Speaker Biographies
Please see below for a copy of the current speaker list for this event (please note: * = speaker to be confirmed).
For more information in the meantime, please contact Dan Craft on +44 (0)2920 783 021 / dan.craft@forum-europe.com.
Keynote Speakers
Moderators
Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Neelie Kroes
European Commissioner for Digital Agenda, European Commission
Neelie Kroes is currently Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner. She was born 1941 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she also attended school and helped to build her family’s transport business. She studied economics at Erasmus University, before working there for six years as an Assistant Professor. Her political career started on the Rotterdam Municipal Council, and in 1971 she was elected as a Member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal VVD party. From 1982-1989 she served as Minister for Transport, Public Works and Telecommunication in the Netherlands. After politics she was appointed President of Nyenrode University from 1991-2000, and served on various company boards, including Lucent Technologies, Volvo, P&O Nedlloyd. Prior to serving as European Commissioner for Competition from 2004-2009, her charity work included advising the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and World Cancer Research Fund, and she has an ongoing interest in mental health issues.
William E Kennard
US Ambassador to the EU, United States Mission to the EU
William E. Kennard is the United States’ Ambassador to the European Union. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Kennard was a Global Partner and Managing Director of The Carlyle Group, a global private equity firm with approximately $90 billion under management. Mr. Kennard joined The Carlyle Group in May 2001. At The Carlyle Group, Mr. Kennard specialized in investments in the telecommunications and media sectors.
Before joining The Carlyle Group, Mr. Kennard served as chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission from November 1997 to January 2001. He presided over the agency at an historic time. During his tenure, he shaped policies that created an explosion of new wireless phones, brought the Internet to a majority of American households, and resulted in billions of dollars of investment in new broadband technologies. At the same time, he implemented bold new policies to bridge the digital divide in the United States and around the world.
Mr. Kennard is well known for his advocacy for people at risk of being stranded on the wrong side of the digital divide. He implemented the FCC’s e-rate program, which brought the Internet to almost every school and library in the United States. Under Mr. Kennard’s leadership, the FCC dramatically expanded access to communications technologies for people with disabilities. The FCC also adopted policies to increase telephone service to rural areas, especially to Native Americans living on tribal lands. He reached out to create more ownership and employment opportunities for women and minorities.
As FCC chairman, Mr. Kennard promoted the benefits of technology worldwide. He pioneered an innovative FCC Development Initiative to assist countries in the developing world to participate more fully in the global growth of digital technology. Through this initiative, Mr. Kennard signed the first partnership agreements on behalf of the FCC with ten countries on four continents to share U.S. regulatory experience with emerging regulatory authorities.
U.S. News and World Report dubbed Kennard a “consumer champion for the digital age.” He has received many honors and awards for his accomplishments, including awards from the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation, the Easter Seals Foundation, the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and honorary degrees from Howard University, Gallaudet University and Long Island University.
Mr. Kennard previously served on the boards of directors of The New York Times Company, Sprint Nextel Corporation (national US wireless carrier), Handspring, Inc. (manufacturer of the Treo and other wireless devices), eAccess Ltd. (national Japanese wireless carrier), as well as on the boards of several companies owned by The Carlyle Group.
Mr. Kennard also served on several nonprofit boards including the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, One Economy Corporation, Common Sense Media, Year-Up Inc., the Yale University Council, Gallaudet University and Media Access Project.
Before his appointment as FCC Chairman, Mr. Kennard served as the FCC’s general counsel from 1993 until 1997. He joined the FCC from the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand (now DLA Piper) where he was a partner and member of the firm’s board of directors.
Mr. Kennard is a graduate of Stanford University and Yale Law School. He resides in Brussels, Belgium with his wife, Deborah Kennedy Kennard, and their son, Robert.
John Lewis
Chairman, Working Group on Spectrum Aspects, Asia Pacific Telecommunity Wireless Group
Mr. Lewis, now pursuing a career as a consultant, participates in a number of working groups and project teams on spectrum management issues and is called upon to provide consultancy advice to ITU member administrations, research institutes and system operators on matters related to space radiocommunications and new wireless technologies. He is heavily involved in the Study Group activities of the ITU Radiocommunication Sector.
