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VON Europe Spring 2007 Speaker List
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Einar is CTO and founder of Owera. He has extensive experience in the international electronics and telecommunication industry, with providing VoIP solutions to OEM/ODMs worldwide and automatic provisioning systems to telecommunication operators, ISPs and OEMs. He is a regular speaker at conferences and forums, addressing the opportunities and challenges assoiciated with delivering high quality IP services over low cost best-effort networks.
Tore Aarønæs is the Managing Director of Norsk Telecom AS (Norway) - an independent market analyst company specialising on the Scandinavian telecom sector. The company publishes comprehensive TeleInfo studies, covering development and outlook in terms of market values, traffic and volumes, subscribers, technology and regulation. Norsk Telecom has also produced a comprehensive Broadband report for the Nordic Ministry Council. The company recently launched a Television report – as part of a series of reports covering the Triple Play market. Aarønæs holds an MBA degree from Arizona State University in the USA, and has worked for a number of Norwegian telcos during the last 15 years.
Claudio Adriani has spent more than twenty-seven years in the Information & Communication Technology (ICT) industry, where he has been always dealing with innovation and advanced technologies for mission critical solutions and services. Mr. Adriani began his professional career in 1979 joining the Olivetti group at its headquarters in Ivrea, Italy, where he held different positions at corporate and group’s company level, including that of Director, Corporate Technology Strategies, Head of System Offer Architecture, and Networking & Communications Product Planning Manager in research and development. More recently, he was also Vice President, Solution Development at Unisys, Head of Internet Strategies and New Services & Solutions at Olivetti Tecnost, Chief Technology Officer for a start-up company in the Getronics group, Integration Services Director at Getronics and Wang Global. Mr. Adriani joined Elitel in November 2003. Mr. Adriani earned a Degree in Informatics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Anders Ångström (BSc), is a senior partner and consultant at A-focus AB, a Swedish consultancy firm specialised in strategic and product marketing challenges faced by the converging communications industry.
A 25-year veteran of the cable and telecommunications industries, Mr. Anzalone has focused on the growth and marketing of new products. His teams have developed, deployed and effectively marketed telephony, digital cable, high-speed cable modem, next generation Set Top Boxes and Video On Demand services.
Akif Arsoy is Product Manager -- VoIP, in VeriSign's Next-Generation Services group. His background is in SS7 enabled networks, solutions that interconnect the circuit switched and packet switched networks and in SIP-enabled features in next generation networks.
John Baldwin is responsible for COLT’s Managed Data Services portfolio - including IP VPN, ATM, Frame Relay and Internet Access – a key function of his role being to steer developments and introduce new services.
Benjamin Bayart is the technical architect of the IP network of Numericable, the largest cable operator in France with over 3 million subscribers. Mr Bayart is instrumental in scaling that network and defining the core technologies that are critical to support the convergence of data, voice, and video.
MR. BECKERT is Director of Research and manages all of the company's
Per Björklund founded Efftel in 2004 together with Håkan Lund. Efftel (www.efftel.com/english.htm) is a rapidly growing service provider and operator delivering complete and extremely flexible VoIP solutions to small and medium enterprises in Northern Europe. Prior to founding Efftel, Per had over 13 years senior telecoms and venture capital experience from e.g., Telia and Telenor. Already in 1997 he initiated and managed Telia Light AB, Telia’s pioneering VoIP spear head company publicly launched at VoN 1998 in San José. He then as the VP Products had the P/L responsibility for Telia/Telenor’s 4 Bn EUR consumer services portfolio. After 9 years at Telia, he was a Director and co-owner of the Nordic VC Startupfactory for three years and then spent a year on the build-up of Sweden’s fastest growing and 4th largest mobile operator Telenor/djuice as the Product Portfolio Director. Jörgen Björkner has a wealth of experience within the VoIP field. In 2003, he
John Blake is Head of Hosted IP Telephony at BT Global Services-BT’s business services and solutions division. John is responsible for the strategy and development of BT Global Services’ Voice over IP (VoIP) portfolio in the UK.
James Body is responsible for the Truphone network infrastructure. A founding member of the UK Internet Telephony Service Providers Association (ITSPA), he has been closely involved with the implementation and regulation of new internet based telephony systems for past four years. He was responsible for SIPCall, the first UK public SIP<>PSTN system and was also co-founder of Gossiptel, a leading consumer based VoIP offering. He spent 20 years as a an officer in the Royal Corps of Signals before retiring from the British Army to focus on implementing VoIP based telephony systems.
Yann Bole-Feysot's entire professional career has been spent in the 3G industry. He first started at NEC working with the infrastructure group and then spent four years at H3G in the UK as the technical lead for 3G video telephony services. Yann promoted innovative video based services across the Hutchison Whampoa Group prior to joining RADVISION where he continues to make a contribution to the industry of innovative video services as the Manager of Business Development, Mobility & Service Provider Business Unit, EMEA
Slava Borilin has been with SPIRIT for more than 5 years. He currently holds the position of VP Products and is responsible for market introduction of SPIRIT's Voice Engines under TeamSpirit™ brand name, new product initiatives and definition of the next generation product strategy.
Since 2005, Thierry Boudard joined Thales Broadcast Multimedia and held a number of management positions as Solution Manager for IPTV / Mobile TV solutions. Now part of Thomson, Thierry is responsible for the marketing management of the Multiple Play and IMS solutions. Dr. Wolfgang Brandstätter joined Telekom Austria in 2004 as an expert for VoIP technologies and services with focus on network strategies and architectures. He serves as the project manager of the European-funded project VITAL.
Richard Brennan has 35 years of telecommunications experience, and has spent the last decade promoting interoperability and global communications standards. Richard is actively involved in the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), and is a Vice-Chair of TISPAN, the ETSI technical body working to converge fixed and mobile networks, including IMS, towards a unified NGN. He is also Co-Chair of the TISPAN Architecture Working Group (WG2).
Dean Bubley is the Founder of Disruptive Analysis. An analyst with 15 years’ experience, he primarily specialises in mobile, wireless and telecoms fields. His present focus is on wireless technology, including mobile device architecture & software, fixed-mobile convergence, IMS, wVoIP, shifts in service provider value chains, enterprise mobility, in-building technologies, wireless broadband, and the integration of cellular and WLAN technologies.
Xavier Casajoana was born in Spain in 1968, graduated in Computer Science Engineering and Master in Business and Technology, has a degree in Business Administration and Information Systems. After more than 10 years managing IT Departments on public and private held firms, he addressed his career to the Internet and Telecom industry in 1999, starting as CTO for World Online Spain, and later driving Tiscali Spain as Country Manager-CEO till Dec 2002. In February 2003, he founded VozTelecom, an innovative VoIP start-up (achieving venture capital funds), and today leads European and Latin America white-label IP Telephony ASP offer for ISPs, ITSP or any broadband providers, based on its Web-SIP Application Services Platform.
