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Falk Bleyl
Senior Product Manager
VoIP -
THUS
Falk Bleyl joined THUS
in January 1998 and is Senior
Product Manager for VoIP. He is
responsible for strategy, product
development and the commercial
success of the product suite,
as well as related product enhancements
and training.
Falk previously led THUS's technical
pre-sales support team, providing
customer facing and bid support
across the company’s entire
service portfolio. He also launched
THUS’s MPLS IP VPN services.
Prior to joining THUS, Falk worked
in product management and IT functions
and as an independent consultant
and lecturer, both in the UK and
in Germany. Falk has studied both
in Germany and in the UK and is
a first class Honours graduate
with a degree in marketing. |
Nan Chen
President
MEF
Mr. Chen is the President of the
Metro
Ethernet Forum, a worldwide
standards organization for Carrier-class
Ethernet networks and services.
Nan Chen is also the Vice President
of Marketing at Strix
Systems, a leading provider
of wireless Ethernet mesh equipments
enabling rapid networking without
wires.
Before Strix, Nan Chen was the
Vice President of Marketing at
Atrica
Inc., where he successfully
drove Ethernet's metro vision
in the industry and its wide adoption
in carriersâ networks worldwide.
Prior to joining Atrica, Mr. Chen
was the Director of Product Management
and Product Marketing at Force10
Networks while serving as a founding
Board of Director of the 10 Gigabit
Ethernet Alliance (10 GEA). Mr.
Chen also spent four years at
Nortel/Bay Networks/SynOptics.
While serving as a Director of
Technology at Nortel Technology
Center, Mr. Chen drove Nortel
10 Gigabit Ethernet strategy,
and served as a founding member
of IEEE 802.3ae Task Force for
development of 10 Gigabit Ethernet
standards.
Mr. Chen and his companies received
over 10 significant industry accolades
and awards, including a Best Marketing
Award. Mr. Chen holds two MS degrees
and a BS degree. In his past life,
he was a record holder in pole
vault at Beijing University. |
Gordon
Cook
The Cook Report on Internet Protocol
Editor
Publisher
Gordon Cook is a leading writer
and strategic thinker on Internet
issues. He has tracked the development
of the internet since its early
years. In 1992, after a period
as Senior Analyst with the US
Congress Office of Technology
Assessment (“OST”),
he started “The Cook Report
on Internet Protocol”.
In the Cook Report, Gordon
has documented the evolution
of the internet with an independent
and refreshing perspective on
economic, social, political
and strategic issues. Gordon
has a unique perspective and
a view of the future based on
deep knowledge of “how
we got here”.
In addition to work at OST,
Gordon was Science Editor for
the John von Neumann National
Supercomputer Center with a
background as a tech writer
and policy analyst. He has a
BA from Columbia University,
Msc (Econ) from the London School
of Economics, PhD from Duke
University and a Masters of
Library Science from Rutgers
University. His other interests
include Russian history and
Nepal and Tibet - trekking in
the Himalayas including time
at Everest Base Camp. He is
based in Trenton, New Jersey,
USA. |
Steve Coppins
Business Development Manager
Siemens
Communications UK
During a twenty year career in
telecommunications, Steve has
held a wide variety roles encompassing
an equally wide range of technologie.
He is currently Business Development
Manager with Siemens Communications
UK Fixed Networks division, where
his interests include the support
of innovative uses of broadband.
Between 2002 and 2004, Steve was
seconded to SEEDA as Broadband
Manager, during which period he
supported a wide range of programmes
aimed at accelerating the availability
and take up of broadband, including
providing funding for the first
Access To Broadband Campaign conference. |
Martin
Geddes
Director
Telepocalypse
Ltd
Martin Geddes writes the
popular telecom strategy weblog
Telepocalypse, cited by Business
Week and Forbes among others.
