Best Startup
At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Christopher Tooley
Chief Executive Officer of Lycamobile Group
Chris Tooley is responsible for overseeing the growth and development of the business in all its 23 operating countries as it continues to make in-roads to new markets. Tooley was appointed CEO in 2014, having already spent 10 years in senior leadership roles at Lycamobile. With decades of experience in the telecoms industry, Tooley has pioneered many of the technical, commercial and legal industry standards in the UK and Europe for prepaid products and has worked extensively with Government regulators and tax authorities. Tooley holds a MA in History and Economics from Oxford University.
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About Lycamobile Group: Lycamobile Group provides international mobile virtual network operator.
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Greg Mesch
Founder & CEO of CityFibre
With over 25 years of telecom, internet and technology-based experience behind him and five companies successfully built from start-up phase, Greg is an expert when it comes to business plan development, management team building and the capital formation of high growth, fibre optic based telecom companies. Greg had extensive involvement in the founding of Esat Telecom, assisting them in raising all their early stage capital, their core product positioning and network implementation. Esat was later sold to BT for over €1 billion. He went on to make the founding investment in Versatel Telecom NV. Versatel operated in Holland, Belgium and Germany building one of the largest fibre based infrastructures in those markets. He was instrumental in the development of its business plan, recruiting the core management teams and raising over €1.5 billion in capital. Versatel was sold for over €2 billion to Tele2.
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Serpil Timuray
CEO Europe Cluster of Vodafone
Serpil Timuray is appointed Executive Committee member of Vodafone Group and as Regional CEO of Africa, Middle East, Asia, Pacific and as of January, 2014. Prior to this role, she was CEO of Vodafone Turkey since January 2009. Timuray also serves as a non-executive Board Member to Vodacom Group, a leading African telecoms group headquartered in South Africa, since September 2012. She was appointed to the Boards of Vodafone India, Vodafone Hutchison Australia, Safaricom Kenya in November 2013 and Vodafone Egypt in January 2014. Timuray joined Vodafone from Group Danone, where she was the General Manager of Danone Turkey from 2002-2008. She began her career in 1991 at Procter & Gamble where she was later on appointed to the Executive Committee of P&G Turkey. Timuray is currently the Chairperson of Board of YASED (International Investors Association) Board, the Vice-Chairperson of Board of DEIK-TIIK (Turkish-British Business Council of Foreign Economic Relations), Board Member of TOBB-GGK (Young Entrepreneurs Council of Turkish Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges) and sits on the Board of Trustees at Koç University. Timuray was ranked 79th among the “World’s 125 Women of Impact” by Newsweek in 2013 and selected as a “Young Global Leader” by World Economic Forum in 2009. She was elected as “The Professional of the Year” in Turkey for 2013, 2011 and 2010 by the Turkish Economist. A graduate of Bogazici University Business Administration, she is married and a mother of one child.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Nic Rudnick
CEO of Liquid Telecom
Nic Rudnick is the chief executive officer of Liquid Telecom. Prior to that, he held the same position at Econet Carrier Services. Rudnick holds a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of Cape Town and master’s degree in information technology and telecommunications law from the University of Strathclyde. Rudnick lives in London, United Kingdom.
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About Liquid Telecom: Liquid Telecom is an independent data, voice, and IP provider that is committed to building Africa’s digital future.
Dana Pressman Tobak
Founder, CEO and Managing Director of Hyperoptic
As joint founder and Managing Director of Be Un limited, the record-breaking 24 Meg broadband provider of 2005, Dana took the business from start to launch in just six months. By placing the consumer at the heart of success (Be customer support continues to win awards to this day) and generally refusing to take no for an answer, Dana has been building successful global businesses for over 20 years. Co-founder and director of Hyperoptic, Dana brings expertise in commercial agreements, financial business practice and purchasing, and an unshakeable vision for Hyperoptic’s success.
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About Hyperoptic: Hyperoptic is a fiber-based internet service provider.
Timothy Creswick
Founder / CEO of Vorboss
Timothy is the Founder and Director of Vorboss Limited, a specialist, high-performance cloud service provider based in the City of London in the United Kingdom. Vorboss is the UK’s most interconnected, fully autonomous cloud service provider. We operate AS25160 (see http://bgp.he.net/AS25160 for independent data) which is an independent service provider network. Vorboss is a founding member of the SPN Alliance.
