Dag Aanensen is the CEO of Nordic Consulting. He possesses more than 25 years’ of senior technical, operational and executive experience in the global telecommunications industry.He was responsible for buying/selling many of Europe´s active fiber optical telecommunications systems for both undersea ...

CEO of Celtic Norse and Senior advisor to Eidsiva broadband senior management, responsible for acquiring new terrestrial fiber infrastructure through IRU, swop and cooperative construction projects, with more than 20years experience in telecommunications. Successfully delivering over 4000km over...

Jean-Francois Baget joined Alcatel Submarine Network in 1994 and has been involved in various technical functions in design, integration and engineering.From 2007 to 2019, he has been leading the implementation of submarine network projects, both for new builds and upgrade project. He recently...

Professional:•    From 1984 until 2003 Marconi, (Int’l Carrier of Portugal):I was involved on Int’l Network Planning and Provisioning in Marconi In 1992 I was heading Network Planning Division. In 1998.I was heading Network Planning and Provisioning Direction. I left Marconi in 2003.•    From...

Andy previously served as Head of Regional Submarine Networks at Global Marine Systems, a preeminent subsea cable installation company.Prior to Global Marine, Andy was an early member of Global Crossing’s Network Team, where he brought into service all of Global Crossing’s submarine networks, and...

Nigel joined Aqua Comms in October 2016, having previously provided consultancy services to global telecoms companies through SIN Medida Limited, a business he established in 2008 to capitalise on his experience of more than 25 years of senior technical, operational and executive roles in the...

Chris is Chief Commercial Officer at Aqua Comms. Chris has more than 25 years’ experience in the Telecoms sector. Previously, he was Director, Global Wholesale Solutions at Colt where he focused on large infrastructure opportunities as well as supporting Colt’s customers in delivering...

Pal has a MSC degree on Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Budapest and an MBA degree from Budapest University of Economic Sciences. He worked for 10 years at Ericsson in various positions, including the Global Installation Engineering process owner position and also different...

Jag is a Vice President at Pöyry Capital, a specialised infrastructure M&A advisory firm in London. Pöyry Capital acted as the sole M&A adviser to Marguerite, a pan-European infrastructure fund, when it agreed to invest in the Ellalink submarine telecom cable system. Prior to this Jag was...

Steve Bladen has 35 years of experience in project management, in the defense, engineering and marine industries, and has worked the last 28 years in senior management positions in the submarine telecommunications industry including BT, Cable & Wireless, FLAG Telecom, Reliance Communications...

Stuart Blythe is global Co-Head of M&A in the TMC sector at CMS. He is dual US/UK qualified and advises corporations and financial institutions on a wide range of corporate and commercial transactions in the TMC sector, often of a global nature, including M&A, joint ventures, restructurings ...

Dr. Panagiota Bosdogianni holds the position of OTEGLOBE’s Technology Director since 2008. Her role includes network (voice + data) and technology planning, operations and continued evolution of platforms across OTEGLOBE’s network.She joined OTEGLOBE in January 2001 as the company’s Network...

Andrew is policy lead for subsea cables security and resilience in the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. A civil servant of over twelve years, he previously led on cyber security innovation policy including establishing the GCHQ Cyber Accelerator and the LORCA London Cyber...

Mustafa is a Telecom Professional with 17+ years of exceptional track records in Telecommunications Industry started with technical (OSP, Fiber cables and transmission) and continued in Commercial, with specific proficiency in business development of International Wholesale capacity business and...

Carlos Casado is Head of EMEA Sales, Telxius Cable, with more than 20 years’ experience in Telecom field, including Project Management, Business Development, Sales and Marketing. Carlos has been involved in Submarine Cable Business since 2003 and used to be Head of Capacity Services in Telefónica...

Ian Clarke currently serves as Vice President, Global Submarine Systems at Ciena where he leads the Global Submarine Solutions Group. In this role he is responsible for Ciena’s customer relationships, new business development and market positioning for both consortia and privately owned cable...

Mike is one of the lead telecoms partners at global law firm DLA Piper LLP. His interest in the sector dates back to 1998-9 when he was placed on secondment to OFTEL, as it then-was, advising on international telecoms regulation. The legal guide Chambers and Partners says of him that “[he] produces ...

Erick Contag has over 25 years of executive management, strategy, marketing & sales, and business development expertise.Mr. Contag has been responsible for managing C-level relationships and telecommunications / high-technology projects for start-up enterprises through large multi-national and...

Olivier Courtois is presently director of product strategy, management and marketing for Alcatel Submarine Network. He was born in Paris in 1970. He graduated from French engineering school “Ecole supérieure d’optique” in 1995 where he specialized in Optics. In 1998, he joined Alcatel-Lucent and...