Mr. Lewis is also heavily involved in the activities of the Asia-Pacific Telecommunity where he heads the Editorial committee of the APT Preparatory Group for the ITU 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference and he chairs the Spectrum Aspects Working Group of the APT Wireless Group.
Mr. Lewis, until his retirement in 2000, was Head of the Space Publication and Registration Division of the Space Services Department in the Radiocommunication Bureau at ITU where he was responsible for the processing of coordination requests and notifications for satellite networks and earth stations. He was also responsible for the maintenance of the ITU’s Master International Frequency Register for space services.
Moderators
Richard Marsden
Vice President, NERA
Richard Marsden is a Vice President at NERA Economic Consulting, where he specialises in auctions and economic issues concerning radio spectrum. He has more than 12 years of experience in microeconomics, political economy, and business consulting. He has managed projects on regulation, competition, public policy, and business strategy for a diverse client base, including regulators and private companies in more than 25 countries across Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas. Richard has been a regular participant at the European Spectrum Management Conference for the last five years, and is currently working with Dan Craft of Forum Global on developing a version of this successful event for the Americas.
Richard has undertaken auction projects across a wide range of sectors, including airport slots, broadcasting, mobile telephony, power generation and renewables, retail sites, and wireless broadband. His project experience includes the design and implementation of combinatorial auctions (both multiple-round and sealed bid) for radio spectrum in Denmark, Ireland, the Netherlands, Nigeria, and the UK, and SMR auctions in Hong Kong and Norway. He has provided strategy advice to bidders in spectrum auctions worldwide, including Canada (AWS, 2008 and PCS, 2001), Finland (2.6GHz, 2009), and 3G/cellular mobile awards in Egypt, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Taiwan, and the UK.
Prior to joining NERA, Mr. Marsden was a Director and Managing Consultant at DotEcon, where he focused on auctions, public policy, and strategy projects. While there, he regularly managed projects involving teams of programmers, econometricians, academics, and technology consultants. Notably, he managed the project team advising Ofcom on UK spectrum auctions between 2005 and 2010. He also completed major studies for the European Commission on allocation of the digital dividend, and on spectrum trading and liberalisation.
Martin Cave
BP Centennial Professor, London School of Economics
Martin Cave is BP Centennial Professor at the London School of Economics for 2010/11 and a visiting professor at Imperial College Management School. From 2002 to 2010 he was a professor at Warwick Business School. He is a regulatory economist specialising in the communications sector. He has written a number of academic articles in this area. He is co-author of ‘Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management’ (2007) and of ‘Understanding Regulation’ (2011), and co-editor of ‘The Handbook of Telecommunications Economics’ (2002, 2005) and of the ‘Oxford Handbook of Regulation’ (2010). He has consulted widely for regulators in several countries and for the European Commission, and conducted a number of regulatory reviews for the UK and other governments.
Jim Connolly
Senior Spectrum Advisor, ComReg and RSPG Rapporteur for the review of spectrum use, Radio Spectrum Policy Group
Jim Connolly is the senior advisor to ComReg on management of the radio spectrum. He led the team which ran the 3G licence competitions and selected the mobile licences for the Irish market.
He is the ComReg representative in the RSPG and is rapporteur for that group on the review of spectrum use as proposed in the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme.
From 2003 until March 2008 Jim was chairman of the CEPT Frequency Management Working Group which deals with harmonisation of use of the radio spectrum across the 48 European member countries of CEPT.
Prior to joining ComReg in January 2000, Jim worked at the European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) in Copenhagen for 4 years as a frequency management expert primarily focusing on harmonisation of frequency usage throughout Europe. During that period he was chairman of the CEPT Short Range Device Maintenance Group which developed the well known CEPT Recommendation ERC70-03 on short range devices.
Before joining ERO he was with the UK Radiocommunications Agency for 15 years in various frequency management positions covering fixed services, space services and long term strategic planning including reviews of spectrum usage.