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About Vorboss: Vorboss believe that these crucial decisions should be made with a technical expert, rather than someone driven by margins.
Shashi Fernando
CEO of Auctus Alternative
CEO, Yonder & Beyond. Chairman, Boppl. Chairman, Prism Digital. Chairman, Wondr. Former CEO of Saffron Digital. Former board member of HTC. Former CCO of HTC. Previously the founder and CEO of Saffron Digital which raised $3million in 2007 and was acquired by HTC in 2011 for the value of $50million. Built an exceptional team from scratch to 120 strong across the London and Los Angeles offices. Delivered technologies into the heart of the mobile and entertainment industry by securing clients such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, Samsung USA, Paramount, Disney. Fernando is cited in the Top 50 in the world for Mobile Entertainment consecutively for 2 years, as well as placing for Mobile Power 50, the 50 most powerful people in mobile industry.
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About Auctus Alternative, Boppl Limited, Saffron Digital: Invest. Manage. Succeed. Equipping startups with vital capabilities beyond capital.
Ashley Friedlein
CEO & Founder of Guild
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About Ably Realtime, Cambridge Judge Business School, Centaur Media Plc, Econsultancy, Founders4Schools, Guild: Guild is the platform for professional communities and networking.
Nigel Chadwick
Founder and CEO of Stream Technologies
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About Stream Technologies: Stream Technologies is a pioneer in machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.
Ralph Steffens
Chief Executive Officer of Truphone
Ralph Steffens is CEO at TruPhone. Steffens has held senior positions at some of the world’s leading telecoms companies, including NBN Co Limited, BT, Colt Telecom and most recently, Reliance Jio Infocom, heading up operations in various regions including Europe, India and Australia.
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About Truphone: A global leader in digital connectivity software
Alexander Fitzgerald
Founder and CEO of Cuckoo
Former HM Treasury official, helped Bulb grow and interested in economics and defence.
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About Cuckoo: Cuckoo is a broadband services provider used to simplify broadband for users.
David Williams
Founder Chairman and CEO of Arqit Limited
David Williams is a Founder at Arqit company.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Tom O’Hagan
CEO of Virtual1
Tom O’Hagan is the Founder of Virtual1 Ltd. and serves as its Managing Director and Director. Tom O’Hagan is a leading figure within the telecommunications industry and has worked in the sector, both in the UK and internationally, for more than 14 years. In 2012, Tom O’Hagan was named a ‘Young Gun’ by Growing Business in its annual list of the top 30 young entrepreneurs in the UK and in June 2013, Tom O’Hagan was awarded ‘Channel Entrepreneur of the Year’ at the Comms Business Awards.
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About Virtual1: UK-based cloud and connectivity service provider
Baskaran Allirajah
CEO of Vectone Mobile
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About Vectone Mobile: Vectone Mobile is provide the best value pre-paid plans for international calls, SMS and data.
Eli Katz
Founder & CEO of XConnect Global Networks
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About ITSPA, XConnect Global Networks: XConnect provides interconnection services driving the adoption of IP-based multimedia communications.
Bruce Beckloff
co-founder and CEO of Bloc Ventures
Bruce is the CEO and co-founder of Bloc Ventures, targeting investment in early life-cycle companies focused on the emerging Industrial Internet market. Before this Bruce was with ARM Holdings for 12 years serving as head of Corporate Development responsible for corporate strategy development, M&A, and investments. Bloc Ventures Recently, Bruce has been assisting the UK government as a venture capital Strategic Adviser helping the UK’s high growth early stage companies access financing from venture providers.He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor and a Masters in materials science and holds a Masters in Business administration from the Southern Methodist University.
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About Bloc Ventures: Bloc Ventures is an early-stage Deep Tech investment company. Pitch to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/
Andrey Insarov
CEO and Founder of Intis Telecom
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About Intis Telecom, IT.com: Powerful SMS software with web-based interface and gateway API to help you grow your business with mobile messages
Paweł Sieczkiewicz
Co Founder & CEO of Telemedi
Graduate of Warsaw University of Technology, experienced project manager (web/mobile apps), php programmer. Founder of an SSF software house. 2x champion of Poland in kickboxing.
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About Telemedi: Trusted partner in digital healthcare
Alan Afrasiab
President and CEO of Talia
Alan Afrasiab is President, CEO, and a founder of Talia Limited. An experienced senior executive with more than 20 years in the information technologies and communications networking industries. He has also held many other executive and advisory roles and served as a member on several boards of directors. Mr. Afrasiab graduated from Manchester with a B.Eng. degree in Biomedical and Bioelectronic Engineering.
