Pacific Telecommunications Council
PTC'14 CFP

Featured Participants

Jonathan Atkin

Jonathan Atkin

Managing Director, RBC Capital Markets, USA

Jonathan is a Managing Director of RBC Capital Markets. His focus areas include: telecom services, telecom infrastructure, wireless, satellite, Internet, hosting and colocation providers. The Financial Times has ranked Jonathan as the No.1 and No.3 stock picker in the telecom and …

wireless services sectors.

Previously, he held equity research positions with Alex.Brown and Toronto Dominion covering telecom services. Prior to his capital markets career, Jonathan worked in corporate strategy at Daimler-Benz and was a policy analyst with the U.S. Congress.

Jonathan has an MBA from Columbia University and BS/MS degrees from Stanford University. He is a two-time finisher of the Ironman triathlon.

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Nathan Bell

Nathan Bell

Director, Portfolio & Marketing, Telstra Global, Singapore

Nathan Bell is Director Portfolio & Marketing at Telstra Global, responsible for leading Telstra’s suite of global products and driving the company’s overarching marketing strategy.

With 14 years of experience, Nathan has held a number of senior leadership and sales positions …

in the Netherlands, Central and Eastern Europe and Asia Pacific at companies including AT&T, KPNQwest and BT, where he was instrumental in the growth of product portfolios, professional services and partnerships.

He joined Telstra from mobile software company Acision, where he was Vice President – Sales Operations and Channels for Asia Pacific.

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Andrew Blum

Andrew Blum

Author, Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet,

Andrew Blum is the author of Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet (Ecco), the first book-length look behind the scenes of our digital lives, at the physical heart of the internet itself.

Tubes is a book about real places …

on the map: their sounds and smells, their storied pasts, their physical details, and the people who live there. Sharing tales of his on-the-ground reporting, along with lucid explanation about how the internet works, Blum helps us understand the physical world that underlies our digital lives, presenting a unique perspective on the role of technology by looking at it as something accessible, present, and wondrous.

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Ricky Chau

Ricky Chau

VP, Asia Pacific Sales, Level 3 Communications, Hong Kong SAR, China

Ricky Chau is Vice President, Asia Pacific Sales for Level 3 Communications. In this role, Dr. Chau is responsible for driving sales for Level 3′s wholesale and enterprise business in the Asia Pacific region.

Prior to joining Level 3, Dr. Chau …

also held various leadership positions at Global Crossing, New World Telecom, Asia Global Crossing (now Pacnet), Equant, (now Orange Business Services), and Cable & Wireless.

Dr. Chau earned his doctoral degree in business administration at Hong Kong Polytechnic University and holds an EMBA degree from the University of Ottawa.

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Peter Coffee

Peter Coffee

VP & Head, Platform Research, salesforce.com, USA

Peter Coffee joined salesforce.com in 2007 after 18 years at eWEEK. He has 29 years of experience in application development tools and practices; he has spoken at technical events throughout the Americas and in Australia, India, East Asia and western Europe.

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Peter previously served as manager of PC integration at The Aerospace Corporation. Before that, he held project management roles for Exxon from Florida to Northern Alaska.

He holds an engineering degree from MIT and an MBA from Pepperdine University; he is the author of How to Program Java and Peter Coffee Teaches PCs.

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Steve Collar

Steve Collar

CEO, O3b Networks, Netherlands

Steve Collar is Chief Executive Officer of O3b Networks. Prior to his appointment, Mr. Collar was Senior Vice President Market Development at SES WORLD SKIES.

Steve Collar led the division’s efforts to expand its satellite and service portfolio, including the design of …

new spacecraft and products.

In addition, he oversaw the company’s long-range strategic planning activities. He was responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions and was responsible for SES’ acquisition of ProtoStar 2, among other things. Mr. Collar was intimately involved in SES’ investment in O3b Networks; he was on the Board of Directors for the company and now serves as CEO.

