Satellite Communications

Under his leadership ViaSat has consistently been one of America’s fastest growing technology companies. Mark has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of the Year in San Diego in 2000, as the Satellite Industry Executive of the Year in 2003, and received the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Aerospace International Communications Award in 2008.

He is an acknowledged industry expert in aerospace, defense and satellite communications and has co-developed several military standards on satellite networking. He has participated on Department of Defense advisory panels and was invited to testify before a Congressional committee on high technology growth companies and IPO’s.

Patrick joined NSR in September 2003 and has since authored numerous studies, the most recent being the Global Assessment of Satellite Demand, 5th. Edition and Broadband Satellite Markets 8 th. Edition.

Gregg Daffner is President of G3 Global Communications, an international satellite incubation and consulting firm providing regulatory, strategic planning, business development and transactional advice to satellite communications and information services companies, with a focus on the Asia-Pacific region.

Amiram Levinberg is a co-founder of Gilat and returned to the Company in 2005 as its Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. He previously held positions as Gilat's President, Chief Operations Officer and Vice President of Engineering.

Huang Baozhong is the Executive VP of China Direct Broadcast Satellite Co.Ltd.

He is also the Senior Advisor to GSM Association and the Invited Professor of China Cultural Legal System Research Center underthe supervision of China Academy of Social Science.

Pierre-Jean Beylier has been with SpeedCast since December 2000, first leading Sales & Marketing activities and then as CEO since July 2004. Under his tenure, SpeedCast has become a leading satellite service provider in Asia. ,

He was previously working with Rhodia (ex Rhone-Poulenc), where he held successive Sales & Marketing positions spearheading global strategy initiatives.

David Ball became Intelsat’s Vice President, Asia Pacific in July 2006 when the company acquired PanAmSat. He held the same position with PanAmSat since January 2003.

David is responsible for the management of Intelsat’s sales and marketing activities throughout the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his current position, he held a variety of management positions with PanAmSat from 1995-2003.

Darby Sanchez was appointed Chief Executive Officer of GlobeCast Asia in January 2009, a role which she previously occupied from 2003 to 2006.

Patompob ( Nile) Suwansiri is currently the Head of Marketing of IPSTAR for THAICOM Public Company Limited and has over 15 years of experience in the satellite industry. Nile has been with THAICOM since its inception in 1992 and has worked in many aspects of the company.

Nongluck Phinainitisart, D. Eng., has been President of Thaicom PLC. since November 2000 and now she is also responsible for Marketing and Sales of Thaicom Satellite.

She was reelected to be the President of APSCC (Asia Pacific Satellite Communications Council) for second term. She worked as a government official for more than ten years and worked for Intelsat during 1986-1987.

Ramesh Ramaswamy is assistant vice president of Marketing in the International Division at Hughes Network Systems, LLC (Hughes). In this capacity he is responsible for the strategic development of products and services to be offered by Hughes in the international market.

Ramesh began his career at Hughes in 1986 as a software engineer and was one of the original designers of the VSAT (very small aperture terminal) satellite product line.

Abdallah touhami in a Telecom engineer and obtained a Master of Science in Space Studies from the International Space University in France and MBA from the University of Strathclyde in the UK.

In his role as Executive Manager Business Development, Abdallah is responsible for developing the global business of Thuraya. He has a professional track record of more than 12 years in the Mobile Satellite Industry, as one of the early team members who started Thuraya project from the beginning back on 1998. His areas of expertise include marketing & sales, channel management, business development, marketing communication and business strategy.

Maximilien d'Oreye
VP professional Equipment, Newtec

Jorn Christensen
President, J Christensen Consultants Ltd

His activities include performing regulatory due diligence for investors on new satellite projects and advising on frequencies for new communications technologies.

Jeffrey Weaver is the Director of Technical Marketing at Montreal based XipLink, a leader in the development of wireless optimization products and software.

Jeff has been active in the digital and RF data communications industry for over 25 years, fulfilling roles in Product Management and Strategic Planning for companies like Wellfleet Communications, FORE Systems, BlueCoat Systems, Argon and Tropos Networks.

Andrew Jordan
President & CEO, SAT-GE

Andrew Jordan is the President and CEO of SAT-GE with over 20 years experience in management and development of new markets & products throughout Asia. Graduating in Chinese from the School of Oriental & African Studies in London, his entire career has been focused on the Asia Pacific region. Andrew has worked with most of the major broadcasters and telecommunications operators in the Asia Pacific and globally. His experience includes 18 years in executive management roles in the Asia Pacific satellite industry.

Andrew serves on the Council of Governors and the Satellite Industry Committee of CASBAA (the Cable and Satellite Broadcasting Association of Asia).

