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Speakers 
 Vijay Aggarwal,
President, Wholesale,
Reliance Infocomm
Mr. Vijay K Aggarwal is a Telecom professional with over 30 years of diverse experience in Telecom Marketing & Sales, Project Management, System & Procedures, Strategic Planning & Managing Organization. Vijay has successfully carried out profit centre responsibilities with various organizations including Reliance, Bharti (AirTel), L&T. He has been instrumental in establishing number of Green Field Technology Projects. He was instrumental in setting up India’s first private CDMA Network and Basic Service Operations in the telecom circle of Madhya Pradesh for Bharti.
Vijay is a reputed figure in the telecom industry and has contributed significantly to the evolution of Post Liberalization India Telecom Industry. He have been actively involved in Telecom Equipment Manufacturers Association (TEMA) activities and served in various capacities as Executive Member, Treasurer & Secretary General and had presented a number of strategic papers on CDMA in India & abroad. Vijay has contributed in shaping up the Telecom Regulatory Environment in India.
Vijay Currently is President, International Business of Reliance Infocomm and has played a key role in establishing National Long distance (NLD) & International Long distance (ILD) business of the Infocomm. Reliance is the Leader for International Voice traffic to India.
Vijay is an Electronics & Telecommunication Engineer from Delhi College of Engineering, Delhi University and holds MBA (Marketing) from Faculty of Management Studies (FMS), Delhi University. Prior to Reliance Vijay has worked with reputed organizations including Larsen & Toubro for 20 years and Bharti (AirTel) for 5 years.
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Mr Mashood Ahmad,
General Manager,
NTT Europe Ltd
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Ajaz Ahmed,
Chairman,
Callserve
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Chris Ainslie,
Director, Systems Integrators,
Energis
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Arash Amel,
Senior Analyst,
Screen Digest
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 Mr. Helmut Angst,
Senior Executive Vice President,
Deutsche Telekom, International Carrier Sales & Solutions
Helmut Angst heads up the international wholesale telecommunications division of Deutsche Telekom, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS). Prior to joining ICSS, Helmut has worked within the Deutsche Telekom Group for over six years, in various senior positions. Most recently, he was part of the national wholesale organization, heading up national carriers sales at T-Com.
Helmut Angst has a strong international experience having held international management positions in Europe, Asia-Pacific and in the US during his career. Before joining the Deutsche Telekom Group, Helmut Angst spent over ten years working at Digital Equipment in Germany, where he held several management positions. Notably, heading up the mobile services business group and leading public network management for Deutsche Telekom.
Helmut Angst graduated in communications engineering from the University of Siegen, Germany.
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 Pete Bell,
Senior Vice President, Sales,
WilTel Communications
Pete Bell is the Senior Vice President of sales for WilTel Communications. In this role, he is responsible for the strategy, direction and ongoing management of the sales effort at WilTel Communications across all market segments
Bell has more than 20 years of experience in successful sales, sales management and business development in domestic and international telecommunications with a proven track record of building and expanding sales organizations and penetrating new markets.
Since joining WilTel in 2003, Bell has expanded the company’s approach to incorporate a comprehensive sales effort targeting Enterprise companies and the Federal Government, while continuing to deliver solutions to the largest Carriers in the world. He has also been instrumental in growing and segmenting the sales organization along vertical markets to deliver expertise and value to customers with specialized needs.
Prior to joining WilTel, Bell served as the SVP of Sales and Marketing at New World Network, Ltd. and as SVP of global sales at 360networks, Inc. before that. Bell also has held numerous positions at Cable & Wireless in the U.S., Europe and Asia, in sales, sales management and business development,
Bell received his bachelor’s degree in Mass Communications from Emerson College in Boston and has performed graduate work in telecommunications at Golden Gate University in San Francisco. He has also attended the International Executive Development Program at INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
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Andy Birchall,
Chairman, On Demand Group and Board Member,
Broadband Home Services Forum
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 John Blake,
Head of VoIP,
BT Global Services
John Blake is Head of Hosted IP Telephony at BT Global Services, BT’s business services and solutions division. John is responsible for the strategy and development of BT Global Services’ Voice over IP (VoIP) portfolio in the UK and across Europe.
John is an experienced presenter and is a recognised expert in IP Telephony, he has had numerous articles published in trade journals and is a regularly quoted by industry analysts
John has worked for BT for over 32 years and has been responsible for the successful launch of major IP telephony business solutions, including BT Multimedia VoIP and VoIP Port in UK, IRL, ESP, NL and DE. These products were awarded the networking initiative of the year prize in the Banker Technology Awards
Prior to joining BT Global Services in April 2001, John spent six years in Product Development/Management where he developed from concept BT's Core platform Centrex and VPN products, FeatureLine and FeatureNet Embark.
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 Michaël Boukobza,
CEO,
Iliad Group
With a Masters of Management Science from the Université Paris IX Dauphine and a diploma from the École Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, Michaël Boukobza began his career in the mergers and acquisition departments at Rothschild in Paris and Morgan Stanley in London. Afterwards, he worked with i-Bazar in the areas of fund-raising and mergers and acquisitions. Michaël Boukobza joined the Group in January 2000.
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 Mr Paul Cheng,
Founder and CEO,
Asylum Telecom
Mr. Cheng has over 20 years of experience in the IT, telecommunications, and software industries. Prior to founding Asylum Telecom, Mr. Cheng was the Vice-President of Worldwide Marketing at Graphisoft, one of the largest AEC CAD software developers in the world. From 2001-2002, he was a co-founder and Executive Vice-President in charge of Marketing and Product Management at Klarium, a mobile payments service provider based in Rome, Italy that was sold to Allaxia SpA in 2002. Prior to that, he was co-founder and Chief Strategist at
Adero, Inc., an Internet content delivery services provider in Boston,
Mass., USA that was sold to Inktomi (now Yahoo!) and Colt Telecom Plc in 2001. In his role as Adero's Chief Strategist, he co-authored the business plan and helped the company raise over $112 million from investors, including Fidelity Ventures, Intel Capital, Reuters Greenhouse, Mitsubishi, ING Parcom, Microsoft, and AOL. Prior to his role as Chief Strategist at Adero, he also served as Vice-President of
Product Management/Marketing. Mr. Cheng is a U.S. citizen and has lived and worked throughout Europe, North America, and Asia. He speaks English, Taiwanese and French, and is conversant in German and Hungarian. He received an A.B. in Economics from Yale University and an M.B.A. in New Product and Venture Development from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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 Stephen Cole,
Presenter,
Click Online, BBC
Stephen Cole is one of the World’s most recognizable and respected faces of international television journalism. Over the past twenty years he has anchored live events for Sky News [London] CNN International [Atlanta] and BBC World [London]
He has anchored live coverage from elections held in Islamabad, Delhi, Moscow, Paris and Hong Kong. He was in Berlin for the fall of the Berlin Wall.