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John Curran

John Curran

President & CEO, ARIN, USA

John Curran is the President and CEO of the American Registry for Internet Numbers (ARIN), responsible for leading the organization in its mission of managing the distribution of Internet number resources in its geographic region. He was also a founder of …

ARIN and served as its Chairman for many years. John’s experience in the Internet industry includes serving as CTO and COO for ServerVault, CTO for XO Communications, and CTO for BBN/GTE Internetworking. He has also been an active participant in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), in both the IETF Operations and Network Management Area and IPng (IPv6) Directorate.
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Mark Dankberg

Mark Dankberg

Chairman of the Board & CEO, ViaSat, Inc., USA

Mark Dankberg is a co-founder of ViaSat, Inc. and has served as CEO and Chairman of the company since its inception in 1986. He is an expert and frequent speaker on defense and commercial satellite communications and holds several patents in …

communications and satellite networking.

He was Entrepreneur of the Year in San Diego in 2000, Satellite Industry Executive of the Year in 2003 and received the AIAA Aerospace International Communications Award in 2008. Mr. Dankberg earned BSEE and MEE degrees from Rice University and is a member of its Electrical and Computer Engineering Hall of Fame.

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Jean Devos

Jean Devos

Senior Advisor, AQEST, France

Jean Devos is presently a Senior Consultant with Submarcom Consulting.

He was one of the founders and a board member of Axiom SA, a Paris based company specialized in Submarine systems projects study and management. Since 2010, he has been advising AQEST.

Prior …

to this, Jean spent three years, 1997 to 2000, with Tyco Telecom, developing Tyco’s international capability.

From 1977 to 1997, Jean was the General Manager of Alcatel Submarcom, then Alcatel Submarine Networks (ASN). Under his leadership, ASN moved from a small regional player to become a truly global supplier.

He is the founder of SubOptic and carries vast international experience in our field.

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Minoru Etoh

Minoru Etoh

Director, NTT DOCOMO R&D Strategy Dept. and SVP, DOCOMO, Japan

Dr. Minoru Etoh has dual roles as President & CEO of DOCOMO Innovations and Managing Director of R&D Strategy Department, SVP of NTT DOCOMO. He contributed to launching DOCOMO’s 3G mobile multimedia services from 2001. His contribution includes the first MP-4 …

enabled mobile content download service prior to iPod, the first distributed speech recognition service with cell phones, and H.264 standardization for ITU/ISO joint team’s Engineering Emmy Award 2008.

In 2006, he launched a big data mining project. Since then, he has led the project for new service creation and enhancement, in addition to his business administration duty in California and Japan.

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Norman Fekrat

Norman Fekrat

Industry Consultant, Advisory Board Member, USA

As the former IBM Global Business Services lead for Smarter Networks, Norman assisted communication service providers to leverage their assets and insights in order to drive incremental revenue while aligning content delivery cost structures with new over-the-top competitors.

Prior to …

joining IBM, Norman was a partner with Accenture’s Communications and High-Tech operating group, a practice with revenues exceeding $4 billion a year and was responsible for their Carrier Network Solutions group.

Norman currently serves on the Advisory Boards of CFN Services, Connectem, Lemko, and Matrixx – all focused on driving innovation into the telecommunications industry. He holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from The Catholic University of America and a BS in Physics from Georgetown University.

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John Garrett

John Garrett

President, Carrier Services, Pacnet Global (HK) Limited, Singapore

Based in Singapore, John Garrett is responsible for driving revenue growth and profitability across Pacnet’s global carrier business.

John has over 20 years of industry experience in Asia and has held a number of senior roles at Pacnet. He was most recently …

Managing Director of Southeast Asia, and also held the positions of Vice President of Product Strategy and Management for Carrier products and Country Manager of Pacnet Japan.

John has also served as Global Head of Sales at Pacific Crossing and held sales management positions with MCI, EDS and JP Morgan.

John holds a BS degree in Finance and Information Systems from the University of Colorado.