Mr. Denny joined Inmarsat in 1988, to head the establishment and operation of the Satellite Control Centre. In the ensuing years, Mr. Denny has held a number of technical and operational roles across the business and, from 1998 to 2008, held the position of Vice President of Satellite and Network Operations, responsible for Inmarsat’s fleet of satellites, network operations and engineering activities, satellite gateways, spectrum regulatory and spectrum management activities and satellite navigation services.

Prior to joining iDirect, Mr. Burdick spent over seven years as a consultant at Intelsat, where he participated in a number of ground network development projects, including the CLASS system, which allows Intelsat to leverage its worldwide TT & C network for third-party satellite launches.

Prior to joining iDirect, Mr. Deasington held senior level positions in R&D and Engineering while working on voice, data and transmission network systems. He was a Managing Consultant at PA Consulting Group and at Questus Ltd where he focused on mobile systems; in particular, GSM and 3G systems. Mr. Deasington has been involved in a large range of mobile-related activities from building the world’s first shared 3G network to leading the design of a range of network planning tools.

Prior to Tejas Networks, Dr. Sivarajan was associated with the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, NY. Dr. Sivarajan is co-author of the textbook `Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective' published in February 1998.

Network Enablers & Architectures

Prior to joining Huawei and relocating to the Shenzhen headquarters, Christophe held different positions within the France Telecom Group during more than 11 years; he was notably responsible for the Broadband Business Development at a Corporate Level for Orange in Europe and previously held the Product Marketing Director position for a France Telecom subsidiary in Latin America.

Prior to Andrew, Dawson spent 10 years with Nortel working on cellular location technologies, intelligent network services, and wireless intelligent networks. Previously, he was involved in intelligent network services for Telstra and British Telecom Research Labs, Ethernet network design and deployment for the University of Sydney, and control system design and software development with GEC Digital and BHP, among other activities.

Ray Butler serves as vice president of engineering, Base Station Antenna Systems, at Andrew Wireless Solutions, being responsible for overall base station antenna design.

Ovadia has extensive experience in systems engineering, marketing and business development. At Tadiran, from which Scopus was spun off in 1999, Mr. Cohen was a Systems Engineer and Marketing Manager of the Data Links Department. In 1995, based on his expertise in communications signal processing, he was put in charge of adapting Tadiran's military technology to Scopus' commercial business.

Rhys has been involved in the technical standardisation for next generation networks, as well as network migration plans for some of the region's advanced service providers. As Technical Director of the Acme Packet APAC team, he has been involved in a number of large-scale projects - spanning residential, enterprise and wireless deployments. Previously, he was an active participant in ITU and 3GPP standards groups as a delegate on behalf of Ericsson.

Peter has strong expertise in the Unified Communications market, leading the Voice business in Asia Pacific to deliver integrated voice, video communications and content solutions. Peter’s 11 year background in telecommunications includes seven years’ experience in the Asia Pacific region.

Derek Manky plays an essential role on the FortiGuard Global Security Team. He contributes to security research and development while acting as a bridge to the public forum on results and findings.

Mike Martin is responsible for the worldwide design, development and management of the company’s broadband access portfolio, including both copper and fiber solutions.

Next Generation Broadband Forum

Pak Lum is also the managing director of 1-Net Singapore Pte Ltd, the broadband exchange offering broadband connectivity, hosting and IT managed services. Pak Lum has been heading the company since its inception in May 1997.

In addition, he is an exco member of the Digital Media Chapter, elected council member of the Singapore Infocomm Technology Federation and a member of the advisory committee, School of Engineering, Nanyang Polytechnic.

Pak Lum holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree, majoring in Electronics, from the National University of Singapore.  He received an MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989.

Jonathan Dharmapalan serves as Managing Partner of Ernst & Young’s Global Telecommunications Center – Beijing in China. Jonathan leads Ernst & Young’s Emerging Markets Telecommunications practice.

In his 24-year career, Jonathan has served some of the largest companies in the telecommunications sector. He has significant experience in both mobile and fixed line communications. He has worked with clients from the early days of this industries development, from privatization through the years of unprecedented growth of broadband and wireless technologies.

In addition to telecommunications, Jonathan also has significant experience in the related sectors of high technology and media. Prior to joining Ernst & Young, Jonathan led the Global Technology, Media and Telecommunications Consulting Practice at another major international firm. He also led their Global Media Consulting Practice and their Technology Practice in Silicon Valley.

Jonathan was the editor of the Silicon Valley Series publication and is a co-author of the book, “The Telecommunications Act of 1996: A Comprehensive Overview of the Law”. He is also a frequent speaker at major industry conferences.

Jonathan began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories where he worked on several key technologies including the Switching Systems, Signaling Systems, and the Digital Broadcast Conferencing Technology for which he earned a United States Patent.

