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LTE Forum 2009
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During his ten-year career with Portugal Telecom, Zeinal Bava contributed decisively to the development of PT’s national and international business activities, as he became the youngest chief executive officer of the largest company in Portugal and one of the youngest in Europe.
Zeinal’s career is inevitably coincident with PT’s evolution. He was determinant in business development overseas; he conducted and worked with teams from the main business areas: PT.com, PT Comunicações, PT Multimedia and TMN. He participated in projects which are now key growth tools, such as for example PT PRO, a company aggregating all backoffice and support services of PT Group, which recently started delivering services to third parties. As chief executive officer, Zeinal promotes daily a culture of demand as he envisages the creation of a modern, agile and permanently innovative communications group.
Prior to joining PT, Zeinal served as managing director of Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Morgan Grenfell and Warburg Dillon Read banks. Holding a solid experience in the financial sector, he is recognised in international financial markets as one of the best in this industry.
Zeinal holds a degree in electrical and electronic engineering from University College London. His engineering training together with an operational approach to each business and an excellent financial expertise enable him a comprehensive view of the reality of PT group’s activity.
Alan Hadden has 21 years’ experience in the mobile communications industry, and has been President of GSA since its formation in 1998.
Previously he was on the senior management team of a PCN/GSM 1800 operator (today called T-Mobile), involved in start-up, launch, and expansion phases. He assisted with discussions with key stakeholders and overseas regulators to establish 1800 MHz as a mainstream band for cellular and new mobile businesses. He represented the company at the GSM Association and the UMTS Forum. Previously Alan was Industrial Advisor to the UK communications regulator, and represented views influencing regulation and standardisation at national and international level.
Alan’s 2nd book, Mobile Broadband with HSPA, LTE and Beyond: Services, Markets and Business Opportunities, will be published later this year.
Avi Sharon
Director for LTE Product Marketing Comsys Mobile
Avi Sharon is the Director for LTE Product Marketing at Comsys Mobile. As well as driving LTE product management, his position includes focusing on strategic 4G technology and managing the ComMAX ecosystem that he was instrumental in establishing.
Mr. Sharon joined Comsys Mobile in 2001. Before his current position he was a Product Manager whose sphere included driving the Cellular IP EDGEware™ and EGGware™ product line, as well as the 2.5G elements for the ComMAX™ CM1125 multimode mobile WiMAX/GSM-EDGE chip and the ComMAX reference design platforms.
Prior to joining Comsys Mobile, he worked at 3Com Corp (Nasdaq: COMS), where he held various senior positions in R&D. Mr. Sharon brings to Comsys over 20 years’ experience in the hi-tech industry, data communications and wireless technologies.
Professor Instituto Superior Técnico (IST – 91/93) Controlo e Robótica: Teoria dos Sinais e Sistemas
Licenciado em Engª Electrotécnica e Computadores (IST – 1993)
Jovem Empresário de Elevado Potencial (JEEP – 1992) Banco Português do Atlântico
Director de Engenharia e Planeamento Estratégico Cabovisão - Televisão por Cabo, SA (1995 – 1998)
Consultor Planeamento e Desenvolvimento Estratégico Cabovisão – Televisão por Cabo, SA (1998 – 2004)
Presidente & CEO Grupo CBE (1998 – 2008) CBE – Engenharia e Construção, SA Drivetel – Projectos e Planeamento Celular, SA
Claudio Adriani
CTO & VP Product Development Witech
Claudio Adriani has a long-standing experience 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 Corporate Technology Strategies Director, Head of System Offer Architecture, Marketing Director and Product Planning Manager for the Networking & Communications offerings. More recently, before joining WiTech, he was also Chief Technology Officer at Elitel, an alternative telecom operator in Italy, 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/Wang Global/Olivetti Olsy. Mr. Adriani earned a Degree in Informatics at the University of Pisa, Italy.
Giovanni Romano
Coordinator for Radio Standards Telecom Italia
Giuseppe (Beppe) Donagemma is Head of West and South Europe (WSE) region in Nokia Siemens Networks and has more than 15 years experience in the communications industry with a background that entails managing several key accounts within Europe and Africa.
Giuseppe started his career in 1993 working in telecommunications projects for Siemens in Greece and Italtel in China. He joined Nokia at the end of 1994 as National Project Coordinator in Milan and was soon named Project Manager for North East Italy and then Account Manager for Omnitel Pronto Italia.