Chris Celiberti works in the strategic technologies group at NeuStar, Inc. and is a telecommunications VoIP veteran focused on the OSS\BSS space. Chris has worked in positions including System Engineering, Product and Program Management and Business Development for several fortune 500 companies. Additionally, Chris has been an active participant in several global standards groups as well as an industry speaker.
Fabiano Chies joined SITA in 2004 to establish the company’s Global Voice and Convergence Services, and is the father of the air transport industry’s first Voice Exchange. He is also the Chairman of the .aero council, the top level domain reserved exclusively for aviation.
Jonathan Christensen has 15 years of experience shaping strategy for the growth of IP communications in start-ups and world class organizations such as Skype, Microsoft, and Time Warner. In 2005 Christensen co-founded Camino Networks where he was CEO until it was acquired by Skype. He is currently a senior member of the Skype team leading initiatives for voice quality, network interconnect, and business adoption. Prior to Skype/Camino Christensen was CTO and VP of products at FaceTime Communications where he lead the company's product strategy in a re-start-up shift from call center applications to real time communications security solutions. At Microsoft Christensen lead program management for the company’s Real Time Communications group and delivered the first generation of its SIP based products (aka LCS).
Mr. Cox co-founded BorderWare. He brings more than 25 years experience to the company as a specialist in network security and e-commerce. As VP, Europe, he is responsible for managing BorderWare's operations in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Australia.
Martyn Davies is Principal Consultant at Dialogic, working with a range of technologies from VoIP and NGN through to TDM and traditional SS7 signalling. Starting in the 1980s with a datacommunications focus, his career has embraced software development, technical consultancy and product management during the evolution of IP networking. Today, Martyn is a strong advocate for VoIP technologies and the additional messaging and presence capabilities that come with them.
Dominique De Paepe is Market Manager Telecom for Scientific Atlanta’s Transmission Networks business for the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) regions. In his role as market manager, he is the application expert and owner of all IP Television (IPTV) business in the telecom and utility markets. As telecom operators expand their services by adding video to complete the triple play, De Paepe leads a team of video experts that provides the development and implementation expertise for mission-critical initiatives. Additionally, as deregulation across Europe opens doors for utilities to expand service offerings to include video, he is also at the forefront of helping to pioneer this emerging market for Scientific Atlanta, a Cisco company.
Schuyler Deerman is another of the Digium whiz kids. He began working with Digium and Asterisk, the open source telephony platform, in the beginning of 2005. It was within the hardware and RMA labs where Schuyler, as a hardware tester, gained experience with open source hardware issues, testing Digium hardware before shipping to customers. Later, he worked with Digium's marketing and sales teams coordinating Digium's participation at domestic and international trade shows and events.
Nigel Dorrington is VP for Innovation Projects, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), the international carrier arm of Deutsche Telekom. He joined ICSS in 2002 and is responsible for business development in the international carrier market.
Alan Duric is co-founder and CTO at Telio ASA, the fastest growing Nordic Broadband Telephony/Multi-Modal service provider. Mr. Duric is an early pioneer of VoIP with over a decade of active contribution in VoIP, through his sw development and standardization work (as a co-author and/or contributor to number of IETF, ETSI and ITU standards).
Bob Emmerson is an English national living in the Netherlands. He holds a degree in electronic engineering from London University and now works as a freelance writer, part-time consultant and industry observer. Bob writes about Information and Communications Technology for various technical and business publications. In addition he has produced three market reports for the Financial Times as well as a number of white papers. He is currently the European Editor of VON Magazine.
25 years in Networking, Data & Telecommunications, I am focusing on next generation in-home networking with delivery of voice, data and video into the house and distribute and shared within different home devices. Focus is on technologies involved, but also on copy rights and protection of the content. Today’s communication is going towards mobility and nomadicity, to reach person where he is within the home. As a technology expert in this next generation home networking activities I have been involved in different Standardization Committees as well as different open forums and technology events. I have initiated a creation and now I am the Chairman of ETSI Working Group NGN@Home.
Jörgen Ericsson is a Senior Director responsible for Cisco IBSG (Internet Business Solutions Group) in Nordics. IBSG works in strategic projects with customer business and technology Senior Executives to assist them in defining maximum business benefits to their company from IT/ Technology. Prior to Cisco Jörgen was the Group CEO of Adera, a publicly traded IT/ e-business company. He also has a long career as a strategic management consultant with McKinsey and A.T. Kearney.
Ram Fish is the CEO and founder of FONAV, an early stage startup in the wifi software space. His previous roles include Vice President, Software Product Marketing at IXI Mobile, (Creator of AT&T OGO) and Chief Product Strategist for the Client Group at Openwave Systems. He started his career as a product marketing manager at PCSI, where he worked on the world's first mobile phone with Internet access. He received his M.S. & B.S. in Computer Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and an MBA from Yale University.
At pulvermedia, Carl Ford is a Community Developer, looking to enable business development and customer contact between companies. He also develops the content for pulvermedia conferences and is a highly interactive program moderator. As a pulverite he serves as an advisor to several companies in various degrees. Ford's professional career includes 20 years at telecommunications companies such as Telcordia Technologies and Verizon. He has worked in positions including Costs, Operations, Marketing, Regulatory, and Product Management. His accomplishments include architecting and product-managing a carrier-grade billing mediation device for softswitches that was compatible for ILEC billing systems; and moderating the development of the pulver.com CDR for Internet Telephony, enabling VOIP gateways to be used with carrier billing systems.
Mr. Forsberg has been active in the IMS efforts at Ericsson since 2002 and is heading the global market support activities for Ericsson's IMS portfolio. He joined Ericsson Research in 1997 and has held various leading positions in Research, Product Management and Sales.
Patrik Fältström is currently a Senior Consulting Engineer with Cisco Systems in the team Strategic Alliances. At Cisco, Mr. Fältström is involved with many things touching the domain name system. Previously, Fältström was a technical specialist in the Internet Strategies and Coordination group at Tele2, systems manager at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, researcher at Bunyip Information Systems in Montreal and a programmer in the Swedish Royal Navy. He has been working with UNIX since 1985, and been involved in Internet-related standardization since 1989, both in Sweden and worldwide. Fältström is active in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), was one of two area directors of the applications area for five years, followed by being a member of the Internet Architecture Board (IAB) between 2003 and 2006. He is a member of the Swedish Government IT Policy and Strategy Group reporting to the IT Minister Ulrica Messing and a member of ISOC Board of Trustees. He is or has been a memer of numerous other advisory groups related to Internet during the years, both public and private sector including ICANN, Packet Clearing House, Telio and HotSIP. Fältström holds an M.Sc. degree in mathematics from the University of Stockholm.