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Masayuki Ishikawa

Masayuki Ishikawa

Member of the Board of Directors & GM, Corporate Strategy Department, mmbi, Inc., Japan

Masayuki Ishikawa was named Member of the Board of Directors and General Manager, Corporate Strategy Department of mmbi, Inc. in June 2010.

Mr. Ishikawa was named the Director of New Business Development for the Multimedia Service Division of NTT DOCOMO, Inc. in …

July 2007. He joined NTT DOCOMO in April 1999.

Born in 1957, Mr. Ishikawa started his career as a research engineer at Mitsui Engineering & Shipbuilding Co. Ltd. in April 1980. He held M.S. Aeronautics and Astronautics from Stanford University, and B.S. Aerospace Engineering from Tokyo University.

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Malcolm Johnson

Malcolm Johnson

Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU, Switzerland

Malcolm Johnson was elected Director of ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Bureau at the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference in 2010. During his tenure, ITU-T has increased its activities relating to cybersecurity, climate change, and accessibility to ICTs for persons with disabilities. Malcolm has greatly …

increased the involvement of developing countries in ITU’s standards activities and has also initiated the involvement of universities and research institutes. He introduced the free downloading of ITU-T standards and initiated a program to address the lack of interoperability and conformity to ITU standards among developing countries.
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Doug Junkins

Doug Junkins

CTO, NTT America, USA

Doug Junkins serves as NTT America’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). Mr. Junkins is responsible for the company’s technology procurement strategy and vendor selection, industry relations and standardization efforts, and overall product portfolio coordination across the Global IP Network, Data Center Services …

and Global Solutions business units of NTT America. He is also responsible for internal Information Technology for NTT America.

Mr. Junkins has a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, and Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington.

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Elizabeth Kerton

Elizabeth Kerton

President, Telecom Council of Silicon Valley,

Liz Kerton is a technology and telecom marketing expert with 20 years of entrepreneurial experience ranging from retail and wholesale to online and manufacturing.

Building on 15+ years of experience working with telecom companies, successfully marketing and launching many new …

services, new product lines, and even new companies, she started the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley in 2001. Through 30+ meetings each year, this community of telecom industry insiders connects thousands of executives from hundreds of companies, including 20+ global fixed and wireless telcos.

Ms. Kerton has an MA in Diplomacy from Tufts University’s Fletcher School and was voted one of Silicon Valley’s most influential women in 2012.

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Andrew Kwok

Andrew Kwok

President, International Business, Hutchison Global Communications Limited (HGC), Hong Kong SAR, China

Mr. Andrew Kwok is currently the President, International Business of Hutchison Global Communications Limited. Since joining the company in 2002, Mr. Kwok has been the Head of the International Business Division, and presently spearheads the strategy, development and management of the …

company’s international business including carrier voice and data business, international corporate business, international mobile traffic management and overseas partners co-operation.

Prior to joining HGC, Mr. Kwok was the Vice President and Managing Director (Asia) of Teleglobe, managing its operations in more than 25 countries in Asia. Furthermore, Mr. Kwok held various management positions at MCI International in Asia, Hong Kong Telecom International and Cable & Wireless (HK).

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Jacky Kwok

Jacky Kwok

Chief Commercial Officer, CITIC Telecom International Limited, Hong Kong SAR, China

Mr. Kwok Wai Kei Jacky is the Chief Commercial Officer of CITIC Telecom International Limited and he joined the company in 2003. Mr. Kwok obtained his Bachelor of Science degree from the University of British Columbia at Vancouver, B.C., Canada. Prior …

to joining CITIC Telecom, Mr. Kwok held various positions in British Telecom Hong Kong from 1999 to 2003.

Mr. Kwok has in-depth telecom experience spanning from international voice, data and mobile services. His career in the telecom industry includes sales and marketing, software development, and technical operation management. Mr. Kwok has also held a position as a committee member in the GSIF (Global Signaling Interworking Forum) since 2006.