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About Talia: Talia is a top-tier provider of Internet, voice, and video services
Kash Pandya
Group CEO of Helios Towers Africa
Kash has been Chief Executive Officer of Helios Towers since July 2015. Previously, he spent eight years with Aggreko plc, where he sat on the Board, running the European Business for three years. He was also Managing Director of Aggreko International for five years, with responsibility for Africa, South America, Central America, India, Asia, Australasia and the Middle East. In this role, Kash oversaw a doubling in size of Aggreko’s international business, heading up launches in over 10 African countries. Kash began his career at the age of 16 through an engineering apprenticeship. He then went on to complete a Bachelor’s degree in Technology Engineering and a Master’s in Manufacturing. In 1989, he began his progression through leading engineering and manufacturing companies, starting at Jaguar before moving to roles within General Electric and Caradon. In 1999, Kash joined APW to lead all operations outside the United States, taking the business through a process of re-engineering and consolidation across 23 factories. In 2004, he became the CEO of Johnston Group, a publicly quoted company, leaving the business on its sale to Ennstone plc.
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About Helios Towers Africa: Helios Towers Africa has operations in Ghana, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a sister company in Nigeria.
Tom Greenwood
Group COO / CEO-Designate of Helios Towers Africa
Tom Greenwood is the CFO & Group Chief Operating Officer at Helios Towers Africa.
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About Helios Towers Africa: Helios Towers Africa has operations in Ghana, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a sister company in Nigeria.
Atte Miettinen
Group CEO of Limitless Mobile
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About Limitless Mobile, Seven Summits: Limitless Mobile is an infrastructure, solutions and services provider to Mobile Network Operators
Brendan Gill
CEO & Co-Founder of Opensignal
Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan was named in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays, Waveform: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Ajit Jaokar
CEO of Futuretext
Ajit Jaokar is the founder of the London based publishing and research company futuretext (www.futuretext.com) focussed on emerging Web and Mobile technologies. In 2009-2010, Ajit was nominated as part of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of the Internet by the world economic forum. He hopes to use this opportunity to further extend the pragmatic viewpoint of the evolution of Telecoms networks in an open ecosystem. Ajit chairs Oxford University’s Next generation mobile applications panel and conducts a course on Web 2.0, Social networking, Mobile Web 2.0 and LTE services at Oxford University. Ajit’s thinking is widely followed in the industry and his blog, the OpenGardensBlog (www.opengardensblog.futuretext.com), which was recently rated a top 20 wireless blog worldwide Ajit lives in London, UK, but has three nationalities (British, Indian and New Zealander) and is proud of all three. He is currently doing a PhD on Internet of Things, Privacy and Reputation systems at UCL in London. Ajit is a fan of animation especially Tom and Jerry, Tintin and Asterix and likes the music of ZZ Top and other rock bands.
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About Futuretext, University of Oxford: Futuretext applies machine learning techniques to problems in the IoT and telecom domains that offers advantages for customers.
Daniel Gill
Founder and CEO of Augnet
With wide industry knowledge and insight, both as an Angel investor and as a Telco industry insider, Daniel Gill started Augnet with an ambitious plan to disrupt and revolutionise the SMS sector. Since founding the company, he has raised investment from a range of seasoned investors, including lead investor the venture capital firm Triple Point. His leadership of Augnet follows a decade with Skype and Microsoft, where he led a high-performance team and spearheaded a number of ground-breaking business development initiatives in the telecoms space. With his leadership Augnet is on track to revolutionise the way things are done in the SMS space.
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About Augnet: Augnet is a London-based technology start-up set to revolutionise the SMS and messaging space.
Paul McGuire
Co-Founder & CEO of tru.ID
Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the whole economy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world’s leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company’s sales and marketing organizations, guided the company’s expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies. Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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About tru.ID: tru.ID is reinventing mobile authentication for today’s world through a modern developer platform.
Jeannie Arthur
Chief Executive Officer of Call2Teams
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About Call2Teams: Call2Teams specializes in cloud-based telephony, VoIP solutions, unified communications, office 365, skype for business, PBX, and Microsoft.
