CC Digital Cloud - London 14^th & 15^th February

Specialties:
Launch SMS services / Shift from Voice to Messaging / A2P SMS Monetization / MNO revenue assurance / SMS platforms / P2P SMS Cost optimization / Training Sales and Carrier Relations / Wholesale Voice / VoIP / Integration of Operators, Carriers, Aggregators into value chain of OTT services / Off-net connectivity for OTT services.

Mark has joined Megaport from Amsterdam Internet Exchange (AMS-IX) where he served as Chief Commercial Officer with responsibility for management and development of AMS-IX’s marketing, sales, business development and customer service teams. During his time at AMS-IX he also led the development of the new corporate strategy and product portfolio, as well as initiating and managing all strategic partnerships.

Mark has a proven history of running successful Internet Exchange businesses across the world. His extensive experience with the peering ecosystem and networks in Europe puts him in a great position to execute Megaport’s European business plan. The deep relationships that Mark has built within the industry and his intrinsic knowledge of the data services marketplace equips him to provide excellent guidance as Megaport looks to unlock future growth opportunities.

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Luis serves as BTS’ CTO which is ranked in the top 12 globally as one the largest Wholesale Operators which also designs, develops and operates its own technological applications. Luis heads the Operations and Network Teams responsible for the development of solutions used by BTS and its customers. Working together with its partners, BTS has been very active in the creation and implementation of new strategies to tackle the fraud problem in the telecom industry.

Entrepreneur, Philanthropist, Industry pioneer, disrupter and founder of UNIFI Communications, Inc. and UNIFI Holdings Companies. CEO of recently acquired WIS Telecom SPA and WIS Telecom SA (formerly M- Link Orascom and Wind International Services) ranked top 15 in the world by Telegeography in terms of volume in 2014. Mr. Shatku is one of the true visionaries of the IP telephony UC (unified communications) technologies. Early believer in the power of the Internet to transform global telecommunications, in the early 90’s. Mr. Shatku established UNIFI as one of the first providers of top-quality Voice-over-IP (VoIP) service. Providing leadership and entrepreneurial spirit to help UNIFI become one of the world's largest international carriers. Mr. Shatku has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry and is a Harvard Business School and MIT Sloan Alumni.

Andreas was the Founder and Group CEO of Epsilon Global Communications, which includes Epsilon service provider and Cataleya technology businesses. He is now continuing to supporting the industry’s evolution through his start-up and investment facilitator (Incipio) and his position on the board of Cirrus Core Networks. During his 18 years in the global telecoms community he has contributed to the evolution of the international markets and technologies, creating innovative businesses, and disruptive business models.

Andreas is the Commercial Director of Yuboto, a leading acclaimed and 7 times awarded Mobile Marketing Company in Greece.

He joined Yuboto in 2012 and holds almost two decades of experience in telecommunications industry. He holds great motivation abilities and inspires teamwork. He is a sales oriented person and passionate for high value customer service performance. Andreas will present the 2^nd Generation Mobile Marketing Tools, that give access to unlimited and personalized mobile marketing campaigns via a simple SMS landed on a smart phone, and all 2nd Generation tools available at Yuboto's mobile marketing platform: "Yuniverse". Andreas is a qualified Professional Business Trainer of National Organization for the Certification of Qualifications & Vocational Guidance and author of numerous best-seller Sales books and manuals.

Bernard Lecanu began his professional Career as a teacher, after 5 year of which he joint AMP Group (Now part of Tyco) where he continue for 15 years and became Division Director.

Between 1984 and 1993 he was Managing Director of different companies for the BICC Group mainly in South Europe for components and cables activities. He had his own company in the information system business until 1995 and joint Siemens Group,he was appointed Managing Director for France and   their French Africa, south America and part of Asia pacific market for OSP products from 1996-2002 he was  Vice President International for Outside plant product ,and his capacity among other responsibilities, he was responsible for the Data center Market ,and launch with his team a number of Data center projects in Europe ,middle east and Asia pac. Since 2002 , he is managing the consulting company BL International consultant specializes in the field of access network and transmission ,Marketing and Industrial strategy. He was the vice President of the UK Data center association (CHA) he is member of the European commission group for implementation of the European code of conduct. He was one of the founder and Chairman of the European Data center Association and now Honorary chairman of it.

Bernard Lecanu hold an MBA, he is author of several papers .He writes a French book use in many business school “Diversifier ses canaux de vente pourquoi et comment” he has spoken at a various European  forum about Data center  market including united Sates, China and Singapore.

Recently B.Lecanu have been request to participate to the French Digital Agency

Matthew Whalley co-founded content marketing agency Ilex Content Strategies.

Ilex supports Tech and Telecoms companies with Public Relations, Marketing Content and Sales Enablement. It supports the development of Channel Partner Programmes, Lead Generation campaigns and Offline and Online engagement. Ilex serves start-ups through to billion-dollar businesses in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and the Americas.

Matthew was the editor of Capacity magazine and the European Technology Content Director at global PR firm Edelman.

His business development skills and entrepreneurial spirit have allowed him to create a content marketing business from the ground up and see it succeed as a thriving global business.

Bernhard Pusch is Head of Carrier Sales, EMEA at Telstra, a leading telecommunications and technology company with A$28.2 billion revenue.

Based in Paris, Bernhard is responsible for developing and driving Telstra’s wholesale business across EMEA, primarily to develop new markets in Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa. Since joining Telstra in 2005, Bernhard has drawn on his extensive IT and Telecoms experience in Europe and Asia lead the company’s expansion into the Middle East and Africa. He has also contributed to new business and driven significant growth in EMEA.