He has also covered nine conflicts raging from the Falklands War to Bosnia and Kosovo, the two Wars in the Gulf and “9-11”
Four years ago Stephen came up with the idea for a television programme covering Information Technology. The success of the style and format of ‘Click on Line’ is currently shared on BBC World by more than a hundred million viewers around the world and on BBC News 24, BBC1 and six major airlines. Stephen has taken the show to fifteen countries and hosted numerous prestigious IT events in Asia and South America. In the past two years Stephen has helped direct international news coverage in Asia and the Middle East. He has taken a senior executive role in directing major events at elections and international news breaking stories.
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José A. Collazo,
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer,
BT Infonet
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 Ms Bridget Cosgrave,
CEO,
Belgacom International Carrier Services
Bridget Cosgrave joined the Belgian incumbent telephone company Belgacom in 2001. She now is President of Belgacom International Carrier Services (ICS) and a member of the company’s Executive Committee, reporting to Didier Bellens – CEO Belgacom. Since January 2004 Bridget is Member of the Board of Belgacom Mobile (Proximus). The ICS activity in Belgacom supports some 300 International carrier/ operator customers. Belgacom, the national telecommunications operator has approximately 16,000 employees.
Prior to joining Belgacom, Ms Cosgrave was Deputy Director General of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) from 1996 until 2001. While at ETSI, she led their activities in Internet and Telecommunications convergence. Ms Cosgrave was a member of the ETSI Board, and served on the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) Protocol Supporting Council.
Bridget became active in telecommunications with BT plc, where she was a Project Director responsible for establishing joint ventures and infrastructure acquisitions in Europe and Australasia. Previously, Bridget was an investment banker with Financière Indosuez, and worked in business development with Elders IXL.
Ms Cosgrave received a Master’s in Business Administration from London Business School (UK) and a Bachelor of Arts, Honours from Queen’s University at Kingston, Canada. She is a dual Irish and Canadian citizen and has been living and working in Europe since 1984.
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 Jim Courter,
CEO and Vice Chairman,
IDT
Jim Courter is CEO and Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of IDT Corporation (NYSE: IDT & IDT.B), a multinational telecommunications carrier and entertainment company based in Newark, New Jersey. Mr. Courter also serves as a member of the Board of Directors for the company’s subsidiaries IDT Telecom, IDT Entertainment, and IDT Winstar.
Mr. Courter founded the New Jersey law firm of Courter, Kobert, & Cohen and was a partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Verner, Liipfert.
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Simon Dux,
Executive Editor,
Total Telecom
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 James Enck,
European Telecoms Analyst and Global Telecoms Strategist,
Daiwa Securities SMBC Europe
James Enck is a sell-side analyst and telecom sector strategist for Daiwa Securities SMBC in London. He focuses on issues of market and technology disruption, and how the incumbents come to terms with it. He maintains a weblog at http://eurotelcoblog.blogspot.com
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 Bob Falconer,
CEO,
Gamma Telecom Ltd
Bob Falconer is the CEO of Gamma Telecom, a new wave Carrier that supplies services indirectly through the Resale market. Bob is evangelical about customer service and quality and has applied this ethos rigorously in the Gamma business model. Prior to Gamma Bob held senior positions in Global Crossing, Racal Telecom and BT, and also spent several years as a customer managing the global network services of a large multinational.
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 Oisin Fanning,
CEO,
Smart Telecom
Former managing Director of the Astley and Pearce Money Brokers, Mr. Fanning led a management buy-out of the company from its UK parent in 1991.
He acquired Doak & Company Stockbrokers in March of 1992 and changed its name to MMI Stockbrokers Limited. He formed Liberty Asset Management Limited in 1997. Mr. Fanning sold his interest in MMI Stockbrokers in 1998 and formed Focus Capital Limited, a Corporate Finance House in 1999.
Mr. Fanning has wide experience in commercial and corporate ventures and in fund-raising.
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 Patrick Gallagher,
CEO,
FLAG Telecom
Patrick T Gallagher was appointed FLAG Telecom Group’s CEO in March 2003. Prior to joining FLAG he spent seventeen years with British Telecom. In his last position in BT he was a member of the Group’s Executive Committee as Group Strategy and Development Director where he was central to the restructuring of the company and the re positioning of its strategy for the 21st century telecommunications market.
Patrick joined BT as Commercial Advisor and later Director to BTUK with responsibility for domestic and international business. In 1994 he was appointed Director of Business Development and led BT’s international expansion and investment strategy. Between January 1996 and July 2000 Patrick was President of BT Europe where under his leadership BT’s European operations grew to include twelve equity joint venture companies and five subsidiaries, generating over £6bn in annual revenue. He was a member of BT’s Worldwide Board.
Before joining BT, Patrick spent eight years with the Racal Electronics Group managing international communications projects in Europe, the Middle East and South America.
Patrick is a graduate from Warwick University with a degree in Economics and Industry.
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 Ms Angel Gambino,
Vice President Commercial Strategy and Digital Media,
MTV Networks Europe
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 Peter Gardner,
Global Sector Head, Communications,
3i
Peter is global sector head for 3i's communications sector team. He started with 3i as a software and telecommunications adviser in 1997 and formed 3i's first communications sector group. He was appointed as sector head in 2002, and is now globally responsible for strategy and developing the portfolio for the communications investments, primarily in the venture capital (early stage) area.
Peter has extensive experience in the communications sector. After starting as a programmer with IBM in 1967, he went on to work and teach in the computer department at Essex University, leaving to set up his own software consultancy business. That evolved into a venture-backed IT services company, which Peter sold in 1988. He then went on to be CEO of three other companies in the data and voice networking markets, before joining 3i in 1997.
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 Mr Atilla Gazdag,
Managing Director, Europe,
Walt Disney Internet Group
Attila Gazdag is the Managing Director of the Walt Disney Internet Group’s (WDIG) European operations. In this capacity, Gazdag manages all aspects of the business, which encompass the Disney web sites as well as premium subscription content services, such as advanced broadband, interactive television, and mobile applications across Europe.
• There are currently 14 local versions of the Disney website in Europe which generate around 60 million page views per month and attract an audience of nearly 6 million unique users each month.
• Premium broadband services include Disney Connection, an innovative broadband application comprising of short form video, games, music, and other rich media content from across The Walt Disney Company, as well as Toontown Online, Disney’s massively multiplayer online game created specifically for kids and families.
• WDIG Europe also operates Disney’s first interactive TV gaming service in partnership with The Disney Channel. This service, available on the Sky platform in the UK, allows consumers to play games using their TV remote control.
• A key part of WDIG Europe’s portfolio is “Disney Mobile”, the Company’s branded wireless content distribution business. WDIG is the leading family-oriented mobile branded entertainment content provider in Europe, with content distribution deals in 14 countries in Europe, with 15 carriers and distributors.
Previously, Gazdag was WDIG’s vice president of international business development with responsibility for Asia-Pacific and South American markets. During this time, Gazdag helped lead the international rollout of WDIG’s first broadband and mobile products.
Prior to joining WDIG in 2001, Gazdag held senior international and domestic business development positions at a number of top entertainment companies, including Universal, E! Entertainment and Cinergi Pictures.
