Speakers include:

David has worked in T-Mobile CTOs Network Economics team for the past 6 years covering Core and Radio Access Network rationalisation plans and business cases. David has been a key member of small team that analyses capex/opex spends and provides future spend profiles. He has performed in depth analysis of the Profitability and Costs of Mobile Data services. David has also been involved in all the T-Mobile Network Sharing discussions across Europe.

Before joining T-Mobile he was a Telecoms Outsource Contract Director, with profit and loss responsibility, running networks for the National Australia Bank Europe, covering Clydesdale, Yorkshire, Northern and National Irish banks, Merrill Lynch Asia Pac and was the Operations Director for the NatWest Bank Network outsource contract. Before that, he was a consultant working across Europe and the Middle East. This was preceded by a career in the Royal Air Force where he ran several large telecoms networks.

With more than 15 years of experience in telecommunications industry, Maximiliano Sommantico is currently a Senior Product Manager working on the design of new services in the Marketing Department of the National Wholesale Services Division of Telecom Italia.
Maximiliano has worked for several years in the Retail Business Unit of Telecom Italia and before that for Telecom Italia Mobile and Telecom Argentina.

He has completed a Master in Telecommunications Engineering in the Instituto Tecnologico de Buenos Aires and has a Bachelor's Degree in Electronic Engineering from the Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires.

Hamid Aghvami joined the academic staff at King’s College, London University in1984. In 1989 he was promoted to Reader, and Professor in TelecommunicationsEngineering in 1992. He is presently the Director of the Centre forTelecommunications Research at King’s. Professor Aghvami carries out consultingwork on Digital Radio Communications Systems for both British and Internationalcompanies. He has published over 350 technical papers and given invited talks all overthe world on various aspects of Personal and Mobile Radio Communications as wellas giving courses on the subject worldwide. He was Visiting Professor at NTT RadioCommunication Systems Laboratories in 1990 and Senior Research Fellow at BTLaboratories in 1998-1999. He is currently Chairman of AWTG.

He leads an active research team working on numerous mobile and personalcommunications projects for third and fourth generation systems. These projects aresupported both by the government and industry. He is a distinguished lecturer and amember of the Board of Governors of the IEEE Communications Society. He has beenmember, Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the technical programme and organisingcommittees of a large number of international conferences, He is a Fellow of the RoyalAcademy of Engineering, Fellow of the IET and Senior Member of the IEEE.

Dr. Mohamed Jamoussi is in the telecom industry for the last 18 years. Currently, he is serving as a Senior Technical Consultant to STC. His expertise includes voice & data technologies, Wireless technologies, Fixed-Mobile Convergence (FMC), New business models, etc.

Dr. Jamoussi current duties include strategic, business and technical consultancies, ICT solutions assessment, investigation of new technologies towards new business opportunities, technical due diligence of services development, etc.

Dr. Jamoussi is holding a PhD in Computer Engineering from Polytechnic School of Montreal (CANADA) and an MBA from Manchester Business School (UK).

Jacques is in charge of the company overall management. He supervises all the Strategic and International Developments and Shareholder Relations.

In November 2009, Jacques has been elected as President of Alternative Mobile the French MVNO association gathering the biggest French MVNOs (Virgin Mobile, Carrefour Mobile, Auchan Mobile, NRJ Mobile, KPN France Mobile, …). Jacques is now leading all the Association MVNO efforts towards the French government and the French Telecom regulatory authority.

Previously, Jacques was in charge of Strategy & Business Development for the Professional & Consumer Division of Alcatel. Among other missions he initiated, with several operators, new businesses based on fixed mobile convergence and e-commerce.
efore that, Jacques worked for McKinsey & Co. Paris office as a Strategy Consultant and undertook missions in the area of Information Technology. He started his career with Matra Marconi Space in Technical Development and Sales Management.

Jacques has an engineering degree from ENSERG/INPG (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Electronique et de Radioélectricité de Grenoble) – France, and a MBA degree from INSEAD.

With a degree in Telecommunications Engineering and an MBA, both from Milan Politecnico, and 6 years previously spent in different Companies, Franco joined Omnitel Pronto Italia (currently Vodafone Italy), the second Italian licensed mobile operator, during start up phase in August 1994.

During this period, he covered different positions, mainly in Finance (Financial Controller for Technology from 1997 to 2005) and in Technology (Head of Network Deployment from 2005 to 2008) areas in VF Italy. Since October 2008 he joined Group Technology Finance in Vodafone Headquarter (UK), leading Network Finance team.

