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Albert Grooten
Technology Director Broadband
Draka Communications
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Albert is Technology Director Broadband for the Amsterdam-based optical fibre technology and network solutions specialist Draka Communications.
Albert Worked for Draka in R&D and was subsequently International Product manager for Optical Fibre Cables. After a period as Quality Assurance Manager with local telecoms company KPN , he worked in the Telecom Sales department as Key Account Manager. He was Managing Director of NetShare Nederland BV and Sales Director FTTH – projects
Albert Grooten holds a MS degree in Materials Engineering of Delft Technical University. He is currently serving as Committee Chairman of the Economics Sub Committee of the FTTH Council Europe.
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Alberto Nucciarelli
Researcher
Eindhoven University of Technology
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Alberto Nucciarelli (Ph.D.) is a researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences at the Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. His research interests rely on decision-making process in regulated and non-regulated sectors as well as on strategic management and risk assessment of financial projects (e.g. real options analysis). His current research activity is mainly focused on grasping challenges in the broadband sector with respect to municipal (and local) initiatives. Research efforts are aimed at investigating the potential of public-private interplay in developing sustainable business models. A special attention is dedicated to financial soundness of implemented projects and social impact of deployed networks. He is author of papers published in international refereed journals and presented in occasion of international conferences. He is also referee for ISI ranked journals.
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Benito Hernández Guillén
Fixed Access Technologies Manager
Telefonica
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Mr. Hernández is responsible to enhance and align common fixed access technology strategies within Telefónica Group, coordinating and leading the technological definition. He has joined recently Telefónica S.A. as fixed access technology manager, after covering different positions in the technology and planning areas of Telefónica Spain.
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Benoit Felten
Principal Analyst
Yankee Group
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Benoît Felten is a principal analyst in Yankee Group’s Anywhere Network research group, focusing on building and powering next-generation access networks (NGANs). Felten focuses on NGANs in terms of architecture, relevant vendor strategies as well as new service opportunities for ISPs, carriers and MSOs. Specifically, he examines the business model and marketing challenges related to broadband and fiber to the home (FTTH), and tracks evolutions in the related regulatory environment.
Felten is currently based in France. He is so passionate about Fiber to the Home he also blogs about it on www.fiberevolution.com.
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Bernd Langeheine
Director for Communications services : Policy and Regulatory Framework
Directorate-General for Information Society, European Commission
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Bernd Langeheine has been the Director for e-Communications Policy at the European Commission’s Information Society and Media DG since 1 July 2002.
Before that he headed the General Policy unit in the European Commission’s DG Competition for three years. From January 1996 to June 1999, he was in charge of the Trade Section in the Washington Delegation of the European Commission. From 1990-1996, Mr Langeheine was a Member of the Commission’s Legal Service and before that, he spent three years as law clerk (référendaire) at the European Court of Justice. From 1983 to 1987, he worked in the Trade Policy Division of the Commission’s DG for External Relations.
Mr Langeheine spent the academic year 1993/94 as an EU Fellow at the Business School of the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. He studied law and political science at the Universities of Hamburg and Berlin and holds a Ph. D. in law.
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Dirk van der Woude
Program Manager Broadband (FttH) & Broadband Services Development
City of Amsterdam
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Dirk van der Woude is the program manager of the municipal broadband policy of Amsterdam. The city recognizes the necessity of an open and future proof broad network as an essential precondition for a sustainable and competitive economy and society. In the broadband program services were developed and experimented with. As the municipality found the market failing to build the necessary network it brought about a commercial company, GNA, that found commercial partners to co-invest. GNA now rolls out a fiber to the home network, point to point. In December 2008 the Dutch Regulators elevated the Amsterdam approach to become the national policy. In February 2008 it was announced that incumbent KPN joins Amsterdam to roll out of open point to point fiber. On March 4, 2008 the Dutch Trade Minister called upon all Dutch municipalities to follow Amsterdam’s example to co-invest in the roll out out of open fiber networks.
In separate projects Dirk is closely involved in having all Amsterdam schools as well as many theatres connected with 1 Gigabit symmetric connections by Summer 2009. In 2007 he was awarded the prestigious national Vosko Award for Perseverant Innovation. Dirk (1955) studied management sciences and sociology in Amsterdam and Utrecht.