He holds an MBA from The Wharton School and an MA in International Studies from the University of Pennsylvania.
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 Simon Gibson,
CEO,
Wesley Clover Corporation
Simon Gibson is Chief Executive of Wesley Clover Corporation. Wesley Clover is a Private Holding Company with assets in technology, leisure and property. Wesley Clover’s Technology Group specialises in investments in new and deep technologies that will have a major impact and create first mover advantage in the telecommunications, computing and networking markets.
Simon has extensive management experience in high-technology industries in North America and Europe. His early career was spent in the UK and USA with Mitel, Ericsson and BT. More recently he served as Vice President of Marketing and Communications in Kanata, Ontario, Canada.
Before joining Wesley Clover he was co-founder, President and CEO of Ubiquity Software Corporation. Ubiquity is a pioneer in the creation of SIP based telecommunications services for global service providers. The Company was named Innovator of the Year in 2001 by the British Venture Capital Association.
His company directorships include Wesley Clover Corporation, March Networks, Newport Networks, Ubiquity Software Corporation, Enfis, IQE plc and the Celtic Manor Resort. He is also a member of the Board of the Welsh Development Agency, a member of the Ofcom Consumer Panel and the Welsh Assembly Government’s National Economic Research Advisory Panel.
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 Mr Ofer Gneezy,
President and CEO,
iBasis
iBasis provides international long distance, VoIP, and prepaid calling cards. Ofer was an early believer
in the power of the Internet to change global telecommunications and quickly established iBasis as the
first provider of toll-quality Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service. Prior to founding iBasis, Ofer was president
of Acuity Imaging - focusing on industrial automation technology.
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 Thomas Götz,
Managing Partner,
Detecon International
After studies in physics and computer science, with extensive scientific IT activities at CERN and Stanford, a first milestone of his professional career had been the foundation of a small, high-profile ICT consultancy in 1990, together with two partners. With experience from successful projects in Germany and the US, Thomas Götz joined Detecon in 1995, where he was given the responsibility to build a ICT consulting team “from scratch”, focusing on ICT technology management in telecommunications. In 2002, he has been entrusted as managing partner and member of the executive committee of the new Detecon International GmbH, with direct report to the CEO. He is heading the competence practice “Information Technology” with 85 consultants, offering advice to CIO and CTO executitives for large enterprises in telecommunications and ICT industries. In his personal consulting scope, he concentrates on strategic technology and innovation management as enablers and drivers for strategic business transformations.
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 Mr Christopher Grahn,
Chief Executive Officer,
Ascade, Sweden
Mr. Grahn joined Ascade in year 2000 as Vice President of Marketing. In the same year he moved on to the position as CEO.
Mr. Grahn has a background as management consultant with focus on strategic consulting services for the telecom industry at PricewaterhouseCoopers Management Consulting Services (PwC MCS). During his four years at PwC MCS Mr. Grahn was based in Stockholm, Sweden and Toronto, Canada and worked mainly on Mergers & Acquisitions projects in Europe and North America. In parallel to his consulting position Mr. Grahn was responsible for all recruiting at the Stockholm office.
Prior to the position at PwC MCS, Mr. Grahn worked as a Customer Project Manager at Ericsson South America, where he managed implementation projects of cellular infrastructure systems.
Mr. Grahn holds a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering & Management from the Institute of Technology & Management in Linköping, Sweden. During his graduate studies, Mr. Grahn was given the privilege to study management and business as exchange student at Madison Graduate School of Business, USA and at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany and work as Research Assistant at INSEAD, France for Professor Kets de Vries in the area of Organizational Behaviour.
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 Peter Gutman,
Chief Financial Officer and MD, Corporate Development,
Video Networks
Peter is responsible for finance, planning and corporate development. He has over 18 years experience in finance, private equity and management consulting.
Peter was previously a Managing Director with iFormation Group, a private equity firm formed as a joint venture between Goldman Sachs, General Atlantic Partners and BCG. Before that, Peter was a Managing Director in Goldman Sachs', Communications, Media and Technology Group where he advised on a range of transactions and worked on a variety of investments within these sectors.
Prior to joining Goldman, Peter worked at Lehman Brothers, Booz Allen & Hamilton and Arthur Andersen & Co. He has an MBA from the University of Chicago, and an MSc. in Economics from the London School of Economics and an Engineering degree from the University of Michigan.
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Geoff Hall,
CTO, Europe,
Nortel
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Gina Haspilaire,
Managing Director, North America & Europe,
Asia Netcom
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 Nick Hazell,
Director of Alliances,
Yahoo! Europe
Nick Hazell is Director of Alliances for Yahoo! Europe, where he has overall responsibility for our partnership with British Telecom Plc (BT), including BT Yahoo!, and for developing future relationships with telecommunications providers across Europe.
Previously, Nick was with BT where his career included roles in Product Management, Corporate Finance and Alliances. His previous roles focussed on global businesses and internet services.
Nick completed a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics and its Applications from the University of Southampton in 1982.
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 Edward T Higase,
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Carrier Services,
Global Crossing
Edward T. Higase is executive vice president, worldwide carrier services for Global Crossing since January 2002. With over 13 years of general management and sales operation experience in the telecommunications and personal computer industry across Asia Pacific and the United States, Mr. Higase is responsible for overseeing all sales and marketing activities related to Global Crossing's carrier, ISP, and ASP customers worldwide. He leads a team of sales, marketing, business planning, and finance professionals worldwide.
Mr. Higase previously served as president, carrier services for Asia Global Crossing, the separately listed subsidiary of Global Crossing, from August 2000 to December 2001. Prior to Asia Global Crossing, Mr. Higase was corporate director and general manager from November 1999 to August 2000 of the medium-size business Corporate Accounts Division for Dell Computer Corporation in Japan, where he was the business leader of a $350 million P&L business unit and a robust 60% year-over-year growth of Dell's corporate business in Japan. Prior to this assignment, he served as corporate director, Dell Online for Asia Pacific from August 1998 to November 1999, where he led the growth of Internet-based transactions in the region to 46% of Dell's revenue from the Asia Pacific Region.
Mr. Higase began his career with AT&T in Japan. During his nine years with the company, he held a wide range of senior and executive positions in marketing, sales, and business management across AT&T's business markets division, consumer markets division, outsourcing unit, and the international business unit. He spent most of his AT&T career in assignments in Japan, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States, and has done business extensively across Asia Pacific, and the United States. He last served as Service Line Director for networked voice premises management at AT&T Solutions' world headquarters in New Jersey, U.S.
Mr. Higase holds an M.B.A. from Drake University and a B.A. in International Relations from the University of California, Davis. He has also attended the Executive Development Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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 Mr Osamu Inoue,
Member of the Board and Executive Vice President, Global Services Division,
NTT Communications Corporation, Japan
Osamu Inoue is Executive Vice President and a Member of the Board of NTT Communications (NTT Com). As the head of Global Services Business Division, Mr. Inoue oversees the global business of NTT Com. In this role, while focusing on Asian business, he also directs NTT Com’s efforts to expand its global reach to the U.S. and Europe
Mr. Inoue served as the Managing Director of NTT Europe Ltd. from 1999 to 2003. Prior to this, he was Vice President of the Global Business Headquarters at the head office and was responsible for overseas investment projects. From 1994 to 1996, He was Executive Vice President of NTT America Inc. He started his career with Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (NTT) in 1973.