Alejandro Garcia Henderson obtained his degree in computer science at the Technical University of Malaga, Spain (UMA). He joined Telefónica I+D in 1997 and has participated in a large list of projects related to ADSL and Broadband Access. He was involved in the design of the first ADSL/ATM Access Network deployed by Telefonica both in Spain and South America. Also has participated in the trials, selection and design of the first Broadband Access Network Servers solution used by Telefonica Data. Since 2005 is working in Telefónica I+D as Senior Consultant on the design and deployment of the new service oriented xDSL access network for Telefónica in South America and on the Fixed-Mobile convergence for Telefónica in Spain
Dr. Alfons Geier is currently managing the VITAL Project at Nokia Siemens Networks. He is heading a group for testing Next Generation Voice and Multimedia solutions. One of his major goals is to drive the improvement of test concepts and tooling.
Patrick George is currently heading the Marketing & Product Management organisation within Belgacom ICS after being Director International Transmission Network in charge of Engineering, Operations and Worldwide filed Operations where he deployed the first Pan European Next Generation Optical Backbone. Prior to Belgacom ICS, Patrick has been Senior Sales & Account Director at Mach, the leading clearing house worldwide and head of the Mobile Market Development at GTS-Ebone responsible for establishing Ebone as a key market player in the mobile data arena. In the late 90s, Patrick held different management positions within the product and marketing departments at Belgacom and WIN. He began his career as a research engineer for the research and development team of Belgacom after graduating as a Civil Engineer in Computer Science from the University of Liège
Adrian Georgescu is founder of AG Projects where he focuses on implementing systems for the convergence of the Internet and Telecom. He is an active member of the Open Source community and member of ENUM special task force committee that has been established by European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). Prior starting of his own enterprise, Mr. Georgescu had accumulated experience in Telecom with Tomrad Communications, Esprit Telecom, Global Tele Systems (GTS) and Internet with Ebone and KPNQwest. Adrian's expertise spans DNS and ENUM, signaling protocols, provisioning systems, CDR mediation solutions and implementation of disaster recovery plans for large infrastructures. He received a degree in Electrical Engineering from Faculty of Electrotechnics at the Polytechnics University of Bucharest.
Albert Gouyet is Nominum’s Vice President of Marketing. In this role, he is responsible for defining and executing Nominum’s worldwide product and marketing strategy. Albert brings 20 years of broad technology experience in defining and launching industry-leading products including client software, server software and online services. Most recently, Albert was the Vice President of Marketing at Pivia where he successfully repositioned the company from an E-commerce hosted service to a leading Enterprise Web acceleration solution provider. Previously, Albert served as Vice President of Web Clients and Services at America Online where he led the team responsible for the strategy, definition, and launch of the Netscape Browser, Winamp, Radio@Netscape, and Netscape and CompuServe search. Albert has also held senior level positions at Netscape, Sybase and Neuron Data, Inc. He holds engineering degrees from Ecole Polytechnique, Paris and Ecole des Telecommunications, Paris, and an MBA from Stanford University.
Denis Guibard started off his career in R&D for satellite communications before moving on to heading the France Telecom R&D Strategy Division. He then managed several innovative business development projects such as designing and deploying France Telecom’s pan-european fiber optic network. As CTO of France Telecom’s Fixed Services Division, he launched France Telecom’s new videotelephony project before becoming the group’s Vice President of Videotelephony. He is now responsible for developing videotelephony and image enriched services on the different markets (fixed, mobile, internet, business solutions…) and countries where France Telecom operates.
Ajay is the Vice President of Aricent’s Wireless and Convergence strategic business unit since early 2006. Since May 1997, Ajay has been playing a significant role in developing the telecom business at Aricent in the fast growing segments, such as 3G/UMTS, the IMS, and Voice over Internet. Ajay is an active member of various industry bodies and is actively involved with the SIP Marketing Working Group to promote SIP and bring together the various organizations working on SIP.
Stefan Hagbard has been working in the Telecom and IT business for more than 30 years, mostly within TeliaSonera. The last 10 years Stefan has worked with mobile and IP integration, call control, mobile services and VoIP solutions. Stefan has paid special interest in layered architecture and service’s serving many networks. Before that Stefan worked with IT systems, data communication and fixed voice. Stefan has a degree in Business Administration from the University of Uppsala, Sweden. The last one and a half year Stefan has his own consultancy company and worked with WiFi, WiMax, UMA and safety system for households.
Dr. Roar Hagen began R&D within speech processing and coding in 1989. He previously held positions at AT&T Bell Labs and Ericsson Research. He holds a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and an M.Sc. in Physics from the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Norway. Roar Hagen has filed more than 10 patents.
Steven Heap joined Arbinet in April 2004. Prior to joining Arbinet, Mr. Heap served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Technology Officer for ePHONE, a VoIP service provider. Mr. Heap was also Senior Vice President and Chief Network Officer for the Internet backbone company, Aleron, Inc. and also held senior executive positions at Teleglobe, Inc., Concert Communications, and British Telecom. Mr. Heap has over 30 years experience in the international communications industry.
Kingsley Hill is XConnect’s VP for Strategic Federations, and has been involved with Voice over IP for 15 years. Mr. Hill’s background in telecommunications and technology includes positions such as CIO of Frontier Communications, as well as senior executive positions with US Intelco (later Illuminet, and subsequently acquired by Verisign) and Planetactive, a leading internet firm in Duesseldorf, Germany. In addition, Mr. Hill has consulted to clients such as US West, Deutsche Telekom, Telia, Ameritech, and Pfizer Global Research and Development. In 2004 Mr. Hill worked with Jeff Pulver to spin off the VoIP peering component of Free World Dialup to create IPeerX, Inc. Mr. Hill became the President and CEO of the new company, grew it to over 100 customers and its subsequent acquisition by XConnect. Mr. Hill graduated summa cum laude from George Washington University in Washington, DC with a degree in Econometrics with special honors in Economics.
Matt Holdrege is the Director of Technology and Global Strategic Sales at Strix Systems. Matt has over 20 years of network and systems Business Development and Engineering experience at companies such as Sonus, ipVerse, Lucent, Ascend and GTE. Matt has been actively involved with VoIP and VON since 1997 with focus on standards and architecture, and has chaired or led committees in the IETF, ETSI, ITU-T and chairs the Legal Intercept group at the International Packet Communications Consortium. Matt’s focus now is on Voice and Video over WiFi and WiMax Mesh networks.
Dr Mike Hollier is a technical and commercial pioneer in perceptual engineering. Through the 1990’s he directed BT’s research into multi-modal performance assessment. Mike left BT in 2000 to form Psytechnics where as CTO he is a market evangelist and oversees the R&D of a new generation of market leading voice and video products.