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Holger Magnussen

Holger Magnussen

SVP, International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), Deutsche Telekom AG, Germany

Dr. Holger Magnussen has been appointed Senior Vice President of International Carrier Sales & Solutions (ICSS), effective of May 1, 2012. He reports to Michael Wilkens, Senior Vice President Deutsche Telekom International Business & Area Management, Poland.

As head of ICSS, Dr. …

Holger Magnussen is responsible for the international wholesale division of Deutsche Telekom. This includes the sustainable stabilization and expansion of ICSS’ leading role within the international carrier market, as well as the continuous adjustment of the portfolio and geographical presence to the changing market requirements.

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Robert Maloney

Robert Maloney

Chairman & CEO, Pacific Data Systems, USA

Mr. Maloney is Chairman and CEO of Pacific Data Systems. Founded in 1969, PDS is a diversified technology, systems integration and telecommunications company with operations and network access points in Hawaii, Guam, the CNMI and California.

Mr. Maloney was a key protagonist …

in the “domestication of telecommunications” in Guam and the CNMI, reshaping the inter-exchange regulatory environment and the competitive landscape and establishing “Equal Access” as the standard for the U.S. Pacific Insular Areas. When Guam telecom law was harmonized with U.S. telecom law in 2005, Mr. Maloney re-positioned PDS to become Guam’s first authorized Competitive Local Exchange Carrier.

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Christian Michaud

Christian Michaud

SVP, Product and Business Strategy, Tata Communications, Canada

Christian Michaud is the Senior Vice President of Business Strategy in the Global Voice Solutions Business Unit for Tata Communications. Mr. Michaud is responsible for developing the Business Unit overall strategy as well as leading the product management and business development.

Mr. …

Michaud has over 20 years of experience in international telecommunications.

He is a member of the Steering Committee of i3 Forum, a global organization of carriers and operators with the mandate to foster the transition to an IP environment.

Mr. Michaud holds graduate and undergraduate degrees in economics from the Universite de Montreal.

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Richard Misech

Richard Misech

GM, Palau National Communications Corporation, Republic of Palau

Mr. Richard L. Misech is the General Manager of Palau National Communications Corporation (PNCC), an autonomous public corporation whose mission is to support the nation’s development by providing a full range of telecommunication services to meet Palau’s telecommunications needs.

With his 24 …

years of experience and certification in Network Application services, MIS services, MIS Systems, Radio Communications and Earth Station Operations, he has been representing Palau in a range of international forums on telecommunications and has been selected by various international organizations to be a member of “expert” technical workgroups.

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Jun Murai

Jun Murai

Dean & Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies, Keio University, Japan

Jun Murai is the Dean of Faculty of Environment and Information Studies at Keio University.

Murai is an advisory member of both the IT Strategy Headquarters, and the Information Security Policy Council, as well as a member of the Science Council …

of Japan. He is also an IPSJ Fellow and the founder of the WIDE project.

Murai previously served as a member of the Internet Architecture Board, a trustee of the Internet Society, and the Board Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN).

Murai earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Keio University.

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Yutaka Nagai

Yutaka Nagai

SEVP, SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, Japan

Y. Nagai is Senior Executive Vice President of SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation (“SJC”). He started his career at Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Public Corporation in 1971 and was engaged in research and development of satellite communications system.

In 1986, he joined Japan …

Communication Satellite Company Inc. Then he developed his carrier from satellite operation to satellite engineering, business planning and business development.

He is now responsible for all activities in engineering and operation of SJC’s communication and broadcasting business.

He is also the President of Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council.

He received a Bachelor of Engineering from Tokyo University.

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Toru Nakaya

Toru Nakaya

Director General, Institute for Information and Communications Policy, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan

Since 1985, Mr. Nakaya has been involved in the formulation of Japanese foreign policy in the field of ICT.

In 2002, he was seconded to the Executive Secretariat of the World Summit on the Information Society in Geneva, Switzerland.

In March 2006, he …

came back to Japan to become Director of the International Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, and participated in several international conferences for ITU, APT, and ASEAN.