Mr. Inoue received his Master’s Degree in Electronic Physical Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology.
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 Mr Uwe Klingebiel,
Vice President EMEA,
Lucent Worldwide Services
Uwe (pronounced oo-Vay) Klingebiel is responsible for the sales and delivery of all Lucent services in Europe. He is charged with leading the development of Lucent’s services portfolio into new areas, such as multi-vendor services and managed services, and expanding Lucent’s service business across Europe.
He joined the company in May 2004 as the Lucent Worldwide Services (LWS) Vice President of Europe after a distinguished, 20-year career with Hewlett-Packard. At HP, he held a number of key positions, including Senior Director of HP Services and Services Leader for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In his senior director position, he was charged with the responsibility of introducing a global delivery organization across HP.
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Daniel Kurgan,
CEO,
Belgacom
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Stuart Lacey,
Managing Director, UK,
BT Infonet
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 NiQ Lai,
Director of Corporate Development,
City Telecom
Mr. Ni Quiaque Lai (NiQ), is City Telecom’s Director of Corporate Development. Mr. Lai joined City Telecom in May 2004 and is responsible for investor relations and corporate finance functions. Mr. Lai has 12 years' experience in telecommunications industry research and finance, being highly rated in this field. Prior to joining City Telecom, Mr. Lai was Director and Head of Asia Telecom Research for Credit Suisse First Boston, having spent 8 years with the firm. Before that, Mr. Lai held positions with Hongkong Telecom and Kleinwort Benson Securities (Asia).
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 Stan Laurent,
CEO,
AOL Germany
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 Tony Lavender,
Director Telecoms Research,
Ovum
Tony Lavender is director of Ovum’s global telecoms research programme and he is responsible for ensuring that Ovum’s telecoms research reflects the needs of Ovum’s customers.
Tony joined Ovum in 1999, since which time he has worked in senior consulting and research roles and specialised in industry strategy issues. He has twenty-four years experience in the telecoms industry. Prior to Ovum Tony was at Oftel where he played a leading role in competition and technical issues. Tony began his career with BT where he held a number of senior roles over a 17-year period.
Tony studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Queen Mary College, London and he is a chartered engineer and a member of the UK Institute of Electrical Engineers
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 Helmut Leopold,
Head of Platform and Technology Management,
Telekom Austria
Helmut Leopold has been with Telekom Austria since 1999, where he currently holds the position of Head of Platform and Technology Management. He is responsible for the implementation of new technologies and the realization of new services on the basis of Telekom Austria's infrastructure.
From 1994 to 1999 he filled various management positions at Alcatel. From 1989 to 1994 he served as a research engineer at Alcatel Austria Research Center in the field of high performance networking and multimedia communications. Mr. Leopold has always been actively involved in European projects in the broadband area (including ESPRIT, RACE, ACTS and COST) as well as with regard to international standardization (ETSI). Moreover, he is member of various task forces within the scope of the Austrian Government's telecommunication programs. Since 1997 he has given lecturers on Broadband Communications at the University of Technology of Vienna and acted as evaluator in the R&D programmes of the European commission.
He is also vice president of the Austrian Research Center 'Forschungszentrum Telekommunikation Wien (FTW)'. Mr. Leopold has a degree in Electronics and Communications from the Technical College HTBLV Rankweil, Austria and a degree in Computer Science from the University of Technology of Vienna.
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 Ms Eva Lindqvist,
President,
TeliaSonera International Carrier, Sweden
Eva Lindqvist, President of TeliaSonera International Carrier, has held a long line of positions within the telecom industry.
Eva was previously employed by the Ericsson Group, where for 18 years she held leading positions in Japan, Australia and the US. Back in Sweden in 1998, Eva was nominated R & D Director for Corporate Technology at Ericsson.
After a year as Managing Partner at Sandberg & Trygg B2B advertising agency, Eva joined Telia in 2000 as Senior Vice President and project leader for broadening the ownership of companies in the Enterprises Business Area. The following year she was appointed Head of the Equity Business Area and became a member of Telia’s Group Management.
Early in 2002, Eva left Equity for Telia Mobile where she was assigned Senior Vice President with special responsibility for all staff units and overall strategic business development. In September 2002 Eva Lindqvist was appointed President of Telia International Carrier. Presently, Eva is responsible for all international carrier activities within the TeliaSonera Group and President of TeliaSonera International Carrier.
Eva Lindqvist was born in 1958 and holds a Master of Science, Engineering degree, in Applied Physics from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a Master of Business Administration from Melbourne Graduate School of Management, Melbourne University, Australia.
TeliaSonera International Carrier, fully-owned by the TeliaSonera Group, provides wholesale, capacity and IP services to network and service providers. The services are based on the wholly-owned European and trans-Atlantic fibre network, and the IP network with peering points in Europe and in the US. The international voice business is focused on international interconnect agreements and bilateral routes.
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 Mark Main,
Senior Analyst,
Ovum
Mark Main has over twenty years experience in the telecommunications industry, and specialises in the exploitation of network technologies and their impact on new network services and architectures.
As an accomplished professional in next-generation networks, Mark has written reports on Metro Area Networks, Digital Subscriber Line, Multi-protocol Label Switching and Gigabit Ethernet. He is a member of the Access@Ovum advisory service team, but has also written reports for IP-Enterprise@Ovum and Mobile@Ovum. Mark has also been a team member of several consulting projects concerned with corporate finance, company product strategy and new-build network opportunities.
Before joining Ovum in 2001, Mark was a Communications Engineer at Nortel Networks’ Harlow Laboratories, developing advanced networking solutions. Prior to working for Nortel Networks, Mark worked at BT’s Research and Development Laboratories studying and developing leading edge, technology-exploiting services.
Mark gained a BSc degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Southampton and has a post-graduate Diploma in Management Studies. He is a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.
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Sandeep Mathur,
President,
Tata Indicom Enterprise Business Unit
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Richard McBride,
Director, Strategic Futures,
Intec Telcom Systems
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 Dary McGovern,
CTO,
Global Voice
Dary is responsible for the development and implementation of GV's technology strategies, customer solutions plus associated operational processes and on going customer care. Dary's business consultancy and engineering teams work closely with customers to develop tailored solutions and operational processes that enable customers to achieve their information management, business continuity and regulatory compliance objectives. Prior to joining GV Dary worked for Nortel Networks, and then as a Consultant developing and implementing technology strategies and processes for companies such as Telecom Italia and France Telecom. While at Nortel Networks, Dary was involved in the design and implementation of projects worth in excess of one billion US dollars and has received multiple awards for excellence.