As director, video service assurance at Brix Networks, Laura Holly is the company's expert for all things relating to IP-based video -- including IPTV, video-on-demand, and video distribution, among others -- and she has overall responsibility for market development and product management activities in these areas. Prior to joining the Chelmsford, Mass.-based firm in March 2000, Holly worked at LiveVault Corporation, where she led that company’s product marketing efforts. Previously, Holly spent 10 years at Digital Equipment Corporation where she held engineering and technical positions of increasing responsibility. Holly earned her B.A. degree in Psychology and Computer Science from Smith College.
Bernd Hoogkamp joined Teliasonera International Carrier in 2005. With over 8 years in the Telecommunications industry in various roles within wholesale, interconnection and the regulatory field, he has experience in contract negotiating, major account management, project management and new business development. Prior to joining TeliaSonera International Carrier Bernd held several interconnect, wholesale and sales related positions in various companies in the Netherlands. Bernd studied International Business and languages at the Hogeschool Arnhem en Nijmegen in The Netherlands.
Seamus brings over 20 years of experience to Acme Packet through various roles at voice over IP, IP and multiprotocol networking, web infrastructure and computer companies. During his tenure as VP of Marketing at Wellfleet/Bay Networks, revenue grew from $10 million to $2 billion and Inc. recognized Wellfleet as “America’s Fastest Growing Company” for two consecutive years.
Bogdan-Andrei Iancu is a co-Founder and CEO of Voice System SRL , a "know-how" VoIP company. Born in 1978 in Romania, he receives in 2001 the Master Degree in Computer Science at University "Politehnica" Bucharest . For the next 4 years, his research work at Fraunhofer Fokus Research Institute for Open Communication, Berlin is sustained by hands-on experience in VoIP/SIP area as co-founder and main developer of the Open Source project "SIP Express Router". In 2004, Mr Iancu starts his own enterprise dedicated to designing, implementing and deploying VoIP platforms. Focusing on advanced service and dynamic routing together with scalability and security, in 2005 he co-founds the OpenSER public project as the next step in VoIP enhancement.
Luc Imbert is in charge of the Mobility and Wireless European business development for the Public Sector Segment at Cisco. He is in a permanent dialog with end users and technology players in wireless, mobility and convergence environments to deliver best of breed solutions, leveraging the IP network capabilities. In the Public Sector Segment, the Local and Central government organizations are being addressed as well as the Defense, Education, and Healthcare administrations. With a strong background in the Service Providers environment and especially the Mobile Service Providers, Luc is articulating synergies for Cisco between different players to facilitate market adoption.
Timothy D. Jasionowski is Senior Technologist, Voice and Rich Media Technologies for Nokia's Mobile Solution Unit. Timothy is responsible for research technology strategy for the company's Enterprise-class products in the real-time communication market, including Voice and Video over IP, Presence and Availability Management and Instant Messaging. Timothy also chairs the committee responsible for guiding Nokia's research in Peer-to-Peer and Proximity technologies.
Dr. Cullen Jennings is a Distinguished Engineer in the Voice Technology Group at Cisco. Cullen came to Cisco from Vovida Networks which developed an open-source toolkit for Voice-over-IP. He is also an author of O'Reilly's title "Practical VoIP" and the co-chair of the IETF IPTEL Working Group. Currently Cullen is focusing on conferencing, security, and firewall and NAT traversal. Still active in the SIP and open source communities,
Olle is an active Asterisk developer and an active member of the Asterisk community. He has writen many documenation pages, fixed many bugs in the SIP support of Asterisk and added quite a lot of new functions to Asterisk during the years. Olle is a member of the Asterisk Advisory Council and works on a daily basis with Asterisk in service provider networks. Olle also has a position as Asterisk evangelist and senior technical adviser with Voop, a European VoIP service provider.
Dr. Alan Johnston is a Consulting Member of Technical Staff at Avaya, Inc. He is the co-author of the SIP specification RFC 3261 and four other SIP related RFCs. He is the co-chair of the IETF Centralized Conferencing Working Group. Current areas of work include media security with the ZRTP protocol and peer-to-peer SIP. On the Board of Directors of the SIP Forum, he has co-authored four books: "Understanding Voice over IP Security," "SIP Beyond VoIP," "SIP: Understanding the Session Initiation Protocol," and "Internet Communications Using SIP." He holds a Bachelor's degree in engineering from the University of Melbourne, Australia and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Lehigh University.
Stefan Karapetkov is Senior Technology Advisor at Polycom, Inc. where he focuses on video conferencing. Karapetkov has been in the communications industry since 1995, and has worked in Development, Product Management, and Product Marketing. He has been involved in VOIP since 1997.
Janne Kari is working as Business Development Manager in Nokia Multimedia, focusing on VoIP and IP Communications. He has been with Nokia since 1995 and prior to that he worked for Microsoft in Dublin, Ireland.
Eli Katz is the Founder and CEO at XConnect, an organisation which realises the vision of global end-to-end IP communications. XConnect is the world's first and largest provider of 'Plug and Peer' VoIP interconnection services dedicated to connecting IP communications providers and by-passing the legacy PSTN.
Jan Kayser joined Siemens in 2001, starting as technical sales engineer for Next Generation Access solutions and later joining product management for NexGen switching with a special focus on VoIP access gateways.
Mike Kellett has worked in the field of Mobile communication since 1999. The original conceiver of SMSCall and founder of Call International he has worked tirelessly in various international operations, assessing the needs of diverse locations such as Africa and the Arctic. He has striven for a communication solution available to all, regardless of economic standing.
Frank joint HEAD acoustics in 1991, one of the leading manufacturer of speech quality test systems. He has experiencs for more than 10 years in this field. HEAD acoustics is working closely together with ETSI in conducting the ETSI's international Speech Quality Test Events for VoIP.
Vivek Khuller is the CEO and founder of DiVitas Networks. Prior to founding DiVitas, Vivek held the position of Venture Partner at Clearstone Venture Partners, where he incubated DiVitas. Vivek was also Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Matrix Partners. Before Matrix, he worked at Sycamore Networks in business development, leading strategic sales for the tier-1 carrier market and managing software business development worth several million dollars. Vivek worked at Verizon Communications in various roles, including Manager of the Internet Center of Excellence as well as in Network Systems Engineering. At Verizon, Vivek received the Spirit of Excellence Chairman’s award – the company’s highest honor – in recognition of his technical leadership.