In September 2012, he was appointed to his current post.

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Chandra Pandey

Chandra Pandey

VP, Platform Solutions, BTI Systems, USA

Chandra Pandey is Vice President, Platform Solutions for BTI Systems. He is responsible for integrated solutions and next generation platforms.

Chandra joined BTI from Juniper Networks where he led the global Solutions Engineering and Architecture team working with service providers, large …

enterprise, and data center customers, as well as OEM partners. Chandra has over 19 years of networking industry experience designing ASICs, carrier grade systems, and network architectures/solutions for delivering innovative services. He also has management experience with Ciena/IPI, Ascend/Lucent, 3Com/USRobotics, and IBM.

Chandra holds a BS in Electronics Engineering from K.N.I.T, Sultanpur, India, an MBA in High Tech and Finance from Northeastern University and Executive Leadership training from Cornell University.

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Vincent Paquet

Vincent Paquet

VP, Product Management, UberConference, USA

Vincent Paquet is Vice President of Product Management at Firespotter Labs, a start-up focused on making complex telephony products easy to use. Products in the Firespotter family include: TechCrunch, award-winning UberConference, Nosh, NoshList and Jotly. Firespotter is funded by Andreessen Horowitz …

and Google Ventures.

Vincent co-founded and was COO of GrandCentral (acquired by Google in 2007, becoming Google Voice). Previously, he was VP of business development and marketing at Dialpad (acquired by Yahoo! in 2005, becoming Yahoo! Voice).

He received his bachelor’s degree from Middlesex Business School in the UK, and graduated from the Reims Management School in France.

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Robert Pepper

Robert Pepper

VP, Global Technology Policy, Cisco, USA

Robert Pepper leads Cisco’s Global Technology Policy team working with governments across the world in areas such as broadband, IP enabled services, wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy, Internet governance and ICT development.

He joined Cisco in July 2005 from the FCC …

where he served as Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development where he led teams developing policies, promoting the development of the Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, planning for the transition to digital television, and designing and implementing the first U.S. spectrum auctions.

Pepper received his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Rozaimy Rahman

Rozaimy Rahman

EVP, Global Division, Telekom Malaysia Berhad TM, Malaysia

Rozaimy is from the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur. Apart from Malaysia domestic wholesale, he was given the responsibility of leading the TM Regional offices in the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Dubai. Ever since he can remember he …

has enjoyed working with and inspiring other people. Rozaimy’s more than 18 years of experience has created value for Telekom Malaysia in telecommunication commerce.

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Michael Rouleau

Michael Rouleau

SVP, Business Development & Strategy, tw telecom, USA

Michael A. Rouleau, Senior Vice President – Business Development and Strategy, has been with tw telecom since November 1999. Mr. Rouleau’s extensive experience in the telecom and data communications industries has resulted in the successful implementation and delivery of many advanced …

and innovative products, including Metro Ethernet and Voice over IP Solutions.

In his current position, Mr. Rouleau is responsible for developing tw telecom’s strategic direction and integrating new services and technologies over the next several years.

Prior to joining tw telecom, Mr. Rouleau spent 15 years with US West, now CenturyLink, where he was responsible for the development, deployment and management of their data, Internet and DSL businesses.

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Howard Schmidt

Howard Schmidt

Former Special Assistant to the President and Cybersecurity Coordinator, White House, USA

Howard A. Schmidt has had a long distinguished career in defense, law enforcement, and corporate security spanning more than 40 years. He brings together the talents of business, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, privacy, academia and international relations through his distinguished career.

Mr. …

Schmidt retired as Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator for President Obama. In this role, Mr. Schmidt was responsible for coordinating interagency cybersecurity policy development and implementation and is responsible for coordinating engagement with federal, state, local, international, and private sector cybsersecurity partners.

