategy, development, implementation, lifecycle management and partner...

Jacques is in charge of the company overall management. He supervises all the Strategic and International Developments and Shareholder Relations. In November 2009, Jacques has been elected as President of Alternative Mobile the French MVNO association gathering the biggest French MVNOs (Virgin Mobile, Carrefour Mobile, Auchan Mobile, NRJ...

Alan Brown is the Business Sales Director at Telefónica O2 Ireland. He is responsible for strategy development and sales execution in all Business segments including Corporate, Government, SME and Wholesale. Before joining O2, Alan was with eircom where he held the position of Director of Government Markets. He previously held a number of other...

Beatriz Butsana-Sita Managing director BT Global Telecom Markets Appointed managing director of BT Global Telecom Markets (GTM) in 2010, Beatriz joined BT in 1995 as a principal consultant in BT Consulting, after working in Belgium and the United States with KPMG and Utility Management Consultancy. She gained her BT international experience in...

Melda Çakıcı Alpaydın has over 17 years of business development and marketing experience with 14 years’ focus on telecoms and information technology sectors. Melda has been leading M&A projects for acquisition of mobile and fixed line operators and business development projects for greenfield mobile operator licenses and MVNOs. Melda holds a...

Name: Peter Crayfourd Job Title Group Head Customer Lifecycle Experience COMPANY NAME Orange Group – France Telecom Peter joined Orange Group in December 2007, responsible for developing a group wide customer engagement and business transformation strategy. Orange needed a strategic vision for the way they “engage” with their customers and...

Daniel Cuffley is Vice President of Sales for the Performance Marketing Group focusing on new innovative solutions across various verticals including retail, operators and media. The solutions include the various cutting edge propositions provided by Velti’s m-gage platform including Loyalty, Large Scale Gamification Campaigns, Opt-In Marketing...

Chandan is currently regarded amongst the most Senior Telecom Experts in a Global Wholesale Industry. He has seen the business from all sides as he has worked with Vendors, Network Operators, and Service Providers, with Customer Service, Sales and P&L Business Owner. Over 30 years ago, after his Electrical Engineering from Bombay University ...

Michael Havas has several years of experience in customer service and online gained through different leading functions in several companies. His background and his experience make him a specialist in marketing and marketing strategy, branding, international online strategy, new media and customer experience. In the last years focusing on new...

On graduating in electrical & electronic engineering, Chris joined BT, selling into the global banking sector. After assignments in Germany running service operations and Switzerland managing a joint venture, Chris returned to the UK to manage BT's channel partner relationships. In 2006 he became CEO of SME-market specialist Eurotel, selling the...

Milind teamed up with Subas in 2003 and developed Lycatel into the market leading global prepaid calling card brand. His passion now is to develop a benchmark MVNO model for Lycamobile and make it the global number one international calling MVNO brand. Milind has led the growth of Lycamobile into 10 European markets giving it the biggest...

Mr. Ravindran Mahalingam is the Vice President – EMEA Region of Hutchison Global Communications Limited (“HGC”). A key management team member in the International Business Division of HGC, Mr. Mahalingam is responsible for the global business development and strategic planning for HGC’s international carrier business in Europe, Middle East and...

Head of Customer Retention at Telecom Italia, Paolo Menghini lives and works in Rome. He has vast experience in Customer Care with specific expertise in project management, process streamlining, and loyalty strategies. He has been working in telecommunications for 16 years, 10 of which have been spent at Telecom Italia headquarters where he has...

Andrey has been working as Vice-President on International Development in QIWI for more than 3 years. Andrey is responsible for evolvement QIWI payment solution outside Russia aiming global expansion of the Company. Currently QIWI operates in 22 countries of the world. Company achieved this result just in 3 years. In most countries of operation...

Allyson is responsible for segment marketing worldwide. Prior to this role, she led LogMeIn’s international marketing team, covering all activities and programs for the EMEA, APAC and LATAM regions. Allyson joined the company as a Senior Product Marketing Manager and was responsible for bringing the company’s iconic tablet and smartphone...

Andre Popov is a Partner with Peppers & Rogers Telecommunications & Media practice. He has over 15 years of both strategy consulting and hands-on industry experience, having developed and implemented business and M&A strategies for Global 2000, Private Equity and start-up companies in the USA, Europe and the Middle East. Most recently, Andre has ...

An experienced marketer and strategist, Vincent has worked for and advised a number of blue-chip organizations in telecom and high tech in over 20 countries in Europe, America and Asia. Over his 20-year career, Vincent has managed strategic transformation programs (at BT), launched successfully new innovations (for BT, Telenor and Siemens) and...

Phil Sheppard is Director of Network Strategy at Three UK. He is responsible for developing a network strategy that provides industry leading levels of customer experience, performance and economics. He is also responsible for global technical collaboration activities with the Three group. Phil has been with Three since they started building the...

Thierry Zylberberg is Executive Vice President of the France Telecom/Orange Group, and Head of Orange Healthcare, the Group’s Healthcare Division that he created in 2007. Orange Healthcare aims to develop e-health activities in France and internationally leveraging the France Telecom-Orange Group’s expertise in Information and Communication...