Before becoming an independent
consultant he was a technology
specialist and product strategy
manager at Sprint in Overland
Park, KS. He is named on 17 patents
filed by Sprint. Martin also has
extensive hands-on experience
in the IT industry building large
transactional systems at Oracle
Corporation. He holds a bachelor's
degree in Mathematics and Computation
from Oxford University. He now
does strategic consulting work
for major industry players on
how separation of connectivity
from service creates both problems
and opportunities. You can visit
his blog at www.telepocalypse.net |
Philip
Hemsted
Co-founder
YuuGuu
Ltd
Philip is co-founder of
YuuGuu, an application developer
of NextGen services. He has an
eclectic mix of entrepreneurial
and corporate experience in the
telecommunications; software;
engineering and steel industries
as well as caddying on the ladies
professional golf tour.
For the last two years he has
worked closely with high tech
and digital industry start-ups
as an interim and non-executive
director as well as an adviser
at the Northwest Regional Development
Agency. He was previously European
Marketing Director at Sycamore
Networks and VP of Marketing at
ilotron, winner of the Tornado
Insider supernova start-up competition.
He has held senior management
positions at Nortel Networks and
Marconi. Philip has an MBA from
Manchester Business School and
studied engineering at Leeds and
Cambridge Universities. |
Stefan
Henss
Head of Solutions
Marketing
Siemens
Stefan Henss holds a PhD
in Physics. He joined the optical
network division in Siemens AG
as a software developer in 1992.
Since 1994 he held different management
positions in the area of network
node development (SDH and WDM)
and network management systems
for optical networks. Since April
2004 he is responsible for the
Solution Marketing department
within Communications Fixed Networks. |
Richard
Hooper
Deputy Chairman
Ofcom
Richard Hooper is Deputy Chairman
of the Office of Communications
(Ofcom) in the UK and Chairman
of its Content Board. He is also
Chairman of the FTSE250 global
information provider to business,
professional and academic markets,
Informa plc.
Richard has devoted his career
to the converging worlds of media
and communications. He began his
career in the 1960s as a BBC radio
and television producer, a founder
on the BBC side of the Open University.
In the 1970s he ran the British
Government's R& D programme
in computer assisted learning.
In the 1980s he ran the Value
Added Systems & Services division
of BT, followed by being CEO of
the pan-European satellite television
channel Super Channel. In the
1990s he began a portfolio career
across the public and private
sector which included being a
Member of the new Radio Authority
which regulated commercial radio
and being on the Board of Lord
Hollick's FTSE100 United News
& Media. In 2000 he was appointed
Chair of the Radio Authority and
then in 2002 he moved across to
Ofcom to help start it up.
He is married to one of the leading
writers of children's non-fiction
in the English language, Meredith
Hooper, who was born and brought
up in Australia. Richard was awarded
a First Class Honours degree in
Modern Languages at Worcester
College, Oxford in 1963, where
he met his wife. His interests
are family (three grown-up children,
two in the media), theatre, travel
and golf.
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David S.
Isenberg
Principal Prosultant
LLC
David S. Isenberg spent 12 years
at AT&T Bell Labs until his
1997 essay, "The Rise of
the Stupid Network", was
received with acclaim everywhere
in the global telecommunications
community with one exception -
at AT&T itself! So Isenberg
left AT&T in 1998 to found
isen.com,
LLC (an independent telecom analysis
firm based in Cos Cob, Connecticut)
and to publish The SMART Letter,
an open-minded commentary on the
communications revolution and
its enemies. |
Phil Knight
Managing Director
Telecomplete
Philip has been involved in the
communications industry since
1994 and has held a number of
management positions at C&W,
ntl, THUS, Kingston Communications
and Via Networks. In 2002 he got
involved in Telecomplete Ltd.