Albrecht worked with several successful and prestigious companies prior to joining euNetworks. In 1993 he started his Internet career with local subsidiary of UUNET/MCI in Germany. Over the course of his career, Martin has covered many aspects of broadband access - from university research on fiber optic transmission to business modelling of broadband services. Previous positions include Research Project Manager, Turnkey Access Solutions Manager and Head of Broadband Product Management, all at Ericsson. Bernard Lamy is responsible for solutions business development for the service provider sector in Europe, focusing on the personalization of broadband services within IP Next-Generation Network (IP NGN) environments and their positioning within the context of Web 2.0. Ernst Langmantel is head of the technical department at the Austrian Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Broadcasting (RTR) since 1998. He is responsible for all technical aspects of network access and interconnection and the administration of numbers and addresses. Last year's and current main working areas have been VoIP and NGN regulation with increasing focus on convergence of telecommunications and broadcasting.
Erik Larsson is responsible for driving overall marketing activities for converged IP communications within the Comverse group. Before the acquisition by Comverse, he played a significant role in reinforcing Netcentrex’ image and developed the company’s reputation as a leader in VoIP applications.
Jan Larsson has worked for TeliaSonera International Carrier since May 1999 and has held a number of positions within the company, such as Voice Product Manager in Germany, Head of Voice Buying, Head of Voice Strategy & Analysis and now as general Strategy Manager. Jan has for his age gained a solid international experience by studying and working outside of his native country Sweden for extended periods of time, including more than five years in Japan and Germany. He has been a true pioneer in many fields of the international telecom wholesale business, such as already in 1999 promoted an extensive use of Voice Traffic Volume Agreements as well as having worked with the Telia VoIP Clearinghouse 1999-2001. Jan Larsson holds a Master’s degree in International Business Administration and Economics since 1999.
Tony Lavender is Managing Director of Analysys Research responsible for the overall strategy and delivery of Analysys's research capability. Tony has 27 year experience of the telecoms sector and prior to Analysys Tony was Chief Research Officer at Ovum, where he worked for seven years. His past experience includes holding senior roles at the UK telecoms regulator Oftel. Tony started his career at BT where he held a variety of technology, commercial and regulatory focussed roles. Tony has a degree in electrical and electronic engineering, is a chartered engineer and a member of the UK Institution of Engineering and Technology. He is also a fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Patrick Lelorieux, vice-president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa for Linksys, a division of Cisco Systems Inc., brings 25 years of general management and strong technical experience to his position.
As Director of Product Management, Chris Lengyel is responsible for refining iBasis’ products and developing new offerings to address customer needs and market opportunities in international voice services. He brings more than a decade of telecommunications industry marketing expertise to iBasis. Prior to joining the company he lead market development and product marketing efforts as Market Development Manager, for Cantata Technology, Inc. Prior to joining Cantata, Mr. Lengyel served as Chief Technical Officer of Auris Technology, a premier hosted service provider for the prepaid industry. During his tenure at Auris, Mr. Lengyel led the development and operational efforts for a web-based hosted service platform based upon the Excel Switching platform. Mr. Lengyel has also served as Vice President of Switch Operations at Radiant Telecom and was a key architect of the Ntera VoIP network. Mr. Lengyel holds a BSEE from the University of Connecticut, School of Engineering and is pursuing his MBA from Suffolk University.
Bill Leslie is a 22-year veteran of the telecommunications industry and is the chief architect of the LongBoard product line. Prior to joining LongBoard, Leslie was CTO for Magellan Network Systems, a provider of enhanced service switching solutions. He has also held a variety of technical and management positions with ITT, Motorola, ROLM, NEC, StrataCom and SynOptics. During his tenure at ROLM, Leslie was the primary architect and led much of the software development for the IBM 8750 PBX. For his efforts there he received IBM's Outstanding Technical Achievement Award. He is a frequent speaker at industry events such as the VON Developers Conference, and holds a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Hatfield Polytechnic in the UK.
John joins NexTone with an extensive background in global marketing and product management and more than 20 years' experience in the telecom industry. John most recently served as a senior analyst at Heavy Reading where he was the lead analyst covering VoIP platforms and services.
Born 1971 in Helsinki, Finland. Graduated as a M.Sc.(Tech) in 1996 and Lic.(Tech) in 2000 from Helsinki University of Technology, Finland – majoring in Telecommunications Technology. Marko has been working on HUT Networking laboratory since 1993 as a research assistant, research scientist and senior research scientist. His research interests have been subjects, like traffic measurements and ATM/IP traffic engineering – in a holistic manner ranging from routing and scheduling to service deployment and Service Level Management. Lately he has been focusing on design and optimization adaptive scheduling for IP networks, fast restoration mechanisms for IP/MPLS networks and measurement based network management. Marko has been co-authoring several scientific papers from these subjects to international conferences and journals. Marko acts as a reviewer for several international journals and serves as a member of board in Creanord Ltd.
John Macario is president and founder of Savatar, a management consulting company that helps telecommunications clients succeed in selling VoIP solutions to the Small and Medium Business (SMB) market. The firm has worked with large carriers, wholesalers, equipment providers and software developers to define product, establish sales channels and optimize sales techniques for VoIP products in the SMB market.
Paolo Maestripieri joined Global Crossing in 2006 as Senior Solutions Architect. As a member of the Advanced Solutions Group, Mr. Maestripieri supports the European sales team developing customer-specific solutions to address complex requirements for the company's carrier and enterprise customer segments, supporting both direct and indirect sales channels. He is also responsible for evaluating technology partnerships and alliances for integration into the broader Global Crossing portfolio, working closely with Product, Development, Engineering and Sales teams.
Fabien MAISL is Director of Business Development for Thomson’s Software Activity (developing VoIP softswitches, IPTV Services, IMS core-network platforms).
David Marshall joined Plantronics in June 2005 as a Senior EMEA expert with responsibility for the management and development of the headset and wireless office portfolio relevant to the business markets, as well as developing relationships with key industry partners. He is now focussed on the Telecommunications market, taking advantage of his fixed and mobile background. Cyril Matthews leads the core product group at VoEX, Inc. and is a veteran telecommunications executive. Cyril has worked in positions including Product and Marketing Management and Business Development for a variety of network infrastructure, database, OSS/BSS and service provider companies. He led the marketing launch of the first Number Portability service bureau and supported the first mobile phones with integrated internet access. Additionally, Cyril has been an active participant in global groups promoting VoIP technology as well as being a well-known industry speaker.
Brian McBryan leads the development of Voice & Data portfolios at Eircom, Ireland’s leading telco. Mr McBryan recently managed the introduction of VOIP, IP/MPLS & Ethernet products for the Enterprise market, and DSL, Fibre & Wireless Broadband access products. In 2005 McBryan worked on the acquisition project that successfully enabled eircom to re-enter the mobile business. The mobile arm Meteor has since become Europe’s fastest growing mobile operator. Brian McBryan is currently leading a number of projects at group-level integrating Fixed & Mobile products and has worked with the Fixed Mobile Convergence Alliance (FMCA) since its inception. With more than 20 years industry experience, Mr McBryan previously held a number of roles, including Head of Service Platforms and Head of Switching, completing the network digitalisation project in the 1990’s in Ireland. Brian McBryan also lectured in Telecommunications at the Dublin Institute of Technology.