Dary graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering in Electronic & Software Engineering from Ulster Jordanstown Northern Ireland; he is also a recipient of a post graduate International Business and Marketing scholarship.
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 Noel Meaney,
CEO,
euNetworks
Noel is a founder and Chief Executive Officer of euNetworks . A seasoned business professional he is responsible for the strategic direction of the group and oversees the company's business operations, infrastructure deployment, product strategy, strategic alliance development and merger and acquisition activity.
Prior to founding euNetworks in early 2002, Noel worked for Metromedia Fiber Network (MFN) where he was responsible for the deployment of the company's metropolitan fiber-optic networks and datacenter infrastructure and the management of the company’s commercial operations in Ireland, the UK and the Netherlands.
From 1994 to 2000, Noel worked for Computer Associates Inc. (CA), and at the time of his departure was Regional Vice President in Europe with management responsibility for Ireland, the North of England, Scotland and Israel.
Prior to joining CA, Noel was co-founder and CEO of General Systems Recovery Ltd, a company that specialised in Mobile Disaster Recovery, Contingency Planning and Risk Analysis.
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 Mario Mella,
Director, Network Planning,
Fastweb
Mario Mella is the Network Planning Director at FASTWEB.
FASTWEB is Italy’s main alternative fixed broadband telecommunications operator. Its innovative telecommunications services deliver an integrated system enabling simultaneous access to telephony, interactive video services and high-speed Internet to customers in the main metropolitan areas both over fiber optics and ADSL. At December 31, 2004 FastWeb had over 490,000 customers and revenues of more than € 700 million. FASTWEB is listed on Milan’s Nuovo Mercato since March 30th, 2000.
Mella joined FASTWEB since the beginning of the start-up in September 1999.
In 2000 he was the planning manager of FASTWEB Fiber To The Home project: 1,5 Ml homes passed through a full fiber access network and triple play services to business and residential customers. In 2003 he was project leader of multicast and unicast video services on TV over DSL.
Inside the FASTWEB Network Division, he is in charge of the Network Planning department with responsibility of broadband access strategies and technologies, network roll out and coverage, implementation of new products/services and network investments planning.
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 Christian Moeller,
International President,
TDC Solutions A/S
Christian Eyde Moeller was named International President, TDC Solutions A/S in March 2005. In this position, Moeller is responsible for the development and implementation of TDC Solutions international strategy. His brief includes driving the expansion of the existing TDC international wire line operations in Europe.
With an international business career that spans nearly 20 years Moeller came to TDC from Sprint, where he was Regional President, responsible for all Sprint operations within EMEA, Asia Pacific and Australia.
He joined Sprint from Ebone (GTS), a European broadband IP and optical networking company, where he served as regional vice president responsible for operations in Northern Europe.
Moeller has also served as the European managing director at Equinix, Inc., a leading provider of core Internet exchange services in the United States. Moeller was general manager at The East Asiatic Company (EAC), one of Denmark’s leading international companies, prior to Equinix and Ebone.
Moeller has been a board member of The European Competitive Telecommunications Association (ECTA) since 2002.
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 Mr David Molony,
Editor in Chief,
Total Telecom
David Molony is Editor of TOTAL TELECOM, the world's only business magazine devoted exclusively to telecoms and global corporate networking. He has worked on TOTAL TELECOM and its predecessor CommunicationsWeek International since May 1996.
TOTAL TELECOM reports extensively on telecoms managed services for corporate users, especially broadband access and services-and the changing business relationship between network operators, systems integrators and equipment vendors, as they shift into service provision in the competitive marketplace.
David spent 12 years as a senior editor with international financial news agency Reuters in London, reporting and editing company and market news for the Reuters global economics newswire and online services. He ran subs desks of between 5 and 60 people and developed training programs for online editorial staff.
After Reuters, David worked at Kagan World Media as a European media industry analyst for two years. In between times, he has freelanced for information bureaux at Pearson and the Financial Times.
He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Hons.) degree in History from the University of Kent at Canterbury, England.
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 Mr Peter Newcombe,
President, Carrier Packet Networks, EMEA,
Nortel Networks
Peter is president of Optical Networks for Nortel Networks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA).
Peter joined STC Telecommunications in 1983 as a Hardware engineer, working on Public Switching products and in 1991 when Nortel Networks acquired STC, he moved into the Transmission Division supporting Nortel Networks international business.
Peter was instrumental in the early days of SDH within the industry and his broad transmission knowledge led to a number of roles in Product Marketing and Business
development for the business in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Peter was subsequently assigned to the company offices in Miami, USA in order to focus on building Nortel Networks Broadband Transmission presence in Latin America.
Having completed two successful years in Miami, Peter returned to the United Kingdom as director, Broadband and Transmission Marketing, with a remit to support the expansion of Nortel Networks Optical Network and SDH Transmission business around the world (excluding U.S. and Canada). He was subsequently appointed as vice president, Account Marketing, for Optical Networks in EMEA before moving into a sales role as president, Sales
for UK Alternate Operators. After two years working across Nortel Networks entire portfolio and managing the team providing engineering and technical support to the EMEA sales teams, Peter returned to Optical Networks as Business Leader for the EMEA region. In January 2003 his role was briefly extended to include ownership of Wireline Networks, now a separate business unit.
Peter graduated in 1985 from UMIST University, Manchester with a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronics. Peter lives in the UK with his wife and two children.
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 Mr Sten Nordell,
VP Networks and Platforms Strategy,
Telenor
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Chris Norris,
Director, Systems Integrators,
Energis
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 Shane O’Neill,
Chief Strategy Officer,
Liberty Global
Mr. O'Neill joined UPC NV in 1999. Mr. O'Neill has specific responsibilities for the development of chellomedia, UGC’s European content and services division. chellomedia is a leading provider of content and broadband services in Europe and invests in third-party cable operators and TV channels.
From 1992 to 1997, Mr. O'Neill worked at Goldman Sachs in its New York, Sydney and London offices. He served as an Executive Director in the Advisory Group for Goldman Sachs in London where he was responsible for providing advice on mergers and acquisitions as well as corporate finance to a number of companies in the media and communications industry, including UPC.
Prior this, Mr. O'Neill spent four years at Macquarie Bank in Sydney and three years at KPMG in Dublin where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He is a graduate in Law from Trinity College Dublin.
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 Marc Overton,
Director, Strategy, Products and Services,
Consultant
Marc Overton was appointed to the Wanadoo UK Executive Board in August 2004 as Managing Director, Strategy, Products and Services, reporting to Eric Abensur, CEO.
Marc’s role is one of the most crucial and exciting in Wanadoo’s history, as he leads the company’s progression from the ISP it is today, to a multi-media services company, offering a full suite of Broadband communication and entertainment services including Voice (fixed and mobile) and Image (Video on Demand).
Marc was recruited to Wanadoo from Hutchison 3G (3) where he was Director of Products and Services. Marc joined 3 right at its inception in 2000, and was responsible for launching 3’s 3G services (video content and communications) across eight countries, taking the products from inception through to profitable delivery and communicating them to customers.
