CC is organising its next digital branded CC-Webinar.Live Panel Discussion and Knowledge Sharing Session sponsored by Sparkle, taking place on the 29th of September 2021. This webinar is a part of the CC TIS 2021 event on the 29th and 30th of September in Rome. Click HERE to visit the event page. During this session Sparkle will give a keynote presentation and join the panel discussion session addressing industry topic: Wholesale Industry in a data hungry age – Challenges and opportunities.
Should you require further details, please feel free to contact our team at: [email protected]. To register please visit the agenda below to click on the webinar link as soon as it is published and fill in the form.
Based at Lago di Como in Italy, VSC provides strategic advisory services in M&A, Business Development & Media for the telecommunication industry. Over the last 25 years, Erik developed extensive expertise and deep domain knowledge working at major telecom companies. His international career includes senior & executive level positions. Over the years, Erik has been a regular speaker & moderator at major international telecom conferences.
Daniele Mancuso has been appointed Chief Product Management for Sparkle Group in October 2020.
From September 2019 to October 2020 he held the position of Chief Marketing Solutions & Business Development Officer.
In the previous years, he served as Executive Vice President ICT Engineering, where he was in charge of the technological innovation, planning, engineering and development of Sparkle’s Global Network as well as of Information Technology.
From August 2016 he held the position of Director of Innovation & Engineering, in charge of the engineering and deployment of Voice, Mobile, IP and & Data Platforms as well as of Submarine Cables, ICT Security Processes & Platforms and Datacenters & Cloud Infrastructures, while leading the Network Innovation and Evolution processes.
In January 2013 he was Director of Engineering, IT & Security of Sparkle Mediterranean & Balkan Region where, since 2001, he has been holding several positions within Engineering & Operations departments. Prior to that he was Director Architecture & Engineering.
He began his career in in 1991 in a Software House dealing with Robotics applied to Agriculture and, in 1993, he moved to Telecom Italia’s domestic Transmission department, focusing on the migration from PDH to SDH technology.
Daniele holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Catania.
Artur has many years of general management and sales experience in an international environment predominantly within the telecommunications industry. Prior to joining Enxoo, Artur worked at T-mobile as a Chief Commercial Officer responsible for the B2B market in Poland, and before that, held different positions at GTS Central Europe incl. Senior Vice President of Infrastructure Services, Head of Marketing and Head of International Wholesale.
Between 2000 and 2009, Artur spent 10 years at TeliaSonera International Carrier where he was managing regional operations for West Europe, Central & Eastern Europe as well as Asia.
In his career, Artur played instrumental roles in conducting a transformation and restructuring telecommunication operations in multiple countries and regions. Artur has also driven a number of M&A activities successfully acquiring and integrating infrastructure operators in various markets.
Artur holds a master's degree in Management from Warsaw University and later obtained an Executive MBA from Warsaw University of Technology. Artur attended a number of executive programs including those at Stanford University, IMD and London Business School.
Gint Atkinson is Vice President Network Strategy and Digital Architecture and leads the transformation for SES’s 5G, virtualization, cloud, and network platform architectures that unify multiple satellite constellations and deliver 5G services from the edge to the cloud. Prior to SES he was head of technology for Colt where he pioneered and launched the first large scale SDN, SD-WAN, and global Datacenter Interconnect services in 2012 offering on-demand elastic terabit services across 100 datacenters in Asia Pacific. Gint has worked in the networking, mobile, and emerging media industries over 32 years as a serial entrepreneur and innovator for start-ups and large service providers including T-Mobile, NTT DOCOMO, AT&T, KDDI, Virgin Media and others where he has led the development and first to market launch of industry changing technologies and services.
Brendan has over 20 years of professional related experience in sales and business development, marketing & customer experience; the development & implementation of new strategy and business plans. Brendan has impressive experience in leading teams to achieve exceptional results. He has previously held various senior management roles in Sales, Product development & Marketing functions in the Telecommunication industry. Working for Etisalat, UAE under the capacity of VP – Group Multinational Corporations, then as VP – UAE Global Services and recently working for Orange Business Services, UK as a Global Lead Director – Business Development.
Michael is an entrepreneur, expert, and strategic advisor in Network & Cloud automation & Intelligent operations. He is the Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Amartus. He is currently spear-heading new product innovation in the area of Inter-Provider Service Automation. From 2003 to 2015, he was CEO and led the company from start-up to leading industry innovator. In 2015, he oversaw the successful exit of the company's orchestration product business to Huawei in 2015 where he assumed the role of VP of Fixed Network OSS, responsible for new product innovation in Network Automation & Autonomous Networking. Michael’s experience combines deep commercial & technical expertise with active involvement in industry groups & standards to deliver ground-breaking solutions. Michael was recently appointed as co-chair of the MEF LSO Commitee, where he is working to drive the development and adoption of Inter and Intra provider standards.
Ljubica Draskic is Head of Sales and Business Development at Smart CIC, with over 20 years of experience in the telecom industry and IT sector. She is responsible for sales in Europe, covering 28 countries including Russia and CIS, and Turkey. Prior to CITIC Telecom CPC, Ljubica worked as Regional Director for the entire CEE region at Interoute, as EMEA Director of technical support for Lucent Technologies and as European director for Huawei. Her excellent knowledge of IT technologies and the IT market made her an expert in her field. Her strength lies in developing strategies to achieve company goals and sales targets in multinational environments. Ljubica has a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Belgrade.