His current responsibility cover the entire Vodafone footprint, leading best practice sharing initiatives focusing on specific Network cost areas. In his current and previous roles he was involved and led several benchmarking exercises, inside and outside Vodafone Group,  addressing both expenses (Operating and Capital ones) and operational models.

Roberto Minerva, Manager, focal point for Long Term Research within the Strategy and Innovation department of Telecom Italia. He held many responsibilities within Telecom Italia Lab: Network Intelligence, Wireless Architecture and Business Services Area Manager.

Roberto has a Master Degree in Computer Science. Since 1987 he has been involved in the development of Service Architectures for Telecom (TINA, OSA/Parlay and SIP), in activities related to IMS, and in the definition of services for the Business market (context-awareness, ambient intelligence and automotive).
Currently his research activities is about Future Networks with a focus on highly distributed, pervasive, adaptive and autonomic service platforms and systems.

Roberto is author of several papers published in international conferences, books and magazine.

He joined Vodafone Group in 2006 and moved into the Contract and Commercial management role at Vodafone Netherlands in 2007. Peter set up a team to manage the finances and contract for the completely outsourced Access and Core networks.

Since 2010 he is responsible for several key network programmes to actually deliver EBITDA improvements as well as top-line growth to the business.

Peter has membership and is a speaker at the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals and the International Association of Commercial and Contract Management. He has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering and holds an MBA from HEC Paris.

Alok Kumar is an  IIT Kharagpur graduate with 31 years of career spanning 8 years in Sales (Nocil ), 23 years in Customer Service Delivery including ISO 9000 / Total Quality Management, Enterprise CRM implementation in leading organizations like Xerox, Escotel, Bharti Airtel & now Aircel.

He has been instrumental in laying the foundation of Service Delivery organization for leading telecom operators in India – both in the mobile / fixed line & data services in the last 14 years. As an acknowledged leader in the area of CRM, Alok has been a member of various national committees on Customer Focus and Marketing(CII/ AIIMA/DMA), was the Founding Director of CRM Foundation and had established a CRM Chair with India’s top management school (IIM Lucknow).

He has authored a popular book – ‘Theory & Application of CRM’ – which is now a best seller on the subject in India and has been adopted by Karnataka University as a prescribed textbook for all management schools in the state.

His life philosophy has been to strike a balance in various aspects of individual aspirations in personal & professional front and enjoys working with people & teams.

Generalist with a broad experience in the ICT sourcing and telecom work field. Strongly result oriented and focused on pragmatic solutions, putting the customer first. Knows how to built trust and to reach goals. Strong affinity and experience with working internationally as a consultant and as an international service provider.

Focusing on IT and Telco industry, Vladimir had worked in various managerial positions mainly in the Operational area. Currently he is responsible for operation of all mobile and fixed telecommunication services and for business support systems in T-Mobile Czech Republic.

Vladimir worked on different outsourcing projects in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. He is responsible for managing service contracts. Experienced with benchmarking of outsourced services.

Led technology consolidation programme, that integrated an alternative fix-line operator into mobile business in Czech Republic. Participated in T-Mobile and Orange merger in the Netherlands.

Gained broad experience with international projects, technology harmonization and consolidation programmes.

Phil leads PA’s Network Sharing and Sourcing proposition and regularly advises clients across all the most topical issues including the creation of JVs for active or passive sharing/sourcing.  Phil is one of PA Consulting’s leading experts in telecommunications with over 15 years experience as a trusted advisor to fixed and mobile operators and regulators. He brings together commercial, regulatory, financial and technical expertise to support clients from strategic insight through to realising the benefits of implementation.  Phil’s expertise covers today’s key issues of spectrum management, next generation networks and network sharing and sourcing. Phil previously worked in PwC Consulting, leading assignments in over 20 countries and in industry for Cable & Wireless.

When Jonathan joined the finance transformation team in BT Global Services in 2002, he came from a financial controller position in Bayer Pharmaceuticals. He played a key role in the re-design and implementation of BT’s international wholesale OSS systems, transforming the international-settlements function by delivering new billing, ledger management and revenue-assurance capabilities.