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Eugenio Rey Veiga
Editor, Área Electrónica
Grupo Tecnipublicaciones, S.L.
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Eugenio Rey Veiga (born in 1950) is tracking the Electronics Industry since 1977. A former Chief Radio Officer of the Merchant Marine (1973) by Escuela Superior de la Marina Civil, now a part of Polytechnic University of Catalonia UPC), he joined Mundo Electronico in 1977as editor. Founder of Productronica, a New Products journal in 1983, the consolidation year, he went back to Mundo Electronico as the Editor-in-Chief in 1984. In 2005 he was appointed Publisher of the Electronics Area, a task that involves overseeing CQ Radioamateur, Ruta de Compras (a yearbook on the Electronics industry in Spain), Productronica, and -last but no least- Mundo Electronico, the reference publication in Electronics Engineering in Spanish, in which he still writes on a regular basis.
During his tenure in Mundo Electronico, he wrote nearly one hundred technical articles on several fields of Electronics. Between 1983-1993, he played the role both as an author and Publisher in a series of books on diverse fields of Electronics and Telecommunications, ranging from Analogue Design, Power Electronics and Control Engineering, Microelectronics, Mobile Telecoms and Broadband Networks. In 1981 he was a member of the translation team that brought light to the “Diccionario de Terminos Cientificos y Tecnicos”, published by Marcombo-Mc Graw Hill, a 5 volume Dictionary, containing more than 100,000 entries. His contribution was in the field of Electronics.
In addition to his publishing endeavours, he made some contributions to Universities in the form of one conference on a Survey on the Semiconductor Industry at Centro Nacional de Microelectronica de Barcelona in 1990, two conferences on Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion (UPC) in 1992 and on Escuela de Ingenieria Tecnica Industrial de Terrassa in 1994 on the Impact of Electronic Technologies on Industry and Society, as well as on a Panel discussion on the Impact of Photonics on the curricula for future Telecommunications Engineers at Escuela Tecnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicacion de Cartagena in 2004. In 1996 he was appointed Industry Expert who, in collaboration with a team of Educational University members, evaluated curricula for UPC´s Escuela de Ingenieria Tecnica Industrial de Terrassa, (a BS degree on Industrial Electronics).
A founder member of the Advisory Board of RELEC, a yearly conference on WEEE (Waste of Electric and Electronic Products), organized by Universidad de Cadiz since 2001, where he gave two lectures in 2002 and 2003.
Besides Spanish, he is familiar with French and is fluent in English. A native of Galicia, he can make himself understood in Portuguese. He is currently a member of the copy editors of Revista IEEE America Latina (in Spanish), a journal published by The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
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Frans-Anton Vermast
Public Advisor & European affairs at Development Corporation
City of Amsterdam
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As a European public and government affairs consultant (including regulatory issues) Frans-Anton Vermast has been involved from the outset in the Amsterdam Fibre from the Home initiative (www.citynet.nl). Since 2004 he has built up considerable business and regulatory knowledge on open communication infrastructures based on glass fibre techniques in the Netherlands and Europe. He has a great deal of experience with local government and municipality participation in these initiatives, from an economical-social perspective at both a city/town and a rural level.
Frans-Anton is Director External Affairs of the International Network of E-Communities (www.i-nec.com). >From this role he would be more than happy to discuss INEC’s memberships to potential prospects.
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Ger Bakker
Founder & CTO
Unet
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Ger Bakker worked as CTO for several software companies since 1979. In the 90's he specialized in software source code quality and re-engineering. In the period '95 through '99 he established several 'Software Migration Factories' in the USA, Germany, France, Israel and the Netherlands.
After the Y2K problem he moved to telecom. He worked for KPN Telecom en Lucent Technologies as a manager in internet and optical fiber projects.
One of the founders of UNET in 2003, and currently working as CTO and director of UNET, he is responsible for technology, service development and business development.
Ger holds a masters degree from Delft University of Technology in telecommunication and electronics. He is a member of IEEE.
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Hassan M. Claussen
Managing Director
HanseCom Media & Communication
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Hassan M. Claussen has been working in the Telecoms and IT market for over 20 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.
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Joan Majo
Industry Analyst |
Joan Majó has a Doctorate in Electronic Engineering ( University of Barcelona ) and has made studies in Political Sciences ( University of Madrid ). He completed his studies with stages in Paris and in New York.