Telecomplete
was founded in August 2002 and
provides a number of Internet
products and services to businesses,
residential customers and other
Internet service providers. The
services are delivered using the
Company¹s own data network
infrastructure and using a number
of national PTO carriers and IT
services companies. Telecomplete
is also connected to a number
of Internet exchanges in mainland
Europe and the US. |
Richard
Lander
Director
LocustWorld
Richard Lander is Director and
co-founder of LocustWorld. LocustWorld
produce the wireless mesh networking
system used world-wide to deliver
wireless broadband and voice over
ip services. Starting in 1979
as a computer programmer, with
a 1982 BSc in computer studies,
Richard has spent over 25 years
working in computers and communications.
After working on on-line dealing
systems in the 1980s Richard joined
IBM in 1988 as a systems engineer,
working on the launch of the IBM
RS/6000 and AIX. Richard was Chief
Executive of Analystic, the London
based software consulting company,
during the 1990s.
Since 2002 Richard has worked
with Jon Anderson on the LocustWorld
wireless mesh. The LocustWorld
Mesh is the innovative wireless
mesh system used in thousands
of networks around the world to
deliver broadband internet services.
New routing protocols, certificated
security, bandwidth controls and
Voice over IP support combine
to make the LocustWorld mesh a
popular choice for wireless internet
operators world-wide. |
Dr. Robert
M. Metcalfe
Ethernet Inventor & Advisory
Director
MEF
MIT Engineer, Ethernet Inventor,
3Com Founder, Polaris Partner
& Advisory Director Metro
Ethernet Forum (MEF)
Bob Metcalfe is a high-tech venture
capitalist at Polaris Venture
Partners in Waltham, Mass. He
serves on the boards of Polaris-backed
startups including Ember, Narad,
Paratek, and SiCortex. In 1973,
he invented Ethernet at the Xerox
Palo Alto Research Center. In
1979, he founded 3Com Corp. and
took it public in 1984. Metcalfe
graduated from MIT, got his PhD
from Harvard, taught at Stanford
and Cambridge, and was elected
in 1997 to the National Academy
of Engineering. In 2003 he was
appointed to serve as Advisory
Director to the MEF board. He
received the National Medal of
Technology in 2005 and is a Life
Trustee of MIT. |
Chinyelu
Onwurah
Head of Telecom's Technology
Ofcom
Since joining Ofcom in 2004, as
Head of Telecom's Technology,
Chinyelu’s work has focused
mainly on Next Generation Networks,
Numbering and Risk and Return.
Prior to Ofcom, Chinyelu worked
for Hammatan Ventures, a US technology
consultancy, where she was a Partner,
developing the GSM market in Nigeria
and South Africa. Previously she
was Director of Market Development
with Teligent in the US and before
that Director of Product Strategy
at Global Telesystems in the UK.
She has also worked for Cable
& Wireless in the UK and Nortel
in the UK and France. Chinyelu
is a Chartered Engineer with a
BEng in Electrical Engineering
from Imperial College and an MBA
from Manchester Business School. |
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Fred
Perkins
Chief Executive
Information
TV
Fred Perkins is founder
and Chief Executive of Information
TV, Sky Channel 277,
and simulcast worldwide
over broadband. The channel
has an unusual broadcasting
licence which allows it
to show sponsored programmes,
where the sponsor exerts
editorial control over the
programme. The concept for
the business was inspired
by Fred’s time as
CEO of The Stationery Office,
the publisher of all government
information. Information
TV thus offers a new way
of using TV to communicate
with target audiences. The
business is also acting
as an “incubator”
for emerging and would-be
new digital TV channels,
providing them with a low-cost
entry route into broadcast
TV. A second channel has
just been launched.
Fred had a 30-year career
in the information industry
before coming into broadcasting.
He has served at chairman
or executive level on many
public bodies, including
the Digital Content Forum,
a cross-industry body representing
the Trade Associations covering
the entire spectrum of organisations
involved in digital content;
the Broadband Stakeholder
Group, a government/industry
partnership driving the
UK's broadband strategy;
and the Electronic Publishers
Forum of the Publishers
Association. For the DTI,
he chaired the Innovation
and Growth Task Force for
Software, Digital Content
and Related Industries,
and was on the Executive
of the Information Age Partnership.
