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This list showcases the top United Kingdom 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.
Chris Roberts
Partner & Alliances Manager, Europe of Megaport
With more than 20 years of experience, Chris fosters an extensive range of expertise in selling directly to the corporate marketplace and through the partner channel.Chris has held senior positions at a number of global solutions and service providers in the past, including Pulsant where he was responsible for building a channel proposition, recruiting partners, and launching the new programme to the market. He also worked at MTI, an international provider of managed services and storage solutions, where he headed up the New Business and Channel sales teams for the Managed Services division.Prior to that, Roberts worked for iomart and Datapipe where he was tasked with building, promoting and delivering indirect programmes and revenues for the channel community, accomplishing several key wins across multiple verticals. At iomart, Chris added significant value in delivering millions of pounds in new annualised revenue for the company and assisted the team in gaining accreditation as an approved Dell managed services provider.
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About Megaport: Megaport is a software defined networking company that directly connects enterprises, networks, and services.
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.
Gemma Alvarez
Global Product Manager of Vodafone
Gemma Alvarez is the Global Commercial Product Owner for TOBi, Vodafones customer service chatbot, who is a trusted, helpful and easy concierge, here to support Vodafones customers. She helps carve out the future strategy of TOBi improving customer experience and pushing the boundaries of chatbots. Helping Vodafone Markets launch, accelerate the volume, improve the quality and innovate through TOBi. Previous to this, Gemma headed up Mobile Cloud Enterprise (Apps, Chatbots and Customer Experience Analytics), IoT and API Platform for Oracle UK in Business Development for almost 3 years. She was pivotal in launching the Intelligent Bot Cloud Service for Oracle helping many customers align chatbots to their core business, automating repetitive tasks. She has almost 7 years’ experience at Microsoft where she started off in the Sales Graduate Program, and then moved to a technical evangelist role where she worked on mobile apps, helping build up the app store and presenting to developers, business and UX around designing apps on the windows store.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Darren McAllister
Store 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.
Sam Machin
Senior Product 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.
Kevin Fotheringham
Project Manager of Teledyne Technologies
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About Teledyne Technologies: Teledyne Technologies provides electronic components, instruments, and communications products in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Ian Davis
Regional Marketing Manager Optical Fiber of Corning
Ian Davis is the regional marketing manager for EMEA, responsible for developing and executing optical fiber product strategy within the region. Davis joined Corning in 1989 and has held various positions in product line management, product engineering, and applications engineering management – Europe. Most recently, Davis was a strategic alliances manager, establishing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers, customers, end-users, and system equipment manufacturers. Davis received First Class Honors from Nottingham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. He also received a diploma in management studies from St. Helens Technical College in Merseyside, England.
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About Corning: Corning is a manufacturer of building materials including glass, ceramic, related materials and technologies, and more.
Sen Lin Zhang
Marketing Solution Manager of ZTE
Zhang is a Principal Architect in ZTE CTO Groups and a specialist in technology analysis, 5G and radio access network evolution. He also takes part in high level technical engagement with telecom operators and promotion of ZTE’s innovative products & solutions. He has 25 years working experience in leading global telecom operators and equipment suppliers and 20 years working experience in RAN technology assessments. He joined ZTE in 2009 as a Marketing Solution Manager. Before that he worked for BT and then O2 (Telefonica) for more than 10 years, focusing on future wireless technologies assessment. Dr ZHANG received his BSc and MSc degrees on Telecommunications from Northern Jiaotong University in P. R. China in 1982 and 1985 respectively and his PhD degree in Telecommunications from University of Wales – Bangor, U.K. in 1992.
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About ZTE: ZTE provides telecommunications equipment and network solutions.
Paul Gowans
Mobility Marketing Manager of Viavi Solutions
Paul Gowans, Mobile Strategy Director for Viavi has more than 20 years’ experience in the communications and mobile industries. He currently leads the Marketing team responsible for Viavi’s Mobile Location Intelligence & RAN Solutions. Paul’s expertise in IP, Mobile, LTE, VoIP, VoLTE & SON comes from developing, supporting, marketing and consulting on major mobile communications projects. Prior to Viavi, Paul was Global Marketing Manager for Agilent Technologies’ Network Systems Division. He is a seasoned spokesperson on many mobile issues for a variety of international conferences and forums and has written many articles. Paul is a graduate of Edinburgh University in Scotland with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Management Science.