In the sixties he founded TELESINCRO, S.A., the company producing the first computers designed in Spain.
Dean of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Catalonia from 1970 until 1982, and Chairman of the Association of Engineers of Spain.
Mayor of Mataró, his hometown, after the instalment of Democracy in Spain. After three years as General Director of Electronics and Information Technology at the Spanish Ministry of Industry and Energy, he became MINISTER OF INDUSTRY AND ENERGY during the years of Industrial Reconversion, the Electronic Plan and the entering of Spain in the E.E.C.
Chairman of OLIVETTI SPAIN and member of the Executive Board of the “Olympics Games Barcelona 1992”. Chairman of NISA, the company that built the “Olympic Village”.
Since 1989 he has worked as Advisor hors-calss at the European Commission, being in charge of development of information Technologies and Telecommunications Policy and Programs. He has been involved in the elaboration of the “White Book of Delors” and the “Bangemann Report”.
Chairman of a working group of the INFORMATION SOCIETY FORUM in Brussels and Chairman of the EUROPEAN INSTITUTE FOR the MEDIA in Düsseldorf.
Chairman of the Business Board of the “INSTITUT CATALÀ DE TECNOLOGIA”, Chairman of the Board of the “ CIREM FOUNDATION ”, Vice Chairman of the Board of “ BOFILL FOUNDATION “. ( during the 90’s). In 1999 was elected Chairman of the Expert’s Group that prepared a report of assessment of the science and technology policy of the European Union, during the last five years, presented to the EU Council and Parliament. He was also member of EURAB.
Chairman of the company TECH FOUNDRIES S.A., Vice Chairman of the company “LA SEDA DE BARCELONA, S.A.” and Chairman of the Board of “ 22@ BCN S.A.”, all in the beginnings of this century.
During the years 2004-2008 he was the C.E.O. of the CCRTV, the company that manages all the public TV Channels and Radio Stations owned by the Government of Catalonia.
A few months ago, he went back to some of the previous jobs.
He is now 69, is married, with six children and nine grand-children
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Jordi Lopez Benasar
Localret
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Jordi López Benasat, 56, is General Director at LOCALRET (Consortium of 800 municipalities working for the development of ICT’s and New Technologies).
Prior to joining Localret, he has been:
-Director of New Technologies at Barcelona Regional,
-Managing Director at Barcelona City Council.
-Member of the Committee organizing the Olympic Games Barcelona 1992.
-Director of network planning at Telefónica de España and other Operators.
He has also been Professor of Electronics and Technology at “La Salle” University Barcelona and Director of The Master degree “Telecommunications and Information systems” at “Pompeu Fabra” University Barcelona.
He received his Electronic engineering degree from Barcelona University (UPC)
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Jonas Birgersson
CEO
Labs2
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In 1995, Jonas Birgersson and four friends founded Framfab. As CEO he lead it from a small “incubator company” in Lund to Europe’s largest Internet Services Company with at the most 2,850 employees in 13 countries with 60 offices, and a market cap of more than $1.6 billion. Some clients: 3M, AstraZeneca, AXA, British Telecom, Commerzbank, Danske Bank, Electrolux, Ericsson, France Telecom, Ikea, JP Morgan, Kellog’s, Lego, Nike, Packard Bell, Orange, Saab, Volvo Car Corporation. He worked on Telias Internet portal strategy in 1994. In 1998, he founded “Bredbandsbolaget” ( “B2” or “The Broadband Company”), Scandinavia’s most aggressive and innovative Broadband company. They offer broadband network access that can manage both present and future media & communications at a fixed, low-cost rate for unlimited use. The network is based upon Ethernet to the home enables Internet access, television broadcasts, phone communication and video over a single IP network. In 1999 B2 was awarded the largest vendor financing deal in history by Cisco and the network has already been deployed in more than 350.000 homes throughout Scandinavia. Other investors include Intel, the Carlyle Group and Investor. In the last 12 years, he has held the strategic lead of a group of people working on concept, software and hardware development that will help the IP convergence forward. With clients Ericsson, BT, Telenor, Orange, Blu and B2 and major partners Cisco, Microsoft and HP. This group have had great insight in technical development.