J.Scott Marcus
Director, WIK Consult GmbH
J. Scott Marcus is a Director, Department Manager and Senior Consultant for WIK-Consult GmbH (the consulting arm of the WIK, a research institute in economics and regulatory policy for network industries, located in Bad Honnef, Germany). Previously, he served as Senior Advisor for Internet Technology for the United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC), a position equivalent in rank to the Chief Economist or Chief Technologist. Prior to that, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Genuity, Inc. (GTE Internetworking), one of the world's largest Internet backbone service providers at that time. Mr. Marcus holds a B.A. in Political Science (Public Administration) from the City College of New York, and an M.S. from the School of Engineering, Columbia University. In 2004, Mr. Marcus was attached to the European Commission (DG INFSO) while a Transatlantic Fellow of the German Marshall Fund of the United States.
Gerard Pogorel
Professor of Economics, Telecom ParisTech (ENST) & Supervisory Board Member (Independent), , Open Access-Telecom Italia
Gérard Pogorel is Professor of Economics and Management-Emeritus, ENST-Telecom ParisTech, France.
Telecom ParisTech is a first-tier European Research and higher education institution, with campuses in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (France). It encompasses all discipline areas, sciences, technologies, social sciences, of relevance to information and telecommunications technologies and the media.
Gerard Pogorel graduated from HEC Graduate School of Management (Ecoles des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Paris) and holds a Doctorate in Economics from Université de Paris-I Pantheon-Sorbonne..
He published numerous articles, books, and reports including: The European Wireless Broadband Area (EWBA): Communications for the 21st Century, Contribution to the Consultation on The Review of Roaming Regulation, February, 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/roaming/docs/cons11/EWBA.pdf“The Radio Spectrum: managing a strategic resource”–with JM Chaduc, former Director General ANFR, (Wiley-ISTEC London, January 2008), Nine regimes of spectrum management: a 4-step decision guide, Communications & Strategies, April 2007, « Competitive Compliance: streamlining the Regulation process in Telecom and Media», (Communications & Strategies, March 2006)
Gérard Pogorel is an independent member of the Supervisory Board of Telecom Italia Open Access, Chair/Rapporteur of the European Spectrum Management Conferences for 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 (Forum Europe). He was previously Chair of the European Union Framework Research & Technology Development Programme Monitoring Panel, and Chair of the Monitoring Committee of the EU Information Society and Technologies Research Programme. He participates in numerous Government-level and regulation Authorities Committees and study groups on telecom and media policy and regulation in France, Italy, and Germany, with the European Commission and in countries in Asia. He is a member of the international panel of experts for the World Competitiveness Yearbook, (IMD, Lausanne). Gérard Pogorel is Officier des Palmes Académiques.
Janette Stewart
Senior Manager, Analysys Mason
Janette Stewart is a Senior Manager with Analysys Mason. She graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Electronic Engineering and a Master of Science degree in radio engineering, and throughout her career has focussed on wireless technologies and spectrum regulation. She worked for the UK regulator for 8 years, then joined Analysys Mason in 2001. During her 10 years with Analysys Mason she has advised national regulators, mobile and fixed operators and broadcasters on a range of spectrum management topics including digital switchover, release of digital dividend spectrum, spectrum demand modelling, GSM re-farming, and award of mobile spectrum in various bands including 800 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz.
Speakers
Alan March
Vice-Chairman, Association of Professional Wireless Production Technology
Alan March was born in 1963 in England.
He has over 25 years of experience in the Pro Audio industry and during that time has worked in sales, marketing, applications engineering and business development roles.
Alan sits on the 'British Entertainment Industry Radio Group' (BEIRG) – Steering Committee and has accumulated experience in dealing with UK spectrum regulator Ofcom in matters relating to the UK ‘digital dividend’ and how this will impact on spectrum availability for the PMSE – Programme Making and Special Events – sector.