In 2006 he left the finance transformation team to work in BT Global Telecom Markets in product and portfolio management. A managing consultant in BT Telconsult since 2008, he has supervised and delivered a number of very successful consulting projects in Asia, the Middle East and Central & Eastern Europe around transformation, strategy, markets, products and portfolio. While continuing to deliver large consulting projects, in his other role as head of business development he works with BT Wholesale in the UK to develop a new international portfolio of managed services driven by a strong focus on client benefits.

Emeka looks at how the network sharing agenda will change the telecoms industry landscape. He also tracks all publicly confirmed network sharing deals for Ovum. Emeka’s most recent report ‘Network sharing, a post-recession reality’ dissects the challenges operators face in the future and how they can adjust to cope. It also probes the concept of the ‘Neutral Host’, and poses the question of how long it will take before the industry coalesces into a single mobile infrastructure. Emeka qualified with an MSc in Telecommunication and started off in technical roles in the industry. He then switched to the business side of telecoms and has been an analyst/consultant for the past 7 years. He joined Ovum in July 2008 as a Senior Analyst, focusing on telco strategy and is a member of both the IET and the IEEE.  

Disruptive Analysis’ founder Dean Bubley is an analyst and consultant with over 19 years’ experience. He primarily specialises in wireless, mobile, and telecoms fields. His present focus is on wireless technology, especially the evolution of mobile broadband, wireless traffic & policy management, devices, shifts in service provider value chains, in-building technologies and regulatory issues such as spectrum policy and Net Neutrality. Formerly an equity analyst with Granville Baird investment bank, and chief analyst at research firm Datamonitor, he has managed and participated in over 100 telecoms-industry research projects. He also maintains the Disruptive Wireless blog, and works as an associate for Telco 2.0 and collaborates with Martin Geddes Consulting. He holds a BA in Physics from Oxford University.

Arnold  van Holten is vice president at Omnitele, heading Omnitele’s Performance Management business unit. Arnold’s career stretches over 20 years in mobile telecoms with positions at Nokia, Vodafone, T-mobile, Orange and KPN where he has held technical and commercial management positions with responsibility for mobile network design and implementation, performance management and optimisation as well for service- and product development.

Mr. Vesterinen has been working as a well acclaimed and respected expert for well over ten years within the telecommunications sector.  He holds a M.Sc. degree in Industrial Management and Engineering and has worked for several years for mobile operators in Europe and Finland. Mr. Vesterinen has been working at Omnitele since 1998 and is currently responsible for Network Planning.

Martin has been at Radio Design from its inception in 2007 and now holds the position of Technical Director with responsibility for the company’s technical strategy.

Radio Design have grown rapidly and become the world leaders in the provision of network sharing technology with their designs deployed in many shared networks. As a result Radio Design has extensive experience of the technical challenges involved with network sharing along with the associated cost benefit analyses. Martin regularly advises operators on network sharing options, particularly with regard to cell site and RAN design and is responsible for Radio Design’s network sharing product range.

Martin received a First Class MA in Mathematics and a Masters of Mathematics from Cambridge University followed by a PhD from Leeds University. He then moved to Filtronic where he worked as a System Engineer on base station RF modules before joining Radio Design.

Edward has 18 years’ experience of working within IT and telecoms, of which the last 13 have been providing consultancy services to clients in both the public and private sectors. This has involved undertaking a variety of roles in organisations that have benefited from his wide breadth of his ICT skills. He is an accomplished consultant, and has completed assignments encompassing business strategy and planning, market analysis, design, procurement and outsourcing.

Edward has specific market strengths aligned to the outsourcing of secure ICT systems, where his extensive expertise covers strategy and planning, solution design, and the selection and procurement of new ICT services, enabling clients to meet stringent regulatory and contractual requirements. Prior to working for Analysys Mason, Edward was Director of Consultancy at Siemens Enterprise Communications.

Paul is a senior analyst in operator strategies at Informa Telcoms and Media  He is responsible for thought leadership in the converging mobile, roaming, enterprise and VoIP sector. His most recent work has covered strategy development within the roaming sector with specific concentration on segmentation, data and pricing strategies. Paul is a frequent speaker and chair at international conferences, as well as a regular press commentator.

Prior to joining Informa Paul was a Billing and CRM consultant at PBI Media a full spectrum telecommunication research company and was tasked with developing the company’s BSS and OSS practice. Before this he was a Broadcast Strategist for ITV Plc formerly Granada Media undertaking research projects into viewing characteristics and socio-demographic analysis of advertising consumers.