Tristan was appointed Group General Counsel in 2008.

He leads Telecom's Group Legal, Regulatory & Corporate Services team. He is responsible for legal services, internal audit, risk management and compliance, corporate governance, public policy and regulatory affairs. He also oversees the Independent Oversight Group Support Office created under Telecom's Operational Separation Undertakings.

Tristan is a highly experienced corporate and commercial lawyer with extensive international experience in telecommunications law and regulation.

After graduating BA (Japanese) and LLB(Hons) from Auckland University, Tristan commenced his career as the Wellington High Court Judges' Clerk, before going on to practice law with several leading international law firms. He then joined Vodafone Group PLC, where he occupied a number of senior leadership positions, including Legal and Regulatory Director - Asia-Pacific Region and Governance Director - Europe Region.

Zaid Hamzah is an author of 5 books on technology and the law & a former Director at Microsoft, Zaid has over 23 years of professional work experience spanning commercial technology transactions, strategic technology & intellectual property licensing, strategic government engagement. More recently at Telekom Malaysia, Zaid focuses on telecommunication regulatory management and NGN2 (next generation network) regulations and legal strategies. 

Zaid holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the National University of Singapore and was a Fulbright scholar3 when he completed his Masters at the Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, USA. He was admitted to the Singapore Bar in 1985 and admitted as Solicitor, England & Wales in 2000.

Tim joined BT in 1991 from private practice. He has held responsibility for all aspects of EU law and Telecommunications Regulation affecting the BT Group and later for deregulation and worldwide alliances in the team involved in BT’s first wave of international expansion.

Mr Khoong Hock Yun joined Infocomm Development Authority (IDA) in 2000 and is the Assistant Chief Executive heading the Infrastructure and Services Development Group.

Prior to his role in Infrastructure and Services, Mr Khoong held a wide set of portfolios in IDA in areas such as Industry Development, Cluster Development and Manpower Development.

A Harvard Business School alumnus, Mr Khoong has had an exciting 25 years career in international business management and development of high technology systems in both government and the private sector. With Masters Degrees in both Engineering and Business Administration, his previous roles included Director (Research and Development) at Mentor Graphics Singapore, where he spearheaded patented R&D, and subsequently, Director of Engineering and General Management at Mentor Graphics Corporation (USA).

Art Price joined Axia in 1995 with the vision of creating a company that would meet the full spectrum of Internet Protocol-based communications needs for businesses and consumers: from creating and maintaining the connecting networks; to developing the applications that help people to learn and to exchange knowledge.

Prior to joining Axia, Art held a number of senior executive positions in the Canadian oil patch, serving as President and Chief Executive Officer of Husky Oil Ltd. and Husky Oil Operations Ltd. from 1984 to 1993.

After leaving Husky, Art spent two years as Special Advisor on International Investments to the Chairman of the Board of Hutchison Whampoa Limited, as well as serving on the Board of Directors of Husky Oil Ltd. Art currently serves on the boards of Axia NetMedia Corporation and the Sunterra Group of Companies. He has served as past director of Promoting Calgary Inc., Alta Genetics Inc., Husky Oil Ltd., Lac Minerals Ltd., the World Wildlife Fund, Rawlco Enterprises Ltd. and IPSCO Inc.

Art was recently awarded the Alberta Centennial Medal in recognition of his outstanding service to the people and province of Alberta. He is also a member of the Association of Professional Engineers, Geologists and Geophysicists of Alberta.

Mr Leong Keng Thai has been the Deputy Chief Executive & Director-General (Telecoms & Post) of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) since December 1999.

Mr Leong started his career with the former telecommunication Authority of Singapore (TAS) since 1980 where he has held engineering as well as management positions in private network engineering, business product management and international business development. In 1992, he joined the reconstituted TAS as Director (Planning) and has since held multiple management positions.

Mrs. Tan Kah Rhu joined OpenNet Pte Ltd as its Chief Executive Officer (“CEO”) with the vision to build Singapore’s first nationwide fibre optical infrastructure: enabling ultra high-speed Internet connection, and providing the preferred network needed in delivery high quality content.

Before this appointment, Mrs. Tan was the Vice President (Access and Transmission Engineering) of Singapore Telecommunications (“SingTel”), Singapore and Optus, Australia teams. Besides being Vice President of several departments in SingTel since 2001, she was also the CEO of SingTel Aeradio Pte Ltd from 1996 to 2001.

With many years of experience under her wings, Mrs. Tan serves on the board for several companies such as C2C AsiaPac Pte Ltd and Southern Cross Cables Holdings Limited. She is also currently the Chairman of the Southern Cross’ group of companies.