Alan is also a member in the APWPT Executive Commitee. (www.apwpt.org/executive-committee/index.html)
Hans Borgonjen
Chairman Forerunner Group , Radiocommunication Expert group from the Law Enforcement Working Party
Hans Borgonjen is the Senior Coordinator International Standardisation of Vts Police Netherlands which delivers the Dutch Public Safety services on applications, data and mobile communication, e.g. the C2000-Tetra radio network. He is also Dutch representative of LEWP-RCEG (Law Enforcement Working Party Radiocommunication Expertgroup) and the Chairman of the ‘Forerunner Group’ which is focusing on future communication for Public Safety in the European member states.
His other roles include:
- Vice-chairman Tetra Association
- Chairman PSRG (Public Safety Radiocommunication Group), an informal platform with 17 participating countries.
Graham Louth
Director of Spectrum Policy, Mobile and Auctions, Ofcom
Graham Louth joined Ofcom, the UK’s converged communications regulator, in December 2003 as Director of Spectrum Markets, tasked with making the changes necessary to allow spectrum users to decide how to make best use of this invaluable national resource, rather than being dictated by the regulator. He is now Director of Spectrum Policy, Mobile and Auctions, in which role he is responsible for ensuring that existing and prospective mobile network operators are able to make the best possible use of existing spectrum, and have access to critical bands of new spectrum such as the 800MHz and 2.6GHz bands, so as to be able to deliver the best possible mobile services to UK consumers and citizens at competitive prices. Prior to joining Ofcom, Graham spent over 10 years working as a consultant with the leading telecoms strategy advisors Analysys, ultimately as head of their regulatory practice worldwide. Whilst at Analysys Graham played a leading role in the development of regulatory thinking and practice in a number of economic and policy areas, working closely with clients such as the European Commission, the IDA in Singapore, and Oftel in the UK.
Rüdiger Hahn
Head of Department, Legal Aspects of Telecommunications Regulation, Frequency Regulation, BNetzA
In 1990Rüdiger Hahn entered into the service of the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications and until 1992 he was the Assistant Head of Section “Principles of Regulation”. From 1993 Mr Hahn was the Assistant Head of Section “Legal Aspects of Regulation” and from 1996 he was the Head of Section “Mobile and Satellite Communications”.
From 1998 Mr Hahn was the Head of Division “Regulation and Licences” at the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts and since 2001 he has been the Director, Head of Department “Legal Aspects of Telecommunications Regulation, Frequency Regulation” at the Federal Network Agency.
Stephen Lerner
General Counsel & Director of Regulatory Affairs , 3 UK
Stephen Lerner is General Counsel and Director of Regulatory Affairs at Three UK and has worked at the company since 2003. He and his 75-strong team are responsible for driving legal, regulatory and commercial strategies for the company.
Stephen is currently overseeing a number of initiatives designed to change restrictive policies in the UK mobile phone market. By challenging the status quo on issues such as spectrum allocation and Mobile Termination Rates Three hopes to encourage competition in the sector at the same time as giving a fairer deal to customers.
Stephen gained his legal qualifications at the University of Western Ontario and studied for his Masters Degree at McGill University in Montreal.
Simon Edkins
Senior Manager, Spectrum Policy & Economic Analysis, Orange Group
Simon Edkins is a Senior Manager within the Spectrum Policy & Economic Analysis team at Orange France Telecom Group. Simon has a first class degree in Economics and Business Administration and has worked across a number of industries including water, market research, consulting and telecommunications. Simon has a professional background in business modelling, decision analysis and asset management and previously worked in both strategic planning and finance roles within Orange UK prior to joining France Telecom. Simon now advises the Group's country operations in matters of spectrum acquisition and award preparation.
Martin Cave
BP Centennial Professor, London School of Economics
Martin Cave is Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University. Until 2001 he was Professor of Economics at Brunel University. He specialises in regulatory economics. He is co-author of Understanding Regulation (1999) and of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007), co-editor of the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2005), Digital Broadcasting (2006) and the Oxford Handbook of Regulation (forthcoming), and author of many articles in journals.
As well as his academic work he has also undertaken studies for the European Commission and advised regulatory agencies. He was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002. He has advised the European Commission on broadband and international roaming issues, and has assisted energy, postal, telecommunications, water and other regulatory agencies in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. He is responsible for two independent reviews of spectrum management carried out for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 2006 he was a special adviser to the European Commissioner for Information Society and Broadcasting. His review on competition and innovation in the water industry was published in April 2009 by the British government.