He has been an active participant
in several of the Ofcom-driven
consultation exercises around
TV and telecommunications,
and has particular interest
in digital media convergence
and public service broadcasting
issues. |
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Cameron
M Rejali
MD, Products & Strategy
BT Wholesale
Cameron Rejali was appointed MD,
Products & Strategy with BT
Wholesale on 17 January, 2005.
Cameron is responsible for the
design, development and lifecycle
management of wholesale products
with a particular focus on the
transformation of the portfolio
to meet wholesale customer needs
using BT's 21st Century Network.
Cameron is also responsible for
shaping BT Wholesale's strategy
and management of the BT Wholesale's
regulatory organization.
Before joining BT Cameron spent
13 years with Sprint Corporation
in Overland Park, Kansas, in a
variety of senior strategy and
product roles. Early in his career
at Sprint Cameron was responsible
for developing corporate strategies
focused on identifying new market
opportunities, particularly in
international communications and
wireless communications. In terms
of product management Cameron
has been VP of International Products
and Services, VP of Broadband
Wireless Products and Operations,
and VP of Integrated Product and
Market Planning. In his final
position at Sprint, Cameron was
VP of Product Management and Development
for Sprint's entire $10B business
product portfolio: wireless and
wire line services, as well as
local, long distance and international
business services. In that role
Cameron's focus was on the integration
of Sprint's wireless and wire
line business services and the
development of strategic product
lines that met business customers'
convergent needs. |
Euan Semple
Director
KM Solutions
for the BBC
Since 1984 much of his BBC career
was with World Service where he
was responsible for the operational
aspects of broadcasting a wide
range of programming from sport
to drama in 41 different languages.
Since 1997 he has been in charge
of a BBC department focussing
on new technologies and the impact
of low cost programme making tools
in radio and television.
More recently he has been responsible
for introducing social computing
into the BBC. Bulletin boards,
social networking tools, weblogs
and wikis all represent a significant
shift from conventional information
management and afford the possibility
of speedy, effective communication
between dispersed individuals
and groups in modern, complex
organsations. Euan has become
expert in the adoption and acceptance
of these tools and on the new
way of working which they enable.
He currently lectures on the BBC/Ashridge
Leadership programme and on the
international conference circuit
about the opportunities and challenges
these changes represent for managers. |
Kevin Vachon
Kevin Vachon is based in Ottawa,
Canada and has 23 years in the
enterprise networking and telecommunications
industries. In the last 10 years,
he has had tenures as Chairman
and CEO of Nuvo Network Management,
a provider of outsourced network
management services to large enterprises
and CEO of DIATEM Networks, a
Carrier-Ethernet Provisioning
and Management software company.
Kevin is now the principle of
his own consultancy, providing
business development and advisory
services, and is working with
the MEF to further extend the
MEF's reach to new industry stakeholder
groups as Ethernet continues its
evolution. |
Adrian
Wooster
Adrian has worked in the telecommunications
and networking sectors across
Europe and on the West Coast of
America for the past 18 years.
Disillusioned with the mainstream
telecoms market, Adrian left to
develop new models for delivering
services. Most recently, his role
within Oxfordshire Rural Broadband
led him to design and build a
telecoms architecture for rural
communities, and to assist rural
businesses and communities to
exploit the power of broadband.
Previous roles have included
Global Networks Architect for
a senior Silicon Valley corporation,
product strategist for a major
competitive carrier, and Chief
Technology Officer for a communications
management software company.
He has written articles and
given talks on telecommunications
strategy and the need to target
network technology to optimise
social and business benefit;
including as a guest speaker
at Interop in Las Vegas, where
he gave a talk on the need for
policy based networks to deliver
next generation services. |
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