Some of the major milestones:
1996: Creating the world’s first product launch over the Internet, the Volvo C70
1997: Starting the Content Management Tool (CMT) software and transformed more than 50 large corporations to the network economy.
1999: Defining the standard for true broadband, i.e. 10/10 & 100/100 Mbit Ethernet to the home (Swedish Broadband Company / B2)
2000: Launching a service infrastructure platform (BRIKKS) for mobile and broadband Internet services, a concept and software that has been adopted by some of the leading Scandinavian Service Providers.
2004: Setting a new standard for broadband connections to the home, as a world first to launch 1 Gbps (1000 Mbps) as a commercial service.
2005: a successful sale of B2 to Telenor with a great return on investment to all mayor shareholders (with a valuation of more than 1 800 € per broadband user).?• Establishing a de facto standard for Video on Demand in Scandinavia with more than 90% market share (with the BRIKKS MEDIA SYSTEM / BMS).
2006: as Chairman of ViaEuropa, he took the decision to build the worlds first citywide Gigabit to the Home + Wifi 540 Mbps network, in Lund Sweden.
2007: RELAKKS, the world’s premier supplier of anonymous broadband connections, giving a large group of customers unfiltered IP-access over encrypted connections worldwide.
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Jose Caballero
Managing Director
Albedo Telecom
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José Manuel ( MBA - B.S. and M.A. Computing and Communications) has a deep understanding of the telecommunications industry in which he has held various positions in companies from Spain, USA and UK:
- Responsible for communications projects in the laboratories of IBM in Charlotte NC (USA) - 1984
- Director of Telecommunications Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UC), Barcelona - 1995
- Director of ICT Support, Barcelona - 1997
- Director of Marketing, Trend Communications, Maidenhead (UK) - 2001
- Managing Director of Albedo Telecom - 2008
Jose Manuel networks has been teacher at the Polytechnic University of Catalunya (UPC), and consultant at L&M Data Communications, Madrid. In over twenty years in the profession has given hundreds of lectures and courses in telecommunications all over the world. As the author has published a lof of articles and several books including: Installation and Maintenance of SDH and ATM Networks (ArtecHouse - Boston), Triple Play: Building the Network Convergence for IP, VoIP and IPTV (Wiley - London).
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Jose Morales Barroso
Co-founder and Director
L&M Data Communications
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Mr. Morales Barroso is co-founder and director of L&M Data Communications. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the New York Academy of Sciences (NYAS) and, as a “balloting group member,” he works on Ethernet development as part of the LAN MAN Standards Committee P802.3 of the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE–SA). Mr. Morales Barroso also served as a member of the International Solar Energy Society (ISES) from 1980 to 1990.
>From 1975 to 1994, he was a professor at the ICAI Engineering School of Madrid, where he taught classes on industrial electronics and communications networks and was a faculty adviser for academic projects on solar energy. His research was featured in The Annals of Mechanics and Electricity, a leading Spanish-language engineering magazine, and was also published as professional articles.
In 1988, Mr. Morales Barroso co-founded L&M Data Communications, a Spanish company dedicated to training and consulting in data communications. From 1986 to 1987, he was a member of the TESYS B/X.25 design team for the Spanish network IBERPAC, together with the engineers who in 1971 first developed RSAN, the world’s first public packet-switched network. In 1976, Mr. Morales Barroso started his career as a technical systems engineer and later became a communications services director for INFONET, a data network sector of the Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC).
He has taught more than 900 courses in data communications and has written 35 books and 60 reference guides, as well as many magazine articles, reports, and technical documents. His book “Information Paths, Ways and Freeways: The History of Computers and Communications” was selected by Muy Interesante, the largest circulated Spanish-language scientific magazine, as one of the best pieces on science, medicine and technology of the 20th century.
Mr. Morales Barroso received an undergraduate degree in electromechanical engineering in 1975 and a Ph.D. degree in industrial engineering in 1989.
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Josep Prat
Professor
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
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Prof. Josep Prat (jprat@tsc.upc.edu) received the M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering in 1987 and the Ph.D. degree from the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, in 1995. He is full professor in the Optical Communications Group of the Signal Theory and Communications Department of the UPC. He has mainly investigated on broadband optical communications with emphasis on high bit-rate optical systems, access networks and WDM transmission design and impairment control.