RADM(NS) Tay was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Infocomm Development Authority of Singapore (IDA) on 19 Nov 07.

Prior to joining IDA, RADM(NS) Tay served 25 years in the Singapore Armed Forces (SAF), during which he held various command and staff positions in the Republic of Singapore Navy.

He served as the Chief of Navy from 1 April 2003 to 31 August 2007. As Chief of Navy, RADM(NS) Tay led the transformation of the Republic of Singapore Navy into a naval force characterised by cutting-edge technologies and new fighting doctrines, and capable of a broader spectrum of operation.

Stewart White is a lawyer by training and has spent more than 25 years specialising in ICT law, regulation and policy. 

He is currently CEO of Stewart White Consulting, which he established in 2005. He has advised a number of telecommunications operators and is currently advising Solaris Mobile with regard to 2GHz licensing within the EU MSS framework.

From 1999 to 2005, he was the Group Public Policy Director of Vodafone Group. Originally from Australia, he moved to Europe in 1988 to join a UK based law firm where he advised on satellite related issues for Murdoch group and on the establishment of SES-Astra.  He has worked for Etisalat on a number of issues including the successful bid for the third mobile licence in Egypt.

In the satellite sector, he has also represented CNN, PanAmSat and Thuraya.  He has been an expert to the European Commission on a number of ICT-related and other dossiers.  He also advised a number of governments on sector reform (including international regulatory aspects with regard to the privatisation of Singapore Telecom), drafting legislation and licences for newly created regulatory offices, particularly in the Middle East. 

Mr. Ricky Wong Wai-kay is the co-founder and chairman of the Group. He possesses many years’ experience in telecommunications and computer industries, and was voted amongst the top 100 most influential people in the industry in the world, hosted by The Global Telecoms Business Magazine in 2008.

Mr. Wong joined IBM upon completion of the undergraduate program in 1985, and launched a business venture of his own in Canada in 1989. In 1991, he set up City Telecom Incorporation in Canada. A year later, he returned to Hong Kong to set up City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. to provide competitively-priced IDD services.

Under the leadership of Mr. Wong, City Telecom (H.K.) Ltd. has played a major role in the liberalization of the telecommunications market in Hong Kong. The wholly-owned subsidiary, Hong Kong Broadband Network Limited, is one of the major fixed telecom network operators in HK. Its network, which is the world’s largest Metro Ethernet IP network, is connected by self-built fibre backbone to provide 1000, 200, 100, 50, 25 and 10 Mbps broadband Internet access, telephony, IP-TV, corporate and mobile data services.

The group was successfully listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited in August 1997 and the Nasdaq National Market in the USA in November 1999, which marked significant milestones of the company.

Michael Bjarhov has over 30 years of international experience from various management positions, in the IT as well as the Telecom industry.

During his IT period, he was responsible for the Data Communication R&D unit at Philips Data Systems and the Retail Banking Application development at Business Center Financial Industries, Digital Equipment.

In 1994 he joined Ericsson where he created and established a international In-building Coverage organization.

In 2001 to 2003 he was heading the Ericsson Technical Sales Support hub in Kuala Lumpur supporting the Asia Pacific region. During 2003 to 2007 he was managing different Ericsson initiatives to address the challenges of increased mobile voice and data penetration in developing markets.

Garth Collier is Managing Director of Asia Pacific/Japan, WiMAX at Intel Corporation. He leads a dedicated team tasked to drive the adoption of 4G Mobile WiMAX networks and services across SE Asia, South Asia and Japan.

Garth collaborates extensively with governments, regulators, operators and device manufacturers, sharing a common vision of enabling an open mobile broadband network and connecting millions more users to the Internet.

Most recently, Garth was the driving force behind the creation of UQ Communications that is rapidly reshaping the Mobile Internet industry in Japan. Previous to Intel, Garth was 5 years with PCCW

Where most recently, he was the Executive Director of UK Broadband leading the start-up of one of the first non-line of sight broadband wireless services. Other roles with PCCW included Director of Corporate Strategy, Director of Corporate Finance /Investor Relations and Vice President of Strategic Planning.

Alan Hadden has 22 years’ experience in the mobile communications industry, and has been President of the GSA (Global mobile Suppliers Association) since its formation in 1998.

The GSA website www.gsacom.com is a leading source of facts, information and objective analysis for the communications industry and in 2008 was used by approaching 57,000 professionals from 198 countries.

Previously Alan was on the senior management team of a UK PCN/GSM 1800 operator and involved in the start-up, launch, and expansion phases. He assisted key stakeholders and overseas regulators to establish 1800 MHz as a mainstream band internationally for cellular services. He also assisted in discussions to assist the establishment and market entry of new mobile businesses. He represented the company in key  UK industry fora, and internationally at ETSI, the GSM Association and the UMTS Forum.