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Rashid Shafi

Rashid Shafi

SEVP & Chief Strategy Officer, Multinet Pakistan Private Limited, Pakistan

Mr. Rashid has more than 27 years of experience in technical, manufacturing, telecom green field projects, economic and strategic telecom analysis, business and project development and an extensive consulting track record with skills spanning in telecom business management and operations. As …

SEVP and CSO, he currently heads the International and Domestic Carrier Business units and also looks after both strategic and regulatory affairs at Multinet Pakistan.

He is a graduate of HBS’ Advanced Management Program. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from UET, a Master’s degree, a split program in Electrical Engineering from NUST (Pakistan) and Michigan State University East Lansing (USA).

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Richard Shockey

Richard Shockey

Chairman, Board of Directors, SIP Forum,

Richard Shockey is the Principal of Shockey Consulting, a private firm advising telecommunications companies, suppliers, the investment community and regulatory agencies on any number of issues related to Next Generation Networks, PSTN Transition, Voice over IP, Communications Provisioning, Peering, Numbering and …

Signaling.

Mr. Shockey is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the SIP Forum, an IP communications industry association that engages in numerous activities that promote and advance SIP-based technology [RFC 3261]. He is also a member of the Communications Security Reliability and Interoperability Council (CSRIC) of the United States Federal Communication Commission.

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Yoong Hing Siew

Yoong Hing Siew

Deputy GM, Brunei International Gateway (BIG), Brunei

Siew has 30 years of consistent career progression within TM, of which seven years were based overseas, namely in Hong Kong, Indonesia and Ghana. During that period, he successfully pioneered a start-up operation in Hong Kong from scratch, with P&L responsibilities …

for six years. He has extensive experience in data and voice sales in North Asia. He subsequently helmed ACASIA, a South-East Asia telco alliance, as CEO in 2009-2010. Since 2011, he has moved on to Brunei International Gateway as Deputy GM and is based in Brunei.
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Mark Simpson

Mark Simpson

CEO, SEACOM, Mauritius

Mark Simpson joined SEACOM in 2011 to lead the organization as it grows into a new era of data-based projects and strives to live up to its vision of “Building the African Internet”. He focuses on developing and running a best-in-class …

quality of service international network, and ensures that SEACOM’s customers are well served by its network, products and services.

An industry veteran with more than 25 years’ experience in the telecommunications industry, Simpson has held a number of senior international executive positions during his career. Most recently he has served as President and CEO of Pacific Crossing (serving US and Asia carriers), CEO of C2C Pte Ltd and COO and CTO at Asia Netcom (now Pacnet).

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Phillip Spector

Phillip Spector

EVP, Business Development & General Counsel, Intelsat, USA

Phillip Spector leads business development activities and all legal and regulatory matters for Intelsat.

Mr. Spector joined Intelsat in 2005 from the international law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, where he was the managing partner of the Washington …

office and the Chairman of the firm’s Communications & Technology Group.

Mr. Spector has a strong background in the satellite sector, having represented in private practice Intelsat, other satellite operators, users of satellite capacity, and satellite manufacturers. He co-authored the book Communications and Technology Alliances, has written numerous articles and speaks regularly on satellite and communications topics.

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Tim Stronge

Tim Stronge

VP, Research, TeleGeography, USA

Tim Stronge is Vice President of Research at TeleGeography. His areas of expertise include international voice traffic, terrestrial and submarine cable systems, and international bandwidth markets.

Since joining TeleGeography in 1996, Tim has served as a principal analyst in most areas …

of research, including network infrastructure, bandwidth demand modeling, cross-border traffic flows, and telecom services pricing.

He holds a Master’s degree in International Economics from John Hopkins University and a B.A. from the College of William and Mary.

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Kara Swisher

Kara Swisher

Co-Executive Editor, All Things Digital, The Wall Street Journal,

Kara Swisher currently co-produces and co-hosts Dow Jones’ “D: All Things Digital” conference with Walt Mossberg. She and Mossberg are also the co-executive editors of a tech and media web site, All Things D.com.