Amit Nagpal
Director, Amit Nagpal Consulting Ltd
Amit Nagpal advises fixed and mobile operators, regulators/government bodies, financial institutions and equipment manufacturers on a wide range of commercial, technical and regulatory issues. In particular, Amit Nagpal assists organisations with commercial & technical due diligence, radio spectrum policy development and spectrum valuation and auction support. Prior to founding his own consulting company, Amit was a Senior Partner at Analysys Mason, a specialist telecoms strategy consultancy, where he advised on several multi-billion dollar M&A and debt financing transactions as well as leading numerous high-profile regulatory studies. In the area of spectrum management, Amit's experience has included:
* leading high-profile studies for the European Commission (harmonised approach to the digital dividend, introduction of spectrum trading)
* supporting spectrum users (e.g. O2, KPN, UPC), industry bodies (e.g. GSM Association, UMTS Forum, TETRA Association) and regulations (e.g. Ofcom in the UK, NITA in Denmark, MinEZ in the Netherlands) on major policy issues such as (i) the future demand for spectrum e.g. for wireless broadband services (ii) liberalisation of mobile spectrum/GSM licence renewal and (iii) the award of the digital dividend (800MHz) and 2.6GHz bands.
Amit is able to bring a global perspective to his work having undertaken projects for clients in Europe, North America, Middle East, Africa and Asia.
Chris Woolford
Director of Spectrum and International Policy, Ofcom
Chris Woolford is Ofcom’s Director of International Spectrum Policy where his responsibilities cover the UK’s international spectrum interests, especially in relation to the ITU, CEPT and EU. He is a member of Ofcom’s Spectrum Executive Team.
Chris is active in various European spectrum committees and currently represents the UK on the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG) and is a past member of the Radio Spectrum Committee (RSC). He is directing Ofcom’s preparations for next year’s World Radio Conference and Ofcom inputs to the development of the European Radio Spectrum Policy Programme. Over the past 7 years Chris has been closely involved in work to introduce greater flexibility and market mechanisms to spectrum management and he was part of the team that oversaw the introduction of spectrum trading in the UK in 2004.
Before joining Ofcom, Chris worked in various UK Government Departments, including 6 years at Oftel, where he worked on different aspects of telecommunications regulation. Chris has a degree in mathematics and statistics from Manchester University.
Jim Connolly
Senior Spectrum Advisor, ComReg and Rapporteur for the review of spectrum use, Radio Spectrum Policy Group
Jim Connolly is the senior advisor to ComReg on management of the radio spectrum. He led the team which ran the 3G licence competitions and selected the mobile licences for the Irish market.
He is the ComReg representative in the RSPG and is rapporteur for that group on the review of spectrum use as proposed in the Radio Spectrum Policy Programme.
From 2003 until March 2008 Jim was chairman of the CEPT Frequency Management Working Group which deals with harmonisation of use of the radio spectrum across the 48 European member countries of CEPT.
Prior to joining ComReg in January 2000, Jim worked at the European Radiocommunications Office (ERO) in Copenhagen for 4 years as a frequency management expert primarily focusing on harmonisation of frequency usage throughout Europe. During that period he was chairman of the CEPT Short Range Device Maintenance Group which developed the well known CEPT Recommendation ERC70-03 on short range devices.
Before joining ERO he was with the UK Radiocommunications Agency for 15 years in various frequency management positions covering fixed services, space services and long term strategic planning including reviews of spectrum usage.
Pearse O'Donohue
Head of Radio Spectrum Policy Unit, European Commission
Pearse O'Donohue is responsible for the development and implementation of policies for efficient spectrum use and a coordinated approach to frequency management in the EU. This also involves the development of spectrum harmonisation measures in the electronic communications field and in other internal market sectors such as transport and research. He is Chairman of the EU Radio Spectrum Committee.