He leads the FP7 European project SARDANA (“Scalable Advanced Ring-based passive Dense Access Network Architecture”) on next-generation FTTH networks, and has participated in the European projects Euro-Fos, BONE, ePhoton/One, LION, MEPHISTO, MOON, SONATA and RACE1027, on optical transport and access networks. In 1998 he was a guest scientist in the University College of London. He has been subdirector of the ETSETB, and he edited the books "Fiber-to-the-Home Technologies" and “Next-Generation FTTH Passive Optical Networks” (Springer Ed.).
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Josep Ramon Ferrer-Escoda
General Director of Telecommunication Networks and Infrastructures
Government of Catalonia – Department of Governance and Public Administrations
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Josep Ramon Ferrer Escoda has a degree in Telecommunications and Electronics and a Master in Digital Broadcast by the Ramon Llull University.
He was lecturing Information Technology in several universities and since 1996 he is linked to the Government of Catalonia; as an Engineer of the General Department of Radio and Television (1996-2000), as a Technical Director of Telecommunication Networks (2000-2003), as the Strategic Projects Director of the Center for Telecommunications and Information Technology (2004-2006) and since 2006 he is the Managing Director of Network Infrastructure and Telecommunications of the Catalan Government.
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Karel Helsen
President
FTTH Council Europe
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Karel Helsen is president of the FTTH Council Europe, appointed by the board of directors in April 2009. Mr. Helsen continues in his current role as Vice President of Amsterdam-based Draka Communications.
Karel Helsen, 46 years, has a degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Utrecht in information systems design. He specialized in Business Economics, Finance and Investment and Political Economy at Erasmus University, Rotterdam before taking up a professional position in Asia Pacific. He has over 2 decades in the electronics and telecommunications industries , with a combination of marketing and business development skills over multiple countries, regions and cultures.
Karel Helsen has been active in the FTTH Council Europe since June 2007 when he was elected chairman of the newly formed Deployment and Operation committee which combined the former Infrastructure and Architecture committees with an economics dimension to include capital and operating expenditure models for active and passive technology, case studies and the evolution of FTTH technology deployment. Following a year on the Deployment and Operation committee Mr. Helsen became a board member with a liaison to the Council’s International Advisory Group (IAG).
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Marcel Coderch i Collell
Vice-President of the Telecommunications Market Commission (CMT)
CMT
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Appointed by RoyaL Decree 822/2006 of June 30 2006 (OGS dated July 1, 2006)
Holds a degree in as a Telecommunications Engineer from the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (PUC), and a Master’s Degree and Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and was a Fellow of the MIT Science, Technology and Society programme. He is currently Honorary Professor of the PUC.
He worked in the Telecommunications Area of the Technological Institute for Postgraduates in Madrid and occupied several management posts in the Anaya Group as Director of the Anaya Research Centre, Director of New Technologies and Director of Information and Communication Systems. He took part in launching Gestevisión/Tele 5 and the newspaper El Sol and was a member of the Board of Directors of Anaya Multimedia and the Internet portal Telepolis. He was Internet Director of Retevisión-Auna, director of Servicom, Redes TB, Cinet, Iddeo and a director of the portal EresMas and also a founder Partner and Vice-President of Strategy and Business Development in Tech Foundries and a director of InOut TV, Eneo Labs, PowerOffice and Mediaxpress. He is a member of GAPTEL and an analyst in Real Instituto Elcano.
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Nigel Hickson
Deputy Director, EU and International ICT Policy
Department of Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR)
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Nigel Hickson was educated in Hertfordshire in England before going to the City University to study Electronic and Electrical Engineering. He joined the Department of Trade and Industry in 1982 and has worked in a number of sections including export controls, financial services regulation and information security policy.
He was seconded to the Confederation of British Business (CBI) in June 2000 to head up their newly formed E-business Group.
In July 2001 he joined the Government of Bermuda as the E Business Adviser to the Minister of Telecommunications and E Commerce. After three years in Bermuda he has retuned to the DTI (now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform - BERR) as Deputy Director in the Europe and International Team. Here he is working primarily on EU ICT policy issues such as the Review on the Telecommunications Framework and on Spectrum policy.
Nigel is a keen walker, cyclist and scouter.
