Carrier Community (CC) a global telecom club established in 2008, is organising its 15th annual in-person global carrier community meetings (GCCM) on the 21st & 22d March 2023 in London at the InterContinental London Park Lane, One Hamilton Place, Park Ln, London W1J 7QY, United Kingdom.
More than 700+ Club Members representing decision makers from Tier-1, Tier-2, and Tier-3 operators globally meet and network during the two day gathering while utilising the GCCM platform including evening networking receptions to meet, network with peers, explore new business opportunities, discuss latest market trends at the knowledge sharing panel sessions and showcase their latest products and solutions.
During the GCCM in London, CC convenes Telco members and Telco Ecosystem Partners from segments such as IOT, Data, Voice, SMS Messaging, Mobile, OTT/ Content Providers, VAS, Enterprise, Satellite, ISP, Data Centers and other related segments.
The Submarine, IOT, Digital Cloud, Wholesale Digital Transformation and Women in Tech, Messaging Executive Panel & Knowledges Sharing Sessions are designed to help CC members address current industry challenges and come up with comprehensive solutions suitable for today’s rapidly evolving and agile environment.
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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.
Elaine graduated with a B.A. (Hons.) in Journalism and English Literature in 2008 after completing a one-year scholarship at the University of Central Missouri.
Elaine has worked in private and public companies, ranging from start ups to global powerhouses. Since 2011 she focused on marketing, partnerships and business development roles to improve brand recognition and drive revenue.
She worked extensively in the carrier and network provider space specialising in marketing connectivity including peering, colocation and cloud solutions to the world’s leading businesses.
floLIVE’s co-founder, Rony Cohen leads the company’s global business development activities and strategy. He’s an experienced telecom executive and serial entrepreneur who has held senior positions in established multinational firms and has founded several successful mobile phone and M2M-related businesses. Rony’s previous positions include serving as CEO of Marathon Telecom, as Director of 018 Xfone, and Telecom Director at Equator Investments. He holds a degree from the European Business School.floLIVE’s co-founder, Rony Cohen leads the company’s global business development activities and strategy. He’s an experienced telecom executive and serial entrepreneur who has held senior positions in established multinational firms and has founded several successful mobile phone and M2M-related businesses. Rony’s previous positions include serving as CEO of Marathon Telecom, as Director of 018 Xfone, and Telecom Director at Equator Investments. He holds a degree from the European Business School.
Scott has 9 years of experience in the mobile messaging industry across multiple roles in sales, account management and procurement. As Director of Emerging Services at S & BTS Global he is responsible for everything related to messaging including sales, procurement and product. S & BTS is a joint venture between SoftBank and BTS that is building the next generation of CPaaS platforms and provides services to enterprises, mobile operators and wholesale carriers around the world. Scott is passionate about how omni-channel messaging can simplify communication and improve customer experiences.
Daniel is a co-founder of Preiskel & Co and has over 20 years’ experience working in the telecoms, media and technology sectors, advising across the globe. He has been ranked for over 15 years in major independent research guides as one of the world’s leading communications lawyers.
He is particularly recognised for commercial and regulatory work in the UK and overseas. He also advises various clients (including a major Korean handset manufacturer) on international investments and acquisitions as well as on major privatisations. Recent work includes advising a group of mobile operators and content providers in reversing a decision of a European telecoms regulator. He has recently been advising Japanese and Middle Eastern mobile network operators on MVNOs as well as advising a range of MVNOs & MVNAs in various continents. Daniel, together with his international team, typically advises companies on the legal aspects of their multi-national services, with an increasing amount of advice on cloud issues, software as a service, privacy and data retention issues.
Daniel Preiskel has chaired and is a regular speaker at prestigious international telecoms conferences and is on the Steering Committee of the MEF Privacy in Apps Programme that has attracted a fair amount of coverage in the press.
Daniel is a founder of the International MVNOx Association and former Vice-Chair of the IBA Communications Law Group. He is a member of and provides regulatory input to the following industry associations: ISPA, ITSPA, MEF and FCS. In addition, he and his team have advised the Spanish Chamber of Commerce and some of their member companies from a cross section of industries.
Previous experience includes working as an investment banker in Deutsche Morgan Grenfell’s telecoms team and heading telecoms and technology departments at two City law firms. He has also worked in the European Commission’s Competition Directorate on anti-trust matters in the telecoms sector. In addition to his broad range of TMT sector clients, he advises companies in a range of sectors including gambling & gaming, retail, energy and sport.
He has a MA in law from Cambridge University (Jesus College), speaks seven languages and has passed the SFA investment banking exams.
Eddie is the founder and Managing Director of Universal Call Limited.