In 1999 Giuseppe became General Manager for Marketing and Sales for Networks in Southern Europe and Africa. Between 2002 and 2003 he was given two key responsibilities as Director for Vodafone Customer, Marketing and Strategy and as General Manager for Vodafone, Southern and Central Europe.
In 2003 Giuseppe was appointed Vice President, Global Customer Operations, Radio Networks and became a member of the board of directors for Nokia Italia. Two years later he became Chairman and Managing Director for Nokia Italy S.p.A.
Giuseppe then led the Vodafone Global Customer Business Team after the formation of Nokia Siemens Networks, taking on his current WSE role in 2009.
Giuseppe holds an Executive Masters in Strategy and Leadership as well as a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Padova. He is married with Francesca and has two daughters.
He is a keen sports enthusiast, from skiing to squash, from soccer to running. He also enjoys spending time in the natural environment, fly-fishing and picking mushrooms.
Guy Redmill is Managing Director of Redmill Communications Ltd. Redmill Communications has been created to provide emerging technology and telecommunications companies with the marketing and sales expertise required to provide sustained growth. Redmill Communications works in partnership with clients to provide a true alternative to in-house resources for a range of sales and marketing activities. These activities may include the development and execution of a fully integrated go-to-market strategy, or simply the provision of temporary support to cover busy periods of the year.
Prior to establishing Redmill Communications, Guy was Director for Market and Business Development within the EMEA region for Cantata Technology. Guy was instrumental in the development of Cantata’s strategy for its EMEA carrier business segment. He spearheaded the establishment of key partnerships and helped drive these relationships to mutual success. He also led the implementation and execution of marketing programmes across the region.
Guy RedmillGuy joined Brooktrout Technology, Cantata’s predecessor company, in 2001. He fulfilled a number of strategic marketing and product management roles prior to assuming his current position. Before joining Brooktrout, Guy was Marketing Manager at Telesoft Technologies. He has been involved with the complete life cycle of telecoms products, from development through to installation and product validation.
Guy has extensive experience of SS7 and IP protocols, as well as IMS and NGN architectures; is a frequent speaker at industry events; and holds an MSc from Bath University and a BSc from Leeds University.
Hans Kuropatwa has spent over twenty years in the telecommunications industry with Vodafone and Motorola and more recently as a partner with Ventura. He was a non-executive director of the leading specialist M2M company – Vianet and is a co-founder of the mobile video content business Skill-Pill.
Hans spent nine years with Vodafone where he was CEO of Vodafone Sweden and regional MD in the Europe, Middle East and Africa region. He held seats on the boards of 14 cellular and fixed line operating companies and has been responsible for many start-ups and acquisitions.
Prior to joining Vodafone, He spent seven years with Motorola where he was MD of their UK telco business (MVNO) and regional director responsible for cellular operating joint ventures in the EMEA region. His early career was in strategy consulting with OC&C.
He is a partner in the specialist telco consulting firm Ventura and has provided advice to the management teams of eircom, Orascom, Millicom, and Rim/Blackberry on a variety of operating issues in both the fixed, broadband and mobile business areas.
Hassan M. Claussen has been working in the Telecoms and IT market for over 15 years. In the early 90’s, Hassan was heading sales & marketing operations in Hamburg (Germany) for one of the largest IT Consultants, Telemation (acquired in 2000 by Dimension Data). In Portugal since 1996, Hassan started a new career in business development, training and consulting with international training experts, ComGlobal. During this time he provided valuable services to many individuals and enterprises in the area of IT and Telecommunications. The business he worked with was recognized for many years as a leading IT Consultant. After 17 years experience in the Telecoms and IT markets, Hassan M. Claussen founded HanseCom Media & Communication in November 2004. With HanseCom he is now working in the event management and organization industry specializing in the telecommunications and IT industry. Together with his team, Hassan focuses his expertise in developing profitable events, handling projects from design and research, to marketing and sales, through to speaker acquisitions and management running up to and on the day of an event.
Jean-Claude Perrin, is LTE Advisor at SIMalliance ; he also acted as SIMalliance General Secretary during the first half of 2009. Jean-Claude is currently finalizing a LTE opportunity report , first step for the creation of a SIMalliance Working Group on LTE.