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Paolo Dal Bono
Manager – Strategy department
Telecom Italia
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Paolo Dal Bono was born in 1962 and graduated cum laude in Electronic Engineering in February 1987 at the University of Bologna.
In June 1987 he joined the Network Department of SIP Headquarters (now Telecom Italia) in Rome, where he worked on issues related to Access Network Architectures.
From 1990 he contributed to the definition and implementation of a new Network Creation process, working specifically on mid-term Network Planning. In this period he was also involved in the international workgroup who planned the “Global European Network” (an international network for high-quality Leased Circuits)
From December 1994 to November 1996 he operated in the Strategic Planning Group of the Network Department and he contributed to the definition of two Network Strategic Plan editions.
From 1997 to mid 1998 he worked in the Bologna Regional Network Department. He was responsible of the Transport and Access Network Planning Group for an area formed by three Italian Political Regions (Emilia-Romagna, Marche and Umbria).
In 1998 he returned Telecom Italia Rome Headquarters as responsible of the Investment Evaluation Group. The group has produced about sixty “business case” analysis regarding components of TLC networks (services, switch, transmission, access, OSS, data).
In July 2000 he became responsible of the Planning Group of Data Network for Top Business Customers.
From 2002 to 2005 he worked in the Finance, Administration & Control department, as responsible of a Regional office (Rome & central Italy)
Now he works in the Milan Telecom Italia Headquarters, in the Strategy department, addressing Domestic TLC Technological and Regulatory aspects of the Strategic Plan of the Group.
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Raf Meersman
CTO
Comsof
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After obtaining his Master Degree in Electronic Engineering in 1999 at the Ghent University, Raf Meersman joined Comsof, a spin-off company of Ghent University. He worked on consultancy projects for various large telecom companies such as Belgacom, Cisco and Siemens in various domains: design of optical networks, design of IP over WDM networks, cost modelling, etc. Since 2005, Raf is Chief Technology Officer at Comsof, where he is also involved in the development of a support tool for business case development and roll-out of FTTX networks. Raf is a regular speaker at international conferences on techno-economic topics.
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Rafael Saorín Adan
Manager Innovation and Technology Development
Union Fenosa Telecomunicaciones
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Rafael Saorin holds a Telecommunications Engineer degree by the Universidad Politecnica of Madrid. He has been working at Union Fenosa Redes de Telecomunicacion (UFINET) since 1999, leading innovative telecommunication projects at national and international level at the Innovation and Technology Development Department. He is also the representative member of UFINET for the European Utilities Telecom Council (EUTC), CIGRE, Powerline Utility Alliance (PUA) and others.
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Ramon Garcia-Bragado Acin
Deputy Mayor for Urban Development, Infrastructures, and Housing
Barcelona City Council
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Degree in Law. 1986, University of Barcelona.
1988-1994. Technical Secretary of the Municipal Institute of Urban Promotion SA (Imposed), the agency responsible for the design and construction of infrastructure in the Olympic Games
1994-1998. Assistant Director of Barcelona Regional Metropolitan Agency for Planning and Infrastructure Development SA
1998-1999. Director General LOCALRET Consortium, made up with 800 Catalan municipalities intended to develop the information and telecommunications society.
Oct.1999-En.2004. Urban Planning Manager of Barcelona.
2004-Nov.2006. Secretary General of the Presidency of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
Nov.2006-Abr.2007. Secretary to the Government of the Generalitat de Catalunya.
At present he is Deputy Mayor for Urban Development, Infrastructures, and Housing
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Roland Kohler
Executive Vice President for the worldwide Public Network Business
Reichle & de Massari
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Roland Kohler graduated as Telecom Engineer during his working time at Swisscom. He was responsible for the Fiberoptic Network planning and realisation and maintenance, at this time he was involved in developing the Fiberoptic technology. In Special Projects he built up the first FTTB Project in Europe in 1994, done in St. Moritz. Furthermore he was responsible for New Market Segments inside Swisscom.
Today he is Executive Vice President for the worldwide Public Network Business in R&M. He is responsible for the strategic and operative development of the Strategic Business field. In the FTTH Council Europe he is a member of the Service & Revenue Committee. With his experience he knows what are the customers’ needs and he can develop together with his team, based on the customers’ demand, the right Systems and Solutions. To bring more added values to the customer, he implemented in his organization the Partnership Management. Those managers are responsible to coordinate cooperation’s in order to cover the whole value chain in FTTH projects.