Eddie has over 25 years of experience in the Telecoms industry. He has held several senior positions during his career with British Telecom.
Eddie has lived and worked in Spain, US and Asia Pac, he is fluent in 6 languages. Specialising in outsourcing he held the positions from Directorship to CEO, conducting positive business at board levels around the world. Eddie has won several awards on his outstanding performances.
Allen has over 15 years of telecom industry experience across business development, network design, and sales engineering. Combining engineering expertise and a passion for entrepreneurship, Allen has fulfilled a variety of business development and sales engineering roles at Qwest, NTT and others, as well as strategy consulting for various regional interexchange transport networks in the Pacific Northwest region. Prior to joining MOX, Allen joined a start-up transit aggregator, Spectrum Networks and was instrumental in growing and selling the company to Wave Broadband in 2015
Kadambara Maita is currently the Head of Sales & Marketing at Tigo Business. She has vast experience in the telecommunication sector. Prior to this, she was the director of Sales and Services for East & Central Africa for Vodafone Global Enterprise. Most of her growth is attributed to multiple jobs she did abroad with a key focus on the commercial and financial sector with companies like Geico Insurance and RessortCom International in the U.S.
Mr. Shabir Ali Murtaza is an ICT professional with deep knowledge and expertise in ICT operational frameworks development, operational processes assessment, reengineering, digitization, data analytics and producing AI algorithms. He has a vast experience of 16+ years working for Amadeus, Du PJSC UAE, Etisalat UAE, Huawei Technologies UAE & Oman, and Ooredoo Oman.
During his tenure with the aforementioned organizations, he worked on different operational roles and developed frameworks (including Risk Management, Quality, Audit/CSI, Process Management) , followed by supporting operational processes and digitization on self-initiative BPMN platform (called Digital Dynamics platform- DDP) resulting in uplifting the operational sigma level and efficiency.
Currently, he is employed with Ooredoo Oman (Qtel Group Operator in Oman) focusing on ICT governance standardization support and digitization.
He completed his Bachelor in Information technology in 2003 and acquired multiple industry certifications in industry standards and is an active member of many standards bodies.
Joanna is a global telecoms expert with close to a decade worth of experience in mobile messaging market. Since starting in this field, Joanna has performed numerous commercial and operational roles in the industry including launching the global A2P SMS hub for HGC Global Communications Limited as a part of core leadership team.
Currently, Joanna heads up Global Market Intelligence unit at HAUD with a strong focus on working with Mobile Operators to help them stay in control of their networks, increase A2P revenues and build great customer experience.
Edwin van Ierland leads the company's global sales organization and is responsible for developing and managing execution of the company's worldwide sales strategies. Edwin brings to iBasis more than 30 years of experience in telecommunications dating back to his years in the Royal Netherlands Air Force where he held various staff and operational management positions with responsibility for communications infrastructure, operations and policies.
Edwin was instrumental in the consolidation and integration of the worldwide sales organizations following the multiple acquisitions of Tofane Global - Altice International Carrier Services in France, Portugal and Dominican Republic in 2018, iBASIS in 2019 and NOS International Carrier Services in 2020.
Prior to joining iBasis in 2007 Edwin was managing director of KPN Global Carrier Services, the international voice business of Royal KPN N.V. Edwin was instrumental in the transaction between iBasis and Royal KPN N.V. that resulted in the merger of KPN Global Carrier Services into iBasis in October of 2007.
Prior to joining KPN, Edwin was on the management team of Schiphol Telematics, which provides voice and data services to all companies involved in aviation operations at Schiphol Airport in the Netherlands. He also spent eight years as an officer in communications and operational command and control functions within the Royal Netherlands Air Force. Edwin graduated as an Airforce officer from the Royal Military Academy (Electronics) and has completed advanced study programs in Management, Business, and Information Systems.
Ellen is the founder of telXira, a messaging solutions and consultancy provider, in Zurich. She is a Telecommunications Specialist with more than 20 years of experience in the international wholesale arena. Ellen is a Management Science Graduate, possessing a wealth experience in both the voice and messaging industry.
telXira offer custom tailored enterprise solutions to the carrier and operator market matching complex commercial requirements with exactly the right technical solutions.
With her extremely ambitious and motivated character she has a strong ability to analyse key customer drivers, watch market trends and is able to identify and exploit opportunities quickly.
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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.
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More than 14 years of experience in Telecommunications.
Drive for results to reach desired profitability.
Dedicated & Determined to cope in the day to day trading market as well as long term bilateral business.
A highly motivated person with qualities like integrity, adaptability & accountability.
Ownership attitude, business acumen & problem solving skills.
Understanding of different regional markets in order to attract more business for the organization.