Jean-Claude is also Vice President LTE at Gemalto Telecom. His role is to define and implement the strategy and major changes in the Company product, solution & service offerings linked the LTE mobile broadband disruption.
During his 20 year career with the Smart/SIM Card Solution Industry, Jean-Claude held several International Marketing, Sales and Business Unit Management Positions, always working on leading edge subjects.
Jean-Claude has a Master degree in Business Administration (IAE Paris – Sorbonne) and graduated from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon.
John joined Award Solutions in 2000 as a senior consultant. He is responsible for customer training and course development in wireless and Internet technologies. He delivers seminars to leading wireless service providers and equipment manufacturers covering a wide range of technologies. Recently he has played a leading role in the development of Award’s extensive WiMAX and LTE curricula. In the past two years he has been delivering LTE and WiMAX courses mainly in the EMEA region where he also has business development responsibilities. John has also taught courses in UMTS, cdma2000, EV-DO, SIP, VoIP, IMS and TCP/IP. John has 20 years of experience in the Wireless and Data Communications industries in the areas of network architecture and design. He has hands-on experience in CDMA & TDMA technology deployment, and has been responsible for the design & development of TCP/IP and SNA products. John has served in a variety of roles during his career, including senior S/W development manager at Nortel Networks where he oversaw the work of a multi-site, multinational team of engineers. While at Nortel he received various awards including an Award of Excellence in Product Development from a leading customer and a People Development award from the Nortel Wireless Vice President. John holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from University College London.
Mr José Ferrari Careto is Board Member of Anacom, the Portuguese regulatory body for electronic communications and spectrum management.
Mr Ferrari Careto, who was also Vice-President of APDC (Portuguese Association for the Development of Communications, a non profit private organisation), holds a Degree in Economics and has a large experience in the communications industry, both from the regulatory and operational points of view: he served as Board Member of several telecommunication operators, some of them during its start-up phase, and he participated in the first management team of Anacom, back in 1989, as Director for Studies and Planning. Mr. Ferrari Careto holds also experience in the energy sector, where he served as a Board Member during 3 years.
Mr José Ferrari Careto is 47 years old, is married and father of 3 children.
Latif Ladid holds multiple positions in the Internet and IPv6 communities, including: President, IPv6 FORUM (www.ipv6forum.com); Chair, European IPv6 Task Force (www.ipv6.eu); Emeritus Trustee, Internet Society - ISOC (www.isoc.org); IPv6 Ready Logo Program Board (www.ipv6ready.org); World Summit Award Board Member (www.wsa.org); Senior Research at University of Luxembourg on multiple European Commission Next Generation Technologies IST Projects; Project Member of the Safety EU projects; Member of 3GPP PCG (www.3gpp.org); Member of 3GPP2 PCG (www.3gpp2.org); Vice Chair, EntNET (http://www.comsoc.org/~entnet/EntNet%20Committee.htm); Member of UN ICT Task Force Policy WG; Member of IEC Executive Committee; Member of the ITU-T Informal Forum Summit.
Luis Angel Galindo
Founder and Chairman of WIMS 2.0 inititive at Telefonica Moviles Telefónica
Executive MBA from IESE Business School. Master in Services and Security in IP networks from Technical University of Madrid. Master in Production Management. M.Sc. degree in telecommunications from the UPM. From the beginning he has been involved in wireless networks, firstly in Motorola, and from July 1996 in Telefónica Móviles Spain. He was the IMS Project Director in Telefónica. Founder of the WIMS 2.0 initiative (www.wims20.org) that he is personally leading. Luis is a socio-technologic, analyzing how technologies are modifying behaviours and trends in the society. He is responsible for bringing innovation to the user. With high innovative and creativity skills, Luis is a promoter of the change inside his organization. He represents Telefónica in different national and international congresses and fora. Luis is author of many articles for technical magazines as IEEE, GlobalComm, etc. He teaches in Spanish universities and also makes in-company courses for external enterprises. In parallel, he is a freelance in strategy issues. He is author of the book “IMS. A Development and Deployment perspective”
Martin Ljungberg
Director Product Management - Mobile Broadband Ericsson
Martin Ljungberg has the end to end product management responsibility for mobile broadband, including introduction of LTE, at business unit networks within Ericsson AB. He has been engaged in Ericsson’s mobile data and broadband activities since 1999 and has held a number of managerial positions with focus on WCDMA and LTE ranging from technical sales to product management and customer programs. Martin Ljungberg holds a degree in Engineering Physics from Uppsala University (Sweden) and Case Western Reserve (Ohio, US).