Jonno Hulford-Funnell
CEO of Novatiq
As a serial tech entrepreneur, purpose-driven leader and the co-founder of Novatiq, Jonno has been at the forefront of data-driven marketing since 1995. He has raised startups on three continents and held executive positions in multinational corporations, most recently Experian where he led the global data management practice at Experian Data Quality. Dedicated, clear thinking and unfailingly cheerful, Jonno combines his proven company-building and go-to-market experience to lead our next stage of business growth.
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About Novatiq: Provider of privacy-first identity solutions that enable telcos, brands and publishers to verify and reach their audiences.
Tom Fitzherbert
CEO and Director of Fast2Fibre
Tom Fitzherbert is a highly-experienced CEO within the research and technology field and has a proven track record of establishing and building innovative and entrepreneurial start-up companies into successful businesses.
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About Fast2Fibre: Fast2Fibre is a provider of a highly efficient, cost-effective process for upgrading copper telecoms and power cables worldwide.
Jordan McRae
Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs
Jordan McRae is an inventor, engineer, and entrepreneur. He is currently the Founder and CEO of Mobilus Labs where they’re developing a wearable hands free / ear free voice platform using cutting edge innovations in bone conduction technology, voice recognition, and digital signal processing.
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About Mobilus Labs: Mobilus Labs is a tech startup with the mission to provide frictionless voice communications.
Andy Aitken
CEO & Co-founder of Honest Mobile
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About Honest Mobile: Challenger MVNO
Douglas Orr
Founder and CEO of Novastone Media Ltd.
Douglas Orr, CEO and Founder of Novastone, has over 20 years of entrepreneurial background including multiple successful exits to companies such as GfK and Sungard. Douglas has founded world-renowned businesses with operations spread over many European countries and created revolutionary new technology in both the retail and financial industries.
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About Novastone Media Ltd.: Bridging the gap between advisors and clients via messaging centred solutions
Gareth Williams
CEO of Interoute Communications
Gareth Williams became CEO of Interoute in August 2007. Prior to that he served as President, Global Markets building the sales and marketing unit of Interoute across the 30 countries in which Interoute now operates. He joined Interoute to aid James Kinsella with the restructuring of the company in 2002 and has helped drive the growth of Interoute from zero revenues at relaunch in 2003 to €416 million in 2013. He helped manage the transition of the Company from loss making start-up to profitable communications technology leader. He has reinvested the cash the Company has generated to strengthen Interoute’s position as a major Cloud services provider, including a pan-European Virtual Data Centre product suite, called CloudStore.
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About Gigaclear, Interoute Communications: Interoute is an international telecommunications service provider and the owner operator of Europe’s largest cloud services platform
Daniel Allen
CEO & Founder of Sipcom
With a proven entrepreneurial track record, Daniel is an acknowledged business leader and innovator in the Communications and Collaboration services market. An experienced board level executive for over 18 years, Daniel was Sales Director for a Sunday Times Fast Track 100 company in 2005 & 2006 and was a finalist in the NatWest sponsored Entrepreneur of the Year and Fastest Growing Company in 2010. Daniel held senior positions with a number of leading technology providers before forming Sipcom in 2006. In 2018, Daniel was also recognized as one of the Top 40 under 40 Jewish Entrepreneurs in New York by the Young Jewish Professionals Organisation. In 2020, Daniel also led Sipcom to its inclusion in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100 – the list for Britain’s fastest growing technology companies.
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About Sipcom: Communications and collaboration on any scale.
Adam Kantor
CEO of Business Systems
Adam Kantor currently works as the Chief Executive Officer for Business Systems UK Ltd. He previously worked at Armstrong Transaction Services Ltd as the Director.
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About Business Systems: Business Systems is the UK’s independent provider of compliance, performance, and workforce optimization solutions.
Nicholas Zylberglajt
Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Life
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Nikhil Patil
CEO of GO plc
Nikhil Patil, CEO of GO plc. is a professional with over 15 years of experience in strategy, operations and mergers and acquisitions across telecoms companies like GO, Cablenet, BMIT and Interoute. Nikhil previously served as non-executive director of GO, working closely with the Company’s senior management to define and implement its strategy. He spearheaded a number of strategic acquisitions, helping GO to diversify its business both in Malta and Cyprus. Mr. Patil was responsible for the creation of Malta Properties Company p.l.c., today one of the largest publicly listed real estate companies in Malta, where he served as CEO until 2018. Mr Patil has a Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Mumbai, India, a Master’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology and an MBA from IMD, Switzerland. Mr Patil is a Charter Financial Analyst (CFA).