Magnus Melander, entrepeneur and independent consultant in general management, sales, marketing and wireless networking. Magnus is Venture Partner at BrainHeart Capital, a VC devoted to wireless technologies, which he co-founded 2000. He is co-founder of Brandbuilders of Sweden and serve at the boards of Edgeware, Clue, April Systems and Possio. Magnus has 24 years of international IT industry experience, including positions with IBM, Apple and 3Com. At 3Com, Magnus held several senior executive positions, including Marketing Director Europe, Network Service Provider Director EMEA and New Business Development Director EMEA. During his years at Apple he held a number of executive positions including Country Manager Finland and Channel Strategy Director Europe. Magnus is a frequent speaker at international industry events.
Daniel-Constantin Mierla is co-founder and CTO of Voice-System SRL. In June 2005, he co-founded OpenSER.org, a scalable and flexible open source SIP server, being also core developer of SIP Express Router (SER) from its early beginning in 2002. He has a Master degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Polytechnics University of Bucharest. His experience was accumulated working as consultant for Orange Romania, branch of French Orange mobile operator, and researcher in network communications at FOKUS Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, Germany.
Derek Mitchell is Head of Signaling Product Management and Product Marketing for Dialogic Corporation, responsible for developing marketing strategy and driving product planning for Dialogic Signaling products. Dialogic develops signaling, voice, video and products targeted for both the service provider and enterprise market segments.
Jean-François Mulé is Vice President, IP Technologies and Services at CableLabs. In this position, he is responsible for steering the directions of IP technologies and protocol developments across the CableLabs research and development projects such as PacketCableTM, DOCSIS®, and CableHome®. Jean-François Mulé is primarily focused on enabling real-time IP communication services over cable broadband networks. He chairs the IETF MMUSIC and IPCDN working groups and also leads CableLabs' coordination efforts in standardization with the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Jean-François Mulé holds a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the National Institute of Telecom in Paris.
Ajeet Nankani joined Efftel in 2006 as a data network specialist and heads the overall technical aspects in Efftel.
Alan Nunn rejoined BT's Group Chief Technology Office in January 2007 after a brief spell as CTO of Newport Networks. A member of the Technology Strategy team he is responsible for ensuring that new ideas are down-streamed into the business effectively. He has worked in BT for 19 years and spent four of those as Chief Voice Architect. Prior to this he was responsible for end to end design of BT's 0800 platform and migration of service to it. He was previously the designer for Geographic Number Portability in BT. He has a first class honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
Timo Ojala is a professor of computer engineering at the University of Oulu, Finland. He is the mastermind of the panOULU network, a large WiFi network provided via a unique public-private partnership in the City of Oulu in Northern Finland, which offers open and free wireless Internet access to the general public. He has authored about 80 international scientific papers. He is the founding co-chair of the International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, and has served in the program committees of many international conferences. His current research interests include municipal wireless networks, mobile and ubiquitous multimedia, distributed systems and HCI.
After completing engineering studies, Edmond joined Alcatel in 1983 and held a range of positions in training, marketing and strategy, covering the complete Alcatel offering. Over the past 7 years, he was involved in worldwide solution and strategy roles focused on NGN/IMS. During this time, Edmond has built up a unique view of IMS drivers and actions taken around the world. With the creation of Alcatel-Lucent end 2006, he moved to business development in IMS applications. Edmond has been travelling the globe for numerous customer projects giving him unique insights in customer dynamics; helping turn their IMS dreams into reality.
Claire Paponneau is Executive Vice-President of International Wholesale Solutions, providing innovative services to more than 1000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers. Before taking up her current position in 2002, Claire was Executive Vice-President of International Networks. Antti Pappila is the co-founder of Creanord Ltd, a company that specialises in the QoS verification and SLA automation solutions and systems. He has extensive SLA and Quality Assurance knowledge developed through close collaboration with the leading service providers in Northern Europe and Russia. As a Creanord CTO, Antti is responsible for product innovation and mapping out Creanord's long term product roadmap as well as evaluating new strategic partnerships.
Regis PAQUETTE joined Alcatel's Mobile Communications Group in 1998, taking part in establishing an architecture and design team to support worldwide GSM operations. In 1999, he became project manager on the SFR account for the Mobile Networks Division and took over the BSS and Microwave activities for 2 regions. In 2001, he joined the Asia Pacific region within the Mobile Communications Group, being appointed Contract Manager in Thailand. His responsibilities included the turnkey rollout of True's GSM network. When Orange prepared for the launch of 3G in France in 2003, Regis was asked to lead the VilleOrange Packaged Services project, thus delivering the 10 first video services of Orange. In 2005, he was appointed Video and Music Product Line Manager in the Mobile Communication Group. Since the merger in 2006, Regis has been in charge of the Mobile TV product line for Alcatel-Lucent.
Greg Parker is CEO & Founder of Raketu Communications Inc., P2P Communications,
Adi Paz, Senior Director of Product Management and Marketing, is responsible for RADVISION’s developer solutions products. Over the past 12 years, Adi has held a variety of positions in the telecom industry including management, business development, marketing, and product management. In his current position Adi, manages the team that brings to market RADVISION’s award-winning, widely-adopted multimedia protocol toolkits, frameworks, and testing tools for IP and 3G domains. Prior to joining RADVISION, Adi led strategic partnerships, business initiatives, and product management at Starhome, a Comverse company. In addition to his business and technology background, Adi served as a major in the Israeli army air force where he managed the initiation and implementation of large-scale technology projects.
Mr. Pellegrini is responsible for the marketing and product management of the complete CPE portfolio, which comprises residential and business access gateways, STBs, home-networking technologies, dual-mode terminals, a remote management platform, and vertically integrated solutions. He represents Pirelli in a number of industry associations such as the Global Certification Forum, the Home Gateway Initiative, the DSL Forum, and the Italian Federation of Electrotechnical and Electronics Industries (ANIE). In the broadband access business, Mr. Pellegrini has led the introduction of strategic innovations in the area of remote management, dual-mode terminals, and service-oriented access gateways. He recently co-wrote a publication on QoS in broadband applications for small and medium businesses.
Chris Piché is the founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Eyeball Networks, an expert in adaptive multimedia technologies and frequent featured speaker at industry conferences. Mr. Piché was named one of Canada's Top Young Leaders by the Globe & Mail and one of Vancouver's "Top 40 Under 40" business people by Business in Vancouver magazine. He was selected to represent Canada at the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Information and Communications Technology Forum in Shanghai in 2001. Prior to founding Eyeball Networks, Mr. Piché worked at Simba Technologies (acquired by Pivotal Corporation) and Oracle Communications. He holds a Bachelor of Computer Science degree from the University of British Columbia (Canada).