Mike Cunningham is a telecommunications entrepreneur focused on subsea cable and fibre network development.  He is currently Chairman of Ireland-France Subsea Cable, Chief Executive Officer of Crosslake Fibre and on the board of Quintillion Subsea.  Previously, Mr. Cunningham was Chief Executive...

Ciarán Delaney is GTT's Vice President of Operations and Optical Engineering responsible for overseeing the operation of GTT’s global transport network that includes three transatlantic cables. He is based at GTT’s Network Operations Center in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to GTT, Mr. Delaney served...

Philippe has over 20 years of international experience in the Telecoms industry on  supplier and customer side, as well as working closely with PE and infrastructure funds.Prior to his involvement in the project as CEO of the holding Company EulaLink, Philippe was the President & CEO of ASN...

With over 20 years in the telecommunications industry, Mattias Fridström can be considered a veteran – but his enthusiasm hasn’t faded.Mattias combines expert knowledge with anecdotes from behind the scenes and deep insight into the networked economy: What are the challenges of tomorrow for network ...

27 years of Technology and Telecommunications Business experience in Spain and Latin America. CEO of ISLALINK, led the exit from EQT Partners to Fiera Infrastructures, actually leading new Strategic Plan to grow the company to a European neutral fiber platform. RICOH Major Accounts...

Dr. Grubb is currently a Global Optical Architect at Facebook, overseeing the build of several new open submarine cable systems and introducing new optical technologies for Facebooks global network.  Prior to Facebook, he was a Fellow at Infinera where for 14 years he directed work on next...

As Co-Founder and CEO, Eric R. Handa has built APTelecom (www.aptelecom.com) into a globally recognized leader in telecom consulting. Since launching in 2009, Handa has grown APTelecom from a start-up business to an award-winning global organization which has generated over US $315 million in sales ...

Steve has over 35 years in the submarine and telecommunication industries; firstly at C&W (Marine) then Level 3 (CenturyLink) and more recently at Global Marine as its Maintenance Account Director.  Steve has being actively involved with cable installation and maintenance issues since going to...

Christos Holevas has almost 20 years of experience in the management and development of global wholesale telecoms network infrastructure, as well as an in-depth understanding of the regional market conditions and regulatory issues that shape this industry. In his current role as Associate Director...

Geir has 20 years of leadership experience from telecommunications, consulting and technical real-estate from the UK and Norway. He joined the excellent Skagenfiber team in October 2017 and is thrilled to participate as they - alongside other industry peers - truly connect Norway and the Nordics.

Michael Hubbard is the Head of the WaveLogic Science Measurements team which explores new optical transport solutions through lab experimentation in Ciena’s R&D facilities in Ottawa.In 1998, Michael started his career at Nortel studying the physics of high-capacity fiber optic telecommunication ...

Education: MBA – International BusinessWork: Working within the Telecom Industry since 1999 and held different sales positions. LinkedIn Profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/svein-arild-ims-8041843/

Pat has overall responsibility for Analysys Mason's business in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. He is a highly experienced telecoms adviser, who has worked extensively in the design, implementation and project management of fixed, wireless and sub-sea telecoms systems. Working for ...

Brian Lavallée is Senior Director of Solutions Marketing with global responsibility for Ciena’s submarine networking portfolio. An industry veteran, he has more than 20 years of telecommunications experience with previous roles in Product Line Management, Systems & Network Engineering, Research ...

Racheal joined Global Marine as a Bid Team Assistant in 2015 and is now a 'Senior Proposal Engineer' responsible for the co-ordination and creation of bids for Offshore Telecoms Installations from point of enquiry through to implementation. Racheal specialises in High Value Tenders with a...

Anders Ljung is the Business Manager Submarine Cable Solutions at Hexatronic in Hudiksvall, Sweden. Anders holds an MSc in Polymer Mechanics. Anders has been employed for 27 years in the fiber optic cable industry. More than twenty of these years he was in Ericsson’s organization where he held...

Mónica Martínez is the Cable Business Marketing Director of Telxius, the telecommunication infrastructure company of the Telefónica Group. She started her professional career in 1999 as a Network Design Engineer at Telefónica Data Corp. Since then, she has developed a wide experience of 20 years in ...

Artur Mendes is the VP Sales of Angola Cables.Artur has more than 20 years of experience within the global telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Angola Cables in 2013, Artur spent 12 years working for Nokia, holding various positions at Nokia Mobile Phone and Nokia Multimedia Network...

