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 United Kingdom 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.
David Eurin
Chief Executive Officer of Liquid Telecom
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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.
Nick Jeffery
CEO and President of Frontier Communications
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About Frontier Communications: Frontier Communications Corporation is an independent provider of telecommunications services that offers voice, data, and video services.
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.
Evan Wienburg
CEO of TrueSpeed Communications
Evan Wienburg is a co-founder of CEO of TrueSpeed, a full fibre infrastructure and broadband provider based in the South West. In July 2017, Evan secured a £75million investment from Aviva to deploy TrueSpeed’s network across the South West. Providing a futureproof broadband solution for homes and businesses, Evan’s vision delivers guaranteed speed, full fibre broadband to every property TrueSpeed connects whilst keeping a community focused ethos at the forefront of everything it does. Designing and implementing multinational technological initiatives for over a decade, Evan has been responsible for running multinational IT programs throughout his career and leading teams through difficult and demanding projects. Evan is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), and a Member of the City and Guilds Institute.
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About TrueSpeed Communications: Innovative fibre optic infrastructure and telecoms company.
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
Ibrahima S K Soumano
Founder & CEO of SENDITOO
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About SENDITOO: Send airtime to any phone in the world
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.
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Co-Founder, Co-Inventor, and CEO of Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as Chief Executive Officer. Carmen is a national award-winning physicist and leader of pro-equality action in science and beyond.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.
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/
Nigel Bayliff
CEO of Aqua Comms
Nigel joined Aqua Comms in October 2016, having previously provided consultancy services to global telecoms companies through SIN Medida Limited, a business he established in 2008 to capitalise on his experience of more than 25 years of senior technical, operational and executive roles in the global telecommunications industry. Nigel also served as Vice-Chairman of the joint United Nations agencies task force that looked at providing disaster relief and climate information from the global web of undersea cables. Between 2009 and 2013, he served as Chief Executive Officer and Board Member of Huawei Marine Networks (HMN). Leading HMN from start-up through many complex system sales, the delivery of the first new subsea technology in more than a decade, and the development of a second phase innovative titanium repeater, he drove the organisation to break-even in year four and established its position in the marketplace. From 2002 to 2008, Nigel was a member of the executive team of FLAG Telecom, where he served as an Officer and Deputy Chairman for several group companies and was responsible for construction and operation of the FLAG Global Network, encompassing approximately 65,000 km of submarine cable systems connecting 40 countries and providing carrier-grade connectivity services. Prior to this, he held senior roles at NTL (now Virgin Media) and Cable & Wireless/Mercury Communications (now Vodafone). Nigel is a Chartered Engineer and holds a B.Sc. (Hons) in Telecommunications Engineering from Essex University. He studied International Development at INSEAD, Paris, and Strategic Management at Ashridge, UK. In 2006, Nigel was elected as a Fellow of the UK Institute of Engineering Technology.
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About Aqua Comms, Onix: Aqua Comms provides capacity networking solutions to content providers, cloud based networks, data centres, IT companies & the global media.
Carl Barton
Group CEO of Mobius Networks
Carl Barton Founder of the Group of which Mobius is a part 30 years ago. The owner of the group vision and technology roadmap and the driver of the operational excellence programme using technological innovation to take cost, time and errors out of processes.
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About Mobius Networks: Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider.
David Grant
Chief Executive Officer of Westcon-Comstor
With more than 25 years of IT industry and channel experience, David Grant is Westcon-Comstor’s COO, responsible for the operational leadership and management of all commercial operations in the business across EMEA and APAC. David has held several executive leadership roles with the company serving as EVP of Global Partner Sales and Business Operations and as SVP of Solution Practices and Vendor Management in EMEA. He came to Westcon-Comstor from European distributor Crane Telecommunications, where he served as CEO until the company’s acquisition in 2007. David also held leadership roles with Canon in the UK across direct sales, marketing, investments and acquisitions, retail and channel management. His advanced education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University and the Senior Executive program at Henley Management College.
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About Westcon-Comstor: Westcon-Comstor is a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security.
David Shaffer
Director, President & Chief Executive Officer of EnerSys
Shaffer was appointed Director, President and Chief Executive Officer effective April 2016. He served as our President and Chief Operating Officer from November 2014 through March 2016, and our President – Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) from January 2013 through October 2014. From 2008 to 2013, Shaffer was President – Asia. Prior thereto he was responsible for EnerSys’ telecommunication sales in the Americas. Shaffer has worked in various roles of increased responsibility in the industry since 1989. Shaffer received his Masters of Business Administration degree from Marquette University and his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Illinois.
