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FTTH Forum 2010 |
Please find below some names and biographies of speakers, who have confirmed already to speak at the FTTH Forum 2010. During the next days and weeks more confirmations are expected and the final conference agenda will be published.
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Thilo Kusch
CFO
Magyar Telekom
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He studied communication engineering and business administration at Technische Universität Berlin. From 1989 to 1992 he successfully established his own company selling PCs and PC network to residential and small business customers. From 1992 to 1998 he worked in a leading position in Arthur D. Little's Telecoms, IT, media and entertainment practice as a management consultant and from 1998 to 2001 he was telecoms equity analyst with Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein. He joined Deutsche Telekom Group in 2001 as Senior Director in charge of IPO preparations and investor relations for T-Mobile International. Since April 2002 he was a Senior Executive Vice president of Deutsche Telekom, in charge of investor relations. He was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Magyar Telekom as of September 20 2006, and from November 6, 2006 has been member of the Board of Directors.
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Ana Pesovic
Senior Marketing Manager
Alcatel-Lucent
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Ana Pesovic is responsible for the marketing of Alcatel-Lucent fibre access products and technology. She was appointed to her current role in 2008.
Prior to her current role, Ana was a business manager, responsible for supporting the regional access business activities in Latin America and Europe for global customers. Ana joined the former Alcatel in 1993, and through the transition from Alcatel to Alcatel-Lucent, she held a variety of roles in product management, pre-sales and R&D (as a software development engineer) in Germany, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, and India.
Ana came to Alcatel-Lucent from Telecom Serbia and Energodata-Olivetti respectively where she was a software engineer.
Ana holds Masters degree in Informatics and Computer Science from the University of Belgrade. She is actively involved in the FTTH Council Europe and is a member of the Marketing Intelligence Committee.
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Benoît Cosandey
Network Architect
Sierre-Energie
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Benoit Cosandey brings to Sierre Energie over 10 years of experience in telecommunication. For the last 5 years, he moved Sierre Energie from a traditional very local MSO with a CATV department to a trend-setter of triple-play offering over FTTH in Europe.
BC started at Sierre-Energie at the time of the launch of its first Internet access over cable offering. In charge of the network, he watched closely its usage to find out rapidely that on the long term only fiber will provide enough room for customer gusto. He pushed the totally disruptive challenge: It would be only fiber, it would be only ethernet.
Before his stay at Sierre-Energie, BC worked for ABB where he was sent abroad to deploy fiber optic communication network in very diverse country like Columbia, Ghana, Poland, Thailand among others.
Severely injured at the age of 25, BC had to rebuild its life and career from scratch. Back to school, he graduated with mention.
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Chris Holden
President
FTTH Council Europe
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Chris Holden is the President of the FTTH Council Europe, appointed by the Board of Directors on 22 April 2010. Chris continues in his current role as Strategic Marketing Manager Carrier EMEA with Corning Ltd.
Chris Holden started his career in mechanical engineering, working on specialist engineering projects and moved to the telecommunications industry in 1995. Since then Chris has held various management positions in R&D, manufacturing, training, quality and OSP Services. On the onset of FTTH he has been leading initiatives in the development of new products, systems and services for FTTH deployments.
Chris has been active in the FTTH Council Europe since 2005, initially as a member of the Infrastructure and Architecture Committee, then of the Deployment & Operation (D&O) Committee. In April 2008 Chris was elected as Chairman of the D&O Committee and in April 2009 as Board member of the FTTH Council Europe. In addition to his Board activities, he was active as Board liaison with the D&O Committee and Regulatory Committee and is also a member of the Council’s Business Committee.
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Eliseo Rodriguez
Senior Product Manager
Keymile
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Eliseo Rodriguez has been a Product Manager for KEYMILE AG since 2005, based at the Swiss headquarters in Bern, Switzerland. He is partly responsible for the evolution strategy of KEYMILE’s product portfolio for worldwide customers. Previous to joining KEYMILE, he held management positions in KYOCERA and TELEFONICA. Having lived and worked in Central America, Argentina, Brazil, and Switzerland, he has a vast international experience in the telecom sector.
He holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from JBU, Arkansas; and a MBA with concentration on e-Business from FHZ, Zurich. He has also participated in several Senior Executive Programs at the University of Buenos Aires, Harvard Business School and MIT on the topic of product and technology innovation.
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Frans-Anton Vermast
Advisor public and international affairs Citynet, Physical Planning Department, City of Amsterdam
City of Amsterdam
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As a European public and government affairs consultant (including regulatory issues) Frans-Anton Vermast has been involved in the outset in the Amsterdam Fibre from the Home initiative (www.citynet.nl), the open access communication infrastructure in the City of Den Haag (The Hague) en the Province of Limburg. 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.
As part of Amsterdam Smart City he presently also focuses on appliances and services that are available with an open access symmetrical communication infrastructure to provide social and economic benefits as well as more sustainable solutions for a better environment.