Customer & company focused to make right decisions.
Gets things done & help's peer's achieve their objectives.
Coaching & leadership skills to motivate & develop team members.
Relationship with more than 65 Tier 1 carriers and 200 Tier 2/ Tier 3 carriers worldwide.
Successfully developed & managed ASIA PACIFIC & ME with it being the top performing region in the Voice Business for Bankai Group. 40% year on year growth for the period of 2012 - 2017.
Successfully leading the Voice team since 2018 & SMS team starting 2020.
JtoD 2020 numbers growth of 50% & 82% in Voice & SMS respectively
Based in Paris, France, Florence is the consummate New Business Development Professional and Relationship Broker with broad experience in the telecommunications industry. After completing her Masters Degree in International Trade (Paris II Pantheon Assas), she joined Telecom Italia (TI) and played a critical role in growing TI's market share. After a decade at TI, she founded FSE Consulting in 2009 to help companies position themselves strategically to establish and grow impactful business relationships. Florence is adept at assessing risks and benefits as companies pursue global telecom opportunities.
Jakob Sjöberg is the founder of Bosbec. Bosbec has during the past 6 years developed a cloud based low code platform. Jakob has experience from including Telco services in the low code platform where non-IT developers can create bespoken solutions.
Currently he mainly works with sales and growth on new markets.
Jakob has a Master degree from University of Gothenburg and from Chalmers School of Technology.
Capable of bringing new business ideas and products to life. Anything challenging - toss it my way.
Specialties:
People Leader. Infrastructure. Wireless (4G LTE, 5G). Global Partnership Development. Security. Professional Services. Mobile Edge Computing. Network. Satellite Station as a Service. Network Transformation. IoT (eSim, eUICC).
A highly accomplished, purpose-driven senior executive with 10 years’ experience operating at Board level in complex and challenging, regulated multi-national organisations. An effective leader with strong skills in developing people and managing change. Experienced in driving transformation programmes to reduce cost of poor performance, improve productivity, whilst creating an engaged workforce and impacting positive employer brand.
Vladimir Smal is heading Sales & Procurement in the Global Messaging department of LANCK Telecom over the last 3 years. He was promoted to this position after proving himself as a successful team leader of Middle East, Africa & Asia market of Voice Sales department.
Vladimir has a profound experience in the Wholesale Telecom market, both in Voice & SMS. Over the last 13 years he has visited all major Telecom events. Vladimir is an active member of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum.
Vladimir started his job at LANCK Telecom as a Carrier Relations Manager in 2008 after graduating from Saint Petersburg State University. He holds degrees in Linguistics and Sociology.
Nick is Chief Insight Analyst and Founder at Mobilesquared, and specialises in all aspects of the mobile and telecommunications industries, including; messaging and OTT, unified communications, mpayments, the enterprise, mobile marketing and advertising, premium rate services, automated platforms, mobile internet and social media, apps and content, as well as networks and technology.
Nick oversees all aspects of client projects; research, analysis, data modellling, and creative output, to drive awareness of clients' brands through white papers or reports, or provide our clients with market positioning and competitor analysis to support company expansion and product launches, as well as Mobilesquared’s own reports, including Global A2P SMS forecasts, 2015-2020.
Nick speaks at conferences around the world, and is a judge for the Global Mobile Awards, the MEFFYS and the EMMAs.
In his time as an analyst, Nick has written strategic industry reports on all of the subjects listed above.
Federico Homberg leads Business Development & Innovation at Deutsche Telekom Global Carrier. In this role he is responsible for developing and implementing growth opportunities in International Wholesale but also for assessing the potential of new technologies around 5G SA, SD-X, XaaS or delivering new wholesale products via exposing APIs.
Prior to joining International Mobile Wholesale, Federico worked in multiple functions at Deutsche Telecom including International Mobile Wholesale, Group Business Development and Group Strategy. Before joining Deutsche Telekom, Federico worked as management consultant. Federico holds an MBA from the University of Mannheim.
Grzegorz Popardowski is a Solution Engineering expert with a wealth of experience in the telecommunications industry. As the head of Solution Engineering at Enxoo, Grzegorz specializes in designing and implementing scalable software solutions that drive business growth and streamline operations.
With an extensive track record of delivering successful projects in telecoms globally, Grzegorz leverages his deep industry knowledge and expertise to help wholesale telecommunications companies remain competitive in an ever-changing market.
Grzegorz's subject matter expertise and hands-on experience make him a trusted advisor to decision-makers in the telecommunications industry. His cross-functional approach to problem-solving and ability to collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders are essential to designing and delivering solutions that meet the complex needs of telecom companies.
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