Telecoms World Middle East 2011 - list of speakers

Samer Al Dameri is the Consumer Vice President Products & Service at mobily handling the areas of Data Service, Digital Media & Content and value added service.

Eyas Al-Hajery is currently the Senior Vice President – Wholesale and Carrier Services of Mobily. During his current tenure with Mobily, he led a major and a successful Post Merger Integration Project that followed the acquisition of Bayanat which is a data services provider. He also established the Wholesale business in Mobily. Alhajery was a...

Mr. Kassim Mohammed Al-Hassani, Director General of ITPC (Iraqi Telecommunication and Post Company) since Jan 2009. Previously, held the position of Director General of SCIS (State Company for Internet Services) and Basrah Telecoms Manager. Previous experience in the field of Communications and Broadcasting involved a consultancy positions for...

Majed Almesmar holds a bachelor degree of science in Electrical Engineering from Northeas-tern University in Massachusetts - USA, graduated in 1990. He has over 20 years of expe-rience in the field of telecommunications out of which he spent 15 years working in the field of the wireless Networks as planner and project manager till September 2004. ...

Wael AlGhamdi is the Vice President – Data & solutions of Mobily. During his current tenure with Mobily, he led multiple major projects in Mobily such as converge MPLS network to support Mobile and Fixed Service, Wimax 802.16e and TDD-LTE deployments. AlGhamdi helped in innovating and creating consumer fixed products built on WiMAX 802.16e and ...

Mr. AlHodaibi had joined Mobily executive management team early this year 2011 as Vice President – Wholesale Commercial . AlHodaibi has a 17 years rich experience in the Wholesale arena in both Voice & Data services. Prior to Mobily, Mr. Essam was the General Manager of Wholesale Sales & Account Management in STC for Five years.

Ali Amiri is the Executive Vice President for Etisalat’s Carrier and Wholesale Services. In this role he is responsible for leading the development of a comprehensive portfolio of world class services and to market these to a global audience. He is also responsible for the evolution and development of Etisalat’s international submarine...

David's 20 year career started in marketing and product development with Harpur, a management information and billing company in UK. He then joined the advertising agency group Publicis as a Business Analyst and was promoted to UK Head of Information Systems. In 1997 David left Publicis to start his own e-business consulting firm called...

Ray is a 20-year veteran of IT solutions design and consulting for the global telecom industry. He has an in-depth understanding of the systems and processes required to support the rollout of innovative new services and establish efficient, highly automated operations, in both fixed and mobile markets. Ray recently led a Next Generation...

1966, BSc in Electronic Engineering from Cairo University. 1979, Master degree in management (MBA) from the American University in Cairo. Sep.1966-Feb.1969, Demonstrator at Faculty of Engineering, Cairo University. Mar. 1969- Jan. 1975, Programmer, Systems Analyst, and Manager at Al-Ahram Management and Computer Center (AMAC). Feb. 1975 – June...

Today I am the Head of Branding at the leading Mobile Operator in the Sultanate of Oman. Part of Qtel group, the Omani Qatari telecommunications company SAOG- NAWRAS has hired me to engage the brand into a higher level. Offering our customers a 'Pleasingly Different' they expect from Nawras. 2010 will witness an elevated brand approach to fully...

Group Senior Vice President Corporate Communications & Official Spokesperson Ahmed bin Ali took ownership of Etisalat’s corporate communications in 2003. He has since led Etisalat’s communications strategy through the greatest period of change in the company’s history. Today he leads Etisalat’s group communications across its eighteen countries...

Mohammed worked at ENIE & Afatron (Algeria), Motorola-Iridium (USA), Worldspace (USA), Nokia Training Academy (Dubai), Orga Cards (Dubai) & other major Telecoms players. His expertise covers Wholesale & Carriers Business, Regulatory Affairs, Business Dev, Training, Corporate Sales and Channel Distribution Management. Mohammed holds a BS in...

Born in Beirut Lebanon in 1972, Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration (class of ’94). Began his Professional career as an advertiser at BBDO Paris working on the first French Mobile Operator: Itineris before it became Orange/France Telecom) Moved to Publicis Group to handle the SFR account, 2nd French mobile network and initiate the...

Colin has worked in the telecommunications industry for 35 years, 20 of them spent conducting business in more than 60 countries around the world. Starting with a technical / engineering background, Colin has also managed large customer service and operations organisations, including BT's IPLC business. More recently Colin managed mergers &...

