Leading Experts in Telecom Experts who are GLG Leaders,Scholars and Educators

Chris Burke was the Chief Technology Officer and Chief Information Officer at Vodafone Ltd UK, a wireless carrier. He was responsible for managing technology and telecom product architecture, design, development, deployment, support and operations in the UK. He has over 22 years experience in telecomm...

Hugh Cathey is the Interim President of Interhack Title Management LC, an IT outsourcing company. He is experienced in directing transactions, piloting start-ups, corporate reorganizations, business development, and sourcing potential investors. Previously, he was the President- Broadband Division at...

Zhisheng Chen, Ph.D., is a member of technical staff at Sprint, a wireless carrier. He is responsible for support of the Sprint network evolution plan, and formulating network architecture and tech ecosystems framework to support Sprint tech development. He was responsible for development of the ecosystems...

Laureen R. Cook has 25 years of worldwide experience in the telecommunications industry. She holds an MSc in Telecoms Eng from RIT, and an MBA. She is the former Executive Advisor (COO) to the Chairman of MTC-Vodafone (now Zain) in the Middle East. She has held executive and BOD level positions with...

Subrata De, Ph.D., is the Former Head- Core Network Evolution and Strategy at Vodafone Group, Global Technology, Germany (3/08), the largest global wireless carrier. He was responsible for planning and deployment of GPRS and 3G technology in Europe, Japan and Australia and led the strategy & technical...

K.D. de Vries is the Managing Director/CEO for Align Technology Europe since October 1, 2006. Prior to joining Align Technology, He was the Chief Financial Officer and Member of the Board for Priority Telecom NV. Mr. de Vries took on the role of Chief Financial Officer following his previous position...

Elizabeth Demers, PhD, is a Professor of Accounting at INSEAD. Dr. Demers’s research interests relate to economic issues concerning Internet and other New Economy firms. Her studies investigate Internet stock valuations, the marketing role of IPOs, IPO failure prediction, technology stock market bubbles,...

Isaac Elliott is the Founder and the President of Practiq, Inc., a company providing consulting services to the telecom and technology sectors. He has more than 18 years of experience in the telecom sector. He Founded the International Softswitch Consortium. Previously, Mr. Elliott was the Senior Vice...

Tarik Fawzi is the Chief Executive Officer at Aeneas Strategy, a consultancy for operators, infra suppliers, content and application parties, specializing in strategy and partnering. He has over 11 years of experience in the telecom sector. Previously, he was manager business development at T-Mobile,...

Prasanta Ghosal is a Lead Program Manager at Microsoft Corporation. Previously he has held several management positions at Nextel, Inter Tel, Intel Corporation and Trillium Digital Systems. He has done his Bachelor of Technology in Computer Science & Engineering from IT_BHU, India and MBA from University...

Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...

Lynne Gregg is a consultant specializing in the telecommunications and software industry. She advises wireless companies, carriers, handset and software providers, private equity and software clients for Web 2.0, and SaaS business model. She specializes in mobile content, enhanced services, regulated...

Nick Hamilton-Piercy is a recently retired Senior Technology Advisor at Rogers Communications Inc., a cellular wireless and cable provider/ MSO. He is responsible for advising the corporation on broadband and video related technology directions and programs. Previously, he was the Chief Technology Officer...

Joseph Holop is the Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer at Telscape Communications, a competitive local exchange carrier employing 600. He is responsible for engineering, network, switching, field operations, IT development and IT infrastructure. Mr. Holop is a member of the executive...

Robert Ingalls served as Executive Vice President & CMO at Verizon (retired 03/07). He was responsible for the Consumer and Small to Medium Business Markets, as well as Operator Services and Public Telephones for the Telecom unit. This included top line revenue accountability for $22B, marketing,...

Hong Jiang, Ph.D., is the President and CEO at Montina, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang is an expert in the Chinese mobile industry. She has been closely following the Chinese operators’ reorganization efforts, 3G wireless developments including the domestic standard TD-SCDMA and wireless value-add...

Mickey Kalifa has launched, run and managed a number of successful TMT businesses. Mr. Kalifa has brought his expertise to a number of businesses in devising and implementing their strategy. He has 18 years+ experience in the media industry. Mr. Kalifa has founded new media and Telco businesses, incl....

Alfie Kane is a Non-Executive Director at Vodafone, Ireland, a wireless carrier. He is also the Chief Executive Officer at Baker Capital Corporation, a private equity fund. Previously, he was the Group Chief Executive Officer at Eircom, Plc; Executive Chairman at Cablelink, Eircell Mobile, and Eircom...

George Kapetanakis was a Vice President of Business Development & Innovation for T-Mobile International. In this role George is leading a team that evaluates and incubates new business ideas from technology and marketing firms which can be commercially exploited by T-Mobile. His responsibilities include...

Ben Kwak is a principal consultant at MobileSpace Consulting. He has over 16 years of strategy, sales and marketing, and operational experience. He has assisted clients in developing next generation wireless services and evaluating and selecting vendor products for their communication network needs....