Dr. Grubb is currently a Fellow at Infinera. He has previously held positions at Corvis, SDL, and AT&T Bell Laboratories. He led R&D that was responsible for the first commercial deployment of Raman amplification in a network, and developed several novel high …more ›

Andrew is an established and well known personality in the ICT space in Africa and internationally. He is the Executive Chairman of Imphandze Investment Holdings (Pty) Ltd, a South African Investment Company pursuing investments in ICT, Property Development, Energy and …more ›

With more than 20 years of telecom experience, Mr. Alexander is currently serving as Ciena’s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Products and Technology. Mr. Alexander has held a number of positions since joining the Company in 1994, including General M…more ›

Julian is well-known throughout the submarine fiber optic industry for his insightful market analysis and project management skills. He has worked in emerging and developed international markets for nearly 20 years with blue-chip companies such as Global Marine, NTT, Ca…more ›

With a sales, marketing and general management background, Sean has been delivering wholesale international telecommunication solutions & consulting services to carriers throughout Asia and the US for more than 15 years. Sean has significant management experience at…more ›

Mr. Ebell is the CEO of Arctic Cable Company, LLC, where he is supervising the design, development, financing, installation and inauguration of the Arctic Link Project.The new submarine fiber optic cable system will provide service from Asia to Europe via the NorthWes…more ›

As the Managing Director for Singapore, Clement Goh is responsible for the overall performance of the company’s IBX centres in Singapore. This includes increasing local and regional market share, profitability, and operational efficiency. Mr. Goh has held a number o…more ›

Ramón Gil-Roldán y Sansón is well versed in the African markets having traveled through the entire continent on various dependencies. He started his career as Permanent Representative of the Government of the Canary Islands in Madrid where he interacted …more ›

Steve leads the product development for high speed IP services, connectivity restoral services, and maritime services. Prior to joining O3b, Steve was Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer for venture backed start up BridgePort Networks work…more ›

Nigel Bayliff joined Huawei Marine Networks in 2009, with over 20 years in the global telecommunications industry. Nigel was a member of the Executive team of FLAG Telecom from 2002 to 2008, serving as an Officer and Deputy Chairman for several group companies. He was r…more ›

Mr. Bjarni Thorvardarson is the CEO of Hibernia Atlantic since January 2005. Mr. Thorvardarson joined CVC, Hibernia’s parent company, in 2002 from ISB bank where he launched and managed the listed Talenta-Technology fund which focused on emerging communication and IT o…more ›

Dean Veverka has over 33 years’ experience in the Telecommunications industry covering numerous Technical and Managerial roles at OTC, Telstra and Optus in Australia. For the past 10 years, as Director & VP Operations, he is responsible for all Regulatory, Engineeri…more ›

As CEO of WIOCC, Chris Wood leads the executive team responsible for all elements of the company’s global operations including corporate and product strategy, worldwide sales, finance, IT management, resource planning and operations. Chris joined WIOCC as CEO in 2008, d…more ›

Naoki Wakai has more than 15 years of experience for international business, such as Construction of Submarine Cable, IP Transit, Hosting, MPLS and submarine cable. He is a head of IP Connectivity business of NTT Communications, which is well known as AS2914 / AS4713.

Rosalind is the CEO of eFive Telecoms (Pty) Ltd, a South African company, which is the sponsor of the South Atlantic Express Submarine cable Project. With over 20 years of experience in development finance and infrastructure financing in Africa (AfDB, DBSA, and as t…more ›

Gavin is a 13 year veteran at Cable&Wireless Worldwide and has over 20 years experience in the industry including banking and technology project management. Leading a team of engineers and project managers regionally, Gavin steers Cable&Wireless Worldwide’s n…more ›

Dieter started his career 1982 with Weidleplan Consulting, a multidisciplinary German consulting company, handling international telecommunications projects in Middle East, Africa and Asia. In 1991 Dieter joined Ericsson in Germany as a Regional Manager. He supported…more ›

Scott brings the wealth of technical experience in the subsea category required to run the day to day operations of Emerald Networks. He spent 28 years in the telecom industry in senior level positions with AT&T, TE SubCom and Corning (NSW). He brings substantial ex…more ›

Mark is Chief Executive and co-founder of Pacific Fibre, a company building a 13,000km fibre optic cable between Australia, New Zealand and the US. With over 18 years experience in the ICT industry, Mark has held senior positions with multinational companies such as Vod…more ›

Mr. Ruslan V. Saushkin has received MS in telecommunications from the Military Engineering Academy in Kiev (Ukraine) in 1974. In 1969-1994, he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR and Russia including the management and technical operations of the special communicati…more ›

As Executive Director of International Network Planning for Verizon, Yali is responsible for network planning and technology development of Verizon global product capabilities from international perspective. Yali’s global team drives technology and innovation projects a…more ›

Andy Lumsden is Vice President of Engineering at Pacnet. A telecommunications industry veteran of over 15 years, Mr Lumsden is responsible for the design and deployment of Pacnet’s next-generation network infrastructure.

Carl Osborne is Director, International Network Development for Tata Communication. As a member of the Global Carrier Solutions team, Mr. Osborne is responsible for establishing and implementing strategies for global network investments into the global service provider …more ›

Wilfred Kwan, Chief Technology Officer, is responsible for Network Operations, Engineering, IT and Customer Service. Mr. Kwan previously served as Chief Technology Officer of Asia Netcom and earlier as Senior Vice President of Network Operations of Asia Global Crossing.…more ›

As a manager, International Network Department of KDDI, he has been planning maintenance arrangement of submarine cable systems in which KDDI has involved. Since 2006, he has been serving the chairman of the Yokohama Zone providing maintenance and repair services for m…more ›

Mr. Ma Xiaolong joined Huawei Technologies in 2000, and worked for Optical transmission system R&D, product planning and market analysis for more than 8 years. Mr. Ma Xiaolong transferred to Huawei Marine Networks in 2008 and is in charge of the overall marketing a…more ›

Project Management Experiences 1981.4-1984.3 Site Cable Engineer 1984.4-1987.3 Submarine Cable Tester and Burial Machine Operator 1991.4-1993.3 Chief ROV Operator 1994.6-1994-8 PM of Tsugaru Strait Cable Burial Operation (SBT) 1997.4-1998.3 PM of Submarine Cable Techn…more ›