Apart from his role at Ericsson, Martin Ljungberg is member of the IOT Activity Group in the LSTI Forum (www.lstiforum.org). IOT (Interoperability Testing) is one of the current test phases and the second of the two activities within LSTI providing insight to the industry-wide progress of 3GPP R8 LTE/SAE interoperability functionality verification. The IOT phase will extend the set of functions and take into account other key interfaces, which connect the base stations to the core network.
Mothilal De Silva serves as the General Manager , Corporate Planning , Quality Systems , Corporate Development and MIS of Dialog Telekom Ltd , Sri Lanka , a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia. Mothilal’s portfolio consist of Business and Strategic Planning , Quality Management and Process Improvement , Business Intelligence , Enterprise Risk Management , Enterprise Program Management and Corporate Social Responsibility . Mothilal spearheaded many company wide initiatives, projects that culminate to the winning of many national and international awards . Among them are GSM in the Community Award 2001 , Sri Lanka National Quality Award 2001 , International Asia Pacific Quality Award 2002 , GSM in the Community Award 2002 for wireless Accessibility , GSM in the Community Award 2003 for Best use of wireless for Emergency and National Business Excellence Award 2004 . He is also instrumental in obtaining isso 9000 becoming the 1st operator to obtain ISO in the region . He holds a Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering from University of Peradeniya , Master of Science in Information Technology from University Of Kellee , UK , MBA from Post Graduate Institute of Management Sri Lanka ( PIM ), Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Management from Netherlands International Institute of Management, Maastricht , and Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from PIM Sri Lanka . Currently he is following Doctor of Business Administration at Asian Institute Of Technology Bangkok . His research interest is “ Strategic Outsourcing in Telecommunication “ .
Dialog is a listed company in the Colombo Stock Exchange and has captured the top most position on the Colombo Stock Exchange in terms of the market capitalization, accounting for 19% of total market size. Dialog commenced operations in 1995, and has expanded rapidly, to cover 80% of the population and 65% of the landmass with a 900+ base station network in Sri Lanka. Dialog has more than 2.9 Million customers that constitute 60 % of the current market for Mobile Services. The network is strongly committed to providing innovative value added services. Dialog’s offering of more than 90 Value Added Services, is more than three times its closest competition.
Nicolas Biguet
Senior Solution Marketing Manager EMEA – End-To-End Mobile Networks Solutions Alcatel-Lucent
Nicolas Biguet has 20 years of experience, with a strong background as Sales and Marketing Manager and Business Unit Manager in the IT and Telecom Business. He joined Alcatel-Lucent in 2006 to develop Services and Business consulting with Fixed and Mobile Telecom Operators for turnkey projects. He leads now the Solution Marketing for the End-To-End Mobile Network Solutions in EMEA. Nicolas is graduate from the ESSEC Business School with an Executive Master of Business and International General Management.
Shahram G Niri
Director of Global LTE/SAE Strategy & Solution NEC Europe
Dr Shahram G Niri is an expert in telecommunications with more than 18 years experiences in the field of mobile communication technology and computer networking. Currently he is the Director of Global LTE/SAE Strategy & Solution in NEC. He obtained a PhD in mobile communications in 1999 and an MSc in Telecommunication with distinction in 1995 both form the University of Surrey in UK. He has worked as a senior manager for a number of companies such as R&D, operators and manufacturers and other sectors in mobile industry. He has also provided consultancy to a wide range of clients such as network operators, service providers, blue chip manufacturer, government and regulatory bodies and many other R&D sectors. He holds several patents in mobile communications and has published over 50 technical papers and articles in this field in refereed international journals and conferences as well as in magazines.
Before joining Comneon GmbH in 2006, Dr. Frascolla worked as research fellow at Ancona University and as consultant for research institutes in Italy.
Currently he works as a concept engineer, he’s responsible for research/funded projects within Comneon GmbH and since 2007 he’s an attendee of the standardization group 3GPP TSG CT WG1.
Dr. Frascolla is working on European and German funded / research projects, not only offering his project management expertise but also actively contributing to the technical contents of papers, presentations, demonstrators and prototypes. His main research interests are in wireless communication systems, low-power SW design and 4G mobility management.