Ross Cormack was appointed Nawras CEO in June 2004. Following an extremely fast build out, Nawras launched to great acclaim in March the following year, achieving more than 45% market share with over 1.6 million customers by April 2009. Highly praised for its pleasingly different customer service, Nawras has redefined and simplified the whole...

Vice President Regulatory Strategy and Studies, Etihad Etisalat 'Mobily', Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Sacha joined Mobily as Vice President for Regulatory Strategy and Studies in 2010. Previously, he was a strategy consultant for Booz & Company and Arthur D. Little in the telecom and media space, a deputy head of the economics and statistics...

Amr Eid is the Vice President of Middle East and North Africa of PCCW Global. He has more than 17 years of experience in telecoms and ICT industry. He has worked with large enterprises and telecom operators to realize ROI models and to help them utilize global connectivity solutions to create a value chain and empower communications at the heart...

Mr. M. Scott Gegenheimer was named General Manager and Chief Executive Officer of Wataniya Telecom in January 2008. Mr. Gegenheimer comes to Wataniya Telecom with over 20 years of telecommunications & technology experience, most recently serving as co-CEO of Tunisiana, the leading mobile operator in Tunisia (joint venture between Wataniya Telecom ...

Chandan is a telecom professional with total experience of about 30 years, of which he has spent about 20 years in the Telecom Industry. He has worked with Large Companies such as GTL Limited, British Telecom, Bharti Airtel and is now with Aircel Leading the Global Wholesale & Carrier Business. Chandan worked with British Telecommunications as...

As the Business Head for Middle East and Africa, Anup is responsible for developing & executing strategy to maximize business profitability and enhance customer satisfaction in the Middle East and Africa for all the Data Products in Airtel’s Portfolio . He is responsible for expanding Airtel’s data product roadmap , service capabilities and...

Emre Gurkan is Oger Telecom’s Chief Strategy Officer. He has 17 years experience with telecommunications operators globally in corporate strategy, strategic planning, corporate finance and M&A, marketing, pricing, strategic transformation as well as ICT strategy design & implementation. Prior to joining Oger Telecom, Mr. Gürkan worked with...

Mr. Hanna has over 18 years of experience in the global Telecoms & ICT industry gained in various international competitive markets. He is currently the CCO for STC's Bahrain subsidiary VIVA where he is responsible for overall commercial operations encompassing sales, service, products, marketing and partnerships. Previously Mr. Hanna held the...

Johan Helge is a Senior Manager consultant at Cybercom Singapore. He works with technical strategy, network design, planning and roll-out of complex telecom projects. Recently, he was responsible for a LTE/EPC shared network roll-out in Sweden. He has 14 years of working experience within the mobile industry, on both operator and vendor...

Mr. Hesham holds an Electronic engineering degree from US and in 2009 completed MBA degree from Strathclyd University in UK. Mr. Hesham is a dynamic leader and executive management strategist with a track record of achievements in planning and leading departmental and organizational strategies in support of business vision and objectives backed...

Anil Jain is currently, Senior Vice President & Global Business Head, Communication Service Provider Vertical of Wipro. Before this he was Senior Vice President & Business Head of Profession Services Division and Telecom business, for India and Middle East. He was responsible for meeting the Revenue, and profit targets for the mentioned segments...

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Christian Kern is an Executive Director and Head of MENA Equity Research at J.P.Morgan in Dubai. His senior coverage responsibilities are Telecoms. Christian joined J.P.Morgan from Lehman Brothers in London where he has been Co-Head of the Telecoms team that has consistently been No1 II-ranked (2002-08). Prior he was 8 years with Citigroup as...

An acknowledged expert on security, John leads Telcordia’s global cyber security practice, developing security solutions for multi-media and next gen networks. Governments, global service providers and enterprises use John’s expertise to identify vulnerabilities and implement tactical and strategic risk management approaches. He has pioneered...

Mr. Ravindran Mahalingam is the General Manager, Business Management 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 wholesale carrier...

Radwan Moussalli is the Managing Director and Regional Head for Middle East and N. Africa Region for Global Data, Mobility Services and Global Voice Solutions for Tata Communications, part of the $62.5 billion Tata Group. In this position, he is responsible for all Global Data, Mobility Services and Global Voice Solutions for the Middle East and...

Dr. Fahad Hussain Mushayt is the Head of Strategic Investments Unit at Saudi Telecom Company. He joined STC in October 2000 as Senior Business Analyst in Corporate Planning, moving up two months later as Capital Allocation Project Manager and working concurrently as Balanced Scorecard Project Manager and Concept Controlling Manager. ...