Vinay Nagpal is a datacenter and connectivity leader and visionary with over 25 years of experience leading the development of products and technology solutions in datacenters with a strong focus on connectivity, terrestrial and subsea fiber.Currently, Vinay is the President of InterGlobix LLC, a...

Mohamed Nasr is Vice President, Subsea Cable Infrastructure at PCCW Global, with more than 18 years of experience in the Telecom field, including O&M, Project Management, Business Development, Sales and Marketing. Mohamed has been involved in the Submarine Cable Business since 2008 and used to...

Bruce is the Managing Director - Telecoms at Global Marine and has been involved in the submarine cable industry since 1989 holding positions both offshore and onshore at Global Marine and both its joint ventures in China. In his current role he manages a global team responsible for all the...

Richard Norris is Senior Director of Global Submarine System Engineering at Ciena, with responsibility for submarine solution technical sales and development.Well established in the telecom industry for 25 years, Richard works for both vendors and operators, and first became involved in submarine...

Oyovwe Okorodudu is the EMEA Assitant Vice President for EMEA Carrier Business of HGC Global Communications based out of London.  He is responsible for EMEA carrier data and evolving digital business development and strategic. This includes managing, developing and executing business sales, enhance ...

Andy is responsible for marine engineering and planning of submarine cable systems at Facebook, and serves on the Executive Committee of the International Submarine Cable Protection Committee.  Prior to joining Facebook in 2016 Andy spent a decade with Verizon and was responsible for submarine...

Dr Pascal Pecci is currently Technical Product Manager for Alcatel Submarine Networks.After his PhD in 2000, Pascal Pecci started working for Alcatel Research and Innovation on 40G transmission in optical fibre and had 2 world records transmission. After 9 years in R&D he joined the Product...

Elizabeth Rivera Hartling is a Subsea Optical Network Architect at Facebook, focused on optical transmission technology and optimizing Facebook's Subsea Open Cable designs to build a scalable, high capacity, cost-effective subsea network to meet Facebook's growing bandwidth...

As CEO of NJFX, Gil Santaliz helps carriers strategically diversify connectivity options to key hubs across North America, Europe, and South America, bypassing legacy chokepoints. Operating “Tier 3 by the Subsea,” NJFX is the world’s first colocation campus that strategically intersects a...

Ben has worked in the submarine telecommunications industry for over ten years and is currently the Submarine Engineering Manager at Vodafone working in their Global Network Engineering and Delivery team. He has worked for submarine cable system suppliers and system owners with his roles having...

Mike Singh is a globally respected telecoms consultant and an investor in the Indus-Americas Subsea Cable System (BRICS Cable) which is expected to solve the bandwidth constraints faced by the emerging markets of the Southern Hemisphere via the linkage of Asia, the Middle East, Africa & the...

Giuseppe Sini, Head of Retelit International Business Unit since July 2016 is in charge of Retelit International business, network and operations. Member of AAE-1 Management Committee.Started in 1994 in the Business Corporate Division of Telecom Italia., he held various positions until he was...

Chris is the founder and CEO of Red Penguin Marine.  He is a master mariner with 40 years in the marine industry, 30 of which have been within the submarine cable and energy sectors.  With the benefit of his 10 years’ experience commanding cable ships and managing marine operations, together with...

Sunil Tagare is a serial entrepreneur in the submarine cable industry.  He founded Flag Telecom and Project Oxygen.  Tagare also has been writing the most popular blog in the submarine cable industry at opencables.com.

Seb is an undergraduate studying BSc Geography with Ocean Science at the University of Plymouth, covering various Coastal and Ocean based modules: GIS, Climate and Energy, Global Ocean Processes, Coastal Environments and Dynamics, Physical Oceanographic Processes and Hydrography. He has joined a...

Giuseppe Valentino leads the Marketing Solutions team in Telecom Italia Sparkle. He joined the company in 2003 and he has held senior positions within sales, product management and innovation organizations.From 1996 to 2002 he worked for GTS/Ebone, a pioneer in IP and cross-border fiber backbones...

Dave Walters started his career in the submarine networks business as a Cambridge physics graduate in 1971. At STC North Woolwich he was involved in the design, production and installation of analogue repeatered systems. He later worked for 17 years at the STL research laboratories on the...

An Engineer, started his professional career with Standard Telephones and Cable in 1979 working in on submarine cable installation and repair, cable design and manufacture, jointing, sea trials, special purpose cable handing equipment design, construction, commissioning and project management on...

Mr. Zhang has more than 19 years’ experience in transmission  industry, and led numerous product development and implementation of WDM system and submarine cable systems globally. Before joined and found the joint venture  Huawei Marine Networks, Mr. Zhang worked in Huawei Technologies Co., LTD and ...