Prior to joining 3, Marc oversaw the launch of Carphone Warehouse’s wireless portal (Mviva) across Europe. He began his career as a commercial graduate at the Daily Mail General Trust (DMGT) and then joined Yellow Pages to run Talking Pages and Business Pages where as well as being responsible for product development, he was responsible for all marketing.
Marc has an MBA from Henley and Degrees from Cambridge and Exeter University.
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 Ms Claire Paponneau,
Executive Vice President, International Wholesale Solutions,
France Telecom, France
Claire Paponneau is Executive Vice-President of International Carrier Services and Sales within France Telecom’s carrier wholesale division, providing quality services for carriers, mobile operators, ISPs and content providers.
Before taking up her current position at the end of 2001, Claire was Executive Vice-President of Networks and Services Operations, managing international networks, operator services, audio and video transport services and transmission and added value switched services.
Claire joined France Telecom in 1984 and has been involved in the management of networks, services and video planning as well as in finance, planning and information systems. She also worked in human resources at the corporate level as the head of industrial relations and social affairs.
Previously she worked as IT project manager in a small company, then as research manager on radar, and spent one year as an oil trading market analyst.
Claire is a graduate of the French National Telecommunications School and the Ecole Nationale des Mines de Paris. She also holds a research degree in Mathematics.
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 Mr Gerry Pearce,
Managing Director, Europe,
Net2Phone
Gerry Pearce is responsible for the global sales and marketing strategy of Net2Phone's Cable Technologies division, managing the team delivering a comprehensive outsourced IP telephony solution to cable operators worldwide. His goal is for Net2Phone to become the premier outsourced telecommunications provider for global cable operators. Net2Phone’s solution enables MSO's to reduce churn, generate incremental revenue and avoid exposure to capital and operating expenses by offering a high quality telephone service over existing broadband networks.
Mr. Pearce's expertise is in broadband voice technologies including carrier-grade VoIP in a Packet Cable environment. Mr. Pearce has been working on voice solutions for cable operators and telecommunications providers throughout Europe, North America and South America since 2000. Mr. Pearce is a graduate of Middlebury College.
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 Nongluck Phinainitisart,
President,
Shin Satellite
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 William Priest,
Senior Vice President, Strategy, Marketing and External Communications,
Orange Business Services
William Priest is Senior Vice President of Strategy, Marketing & Communications for Orange Business Services. William’s overall mission is to drive the evolution of the company's strategic direction and contribute successfully to the execution of that direction by leading the Strategy, Marketing and Communications, Portfolio Management and Partnership groups.
Based in Slough and Paris, William reports to the CEO and is a member of the Executive Committee of Orange Business Services.
From January 2004 - December 2004, William was Senior Vice President of Global Products & Solutions. In this position, he was responsible for the Equant product portfolio and service creation.
Previously, William was Vice President of Equant Professional Services for North America from July - December 2003. In that role, he led the 200-member Professional Services group and achieved 120 percent of the NAM Professional Services revenue goal.
Prior to that, William was Director of Professional Services for U.K. and Ireland from January 2002 - July 2003. During this time, he achieved 100 percent of the Professional Services budget in revenue and orders. In addition, he established a direct consulting team with a specialist solutions team. He also established a consultative sales engagement model within Markets and Sales in the U.K.
Prior to joining Equant, William held several strategic consulting positions at PricewaterhouseCoopers, Ernst & Young and PA Consulting Group. He was also a director of Strategy at AT&T-Unisource.
William is a Chartered Civil Engineer with a master's degree in Engineering from Southampton University, U.K. and earned a bachelor's degree with honours in Civil Engineering from Nottingham University, U.K.
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Jorge Ruano Puente,
ASDL Multimedia Services Director,
Telefónica I+D
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 Ury Rabinovitz,
Director of Internet, Business and Content Development,
Brasil Telecom
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 Frank Rasmussen,
CEO,
easyMobile
1992 Founded Image Scandinavia A/S, wholesale of modems, routers and ISP
1999 Sold Image Scandinavia to World Online (Dutch ISP, now Tiscali)
1999 CEO of ZyXEL A/S in Denmark, Scandinavia and Germany
2000 Founded Telmore A/S, MVNO in Denmark
2003 Sold Telmore to TDC A/S
2004 Together with TDC A/S founded easyMobile, launched March 2005 in UK, launches Netherlands later this year and Germany even later this year.
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 Mr Arne Rees,
Head of Strategy and Partnerships,
UEFA
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 Mr Paul Reynolds,
CEO,
BT Wholesale
Paul Reynolds was appointed to the BT Group PLC Board in November 2001 as CEO BT Wholesale, with additional responsibility for BT’s CTO and Procurement organisations.
He joined the BT Executive Committee in May 2000 as the founding CEO of BT Wholesale, BT’s play in the growing market for carrier-to-carrier network services and solutions. Paul has established BT Wholesale as one of Europe’s leading Wholesale network businesses, with a turnover of more than £10bn from a customer base of over 500 carriers and service providers in every area of telecommunications. He has successfully driven growth in one of the UK’s biggest businesses by offering new and existing telecom operators access to BT’s unrivalled network capabilities. His leadership of the BT’s 21st Century Network Strategy is fundamentally reshaping the business.
Paul has senior management experience of a particularly broad range of functions in the telecommunications industry. He spent the early part of his career in BT’s International business in product management, marketing and business development, where he grew revenues in rapidly evolving consumer, corporate and b2b market sectors, before taking a staff role as Director, Office of the Chairman with a focus on BT’s developing international alliances. He followed that in the early 1990s as Director of Multimedia where he worked with UK and US partners to pioneer the technical and commercial architecture of the world’s first video-on-demand services.
In the mid-90’s Paul built his experience of managing large scale operations, first in leading BT’s engineering and customer service for 2 million customers across Scotland and later, as Director of networkBT, with responsibility for the BT network and an engineering workforce of 25,000 professionals. In both he drove class-leading improvements in operating efficiency and service standards. In 1998 he was asked to lead the re-structuring of BT in the UK, a programme which successfully removed over £600m in costs in a year. As Managing Director of Networks and Information Services from 1999, Paul took responsibility for the entirety of BT’s research and development programme, its computer operations, as well as the network business. Here he was responsible for the transforming the network for the internet age and the build of one of the biggest IP transport networks in Europe.
A Scot, Paul joined BT in 1983 having graduated with First Class Honours from Strathclyde University in 1978 and subsequently gaining his PhD from London University.
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 Kerry Ritz,
Managing Director,
Vonage UK
Kerry Ritz is Managing Director of Vonage Limited, the UK subsidiary of Vonage Holdings Corp. He is responsible for leading the company's operations, planning, development, expansion and profitability in the United Kingdom.
