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This list showcases the top London based Manager operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a Manager 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.
Charlie Pryor
Senior Manager of SITA
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About Baby Lifeline, Leidar, SITA: SITA is an air transport IT and communications specialist, providing IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry.
Leonel Silva
Global Brand & Media Senior Manager of Vodafone
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Yasmeen Cappuccini
Project Manager of Channel 4
Yasmeen leads multiple teams delivering strategic, commercial and legislative projects across the breadth of business at Channel 4. Having worked for Channel 4 since 2006, Yasmeen is now a subject matter expert in a number of areas within the company. Channel 4 is a British, public service, free-to-air television network delivering innovative ground-breaking content to the public. This includes, as a top priority, diversity in TV and the media both in the content they commission and within every level of the organisation. Yasmeen is part of the Channel 4 ‘Women in Tech’ working group, currently focussed on retaining, recruiting and development. Prior to working at Channel 4, Yasmeen worked at Atos Origin within Systems Integration in a variety of roles on a wide range of Public Sector projects. With a BSc in Computer-Aided Chemistry from the University of Surrey, Yasmeen has always enjoyed applying computation solutions to practical problems. Coupled with a comprehensive background in systems analysis and solutions architecture, Yasmeen is passionate about technology and advocates smart, pragmatic solutions.
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About Channel 4: Channel 4 provides public broadcasting services via television.
Mark Kendall
Business Development Manager of NEC Corporation
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About NEC Corporation: NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world.
Gregoire Frileux
Software Engineering Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Mohaned Juwad
Senior Manager of Intelsat
Mohaned Juwad is a Senior Manager – Spectrum Policy at Intelsat.
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About Intelsat: Intelsat operates a globalized network that delivers high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services anywhere in the world.
Mohaned Juwad
Senior Manager of Intelsat
Mohaned Juwad is a Senior Manager – Spectrum Policy at Intelsat.
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About Intelsat: Intelsat operates a globalized network that delivers high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services anywhere in the world.
Nigel Green
Business Development Manager of Marlink
Nigel Green Business Development Manager at Marlink.
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About Marlink: Marlink provides business critical communication solutions.
Jorge Lesmes
Senior Manager – Global Head of Blockchain Banking Practice of Everis Group
Jorge (MSc Comp Sci) is in charge of leading and defining the group’s strategic direction and value proposition for the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology initiative for the banking sector, overseeing industry projects the group is participating in. With over 10 years’ experience in the area of Banking Consulting (Corporate & Retail), he has acquired an expert knowledge in critical banking infrastructure and regulatory transformation including CMA Open Banking, GDPR and PSD2 having led implementations for multiple Tier 1 global banks. His current focus is on how the Internet of Value will improve our ability to make payments as quickly and efficiently as data transfers, as well as inter-ledger infrastructure to improve connectivity between different DLT platforms.
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About Everis Group: Everis offers outgoing development through its highly trained and nurtured staff offering transparency, consistency and responsibility.
Peter Agnew
Product Manager MPLS VPNs and SD WAN of Gamma
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About Gamma: Gamma is a leading supplier of voice, data and mobile products and services in the UK.
Javier Lecanda
Sr. Product Development Manager, Network On Demand of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Rui Ferraz
Global Product Manager Unified and Intelligent Communications of Colt Technology
Rui Ferraz’s main focus is simplification and acceleration, enabling users to focus on their work instead of the technological details around it. This objective has been the motivator of his professional life, be it in the early years spent working in Portugal Telecom and Vodafone as pre-sales and product management, as Unified Communication Director for Huawei Italy, and in his current role. Rui’s passion for UC is infectious, where he is always on the look for the next big thing in the UC space and how can it help customers. Rui is Portuguese and lived in Portugal (Braga, Lisbon, Porto) and Italy (Rome) before moving to the UK (London). He is a foodie, travel enthusiast and loves a good talk, feel free ping him for a talk.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Nigel Tromans
Product Manager of Colt Technology
Nigel has over 16 years’ telecoms experience at Colt, during which time he has been responsible for a range of key product developments and go-to-market launches spanning the Ethernet and Optical product portfolios. During this time Colt has been recognised as one of the world’s leading telecoms providers, regularly winning prestigious MEF awards and other accolades. He is currently responsible for Colt’s optical portfolio, which is delivered via a state-of-the-art Europe-wide WDM infrastructure and directly connects Europe’s key data centre markets, enterprise buildings and international cable landing points. Prior to joining Colt in 2000, Nigel worked as a Director and Network Consultant for a systems integrator, providing local and wide area network solutions for leading organisations in London.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Christian Richards
Business Development Manager, Cloud, Content and Applications Markets of Epsilon Telecommunications
Epsilon is a leading provider of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems. Our underlying network infrastructure, intelligent application layers and industry expertise enable our customers to seamlessly deliver mission critical, high performance Applications and Communications services globally. We operate an outsourcing model for the procurement and management of Cloud and network infrastructure; enabling our customers to focus on delivering end-to-end Cloud, Content, application,communication and connectivity services. Our high performance, high availability and massively scalable global backbone combined with our own unique networking technology has created a platform connecting over 500 network operators and service providers each using the network to serve their fixed, mobile, application and Cloud customers. Epsilon provides connectivity and infrastructure outsourcing solutions to Communications, Applications, Content and Cloud service providers. Our underlying network infrastructure, intelligent application layers and industry expertise enables our customers to seamlessly deliver mission critical, high performance applications and communications services globally. Our networking solutions leverage our 500+ carrier relationships with coverage in 170 countries.
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About Epsilon Telecommunications: Epsilon is one of the largest independent providers of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems.
Andrew Speakmaster
Project Manager – Qatar Petroleum & Office of National Statistics of Transitional Data Services,Inc.
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About Transitional Data Services,Inc.: Transitional Data Services,Inc. provides IT solutions & software to manage data consolidation, network & infrastructure design.
Chris Moore
General Manager of NC Communications
Chris has worked in the IT industry for the past 30 years, predominantly in publishing and new media, and is keen to explore the possibilities of social media in marketing. “Social media in business is still relatively new but I’m positive that it will become as incredibly important as it has in many other disciplines”.
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About NC Communications: NC Communications is a provider of content and events for the Microsoft SharePoint and Office 365 community.