Kara Swisher previously worked in the Wall Street …

Journal’s San Francisco bureau, covering breaking news about the Web’s major players and Internet policy issues. She also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.

She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University’s School of Journalism.

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Sunil Tagare

Sunil Tagare

CEO, BuySellBandwidth, Inc., USA

Sunil Tagare is an entrepreneur in the submarine cable industry. He founded Flag Telecom in the early 1990′s and was responsible for the marketing and business development of the company.

Currently, he is the CEO of BuySellBandwidth, a bandwidth brokerage company. He …

is also the CEO of Tagare Cable Company which is planning to build a cable from Asia to Europe.

Sunil lives in Silicon Valley, California.

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Andrew Taylor

Andrew Taylor

CEO, Pactel International Pty Ltd, Australia

As the co-founder and the Chief Executive Officer at Pactel International, Andrew has over 20 years of experience in the satellite communications industry across a wide range of verticals. Andrew has previously served in various commercial and technical roles at PanAmSat, …

Comsyst, Optus, and Telstra.

In 2003, together with Steffen Holzt, Andrew established Pactel International – a company that has developed from a small startup business to a significant player in the satellite service provider industry across the Asia Pacific region. More recent success in the burgeoning resources sector has given Pactel International exposure to a diverse range of customers and markets.

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Barry Tishgart

Barry Tishgart

VP & Head of Wholesale Network Services, Comcast Cable, USA

Barry is Vice President and Head of Wholesale at Comcast Cable, where he started Comcast’s Wholesale business five years ago. Barry’s background includes developing opportunities in mobile data, managed services, telecommunications and internet infrastructure into successful growth business, launching innovative new …

products and running highly effective sales and marketing organizations.

Before joining Comcast, Barry held Sales, Marketing and Engineering Executive positions at Sprint. Barry is an avid sports fan, water-sports and skiing enthusiast. He lives outside of Philadelphia with his wife and three children.

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Lew Tucker

Lew Tucker

VP & CTO, Cloud Computing, Cisco, USA

Lew Tucker is Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Cloud Computing at Cisco where he is responsible for shaping the future cloud strategy and products. He is also currently leading a team working on the Quantum networking service in the …

OpenStack community.

Tucker has more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, ranging from distributed systems and artificial intelligence to software development and systems architecture. Prior to Cisco, he was VP and CTO for Cloud Computing at Sun Microsystems and led the development of the Sun Cloud. Other achievements in his career include salesforce.com’s AppExchange, the java.com developer community, and the massively parallel Connection Machine.

Tucker holds a B.A. from Cornell University and a Ph.D. in computer science from the Polytechnic Institute of New York University.

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Rakesh Upadhyay

Rakesh Upadhyay

Chairman & Managing Director, BSNL, India

Rakesh Upadhyay is the Chairman and Managing Director of BSNL. Upadhyay brings over 35 years of experience in the telecommunications industry to the position.

Before joining BSNL, Upadhyay served as the Chairman and Managing Director of TCIL and has been credited with …

the turnaround of TCIL. Some notable projects successfully implemented under his guidance include the Pan African e-Network Project, the National Internet Backbone Project, the SAARC e-network project, and the Optical Ground Wire Project. Upadhyay has also held positions in various other offices within India’s Ministry of Communications and IT.

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Raju Vegesna

Raju Vegesna

Chairman & Managing Director, Sify Technologies Limited, India

Raju Vegesna completed his Masters at Wayne University, USA. Post university, he worked for Motorola and then Ross Technology Inc. as Chief Architect. After his first two successful entrepreneurial ventures in the U.S., he acquired a majority stake in Sify Technologies …

Limited, India, in 2005.

Today, Sify is recognized as a leader in the fast growing segments of network connectivity, managed IT services, Voice and Cloud services.

Through his personal initiatives in the U.S. and India, Mr. Vegesna has undertaken an ambitious program to address the availability of clean water and education for communities in India.