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 and is the senior full time executive.

He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years, starting in sales and sales management for Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999. He now lives in North Carolina.

Robin has worked in business development and alliance management for various OSS software companies in the United States, mainly in network and service provisioning and activation for companies like Astracon, TTI Telecom and Evolving Systems, where he negotiated and managed several large OEM agreements.

Mr. Min owns Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the City College of New York in 1983.

He has 25 years of telecom. experience with global corporations including ITT, Siemens, Lucent and Motorola.

He is currently holding the position as senior solution consultant of Huawei’s CTO Office of Asia Pac. Marketing Division. His major contribution includes helping operators plan, develop, and deploy next generation wireless networks, deliver unique customized solution and ensure optimized network performance.

Tina is the Regional Director for South East Asia of the CDMA Development Group (CDG) responsible for supporting the CDMA2000® carriers in the region with their adoption and evolution of 3G CDMA wireless systems, focusing primarily on devices.  Asia-Pacific represents the largest world region in terms of CDMA subscribers, and leads in the deployment of the latest innovative services and applications.

In addition, as former Chairman of the International 450 Association (IA450), she now Chairs CDG’s industry initiative the CDMA450 SIG (Special Interest Group), which was formed as a result of the unanimous vote by IA450 members to merge with the CDG in June 2008. The CDMA450 SIG supports the evolution and global deployments of CDMA450. 

Dr Sharrock has been an analyst in the telecommunications industry for two decades. He has undertaken research and consultancy projects for major operators and manufacturers and organisations such as the EC, ETO, Liberty Alliance, UMTS Forum, GSMA, ITU, WiMax Forum and ICSTIS.

Peter joined Gilbert + Tobin as a partner in 1989 and specializes in communications and technology. He completed his Master of Laws at Harvard Law School on a Fulbright Scholarship.

Peter spends his time between Sydney and Hong Kong, where he is a consultant to Arculli Fong & Ng (in association with King & Wood). Peter is recognized as one of the leading communications lawyers in Asia Pacific. In Chambers and Partners Global report for 2006, commenting on China/Hong Kong telecommunications sector, says Peter Waters is "the first choice lawyer for regulatory work bar none."

In 2008, Peter was named in the Best Lawyers International list. He has worked on regulatory, interconnection, wholesale contracting, numbering, IP peering and spectrum licensing issues throughout the region. He has been the principal external adviser on interconnection arrangements and regulation to Optus Communications in Australia, and Hong Kong Telecom in Hong Kong, and CLEAR in New Zealand. During 1998-9 Peter was seconded to Cable & Wireless plc in London as acting Director of Regulation, with responsibility for the Group’s global regulatory affairs.

Peter has experience in complex structuring issues which require an understanding of the intersection between technical, regulatory, competition law and commercial issues. He has been involved in the establishment of large scale telecommunications and IT joint ventures, including the deployment of the world’s first large scale HFC local broadband network, in major telecommunications-related mergers in Asia Pacific and in Europe and 3G network deployment in Australia and Europe.

Peter understands of the IT and communications environment has also allowed him to provide strategic legal advice to new economy businesses, such as portals, PKI providers, xDSL service providers, electronic cash and smartcard applications and Application Service Providers. Peter has worked on the early life cycles of many new economy firms, focusing on helping them realise and bring to market their technology.

Takehiro Nakamura joined NTT Laboratories in 1990. In 1992, he transferred to NTT DOCOMO, Inc. He is now Director of the Radio System Design Group of NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Since 2004, Dr Marianne Treschow is the Director General of the Swedish Post and Telecom Agency (PTS). She is also the President of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group during 2008.

Dr Treschow came to PTS as Director of the Spectrum Department in 2000. Previously she was Director of the Swedish National Space Board and Director of the Swedish Research Council.

David is a veteran in the telecommunications industry with more than 30 years of working experience in countries like Germany, Holland, France, Kuwait, Britain, United States, and Singapore.

David leads Nucleus Connect to create a vibrant Retail Service Provider (RSP) environment offering comprehensive and flexible services that will help all RSPs select and deliver broadband connectivity services to their target markets quickly and seamlessly, bringing a more enriching experience to the end users. Nucleus Connect, a wholly-owned subsidiary of StarHub that was incorporated on 14 April 2009, is responsible for designing, building and operating the active infrastructure of Singapore's Next Generation National Broadband Network (NGNBN).

David was with StarHub since 1997 and worked during the licence tender phase. After the successful bid, he was put in charge of the fixed network implementation. As Head of Integrated Network Engineering, David was responsible for the day-to-day operations of StarHub's fixed, mobile and cable networks, and charts the division's strategic technology directions. He also heads International Carrier Relations and Domestic Wholesale services which focus on the provision of communications infrastructure, facilities and services with other carriers and service providers.