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About GO plc: GO plc provides fixed, mobile, digital TV and internet services in Malta
Imogen Wethered
CEO & Co-Founder of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Imogen Wethered is Founder & CEO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Alex Bligh
CEO of Silverscale Associates
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About Silverscale Associates: Silverscale Associates provides business and technology consultancy services to the internet, telecommunications and technology sectors.
Rob Weisz
CEO of Fonix
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About Fonix, Mobile Interactive Technology: Fonix is a cellular phone distributor that supplies telecommunication handsets.
Meir Moalem
Founder and CEO of Sky and Space Global
Meir has a B.Sc. in Physics and Computer Sciences (with honours) and an M.A. from the Diplomacy and National Security executive program (with honours). Currently he is working on his PhD in national security and space programs in Tel Aviv University, Israel. Meir has also received the Israel National Defence award in 2009.
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About MultiModis, Sky and Space Global: Sky and Space Global provides affordable voice, data and instant messaging services to Anyone, Anywhere, Anytime.
Brady Rafuse
CEO of euNetworks Group
Brady Rafuse is the chief executive officer of [euNetworks Group Limited](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/eunetworks-group-limited#/entity), a bandwidth infrastructure provider. He was previously the managing director of COLT Telecom. Rafuse is the former president and chief executive officer of Level 3 Europe before which he was the head of operations for Concert. Rafuse holds a master’s degree from McGill University.
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About euNetworks Group: euNetworks is a Western European provider of bandwidth infrastructure services.
Louis Hall
CEO and Founder of Cerillion
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About Cerillion: SaaS charging, billing and CRM solutions provider, primarily to the telecoms industry
Abbey Alidoosti
CEO of AWTG
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About AWTG: AWTG is an end-to-end service provider for the telecommunications market with a global presence.
Mitul Limbani
CEO of Enterux Solutions
CEO at Enterux Solutions
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About Enterux Solutions: Enterux Solutions is a Telecommunication company.
Albert Gardiner
CEO of Fairwaves
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About Fairwaves: Fairwaves manufactures and sells equipment for open-source telecommunication to serve mobile operators.
Stefan Zehle
CEO of Coleago Consulting
Stefan Zehle, MBA, is the CEO of Coleago. He has 29 years’ experience in telecoms working in 63 countries. He specialises in spectrum policy, valuation, auctions, and mobile business planning. Stefan launched the third mobile operator in Algeria and served as an Executive board director. Co-author of “Guide to Business Planning”, published by “The Economist”.
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About Coleago Consulting: Coleago Consulting is the specialist telecommunications strategy consulting and training company.
Ramesh Sharma
CEO and Founder of City Road Communications
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About City Road Communications: City Road is a PR firm that specializes in the use of analysis, data and expertly designed content to ensure a better media coverage.
Irene Clapham
CEO of NC Communications
Irene has over 35 years of media and event management experience, the last twelve of which have been in the IT publishing industry. She has produced many high-level in-person and online technical vents for partners and clients such as Oracle, Microsoft, Citrix, Intel, VMWare and IBM. She has also built turnkey virtual on-line events delivered in multiple languages across Europe for NC Communications client lists.
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About NC Communications: NC Communications is a provider of content and events for the Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 community.
Russell Southwood
CEO of Balancing Act
Russell Southwood’s work combines market analysis, business planning and policy work, with facilitation and change management skills. He works with C&E on a number of initiatives focusing on investment in Africa and emerging economies. Russell is the chief executive of Balancing Act, a consultancy and online publishing company specialising in telecoms, internet and broadcast in Africa. His most recent consultancy work has included: an assessment of the Pay-TV market in Africa; an appraisal of an investment in a wireless broadband operator; the implementation of an African internet Exchange Point; an assessment of investment finance options for African telecoms and internet infrastructure; a study of telecommunications infrastructure and development initiatives and projects in Southern and East Africa and a study on Open Access models. He is the co-author of a number of publications, including African Satellite Markets, African VoIP Markets and African Broadcast Markets. Russell has recently helped two global ICT brands with their strategy in relation to Africa. He started working in Africa because he was interested in how the world might change over the next ten years.
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About Balancing Act: Balancing Act seeks to be the primary source for information on the telecoms, Internet and audio-visual media industries in Africa.