He has a great deal of Dutch, European and world wide experience with local government and municipality participation in these initiatives
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Hassan 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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Lars Hedberg
Senior Advisor
The Swedish Urban Network Associaton
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Mr. Lars Hedberg is president and one of the owner of EkoT konsult AB www.ekotkonsult.se
senior adviser and head of fiber to the village project att SSNf 2009-2010.
Former Secretary General for (SSNf) The Swedish Urban Network Association 2006-2009 www.ssnf.org a non profit organization for city nets owner in Sweden. The organisation was founded 1998 and have some 300 members companies with 150 networks owner (mostly municipal owned), and 150 service provider and suppliers like Ericsson, Alcatel, Lucent, Cisco, Nortel. 2003-2006. One of the fonder of SSNf and president and vice president during 6 years.
Member of the Swedish government advisor board for ITC-infrastructure. Member of the regulators (PTS) group for telecom crisis 2007-2010.
Between 1996 – 2003 Marketing Director head for sales and marketing at Stokab. www.stokab.se
1995-1996 working as Project Director whit the fibre network and other technical installations on the fixt link (Oresund consortium) between Sweden and Denmark.
1985-1995 Senior Consult and adviser in IT communications for municipal and authority’s Enator
1970-1985 Technical engineer The Swedish Royal Air force.
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Marcus Weinkopf
Vice President Regulatory Affairs Wholesale & Networks
Deutsche Telekom AG, Bonn
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Marcus Weinkopf, born 1963, is responsible for DT’s tariff application procedures for regulated wholesale services with the NRA as well as for the regulatory strategy of DT’s fixed network branches.
He is married and father of 4 children. He holds a degree as Diplom-Volkswirt (economist) from the University of Dortmund. He began his career in 1989 as Researcher with WIK institute in Bad Honnef. He worked in several projects for the former Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunications and for the EU Commission on regulatory issues as well as on international market research issues. From 1994 to 1997, Marcus Weinkopf was part of the project team within Deutsche Telekom that built the Global One joint venture with France Telecom and Sprint. After market launch, he was head of strategy & regulation at Global One Deutschland in Bonn. He joined Public & Regulatory Affairs at DT’s headquarter in 1997.
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Mike Knott
Manager - Systems & Solutions
Corning
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Mike Knott has over 20 years experience in optical fibre outside plant deployments, and has focused exclusively on FTTH technology since 2007.
As Manager - Systems & Solutions, Mike's role is to understand the challenges operators have in the deployment and operation of FTTH outside plant networks, and to prepare and present system based solutions which provide clear benefits over the lifetime of the network.
Mike has previously had a range of roles within Corning Cable Systems such as Product Line Manger for a range of optical cable products, and Technical Manger responsible for the development of optical jointing solutions. He also has experience working for a network operator, gained when he was Network Planning Manager for Cable & Wireless at the height of the CATV network build programme in the UK
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Richard Jones
Partner
Ventura Team
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Richard Jones was Head of Venturing with Analysys Consulting before forming Ventura Team LLP. Richard has led under-fire teams across four continents – managing or turning around major telecoms programs. He has developed strategy and business cases/models across FTTx, DSL and WiMAX technologies and has formed and/or invested in a number of NGN operators.
Ventura not only provides consulting but has formed its own successful operator in the highly competitive Swedish market (the operation has now grown to 80,000 subscribers and 750,000 homes passed with 100 megabit/s symmetric services). The partners have also helped other startups achieve up to 75 times returns.
Richard is recognised as an expert on the development of telecommunications strategy and business cases and runs workshops on business strategy and modelling for the FTTH Council of Europe, FTTX MEGNA, WiMAX MEGNA and the Broadband Congress as well as for operators and utilities.
Richard was formerly Chief Commercial Officer of an IP based startup in Saudi Arabia. He contributed from bid stage to developing all aspects of strategy, business planning and modelling for the company which is now deploying fibre for residential and business subscribers alongside the largest WiMAX deployment in the EMEA regions. He is currently working on building an all-fibre operator in the Gulf as well as looking at improving operations and profitability in European operators.
Richard also writes books for Kogan Page on technology management including Project Management Survival (also available in Chinese and Latvian) which outlines our experience in turning around troubled companies and projects.
He has a BSc (hons) in electronics an MSc. Equivalent in engineering and an MBA with distinction.
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Roland Montagne
Director Telecoms Business Unit
Idate
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Roland Montagne joined IDATE in 1998 and he is now Director Telecoms Business Unit. In his position he is responsible of IDATE Consulting and Research activities covering Telecoms markets. Roland is also Head of Broadband / FTTx Practice at IDATE. Mr Montagne played a leading role in previous IDATE International studies and was 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 leading FTTx works at IDATE and 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 (2nd edition). 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, ETNO 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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