Green Telecoms

Lawrence is the Partner leading the Accenture Technology Architecture practice for South East Asia Korea and Australia (SEAAK).  In this role, he is responsible for developing and managing the technology architects who work across industries implementing complex, leading-edge technology solutions for Accenture’s clients. 

Dipesh is responsible for tracking the Indian telecommunication industry covering vast array of technologies and providing consulting services to the telecom companies operating in the Indian/Asian market.

Prior to joining Tonse Telecom, Dipesh worked in the R&D group at Cisco Systems in San Jose, CA from 2001 till 2008 and worked on many cutting edge industry products in routing/switching space. Dipesh holds B.E. in Electrical Engineering from Mumbai and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from North Carolina State University, Raleigh, USA.

Brendan is responsible for all aspects of communicating Juniper’s unique value proposition to the regional service provider market segment including developing and implementing go-to-market strategies at a regional level, interfacing with local account teams, regional sales and marketing resources, as well as being responsible for various corporate marketing and business team functions.

Laina Raveendran Greene is Lead Consultant and CEO of GetIT, Inc, a strategic marketing and business planning consulting company based in Silicon Valley focusing on Green ICT and the use of ICT to help reduce GHG in other industries (www.getit.org). She is currently co-producer of the Green Planet documentary at TELECOMTV, and has been actively involved in green related issues professionally and personally (lives in a solar powered home) for many years now.

Rajiv Mehrotra is a veteran of the telecom industry and the pioneer of satellite cable TV in India. He is the founder and chairman of the Shyam Group of companies, with revenues of $60+ million. Shyam Telecom, the flagship of the Shyam Group, has a footprint in all areas of telecom. Shyam Telelink was one of the first operators in the world to deploy CDMA technology for fixed wireless services, and Hexacom (now Airtel Cellular) was the first GSM operator in Rajasthan.

Rajiv founded VNL in 2005 as a means of providing affordable telephony to rural areas where ARPUs are less than $2 a month.

Simon Naylor focuses on extending the superior features and economics of Infinera’s unique, photonic integrated circuit-based Digital Optical Networks architecture, already embraced worldwide, to Asia Pacific. Simon’s operational responsibility is setting up of the company’s operations, building a strong technology and support team and establishing a network of partners to propel Infinera’s growth in this region. I

Anil is responsible for development of new products and solutions for the Carrier group of Andrew, which serves the wireless and wireline service providers.

In his twenty-two years of work experience, he has held technical management and engineering positions at Avaya, Lucent Technologies, AT&T, and General Electric.

Robin has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years, starting in sales and sales management for Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999. He now lives in North Carolina.

Anup Changaroth is Director of Product Marketing, Metro Ethernet Networks, Nortel ( Asia), responsible for portfolio marketing of Nortel’s range of next-generation Optical and Carrier-Ethernet solutions in the Service Provider space throughout the Asia Pacific region. He has been involved in the communications field for over 15 years, since designing and building his own V.23 modem in the early 80s.

Before joining IDA, Dr Tan worked in Motorola developing pagers and walkie-talkies for the US and global market. He also worked for Scientific Generics, a Cambridge-based technology consulting company working in area of communications.

Jane Rushton-Young is the APJ Business for Data Centre Services for HP’s Asia Pacific Japan, Technology Services.

With the recently acquired Critical Facilities Services (EYP), HP’s Data Centre Services teams are assisting to drive business growth for Technology Services enterprise customers across Asia Pacific and Japan.

Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, program development and execution for regional customer engagement, and all aspects of industry vertical business development to help companies strengthen customer relationships and build better business outcomes across banking and finance, manufacturing and communications sectors.

Dr. Naveen Bhat
Vice President and General Manager, Asia Pacific, Ixia

Naveen is vice president and general manager of IXIA, Asia Pacific. He is responsible for managing regional sales, support and business development for all Ixia products in Asia Pacific.

Based in Singapore, Naveen has more than 15 years of experience in telecom and technology sectors. He has led several companies in growing their Asia Pacific business. He was a key player in delivering one of the largest OSS systems in the world in India.

IPTV

Mark Adams is a leader in the Connected TV space with over 15 years experience in sales and marketing. Mark is Vice President of Asia for Accedo Broadband, a developer and aggregator of casual games and information services for customers including BT Vision, PCCW and Sharp.

Henri Setiawan Wyatno is a Researcher in R&D Center of PT Telkom Indonesia, the biggest incumbent telco company in Indonesia. Henri is responsible for making recommendation for strategic and tactical level. R

In his role as TANDBERG Television’s IPTV Business Development Director, Alan Delaney is responsible for building and maintaining the company’s relationship with telcos, operators and content owners in order to further the deployment and adoption of IPTV.