Fabrizio Nanni is graduate in Physics from the University of Rome, Italy, and joined the Telecom Italia Group in 1988. During his career in the Group he has had several responsibilities in the Network domain in the Headquarters of Telecom Italia, as well as in the Regional Areas in Italy and abroad. Between 2003 and 2007 he was the CTO of Telecom ...

Mr. George Nikoloudis currently holds the position of OTEGLOBE’s Chief Operating Officer, while from February 2006 he held the position of OTEGLOBE’s Director of Voice Sales Services. Being responsible for the development and promotion of Int’l Voice Services to Greek & international carriers, he contributed in upgrading the operations of the...

Mr. Nuseibeh comes to Zain with a wealth of experience in telecommunications. Having spent more than 11 years focusing growing revenues for data services, in the Middle East and Australia, Nuseibeh launched the first MMS service in the Middle East during his tenure at Zain Jordan in 2001. He was also a key pillar in establishing data products and...

Gurkan Ozturk is currently responsible for worldwide sales, business development and corporate marketing for Verscom Solutions and Verscom Managed Services Companies. In addition, he leads the strategy behind solution delivery, managed services framework and product marketing to Verscom’s global markets. Mr. Ozturk brings years of experience in...

Alexandra Pébereau is Executive Vice President of International Carriers for the Orange France Telecom Group, delivering services under its key brand Orange. His activity covers international wholesale, cable laying naval activities and Telco 2.0. Before taking up his current position, Alexandre was Senior Vice President Cash Generation of the...

Diverse experience in Management gained through variety of Telecommunication jobs. Technical Competence, Interpersonal sensitivity, Resilient, Flexibility, self motivated. And Have powerful knowledge in Telecommunication Field and all type of programs regarding to communication and Information Technology. Graduated from Institute of...

John Renard is President – Network and Content Engineering (N&CE) vertical worldwide. With over 19 years commercial and management experience in IT enabled services, John has specialized for many years in geospatial applications and solutions. As well as a formal consultancy background, he has worked at all levels with clients to deliver...

Pawel began his career in a Polish Mobile Operator Plus GSM, dealing with Major Accounts across the Polish market as Direct Sales Manager. In 2002 he joined TeliaSonera International Carrier as a Bid Manager for Central and Eastern Europe Focusing on Eastern European markets from products and its financial efficiency perspective. After 2 years...

Osman Sultan has a wealth of experience having worked in telecommunications and information technology in several countries in Europe, North America and the Middle East. The holder of a Degree in Engineering, Mr. Sultan was the Chairman of the Arab Working Group for the Private Sector in the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) from 2003...

20 years of executive management experience in different multinational organizations, out of which 12 years in the telecom industry within 5 major regional operators. Wael is responsible for all financial, operational, administrative and legal aspects of the daily organizational management of the group, which includes but is not limited to annual ...

Andy is SVP of Product Management & Marketing for ip.access, responsible for the product roadmap, market strategy and communications. He is a Board member of the Femto Forum, and vice-chairman of Working Group 1 (marketing and promotions). Previously, Andy was CTO and VP Product Marketing for ShoZu, a GSM Award-winning mobile service for sharing ...

Telecommunications Engineer grade holder by the Politecnica University of Madrid and MDP (Management Development Program) by the IESE Business School of Madrid. Developing most of the professional career in the telecom industry working in different units and companies of Telefonica Group. Along 20 years have been engaged in the international ...

Mr. Josef Trimmel is Head of Wholesale at A1 Telekom Austria AG – the leading telecommunication provider in Austria and he also holds the position of Director of Wholesale Group Operations at Telekom Austria Group Holding. These functions encompass managing the entire national and international Wholesale business and telecommunication markets for...

Zoran joined Value Partners in 2009 as a Partner in the Middle East and North Africa Region. He has extensive consulting, operational, and management experience in the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South East Asia in the telecommunications and technology sectors. He has led projects in market assessment, corporate and business unit...

Mikkel Vinter is CEO of FRiENDi GROUP, the leading regional MVNO/MVNE player in the SAMEA region based in the group headquarter in Dubai Internet City, UAE. FRiENDi GROUP launched the first MVNO in the region in Q1 2009, and is now rolling out operations across multiple regional markets to deliver on the company vision of establishing the leading...

Dr. Colin Yeh is Group Senior Director of Innovations at the Qtel Group. Colin provides the leadership and strategy to drive Product Innovations across the Group's operations in 17 markets spanning the Middle East, North Africa, and Asia, with a total customer base of 75M+. Colin is also the Vice Chairman for Mobile Entertainment Forum (MEF) on...