Mr. Ritz has extensive global executive and business leadership experience with companies such as Hutchison 3G UK Ltd., InterMatrix Group, Loblaws and General Foods. Most recently, Mr. Ritz served as Director of Customer Strategy for Hutchison 3G Ltd., the first 3G mobile operator in Europe. Mr. Ritz was responsible for business and marketing strategy, device development and international development. He helped define the “3G proposition” which was core to the development of the first 3G business plan used to raise in excess of $5 billion in financing. Prior to Hutchison 3G Ltd., Mr. Ritz was Head of Practice at InterMatrix, one of the UK’s oldest strategy and consulting firms where he created numerous go-to-market strategies for telecom operators in Europe, Asia and Latin America. In addition, he advised leading branded consumer and retail organizations on their marketing, sales and international expansion strategies. Mr. Ritz’s previous experience included various brand marketing, strategy and business development roles with both General Foods and Loblaws Supermarkets, two of the most innovative consumer organizations in North America.
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 Mr Carl Roberts,
Vice President, International Wholesale and Carrier Services,
Verizon Business
Carl Roberts is responsible for Verizon Business International Wholesale Services and
Emerging Countries, a role he has held since March 2004. Prior to this,
Roberts served as EMEA Chief of Staff focusing on business operations, development and restructuring activities in South Africa, the former Belgian
JV and Emerging Countries. In 2003 Carl led the Strategy, Business Development and Country Management group. In 2002, Carl was responsible for Business Operations & Sales Support in the EMEA Wholesale Line of Business (LOB) in addition to heading up EMEA's "Upsides" revenue generation programme in 2002.
He joined MCI in September 2000 as Managing Director of International Data
Centres, joining MCI from Global One, where he was Vice President of Corporate Business Development for Europe.
After beginning his career in the legal profession working for Ashurst, Morris, Crisp & Co, Carl moved into hi-tech where he gained extensive experience in the IT and telecommunications industries. Over a fourteen-year IBM career - spent largely with IBM's Global Network business - he held a range of positions with European responsibility, covering areas such as Business Operations, Business Development, Sales & Marketing and Product Management. Carl also managed a number of Regional Country business units, expanding his international experience with assignments in Italy and South Africa. Prior to leaving IBM, Carl was head of the EMEA Project Office responsible for the transition of IBM's Global Network business to AT&T in over 50 countries.
Carl Roberts holds a Masters Degree in Languages & Politics and is located in Paris, France.
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 Andrew Romans,
Managing Partner,
Georgetown Venture Partners
Andrew Romans leads GVP with extensive experience in telecommunications, IT, finance and entrepreneurship. He has raised over $50 million in venture capital and vendor financing for communications companies over the past 5 years. Romans co-founded and led The Global TeleExchange (The GTX), a 90-person voice over packet (PSTN-VoIP-PSTN) telecom minutes exchange, where he served as President and member of the board. The GTX was the first company to deploy Lucent's softswitch in the US and Europe, making Romans a pioneer of the voice over packet migration. Romans also held senior management positions at Motive Communications, a $100 million broadband software company, and Sentito Networks, a manufacturer of SIP-based VoIP softswitching equipment. Romans has developed multi-million dollar deals with a broad range of communications companies in Europe and North America ranging from PTTs and RBOCs to emerging VoIP enterprises and leading systems integrators. Mr. Romans holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Georgetown University which he completed on scholarship. Romans began his career in New York City and has been equally active in North America and Europe for the past 12 years. An American citizen with permanent UK residence, he speaks fluent German and French, is conversant in Czech and Slovak and currently resides in London with his wife, a Slovak national.
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Meredith Rose,
Chair, EVUA and Telecommunications Manager,
Accenture
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 Marvin S Rosen,
Co-founder, Chairman and CEO,
Fusion
Mr. Rosen co-founded the Company in 1997 and has served as our Chief Executive Officer since April 2000, the Chairman of our Board of Directors since November 2004, the Chairman of our Executive committee since September 19, 1999, Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors since December 1998 and a member of our Board since March 1998. Since November 1983, Mr. Rosen has been a Shareholder of, and currently serves as “Of Counsel” to, the international law firm of Greenberg Traurig, P.A., where he also served on the Executive Committee until June 2000. Mr. Rosen was Finance Chairman for the Democratic National Committee under President Clinton from September 1995 until January 1997. Currently, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial and Terremark Worldwide, Inc., TAG Entertainment, and previously was Budget and Finance Chairman for the Summit of the Americas and Chairman of the Florida Housing Finance Agency.
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Emmanuel Routier,
Head of Carrier Business & Wholesale,
Mobistar
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 Mr David Rowe,
CEO,
Easynet Group
David Rowe, 44, founded Easynet in 1994, and has steered the Group for the last eight years, six of which have been as a publicly listed company. David has a background in sales and sales management and has a Masters Degree in Information Technology.
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John Ryan,
President, Founder and Chief Analyst,
RHK
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 Alan Ryan,
Director of Wholesale and Channels,
Easynet
Alan Ryan is Director of Broadband Channels at Easynet, where he has strategic responsibility for managing Easynet’s Wholesale and Carrier divisions.
Alan joined Easynet as Head of Channel in August 2004, where he was responsible for the development and strategic direction of Easynet's indirect channel. Since the launch of LLUStream - the first wholesale alternative to BT Wholesale – in December 2004, Alan’s role has been extended to incorporate Easynet’s new and thriving wholesale division. In 2005, Easynet changed the structure of its sales division, now divided into Corporate Direct Sales and Broadband Channels, with volume sales now run entirely through Easynet’s resellers. Alan has been responsible for the rapid growth of this Indirect Broadband Channel division, which now has 500 partners.
Alan has over 17 years of experience within the IT marketplace, with ten years’ specific channel experience. .
Alan’s key focus for the last ten years has been spent within the channel working with major telcos such as BT and latterly TeliaSonera, where he was responsible for the establishment and growth of its UK Indirect channel for IP Services.
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Claude Sassoulas,
Head of European Region,
VSNL International
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 Phil Sayer,
Chairman,
GlaxoSmithKline
Phil Sayer is an independent consultant, specialising in advising major corporate users and service providers selling into major corporates.
From 1997 to 2003 he was Global Head of Communications at Reuters (www.reuters.com ), the world’s leading news and financial information organisation, leading global telecommunications strategy and with accountability for an annual spend on telecoms exceeding $500m.
From 1993 to 1996, Phil was Managing Director of Reuters Connect Services, which was established in 1993 to sell telecoms services to end users; and from 1990 to 1996 Deputy MD and General Manager of Wyatts, a company which developed and manufactured voice dealing room equipment.
He is a Chartered Engineer, and has a MA in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cambridge, as well an MSc in Computer Science.
Phil is a Director and currently Chairman of the Communications Management Association (www.thecma.com ).
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 Dave Schaeffer,
Founder and CEO,
Cogent Communications
Dave Schaeffer founded Cogent Communications in August 1999 and is the Chief Executive Officer. Prior to founding Cogent Communications, Mr. Schaeffer was the founder of Pathnet. He also developed a regional paging carrier and numerous SMR systems throughout the United States. Mr. Schaeffer has founded and operated a total of seven successful businesses, including the second-largest delivery and ground transportation enterprise in the United States and a property and casualty underwriter. Mr. Schaeffer has also developed 46 commercial real estate properties in the Washington D.C. metro area. Mr. Schaeffer holds a B.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland, where he was also a Ph.D. candidate in Economics.