Using TANDBERG Television’s award winning IPTV video head-end, on-demand and interactive TV solutions, Alan is able to provide IPTV operators with access to an extensive range of tools that allow them to introduce and drive new video business models.

Laurie Gonzalez joined Broadband Forum in May 2000 as Marketing Director. In this current role, she is responsible for managing all strategic and tactical global marketing efforts, including both Marketing Communications and classical Marketing initiatives.

Broadband Forum is a large international non-profit organisation, made up of over 400 broadband vendor and service provider companies. These companies are dedicated to collectively furthering the adoption of standards, interoperability, flow through provisioning, and enhancing awareness, demand and successful delivery of all forms of broadband.

Robin Mersh joined the Broadband Forum as Chief Operating Officer in July 2006 and is the senior full time executive.

He has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 14 years, starting in sales and sales management for Cable & Wireless and then moving on to BT before meeting his wife and moving to the US in 1999.

Lawrence helps to perform business development and responsible for Huawei solutions portfolio to service provider in service innovation and network transformation.

Prior to joining Huawei, Lawrence has about 10 years of experiences in the telecom industry as a consultant in several service operators including Equant, SingTel, and Pacnet.

He provides consultancy and solutions to enterprise customer in their ICT needs.

He is currently the Chair of the Biometrics Technical Committee, Singapore, project editor of the international standard ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 29794-4 and co-editor for ISO/IEC JTC1 SC37 29794-1 and also the Chairman of the IPTV Working Group, Telecommunication Standards Technical Committee, IDA, Singapore.

Gerd's background is in Music (he won the Quincy Jones Award in 1986 and is a graduate of Boston's Berklee College of Music) as well as in Technology, Internet and Media. His work focuses on the Future of Media, Content, Technology, Business, Marketing & Advertising, Branding, Telecom, Communications and Culture.

Mikko Jarva is a consultant responsible for business development with Comptel in Kuala Lumpur.

His activities include OSS/BSS solutions and business process consultation for operators in APAC regions, market analysis and long term strategy planning for Comptel. He has been responsible for initial design and positioning of various advanced charging, rating, mediation and provisioning solutions currently in use by leading operators in APAC.

Mikko Jarva joined Comptel Corporation 10 years ago as a trainer.

Carl Gressum focuses on the market place of Internet services and connected consumer electronics. His research areas include operator strategies for the consumer and residential market. His topic range includes home gateways, home network technologies, middleware, service portfolio management and device interoperability. As part of this research he interviews operators’ world wide on their three year market strategies. He also works closely with consumer electronics vendors on the transition to the networked electronics markets. This work includes organisational restructuring, product development and how impacts on customer and product life cycles.

Zamiri has been involved in strategy development for the MediaFLO Japan Planning Company, a joint venture between Qualcomm and KDDI in Japan. He works closely with Japanese and Korean OEMs and the FLO Forum on the development of MediaFLO handsets.

Prior to joining the MediaFLO Technologies team, Zamiri worked with Qualcomm Internet Services (QIS), fostering strong customer relationships with Asian operators, OEMs and application developers and leading cross-functional groups within the division. Previously he worked as a Business Development, Manager within the Eudora division, launching a new business model for the email software product.

Stephen Alstrup is CEO and co-founder of Octoshape, a company providing streaming based on the unique Grid Casting Technology, ensuring a stable high quality stream to large audiences at low cost. The Octoshape Streaming Solution is used by a wide range of broadcasters; Turner Broadcasting Inc., the Spanish National Radio and Deutsche Welle just to mention a few. Octoshape also cooperates closely with EBU; Octoshape is the chosen system for the EBU Media Portal and for the third year running Octoshape will be live streaming the European Song Contest via the internet to 100.000+ viewers all over the world.

Dr. Alstrup received his PhD in Theoretical Computer Science from the University of Copenhagen in 1999 and then went on to be associate professor of The IT University of Copenhagen before founding Octoshape in 2004.

David has helped clients prepare their submissions to telecommunications industry regulators on a wide range of matters in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, New Zealand, Bahrain, Jordan, Canada and the United Kingdom. He has advised incumbent operators, regulators and other government bodies in Hong Kong and the PRC on international regulatory practice in telecommunications and competition law.

Jose Miguel started his professional career with the IBM Networking Hardware Division with Product Engineering responsibility for EMEA.

In 1997, he joined Alcatel where he held different management positions for Network Applications in Spain and Latin America. In 2004 Jose Miguel moved to Asia Pacific with the Alcatel Mobile Communications Group, and later with the Alcatel-Lucent Convergence Business Group with business development and business management responsibilities for the region.