Bernhard has more than 20 years’ experience in senior roles in Sales, Product Management and Marketing. He joined Telstra from Nortel, where he was Sales Director for Global Accounts in Asia.

Chris van Zinnicq Bergmann has over twenty years of experience in the global telecommunications sector. He started his telecommunications career in Amsterdam where he held corporate as well as sales related positions at BT, Unisource (a joint venture between KPN, Telia and Swisscom) and AT&T-Unisource.

In 1999, Chris left Europe to move to Los Angeles, where he became a member of the team that started the operations of Asia Global Crossing, which later evolved into Pacnet, a subsea cable operator in the Asia Pacific region which in 2014 has been acquired by Telstra. In 2002, Chris relocated to Singapore from where he headed the company’s market expansion activities in Southeast Asia and India and from 2005 to 2008 was the regional head for Southeast Asia and India, responsible for the company’s wholesale and enterprise business in this region. At the end of 2008, Chris moved back to Amsterdam to take up the role of regional head for Europe and North America (until the end of 2010) and subsequently for Europe, the Middle East and India. In 2014, Chris joined Global Cloud Xchange and is currently based in Amsterdam as the head of Carrier Sales in Europe.

Mark’s role as Head of Data Centre Technical Consulting is to provide data centre specific thought leadership and technical direction to CBRE’s Global Data Centre Solutions (DCS) business and clients to ensure that the DCS service offering continues to set the highest possible benchmark worldwide within the data centre sector. CBRE Data Centre Solutions offers clients a full suite of data centre specific service including technical consulting, facilities management, engineering, project management, risk reviews, certifications and diligence reports as well as a range of IT specific services in the data centre.

Rrapid knowledge in the new arena of today's mobile telecom business.

Starting from VAS engineering, to handling major activities under operators’ startup office. Moving to become one of the most innovative marketers to change the dynamics of mobile telecom business in Bahrain and GCC. Lately I joined the formation of MTC group [currently known as Zain group], to start the deployment of strategies and systems related to Knowledge Base for the group. Moving all the way with the experience to handle the position of Launching Director for Zain Kuwait to establish the 3G/HSDPA Network.

And finally joining the group management to roll-out the biggest ever bidding project by Zain group (Zain-KSA bid project). After the success to have the post of Marketing Manager for Zain KSA operation.

Formally leading the Business Development division through international expansion and MVNO initiatives with the largest telecom distributor in the MENA region.

Currently holding the position of Regional Director for a multinational new startup operation in the MEA region to develop the business across mixed enterprises from Telecom, mFinance and ending with Green Energy solutions.

Oscar brings 15+ years of experience securing voice, data and video infrastructure for the wholesale and retail industry. Oscar leads ASLO, a Cibersecurity Managed Services Provider specialized in voice networks. ASLO absolves customers from the inherent financial and operating risk in real-time communications environments. ASLO collaborate to monetize efforts to prevent several types of fraud while protecting the Service provider bottom line and enhancing value to end-users.

Prior to leading ASLO, Oscar held the VP of Operations in VoIP Logic (acquired by Broadsoft) and the VP of Operations at RedIP México, a pioneer in deploying triple play and VoIP in the country.

Franck Simon is President of France-IX Services since its inception in 2010 and brings his extensive industry experience to the management and ongoing development of the non-profit association Internet exchange point.

Prior to France-IX, Franck was the Technical Director of RENATER, the French academic network, where he worked for almost 15 years. As part of his duties at RENATER, Franck held responsibility for the SFINX (Service for French Internet exchange), the first Internet exchange point ever created in France, for more than 10 years.

Franck has in-depth experience in wide area networks (WAN) and of backbones operators as well as being knowledgeable about the strategies and policies for interconnection between operators and the context of peering in France and in Europe. Since 2012, he has also been involved in the AFNIC’s (Association Française pour le Nommage Internet en Coopération) scientific committee and its contribution to the definition of future trends in internet infrastructure.

Andy leads a team of payments and fraud professionals across the EMEA region, helping ACI Worldwide grow its eCommerce payments business. He has a background in both sales and general management roles at start-ups, high growth companies and large corporates, bringing a wealth of experience and payments knowledge to his role.

As Director, Sales – West Africa, Nikki is focussed on extending WIOCC’s footprint across West Africa. Nikki has been in the telecoms industry for almost 20 years and joined WIOCC in 2016 after eight years with Tata Communications, where she sold a wide range of Data services across numerous countries in Africa. Nikki also held managerial roles at Gateway Communications, where she established multiple interconnects with organisations such as Safaricom and Ethiopia Telecoms; and Cable & Wireless, for whom she sold services in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. Nikki is passionate about Africa and feels privileged to have seen and taken part in the technological advances that have occurred over the years. She lives in an Oxfordshire village and loves going on country walks with her daughter and dog.

Paul is an experienced Mobile Enterprise executive, with over 20 years’ experience of helping Mobile Network Operators and  global Enterprises deliver valuable consumer services via Mobile. In addition to Paul’s role at IMImobile he’s held senior positions at Atos, NEC Labs, Syniverse, and Myriad Group, his work to date has led to hands-on experience of the Mobile Innovation in 50+ countries.   

I’m Director of Global Connectivity at Twilio and have over 14 years experience in the SMS and Voice industry working for technology companies.  During this time I have worked for one of the leading OTT’s in building up its footprint with a large number of telecommunication companies.  I’m currently responsible for for originating, structuring, closing and managing high value contracts with telecom partners at Twilio.