Prior to taking over his current post in June 2008, Pearse O'Donohue was the Assistant to the Director-General of DG INFSO (Information Society and Media). Before that, he was Deputy Head of the Unit responsible for monitoring and enforcing implementation of the EU regulatory framework in electronic communications, where he dealt amongst other things with spectrum authorisation and broadband access issues.
Pearse O'Donohue began his career in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, from which he was posted to the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU in Brussels. In 1991 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Brussels office of the Irish Business & Employers' Confederation and in 1995 he joined the European Commission.
Darrin Mylet
Business Operations, Adaptrum
Mr. Mylet joined Adaptrum, a Silicon Valley-based startup exploring the applications of proprietary implementations of cognitive radio for use in wireless services and applications, in 2009.
Mr. Mylet joined Cantor Fitzgerald in 2003 and left in Dec 2008. While at Cantor, Mr. Mylet was responsible for developing and implementing new business initiatives. Led the launch of the Cantor Spectrum Exchange, the first real time wireless spectrum trading exchange. Co-Led the business, regulatory and technology development and launch of Cantor Gaming, the first commercial mobile wireless platform now serving casinos in Las Vegas.
Issued (3) Patents on applying wireless to existing and/or emerging business opportunities. Issued the following patents (#7534169, #7860778 & #7637810).
Prior to joining Cantor-Fitzgerald, Mr. Mylet was with Radiant Networks, a U.K. based pioneer in “physical mesh” broadband wireless equipment, where he was VP Sales & Marketing-Americas from 2000-2003.
Prior to this position, Mr. Mylet was an executive with MFS/Worldcom/MCI from 1997 to 2000. From 1992 to 1997, Mr. Mylet was with GTE Corporation (now Verizon).
Mr. Mylet completed his Second Term (2010/11-Obama) and (2009/10-Bush) for the Department of Commerce Spectrum Management Advisory Committee administered by NTIA and was Chairperson of the Spectrum Transparency Subcommittee.
Mr. Mylet serves on Advisory Board of Full Spectrum, Spectrum Evolution.org.
B.A.Economics Indiana University, Bloomington, IN. Mr. Mylet has had the honor of speaking at numerous industry events including, DySpan, WCAI, USTA, SUPERCOMM, WISPCON, ISPCON, EU/UK SPECTRUM TRADING, BWWF, NTIA, FCC, NATPE, CTIA, NAB, Microsoft MobDev, PFF, CTIA, Nextcomm, eComm, WISPA, SuperWiFi, SDR and EU Spectrum Management Conferences.
Gérard Lapierre
Radio Spectrum Project Officer, European Defence Agency
Military engineer and PhD from ENST Bretagne on signal processing and telecommunications, he started his activity in the French Defence Procurement Agency in 1998 to cover underwater acoustic communications. He joined in 2005 the French spectrum management authority (ANFr) to work on various subjects related to radio spectrum engineering and policy. In particular, he was deeply involved in the technical work carried out in relation to the WAPECS approach and Digital Dividend with the development of the Block Edge Masks (BEM). He joined the European Defence Agency in 2010 to act as a radio spectrum project officer.
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé
Chairman, UMTS Forum
Jean-Pierre Bienaimé has been Chairman of mobile industry association The UMTS Forum since January 2003, with a mission to promote a common vision of the development of 3G/UMTS and of its Long Term Evolution (LTE), and to ensure its worldwide commercial success. The UMTS Forum notably contributes to international organisations (ITU, EC, ETSI, 3GPP, CEPT), conducts studies and reports on key focus areas of mobile broadband communications such as markets & trends, services & applications, spectrum & regulation, impact of technologies & implementation issues, and holds a continued dialogue with decision-makers and regulators of key growth markets worldwide.
Joining France Telecom (FT) in 1979, Bienaimé’s responsibilities included financial management and planning at national and regional level, Advisor to the General Director of Moroccan Telecommunications in Rabat, Director of Marketing and Product Development for international business networks & services at FT, Director of Business Development and Subsidiaries at France Cables & Radio, Chief Executive Officer of Nexus International, VP International Development at France Telecom Mobile, and VP Group Technical Support at Orange until December 2002. In January 2010 he was appointed SVP Strategy & Communications Wholesale at Orange.