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Roland Montagne
Head of Broadband Practice
IDATE
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Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Head of Broadband Practice at IDATE. Mr Montagne played a leading role in previous IDATE International studies and is also Project Manager for the IDATE annual market report concerning World Broadband Access Market. He has carried out several studies dealing with European Broadband roll out and he is in charge actually of a Survey on Broadband Access for the DGInfSo. Since 2004 Roland Montagne is also the project leader for the FTTH Council Europe European FTTH projects panorama. In 2006, he achieved a major study for the French Government on scenarios for deploying Very High Broadband networks in France (cost model and Government options). Roland Montagne also carried out several strategic analyses focused on US and Asian developing FTTH markets. He has been also involved on FTTH cost model analysis for the United Kingdom as well as best practice study looking at fibre indoor deployments as well as ducts sharing. In 2009 Roland is leading an annual worldwide FTTx watch service proposed by IDATE.
Roland is a regular speaker in key events related to FTTH topics at an international level (FTTH Councils Europe, Asia Pacific and US, FTTH Forum, IIR events and IDATE Digiworld Summit)
Roland Montagne is a Telecommunications Engineer (ENST Paris, 1994) and received a Master on Electronics (University Paris 6, 1994). He also worked for AT&T Bell laboratories (USA) as Engineer on DWDM Optical Networks and ATM technologies. He started his carrier in the France Telecom R&D labs working on optical communications.
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Ron Levin
Associate VP of Product Marketing
ECI Telecom
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Ron Levin is Associate VP of Product Marketing within ECI Telecom’s Network Solutions Division (www.ecitele.com), where he is responsible for marketing of ECI’s various product lines. Prior to ECI, Mr. Levin was Product Manager at Jungo Software Technologies, a developer of software for home and small business gateways, which was later acquired by NDS in 2007.
Mr. Levin holds a MSc in Management from the University of Tel Aviv and a BSc in Computer Engineering from the Technion, Haifa.
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Stefan Stanislawski
Partner
Ventura
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Over 20 years in telecom first as a leading industry regulatory and financing consultant (achievements included starting local loop unbundling in the EU) and more recently as entrepreneur and company Director. Current projects include being interim CEO of a new wireless mobile broadband operator in Ireland and launching a voice servie targeted at Poles living in England. Stefan is a also an angel investor in telecom technology companies such as all fibre true broadband operator Riksnet in Sweden. He is a Founder of FTTx consultants Ventura Team and is currently consulting to two FTTx projects in the Middle East – one utility backed, the other ISP backed.
Stefan has extensive experience throughout the telecom industry helping Boards, senior managers and regulators to make critical decisions in both fixed and mobile telecoms, his work has encompassed all aspects of telecommunications strategy, business development and litigation as well as participating in some $100 billion worth of telecom financings or acquisitions.
Stefan was the third person to join Analysys and played a major role in its growth from start-up into a globally respected advisory firm. In particular Stefan developed the finance practice that within 5 years of launch had achieved market leadership in due diligence and other transaction support to major West European telecom financings based on its reputation for quality, insight and absolute integrity.
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Tom Kiedrowski
Principal
Ofcom
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Tom is a Principal within Ofcom’s International team.
Tom is Ofcom’s representative within the European Regulators Group NGN Project Team with particular responsibilty for next generation access and works closely with the Ofcom Chief Technology Officer’s team on active line access (ALA). He is also Ofcom’s net neutrality policy manager and is part of Ofcom’s EU Framework Review Project Team.
Tom is member of Chatham House, the Royal Television Society, and of international editioral board of the journal, Communications & Strategies.
He has a Masters degree in International Political Economy from the University of Warwick.
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Ulf Borbos
CTO Head of Project management
Swedish Urban Network organization
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CO founder of the Swedish Urban Network organization (1996) , CEO of 2 City Networks in Sweden (1995-2002), Chairman of SSNf (2003-2007), CEO/CTO SSNf Present
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Uroš Lozar
General Manager
IPS Ltd.
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Currently General Manager of IPS Ltd.
Previous position: Executive director of Iskratel Electronics Ltd.
Graduated 1996 at Faculty for electrical engineering, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
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