Since 1981 in active in telecom. (Belgian PTT). Worldwide experience in consultant, product-, project- and operational management in voice, data & infrastructure. Started in corporate business for product- & project management and moved since 2002 towards design & engineering in transport & service layer management. Expat missions in African countries, France & Netherlands gave me international experience in different networks- & service layers. For Belgacom ICS I’ve managed the move towards advanced signalling (improved accounting & SIGTRAN), the hybrid switch solution and the implementation of the IMS structure in a multi-vendor environment.
Ivar Plahte was recently shortlisted for World Communcations Awards 'Most Influential Person in Telecoms' 2007 for pioneering Mobile PBXs.
Steve Plunkett is the Solutions Architect for Seamless Mobility and Fixed/Mobile Convergence within Motorola Networks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for developing solutions, architectures and strategies for Seamless Mobility customers across the EMEA region. Dr. Frederic POTTER, Senior VP and Chief Technology Officer, Thomson's Network Intelligence Solutions
As Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Dan oversees the company's global sales force and is responsible for developing and managing execution of the company's worldwide sales strategies.
Kfir Pravda is an independent consultant, facilitating cooperation between media and technology companies. He is also the Vice President of Marketing and Business Development of the International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC), where he is responsible on the organization’s message, strategic processes and overall marketing activities. Kfir was involved in the formation and strategy of several joint ventures, such as the Star Map Alliance, headed sales efforts to European mobile operators, chiefly T-Mobile International, and formed several media ventures.
Jeff Pulver is the Chairman and Founder of pulver.com, and one of the true pioneers of the Internet telephony/VoIP industry. Leveraging well over a decade of hands-on experience in Internet/IP communications and innovation, Mr. Pulver is a globally renowned thought leader, author and entrepreneur. He is the publisher of The Pulver Report and VON magazine, and creator of the industry standard Voice on the Net (VON) conferences, where all sectors of IP communications come together to discuss, debate, and advance the industry. Additionally, Mr. Pulver is the founder of Free World Dialup (FWD), the VON Coalition, Global IP Alliance, Vivox, pulverinnovations, and is the co-founder of VoIP provider, Vonage.
Sheldon Renan is the President of Wibiki, a new start-up offering free Wi-Fi software for local neighborhoods and entangled user communities. Wibiki's name derives from wibiquity or wireless ubiquity. Renan was engaged to brand the new company because of his work with technology companies (Intel, SAP, Xerox, AT&T, Apple, IBM) when launching new platforms. Originally Renan w as an historian of experimental media. He founded the Pacific Film Archive at UC Berkeley and later produced immersive media environments for theme parks and technology launches. Since 2000, however, Renan has increasingly focused on what he calls "netness", the emerging ubiquity of connectivity.
Philip Richards, Director, Product Management, is a founding member of NewStep Networks, and during the past 5 years has been deeply involved in the definition, specification and communication of NewStep’s products. His current role includes both Product Management and Marketing responsibilities. Prior to NewStep, Philip had 25 years of Nortel experience with a strong track record in telecom research, business consulting, and network design. His past roles included Account Architect for a Nortel major account, and leader of Nortel’s Business and Network Consulting team, where he was responsible for quantifying and communicating to customers the business value of leading-edge technology solutions. Philip holds an MA in physics from Cambridge University, UK. He has received several Awards of Excellence during his career, and is Honorary Member for Canada, International Teletraffic Congress.
Gary Richenaker is a 29-year industry veteran who currently serves as Chief Architect in Telcordia’s Industry Information Services. His role is to monitor and understand new technology to assess its impact on the existing products and services in order to contribute to their strategic direction as well as identify how that technology can be used in the formulation of new products and services.
Corrado Rocca is senior vice president, Product Marketing and Development -- Broadband Access Products for Pirelli Broadband Solutions, a company within the Pirelli Group specializing in broadband access and photonics solutions for telecommunications operators worldwide. Rocca is responsible for product marketing and management and all development projects for five product lines: access gateways, multimedia devices, terminals, home networking extenders, and element management systems. Rocca maintains the critical link between the customer and R&D, reducing time-to-market for all products. He also represents Pirelli in the broadband access community, working with organizations such as Home Gateway Initiative (where he is a member of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Marketing Commitee), DSL Forum and Plug Fests. A 12-year veteran of the Pirelli Group, Rocca has held several senior level R&D positions within Pirelli Submarine Telecom Systems. In 2003, he was director of R&D, responsible for DWDM terminal equipment, underwater devices, power feeding equipment, and management software, and director of Manufacturing responsible for underwater products. During this time he managed joint co-operations with Siemens, Alcatel, Tyco, and NEC. Rocca joined Pirelli in 1995 as a member of the Optical Systems Design team.
Andrew Romans is the founder & Managing Partner of Georgetown Venture Partners, a technology and telecom focused corporate finance boutique with offices in California and London. He has raised funds for technology companies in the US, Scandinavia and Europe and advised on scores of M&A transactions. At the age of 26, Romans co-founded and led The Global TeleExchange (The GTX) and raised over $50 million for that company deploying switches and operations in the US and Europe. The GTX was one of the earliest companies in VoIP deploying a softswitch to control a TDM-VoIP minutes exchange. Romans also founded the European operations acting as General Manager EMEA for a venture capital backed vendor of VoIP software and equipment - Sentito Networks. Romans sits on a number of company boards including Feefo, a Web2.0 company, ComedyBlaze.tv, a user generated professional comedy Internet TV channel, FoneKey, a mobile phone applications firm and is a member of the IT Directors Network. He holds a BA from the University of Vermont and an MBA from Georgetown University which he completed on scholarship.
Claus Schmidt is Senior Manager of Solutions and Business Development at Cisco , leading solutions development and go-to-market strategies for the service provider sales organization in Europe in the area of service delivery and mobility.
Mr. Schwartz founded Kayote Networks with the objective of providing companies with expertise in SIP and other VoIP protocols. He has many years of experience developing VoIP solutions and integrating a wide range of VoIP devices, including IP phones, VoIP gateways, SIP Proxies and application servers.
Gwang-Ju Seo is executive vice president of KT responsible for KT’s Network Strategic Business Unit, encompassing planning, installing, operating and maintaining KT’s network. While at KT, Mr. Seo has held various Executive and Management roles mainly in network engineering including transmission,
Tal Shalom, Director of Systems Engineering for Layered Media is responsible for defining the system integration requirements of the company's break-through technology development toolkits. Tal focuses on integration with multi point and multi media communications architectures including FMC, video conferencing, and web collaboration. Tal is a VOIP pioneer with deep expertise in telecommunication both with vendors and carriers. Tal has held senior management positions in system engineering, product management and convergence program management at industry leading companies including VocalTec and Global Crossing. Tal received his MS degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey.