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About EnerSys: EnerSys is the global leader in stored energy solutions for industrial applications. We complement our extensive line of motive power,
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
Doug Umbers
Chief Executive Officer of Xtera
Doug joined as CEO of Xtera in February 2017. Doug has held a number of senior roles over the last 20 years, at Exec Board level of both publicly quoted and privately owned businesses. Most relevantly, Doug was the MD of VT Communications (now part of Babcock International plc) where he broadened its wireless communications activities internationally and into the UK military, notably submarine comms. He then became the COO of Arqiva, the UK based terrestrial TV, radio, mobile telecoms and satellite communications infrastructure business, delivering the UK’s digital TV switchover programme as well as leading a major operational transformation. Doug’s background is in strategic business development and operational improvement, gained in project and service based businesses, operating mostly in the telecoms and IT markets. After qualifying as a chartered accountant with PWC, Doug joined 3i, a UK private equity business as an investment executive.
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About Defence Science and Technology Lab(DSTL), Defence Science and Technology Lab(DSTL), Royal Air Force, Xtera: Xtera is a network equipment and services company providing optical networks for terrestrial and subsea applications.
Chris Erven
CEO and Co-Founder of KETS Quantum Security
Chris Erven(CEO & Founder) has been thinking about the commercial application of quantum encryption for over 12 years since he started building these systems experimentally. He has commercial start-up experience with QuSpin Inc., in Canada and is currently Deputy Director of the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre at the University of Bristol.
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About KETS Quantum Security: KETS Quantum Security is developing a range of future-proof, cost-effective technologies for quantum-secured communications.
Alistair Banham
CEO of pureLiFi
Alistair Banham is a global semiconductor industry veteran, with more than 30 years’ experience leading international business units. Prior to taking up the role as CEO at pureLiFi Alistair was Senior Vice President & GM of Customer Solutions Business Unit at Wolfson Microelectronics. At Wolfson Alistair was responsible for chip development, mobile systems strategy and driving strong engagement with tier 1 global accounts Previously he held roles as SVP & General Manager EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa) at Philips Semiconductors. Alistair was a founding member and President & GM EMEA of ON Semiconductor and played a leading role in the spin out from Motorola semiconductor and subsequent IPO. During his time in the semiconductor industries, Alistair has been based out of key technology hubs from silicon valley (California) through to ASIA. Alistair brings an element of skill to pureLiFi that will lead innovation and release new products to drive increased adoption with their global customers and key growth markets.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
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.
Shahram Mossayebi
Founder & CEO of Crypto Quantique
Shahram founded Crypto Quantique in 2016. His goal is to solve real world cybersecurity problems around the IoT by combining quantum technologies and modern cryptography. Shahram holds a PhD in Post-Quantum Cryptography
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About Crypto Quantique: Crypto Quantique offers hardware based cyber-security solution for authentication and encryption in a wired local network.
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.
Adam Durant
Founder & CEO of SATAVIA
Adam Durant is CEO and Founder of Satavia. Prior to founding SATAVIA, Dr. Durant worked as a professional scientist and held posts at the University of Cambridge and Norwegian Institute for Air Research. Dr. Durant has grown Satavia to achieve global recognition in the Tällt Ventures Disrupt 100 list in 2017 and was selected to participate in the 2017 SVC2UK CEO Summit held at Buckingham Palace. In addition, he has taken SATAVIA to the finals of Pitch@Palace 6.0; Mass Challenge 2016; and Copernicus Masters 2016. He has also won over £1.5m grant funding since 2015 from Innovate UK, Aerospace Technology Institute, and the European Space Agency for Satavia.
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About SATAVIA: SATAVIA simplifies decision-making for smarter, greener aviation
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.
Mike Norfield
Group CEO of Team Telecom Group
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About Team Telecom Group: Operating in markets ranging from the emergency services and transport, to mobile networks and airports, each of our companies has a
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
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Bradford Paul
CEO of Southern Communications
Bradford Paul is CEO at Southern Communications Ltd.
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About Southern Communications: Southern Communications is a supplier of business-to-business telecoms products and services.