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William Wade

William Wade

President & CEO, Asia Satellite Telecommunications, Hong Kong SAR, China

Mr. William David Wade was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer on 1 August 2010 to lead AsiaSat with his title changed to President and Chief Executive Officer from 1 January 2011. Prior to assuming his role as Chief Executive Officer, …

Mr. Wade had served as AsiaSat’s Deputy Chief Executive Officer for 16 years.

Mr. Wade has over 25′ years experience in the satellite and cable television industry. He speaks Mandarin and holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree in Communications from the University of Utah, and a Master of International Management Degree from Thunderbird (the Global School of International Management).

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Andy Warner

Andy Warner

Manager, Access Team, Google, Singapore

Andy works on the access team at Google, focusing on expanding access to the Internet and improving the quality, speed, affordability and meaningfulness of connectivity. The access team works closely with telecommunications carriers, ISPs, regulators and other government bodies and technology …

providers to find effective ways to expand access to the Internet and help people derive more value from it.

Previously, Andy managed the site reliability teams for Android and mobile and held other technical and strategy roles working on Google’s global infrastructure.

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Jack Waters

Jack Waters

CTO, Level 3 Communications, USA

Mr. Waters is Chief Technology Officer for Level 3 with responsibility for information technology, business process engineering, network architecture and engineering, global security, and integration planning and execution. Mr. Waters joined Level 3 in 1997, and under his leadership, Level 3 …

has achieved numerous milestones in Internet Protocol (IP) communications, including Softswitch networking, Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), and advanced optical networking.

Before joining Level 3, Mr. Waters served as an executive staff member for MCI Communications, Inc. with responsibility for network architecture, design and implementation, and was Director of Engineering and Operations for SURAnet.

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Joe Weinman

Joe Weinman

SVP, Cloud Services and Strategy, Telx, USA

Joe Weinman is Senior Vice President, Cloud Services and Strategy at Telx. Named a “Top 10 Cloud Computing Leader” by TechTarget, Weinman is the author of Cloudonomics: The Business Value of Cloud Computing, and a frequent international keynote speaker. He has …

been awarded 15 U.S. and international patents in diverse fields and has been showcased in numerous print and online publications and global video broadcasts.

He has a Bachelors and Masters in Computer Science from Cornell University and UW-Madison respectively, and has completed Executive Education at the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne.

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Steve West

Steve West

CTO, Cyan, USA

Steve is Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Cyan, a provider of packet-optical networking hardware and software for wholesale, regional, metropolitan and data-center interconnect networks. Steve has 30 years of product development experience, including semiconductors, hardware, software and systems. Steve’s current …

technology focus is how cloud-based software can support the management and control of data and telecom networks.

Steve has B.Sc and M.Sc Electrical Engineering degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Paul Wilson

Paul Wilson

Director General, APNIC,

Paul Wilson has 25 years’ involvement with the Internet, and nearly 15 as the head of APNIC, the Regional Internet Address Registry for the Asia Pacific. In his current role, he contributes expertise to many regional and global forums related to …

the development and governance of the Internet. In 2012 he was also selected to the Multistakeholder Advisory Group for the Internet Governance Forum (IGF).

Previously, as CEO of Pegasus Networks, the first private ISP in Australia, Paul worked with the International Development Research Centre, helping to establish many early Internet services in developing economies of the region.

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Joseph Ziskin

Joseph Ziskin

VP, Corporate Strategy, IBM, USA

Joseph Ziskin joined IBM in 1997 and is currently Vice President, Corporate Strategy. He works with IBM’s business and technical leadership to develop business strategies, resolve critical issues and formulate IBM’s overall strategy. His current focus is on the disruptive value …

of mobile, social, analytics, and cloud. He also led IBM solutions and strategy in servicing the telecommunications industry.

Prior to IBM, he was a strategy consultant and researcher with E&Y, Coopers & Lybrand, and as Vice President, Strategic Planning for Technology at the Bank of New England. Mr. Ziskin serves on the Executive Committee of the TM Forum.

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