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Robert Schult,
Senior Analyst,
Telegeography
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 Bill Scott,
Digital Media Practice Leader,
IBM
Bill Scott leads the Digital Media practice for IBM Business Consulting in the UK. Digital Media is an area of strategic investment for IBM, with the objective to create repeatable business solutions to allow IBM’s clients to realise the value of Digital Media.
Before this role, Bill led the development of IBM’s IP3 Solution – a full IP based triple-play infrastructure for operators wishing to offer IP telephony, high speed internet access and TV. This solution provides a key differentiator in enabling new services which combine different elements of the triple-play. Bill led the engagement of his specialist team in the project which delivered this functionality to Lyse Tele, a subsidiary of Lyse Energi, (Stavanger, Norway) – the first project of this kind for IBM worldwide which started in 2002. As a result, IBM has built a significant business in IP triple-play with multiple clients in many countries across EMEA, including two in the UK.
Until April 2003, Bill was the practice leader for interactive TV for IBM Global Services EMEA. Bill was headhunted to create this practice in November 1999 and built a cross industry specialist team that delivers both business consulting and technical integration services to organisations wishing to exploit iTV and triple-play – either as core business or as a channel to market.
This team has been responsible for the successful delivery of iTV solutions for major retailers, banks, financial services companies, motor manufacturers and central and local government as well as iTV operators and broadcasters.
Prior to joining IBM, Bill worked in a wide range of roles for software services, software product and end-user organisations during a 20-year career in IT. This included early work in interactive TV, at a company that writes embedded operating system software for Set-Top Boxes (later acquired by Canal+ Technologies).
Bill’s career started at Merrill Lynch where he qualified as a Licensed Commodity Broker in 1985. He moved into IT after building several business solutions for the retail stock and commodity broking office and then and played a key role in growing Merrill’s PC base from 0-1200, including the first major Token Ring network installation in Europe. This experience allowed Bill to develop a successful Help Desk and Information Centre product (Quetzal) for a small start-up software house – WorkGroup Systems.
After another spell in the City of London, developing Risk Management software for ACT Financial Systems (Now Midas Kapity Intl.), Bill moved to e-business software services specialist Softwright in 1995. At Softwright, Bill developed a number of major accounts including American Express and the BBC to build a strong services business based on innovation, reuse and pragmatic business solutions. Bill was Divisional Director of the e-business Division, responsible for 50 people – about half the company.
Bill has always retained a strong business focus despite some very technical roles.
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 Mr Andrey Semin-Vadov,
Senior Vice President,
TransTeleCom
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Andrew Smith,
CEO,
Anglia Telecom
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 Detlef Spang,
Managing Director, Sales and Marketing,
COLT
Prior to joining COLT, Detlef Spang was Senior Vice President EMEA at Equant where he led up the Sales and Marketing organisation across the region. In this role he was responsible for positioning Equant as the leading data and IP services provider overseeing the delivery of the full Equant portfolio of value-added service offerings to customers throughout EMEA. Prior to Equant, he was responsible for Marketing and Sales within western Europe after the merger of Equant and Global One. He has broad telecoms experience having worked for Global One in the US and Deutsche Telekom, Sprint and Cable & Wireless in Germany. Detlef Spang is a German national.
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Nick Staddon,
Principle Consultant,
Intec Telcom Systems
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Nigel Stevens,
Product Director,
THUS
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 David Thorn,
CEO,
Telstra Europe
David started his career at BT where he worked for 13 years in various engineering, specialist sales and management positions. David joined MFS Communications in 1994 and initiated a Pan-European infrastructure based product line and sales team. The international business development strategy instigated by David resulted in the establishment of their city based fibre network and the acquisition of various business based ISP’s.
Following the acquisition of MFS by Worldcom, he was asked to head the Asia operations in Hong Kong & Japan, combined with country responsibility for the P&L operations in Australia.
After successfully managing this global segment, he moved back to the UK in 2000 and joined Level (3) Communications as Vice President for Sales in Europe, responsible for co-ordination of in-country activities and interaction with North America.
He joined Telstra in 2002 as Managing Director of the UK business and led the acquisition of the Powergen network, Cable Telecom and, more recently, PSINet UK. David is now CEO of Telstra Europe Ltd.
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 Grant van Rooyen,
Vice President,
Level 3 Communications
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 Dr. Falk von Bornstaedt,
VP Product Management IP & Solutions,
Deutsche Telekom, International Carrier Sales & Solutions
Falk von Bornstaedt joined the Deutsche Telekom Group in 1991. He is currently Vice President, Product Management IP/Data, in the international carriers’ division, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS). Having joined ICSS in 2001, Falk is now responsible for IP/ Data product management and the IP peering team. Prior to joining ICSS, Falk held various positions within the Deutsche Telekom Group, including responsibility for the Multimedia Division where he was responsible for the international IP product portfolio from 1996. This involved setting up the Global Intranet and IP MPLS VPN product lines. He also initiated the GRX project, an extranet for mobile operators. Before this, Falk was Assistant to the CEO of Deutsche Telekom for international affairs and worked in the controlling unit at Deutsche Telekom headquarters.
Falk von Bornstaedt holds diplomas in economics from the universities of Bonn and Paris, with a Ph.D. in economics from Cologne university. Following his studies, he was appointed project leader at the German National Research Center in Computer Science.
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 Ed Vonk,
CEO,
EVUA
Ed graduated from the The Hague University with a bachelor degree in Radio Communications, The Haarlem University with a bachelor degree in Computer Engineering and from the Amsterdam University with a bachelor degree in Business Management. He joined the Dutch Civil Aviation Authorities in 1970 where he was made responsible for Instrument Landing systems and navigation aids flight-testing. He left this service in 1980 for a career with the former Dutch public carrier, now KPN. After 5 years working he left for a more exiting job as telecommunications advisor/project leader for the Royal Dutch Shell group. Although stationed at The Hague he worked on various projects amongst others in Libya, Morocco, Egypt, Gabon, Bangladesh, Nepal, Syria, Columbia and Norway. He retired from Shell after 20 years of service in April 2004.
Ed was involved with telecommunications throughout his whole active carrier. His work brought him into contact with the European ISDN user forum and he has been chairman of one of the working groups. He remains active for almost two years pursuing harmonisation of ISDN services within Europe.
Ed was also a member of the Telecommunications Foundation of Africa (TFA) a non-profit industry forum to promote telecommunications development. His activities for Africa results from his experience with telecommunication projects in this continent and his appreciation for the African people.
Ed is now 10 years active within the European Virtual Network User Association (EVUA). He was former board member and chairman. After retirement from Shell he was asked to lead the organisation and to become their CEO. His main activities are focusing on commercial aspect, development of Enterprise Network Services and relation with suppliers and other user groups.
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Huang Xiping,
European Chief Representative,
China Telecom
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 Mike Zumsteg,
Head of Expanded Business, Bluewin,
Swisscom
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