He is the Chairman of the Future TV think tank of the MDA-Singapore. He has over 25 years experience in the telecom and media industry.

Jari Tammisto’s career in mobile technology has spanned the globe with over 18 years of strategic entrepreneurial leadership and success. His extensive background in mobile technology was the drive behind his latest accomplishment, the launch of MobileMonday, a global network of wireless industry influencers under an exchange of peer leadership, knowledge and communal concepts on a global level. The MobileMonday network now operates chapters in over 60 countries under his leadership and vision.

Tammisto is currently a Partner and Chairman of the Board of several start-up companies such as Game Production AG ( based in Switzerland), to develop location based marketing campaigns and PriortTest Oy (based in Finland) to test the supply chain process interoperability. Tammisto is also an executive member of Finland’s technology fund (TEKES) overseeing the development of several major program covering technology, travel, and lifestyles changes.

Previously in his career, Tammisto held the positions of Managing Director and Chairman of two Scandinavian/global organizations, CommerceNet and RosettaNet, which he co-founded with Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Siemens, Vodafone, DT, BT, and AT&T. Tammisto lead both organizations in the development and promotion of open e-commerce procedures and standards and held one of the most influential roles in e-commerce and mobile development in Scandinavia, enabling industries to adapt into new Internet based business opportunities.

During his tenure as a technology entrepreneur, Tammisto also led a multitude of other high-tech companies and organizations to success under his leadership. During this time, he was invited by Telecom Finland to establish a subsidiary to be responsible for Telecom Finland's (currently TeliaSonera) mobile terminal sales.

Tammisto has taken his entrepreneurial spirit and knowledge around the world and spoken at numerous conferences about m-Commerce, e-Commerce, e-Business standards and mobile initiatives throughout the United States, Asia, and Europe. He was also invited by the European Commission to sit on an eBusiness standards Round Table by Commissioner, Erkki Liikanen. Tammisto recently accepted the honor of receiving an Internationalisation Award by Tarja Halonen, The President of the Republic of Finland, for his efforts and accomplishments in building some of the most successful international operations from Finland. Tammisto was also voted by the readers of Finnish business media (Taloussanomat) as one of the three most influential business entrepreneurs in Finland in 2007.

Dori Ben-Moshe is the Chief Architect & Strategy for Alcatel-Lucent’s Multimedia Solutions. He has over 13 years of international experience with positions spanning various technical and management roles. He co-established "Integra5", a pioneer in unified messaging over TV and was personally responsible for the design, implementation and deployment of a world-class IPTV end-to-end solution. Since joining Alcatel-Lucent, Dori has taken senior responsibilities for E2E triple play solutions projects, including Swisscom’s triple play deployment, and involvement in numerous projects such as AT&T, Slovak Telecom, Ya.com, Chunghwa Telecom, Arcor, SingTel and more.

Dori was the Chairman of Consortium and Overall Project Leader for the Deutsche Telecom Triple Play project where he also led the project executive steering committee.

Prior to joining Openwave, Raman spent seven years as the global director for telecommunications and media for Fairfax, Virginia-based software company, webMethods, where he was responsible for strategic consulting, business planning, sales strategy development, brand development, web site traffic growth and revenue growth in telecommunications and vertical markets.

Emmanuel drives Pudding Media’s operations and business in Asia Pacific. Prior to joining Pudding Media, Emmanuel was the Regional Mobile Director for GroupM Asia Pacific (a WPP company). Emmanuel is bringing over 15 years of experience in the IT, Mobile and Internet arenas.

He is also an APAC MMA Board Member and a regular speaker at various events including CommunicAsia, Media360 and Ad:Tech. Emmanuel holds a Master of Telecommunication Engineering from ENST de Bretagne in France.

Kaushal Upadhyay, Associate Director, The Nielsen Company, has over 12 years of experience in market research, marketing, business development, and product innovation and distribution in Asia Pacific and the Middle East. Kaushal’s extensive experience in the telecommunication industry spans across a wide spectrum, having worked with device manufacturers, service providers, and content developers.

His past projects included a major segmentation study on telecom usage and habit spanning across 30 markets in the Middle Eastern and Asian regions, as well as conducting strategic workshops which involved futuristic assessment on industries and business verticals.

He then became a vice-president with Cambridge Positioning Systems. He co-founded Seeker Wireless in 2003. Seeker has developed the world’s most advanced homezone system which has deployed with in Romania and New Zealand with Vodafone and in the Middle East.

Dr. Madanmohan Rao is a new-media consultant and author from Bangalore. He is the editor of three book series: The Asia Pacific Internet Handbook, The Knowledge Management Chronicles, and AfricaDotEdu. He is also world music editor for Rave magazine and contributor to the Poynter Institute blog on new media trends.