Cassidy Shield is globally responsible for Business and Commercial Management for Alcatel-Lucent’s Multimedia Entertainment Business Unit, which encompasses Alcatel-Lucent’s IPTV, Mobile Video, Music and Content product portfolio. Mr. Shield’s responsibilities include financial management, business development, product strategy and strategic partnerships. Prior to the merger of Alcatel and Lucent, Mr. Shield was globally responsible for Lucent’s Broadband Video and Multimedia Solutions Group, encompassing Lucent’s MiViewTV™ multimedia delivery platform and End-to-End IPTV Solution. While at Lucent, Mr. Shield also held various management roles in new New Product Introduction, Supply Chain and Product Management. Prior to joining Lucent in September 2002, Mr. Shield worked in management consulting on a variety of projects in the areas of Strategic Consulting, Supply Chain Design and Optimization, and large scale IT system deployments. Mr. Shield holds a BS undergraduate degree from the University of Iowa, an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management and a MEM from Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering.
Richard Shockey is Senior Manager, Strategic Technology Initiatives for NeuStar, Inc., based in Washington DC. Shockey is an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force and a founder and Co-Chair of its ENUM Work Group as well as actively participating in a variety of other IETF Working groups. He has been invited by the Dutch, Italian, British and Japanese governments to lecture on ENUM technology and its implications for consumers and carriers alike. Shockey is also the author of numerous articles on Internet Telephony Technologies related to ENUM, SIP, Voice over IP and Internet Fax.
Dr. Sinnreich works in Architecture, Internet Communications at Adobe Systems and has been CTO at Pulver.Com.
13 years in International Telecom in entrepreneurial positions, latest as Co-founder of GoIP a global VoIP application Service Provider delivering unique VoIP in a Box solutions. Mr. Skjæran has served as Paradial CTO and head of development since he co-founded the company in 2001. He is an IP telephony expert. He is also a system and design architect. Mr. Skjæran worked in 1996 for Musicator as SW Developer, focusing on Digital sound effect (Delphi, assembler). In 1997 to 2001 he worked for Ericsson Norway as Senior SW and system manager responsible for H.323 standardization - the editor of H.323 Annex K.
Georges is responsible for Nominum's strategic direction and products for the IMS and FMC markets. He brings to Nominum over 16 years of experience in marketing and engineering products for the mobile and service provider industry. Prior to Nominum, Georges was at Ecrio, where he headed marketing activities pioneering the adoption of presence, instant messaging, and packet push-to-talk in the mobile industry. He has also served as the Director of Worldwide Strategic Sales for the Sun|Netscape alliance, and has held lead software engineering positions at Oracle Corporation.
Alessandro Stagni joined Italtel in July 2005 as head of Next Generation Networks and Services and he is now head of Offer Strategy.
Tim heads Cisco’s Unified Communications (UC) marketing team for Europe and in this role, he is responsible for the business planning of Cisco’s European UC strategy, directing the marketing campaigns, running a consultant liaison programme and working closely with the media and industry analyst communities.
Struyven is a seasoned executive with more than fifteen years of marketing, business management and technology experience in the mobile communications industry.
Karl Erik Ståhl is President of Intertex Data AB and Chairman of Ingate Systems AB and founder of these companies. They are well known for their development of the world’s first SIP capable firewalls, including a SIP proxy and registrar dynamically controlling the firewall. These Swedish companies have 20 years experience of telecommunications and development of high-quality communication and security products, combining real-time programming with analogue and digital hardware design skills. Karl Erik Ståhl holds several patents in the audio, electrical, security and communication fields. Intertex and its products have won numerous awards over the years, including Guldmusen 1998, World of ADSL Golden Award 2003, Internet Telephony Product of the Year 2004 and the European IST prize.
Joanne Taaffe is deputy editor of Total Telecom Magazine. For the last eight years Joanne has closely tracked the European telecoms industry, both at Total Telecom and its predecessor Communications Week International, reporting extensively on all aspects of European telecom operators’ strategies for developing and deploying services since market liberalisation. Based in Paris, Joanne has acquired specific expertise in the French telecoms market, one of the most competitive consumer broadband access markets in Europe. Joanne has a BA honors degree in English Literature from the University of Leeds. An innovator in every sense, Truphone CEO James Tagg’s track record is one of successfully bringing new mobile and other technologies to market. Most recently, as MD of Fastmobile Europe, he launched both Mobile Instant Messaging and Push-to-Talk with carriers in Germany, Italy and the UK, while earlier in his career he developed the touchscreen technology found today in most of the world’s public access touchscreens. Prior to Fastmobile, James worked as Director for Technology Innovation at Zefer, a strategy-led Internet services company. Before this, he invented a touchscreen technology, founded Moonstone Technology in 1989 to develop it, and sold the company to MicroTouch Systems Ltd - now 3M - in 1994. James holds multiple patents both in mobile and touchscreen technologies.
Ari Takanen, founder and CTO of Codenomicon, has since 1998 been
After getting a BSC in Electronics Engineering, Computer Science from the Polytechnic of Milan and a Master in Information Technology from the CEFRIEL of Milan, Paolo Tavazzani started his activity in 1992 with Italtel. At first as a Software Architect for Data Networks devices, later as System Designer for ATM based Access Network devices and then as Network Architecture and Solutions Designer. Since 2000 he is Head of Voice Services at Fastweb S.p.A (Milan, Italy), where he leads the development of Voice and Value Added Services.
Henrik has been an entrepreneur for 25 years, and have during this time founded seven companies. At Envox (www.envox.com) he worked as CEO between 1997 – 2003, and at Linewise (www.linewise.se) he was the CEO between 1991-1998. Telecom and IT have been the primary focus during the last 15 years, but Henrik also has hands-on experience from print, radio and television. With his new venture Sonetel, Henrik aims at radically changing the landscape of business telephony by providing a free, global phone system to companies worldwide.
Natan Tiefenbrun joined XConnect as COO after spending thirteen years working in financial markets at Instinet, an operator of electronic equity markets and provider of electronic and traditional brokerage services to institutional money managers and hedge funds. Working in both London and New York, Natan serviced the firm’s most sophisticated clients, was responsible for developing new products and services, and ultimately served as President of the firm’s European and Asian businesses.
Matt Townend is Managing Director of illume consulting. illume are experts on the convergence market place, providing in-depth research and consultancy services to service providers and technology companies.
Tomer Treves joined deltathree in 2004 and currently serves as Consumer Group Managing Director |