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
Richard Deakin
Chief Executive Officer of Stratospheric Platforms
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About Stratospheric Platforms: Stratospheric Platforms provides communication links via the stratosphere, complementing and mobile.
Andrew Brogden
Founder & CEO of StayPrivate
Andrew Brogden is the co-founder and CEO of StayPrivate Ltd, the market-leading provider of secure email and file-sharing solutions. As well as establishing StayPrivate, Andrew has built and been involved in building several successful businesses across financial services and IT.
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About StayPrivate: Founded in 2014, StayPrivate provides secure communication across the open internet.
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.
Barry Ross
CEO & Founder Director of e2E Engineering
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About e2E Engineering: e2E was initially established in 1999 to provide communications engineering and technical consultancy services
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.
Steve Barber
CEO of Sepura
Steve joined Sepura in 2002 to manage the company’s portfolio of TETRA products, later expanding his role to encompass management of interoperability and standardisation across the whole group. He has more than 20 years’ experience in the analogue and digital PMR industry and over 13 years in digital fixed line communications. Prior to joining Sepura, Steve held a variety of technical and operational positions at Simoco, ACIS, GEC-Marconi and British Telecom.
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About Sepura: Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of digital radio products
Gordon Watling
CEO of Sepura
Gordon was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2008, having joined the company as Chief Operating Officer in 2006. He has over 20 years’ international experience leading operations and development teams at Schlumberger and Agilent. He has also held directorships at Invensys and Honeywell.
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About Sepura: Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of digital radio products
Denise Lawrenson
CEO of KeTech
As a Graduate Software Engineer, Denise started her career in Rail, working on major projects including London Underground’s Jubilee Line Extension and the MTR’s Light Rail and West Rail projects in Hong Kong. Working for a number of systems design houses and rail consultancies, Denise has gained her experience in global corporations and a number of small privately owned businesses. Moving away from engineering Denise took up roles in Project Management and Business Development, and joined KeTech in 2005 to help develop the company’s BD strategy and to grow the business, successfully landing the prestigious Victoria Line DOO project in 2006. She went on to develop robust Product Roadmaps and define the direction of the rail business within the Group. On joining the Board and taking up the role of COO in 2010, Denise worked with the team to structure and build a business capable of delivering world class systems. In 2015, Denise was appointed as KeTech’s Managing Director and since this time has established the business as the leading provider of real-time and dynamic information systems for rail passengers and operators.
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About KeTech: KeTech is a multi-disciplined group of companies specializing in communication systems integration.
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.
Tom Walls
Founder & CEO of CIQUAL
Tom brings over 25 years of senior leadership experience in the telecommunications industry to the CIQUAL team. Prior to founding CIQUAL, Tom was a Vice President and GM at Agilent Technologies, managing the Operational Support Systems Business, growing the business to Number 1 in the market. Tom’s wide experience covers non-executive director roles, M&A deals and divestitures. From 2002-2007, Tom was a member and advisory director of the TeleManagement Forum.
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About CIQUAL: CIQUAL offers Session Insight, a system that delivers a real-time, dynamic view of mobile broadband service and user experience.
Mark Richer
CEO and Founder of StarLeaf
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About StarLeaf: StarLeaf is the cleanest business tool for teams to effortlessly connect using messaging, meeting and calling.
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.
Rob Shardlow
Chief Executive Officer of Audacious
Over a period of more than 25 years, Rob has worked in numerous telecoms businesses in the UK, Europe, Asia and Africa. As part of Mercury One2One, he was part of the team that launched the first ever digital prepaid proposition. In 1999, Rob then joined the challenger start-up and worlds first MVNO – Virgin Mobile UK – which is widely regarded as one of the most successful MVNO’s ever: 5m customers and an IPO for over £500m within 5 years, ultimately being acquired by NTL: Telewest for over £1bn and becoming the Virgin Media that we know today. Rob spent two years with Vodafone UK running the Enterprise sales function before moving to international business development. He was part of the team that set up Virgin Mobile Poland and undertook extensive development activity in Russia, Turkey, Kazakhstan and other CEE / CIS markets. The international remit also included two years in East & West Africa with operational responsibility for a number of Vodafone Partner Markets including Uganda, Cameroon and Zambia. More recently Rob has worked with British boutique handset manufacturer ‘Bullitt’ and a consultancy period within private equity before joining ‘Audacious’ as UK CEO responsible for the launch of this exciting world first technology
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About Audacious: Audacious is a mobile service provider.