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About Viavi Solutions, Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Nakul Haridas
Co-Founder & MEMS Technology Manager of Sofant Technologies
Nakul Haridas is responsible for the research of Sofant future technologies in accordance with market needs. Nakul brings with him experience in the MEMS technology and antenna design. Nakul is a co-founder of Sofant and co-inventor on Sofant’s patents. He has industry experience having worked for Micro World Software, Phoenix Telecom Pvt. Ltd, National Panasonic India, Terna EDA Centre.
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About Sofant Technologies: Sofant Technologies offers Smart Antenna and tunable RF solutions for next generation mobile and wearable devices.
Greg Thompson
Radio Strategy & Architecture Manager of Three
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About Three: Three is a British telecommunications and internet service provider.
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.
Russell Bulley
Technical Support Manager of Vertiv
Russell started as an apprentice electrician, rising through industrial electrical systems and engineering management. With a short spell in research and chip manufacturing, was followed with an extensive period within the UPS and M&E world of critical services. Well versed in the electrical and mechanical demands of clients around the world, both from a service and supply aspect within legacy and new data centres, Russell comes with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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About Vertiv: Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks.
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.
Anna Ferro-Bowden
Wayleaves Operations Manager of Community Fibre
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About Community Fibre: Community Fibre provides up to 1,000 Mbps fiber broadband service.
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.
Jason Lowe
UC Service Manager of Pennine
Our experienced and accredited engineering team install and commission telephone systems, whether they be Voice over IP (VoIP), unified communications incorporating voice, email, mobility, video, presences & IM and conferencing & collaboration or cloud and IT services. With a skilled team of engineers it’s comes as no surprise that we not only meet but exceed our SLA’s.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
Xavier Senelle
Operations Manager of Pennine
As Operations Manager I am responsible for Pennine’s CRM, Accounting and Billing platforms, as well as managing the sales support team who process Pennine’s orders. From a customer perspective it’s important that our customers receive invoices that clearly outline the products and services they take from us, whether it’s a system sale, two-way radio accessory or mobile phone connection.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
Belinda McGee
Solutions Marketing Manager of Pennine
Marketing Pennine’s portfolio involves online, printed, digital, video and social media activity as well as event management. The team also manages the company’s PR and branding, organises exhibitions and manages marketing campaigns, ensuring that all our marketing communications are mobile responsive so they are presented correctly regardless of the device upon which they are opened.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
Ann Barnes
Human Resources & Business Support Manager of Pennine
Since joining Pennine in 2003 we’ve introduced a train to retain policy which delivers real skills and career opportunities and helps boost our productivity, quality of service and profitability. It also ensures our staff are developed to their full potential ensuring they are confident and motivated to continually provide excellent customer service and is recognised by our Silver status in Investors in People and ISO9001 accreditation.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
Ann Barnes
Human Resources & Business Support Manager of Pennine
Since joining Pennine in 2003 we’ve introduced a train to retain policy which delivers real skills and career opportunities and helps boost our productivity, quality of service and profitability. It also ensures our staff are developed to their full potential ensuring they are confident and motivated to continually provide excellent customer service and is recognised by our Silver status in Investors in People and ISO9001 accreditation.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
Simon Clark
Radio Workshop Manager of Pennine
Having joined Pennine in 1994 I’ve witnessed some significant changes in the two-way radio market, one being the introduction of digital radio. My team of skilled engineers now install radio systems complete with functionality for lone worker, man down, GPS tracking, task allocation, telemetry, alarm monitoring telephone interconnect … the days of two-way radio offering just Press To Talk (PTT) are most definitely long gone.
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About Pennine: Pennine is one of the UK’s independent business communication specialists.
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.