Jonathan Marsden
Co-Founder and CEO of The Technology Group
Jonathan Marsden is the co-founder and CEO of The Technology Group. Prior to joining The Technology Group, Jonathan served as a director at Admiral.
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About The Technology Group: The Technology Group is a managed communications provider that specializes in voice over IP, video, chat, and collaboration technologies.
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
Scott McEwan
CEO and Co-Founder of Boston Networks
Scott co-founded Boston Networks in 2000 following a number of years in Networking & Building Services Operations, Sales & Engineering. From the outset, Scott has played a key role in the development of Boston’s diverse client base and the management of the growing staff base. As Chief Executive, Scott has driven the company’s growth and transition to an all-encompassing Smart Building, Fire & Security and Managed Service provider. Spearheading the company, Scott ensures the strategic direction is highly focused, efficient and successful. Ultimately responsible for the company’s performance and operational integrity, Scott ensures that his Senior Team is fully supported and that Boston Networks remains at the forefront of the market.
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About Boston Networks: Boston Networks design, manage and maintain multi-site infrastructures to drive businesses and connect people, places, and devices.
Tony Heappey
CEO & Senior Consultant of Cloud Systems Group
Tony has been providing IT Services to businesses for 30 years and has seen the industry completely transform as a result. Starting his IT Career at the dawn of personal desktop computing he worked tirelessly to learn every aspect of these new devices before beginning the journey into servers, networking and business solutions. Over time, Tony’s Consultancy business grew into a self-perpetuating IT Support business which looked after both large enterprises and small businesses alike and took great pride in delivering exceptional service to all of its Clients. As the industry continued to progress, Tony quickly identified the shift towards more proactive services and implemented advanced monitoring and management technologies to further boost service levels which transformed the business into an early provider of Managed Services. In 2010, after having spent many prior years working with businesses to implement Private Cloud strategies, Tony once again identified the need for change and the requirement to embrace Cloud Technologies which resulted in the birth of CLOUD SYSTEMS. Tony grew up in Birmingham and spent much of his childhood travelling the world with his family. Today, he still has a passion for travel and enjoys touring the world with his wife Liz and the rest of their family. Tony’s other hobbies include Reading, Swimming, Golf and Walking his Dog!
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About Cloud Systems Group: Cloud Systems Group providing IT Services to a wide variety of Clients located around the globe.
Joseph Boyle
CEO & Co Founder of Salt Communications
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About Salt Communications: Salt is the first company to provide a holistic solution for closed encrypted communications between modern smartphone users.
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.
Tony Martino
CEO\Managing Director of Tollring
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About Tollring: Tollring is a market leading software developer providing data visualisation and business intelligence tools.
Mitul Limbani
CEO of Enterux Solutions
CEO at Enterux Solutions
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About Enterux Solutions: Enterux Solutions is a Telecommunication company.
John Moriarty
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of FSI
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About FSI: FSI provides workplace technology and services.
John Moriarty
Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of FSI
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About FSI: FSI provides workplace technology and services.
Mark Hay
Founder, CEO, and CTO of Melrose Labs
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About Melrose Labs: Communication services inception, development and operation. Enabling and optimising communications. #CPaaS #SaaS #UCaaS #APIs
Albert Gardiner
CEO of Fairwaves
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About Fairwaves: Fairwaves manufactures and sells equipment for open-source telecommunication to serve mobile operators.
Paul Broadhurst
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Technetix
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About Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE), Technetix: Technetix is designing, manufacture, source and supply critical broadband technology and solutions to major cable operators worldwide.
Adrian Spreadborough
Chief Executive Officer of ADSI
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About ADSI: ADSI provide a range of cost effective and high-quality business solutions.
Zhuoqun Li
CEO and Founder of ZifiSense
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About ZifiSense: ZifiSense is a telecommunications company.
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.
Ian Watson
Chief Executive Officer of CamGSM
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About CamGSM: CamGSM, commercially knows as Cellcard, is Cambodia’s leading and fully-integrated info-communications company, offering a full range of
Paul Phillipson
CEO of Plasma Antennas
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About Plasma Antennas: Plasma Antennas is a developer of multi-beam antennas for small cell backhaul, broadband wireless access, and mesh network applications.
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.