Jean-Pierre graduated from the ESSEC Business School – Paris (MBA), from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, and from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Postes & Télécommunications – Paris. He also holds an executive degree from INSEAD – Fontainebleau, and attended a senior executive programme at Kelley School of Business, Indiana University at Bloomington, USA.
Phil Godfrey
Chairman, Tetra Association
Phil Godfrey is the Chairman of the TETRA Association, the representative organisation for the TETRA industry. Phil has been involved with the Association since its formation in 1994. As well as the current chairmanship, he was also Chairman from 1998 to 2001.
He has been involved in the commercial development of TETRA since 1993, during which time he has been instrumental in promoting TETRA worldwide. TETRA is now present in 114 countries, the majority of which are outside the technology’s original European stronghold. Phil’s current focus on market expansion is targeted on the US and Canada, where a decision on technology approval is awaited from the regulators.
Phil is also the owner and a Director of Arpeggio Ltd, his own consulting business, which provides commercial consultancy to communications technology industries including many involved in TETRA. He previously worked for Philips and subsequently Simoco Digital Systems where he was Market Development Director.
Phil has enjoyed a career spanning almost 40 years in the professional mobile radio business covering sales, service, marketing and general management positions.
Jussi Kähtävä
Director, Technology Policy, Nokia
Jussi Kähtävä joined Nokia in 1994 and has worked on radio technology standardization related tasks in Finland, the USA, over a decade in Japan, and now again in Europe. He has participated in global telecommunications standardization activities - particularly 3GPP - since 1999, and recently in ITU-R meetings on IMT systems. Currently he is responsible for Nokia’s global technology policy on future radio systems, with particular focus on the regulatory aspects of new technologies such as cognitive radio.
He holds a Master of Science degree from Tampere University of Technology, Finland.
Andy Hudson
Head of Spectrum Policy , Vodafone Group
Andy is responsible for managing spectrum policy and auctions across the Vodafone Group. He has recently been very busy in India, Germany, France, the Netherlands and Albania. Over almost 10 years he has held various marketing, strategy and public policy roles within Vodafone, leading the development of mobile broadband software and Built-in connectivity. Before joining Vodafone he was part of the senior management team which spun an internet payments and encryption company out of NatWest.
He was a Management Consultant for NatWest and was previously at Sharp Laboratories of Europe and Sony Corporation, based in Japan. He has a doctorate in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MBA.
Lasse Wieweg
Director, Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson
Lasse Wieweg, Director, Government and industry relations, at Ericsson, has worked with telecommunications topics his whole professional career, starting in 1973 with Ericsson. In 1986, following some over-seas assignments, he took up a position at the Frequency Management department within the Swedish Telecommunications Authority. In 1994, he took up a new position within the Swedish Defence Material Administration, looking after Frequency Management for the Swedish Defence Forces. Since 1997, Lasse is back in Ericsson, particularly addressing international policies in the Radio Regulatory and Spectrum domains within the Ericsson Group Function in Stockholm, Sweden.
Lieven Vermaele
Director of Technology & Development, EBU
Lieven Vermaele has been Director of EBU TECHNICAL at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1 September 2007. Achievements include the introduction of new working methods and tools; spectrum policy (ITU, European commission); European-wide P2P projects; “Heads of Research”, a collaborative initiative between broadcasting research centres in Europe and outside (Japan, Canada); and the strengthening of industry-wide ties. He is Chairman of the ETSI/EBU/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee, which is responsible for setting European standards for broadcasting systems. EBU TECHNICAL's objective is to be ‘your reference in media technology and innovation’, which is reflected in the mission: connect and share, develop and guide, promote and represent, drive and harmonize.
Lieven Vermaele started his career at VRT where he worked for six years, mainly developing strategies for the implementation of new technologies. He was in charge of the renegotiation with the Flemish Government of VRT's management contract for 2006-2011. He later joined Alcatel-Lucent dealing with strategic issues before taking up his appointment at the EBU.
Lieven Vermaele was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1975. He is married and has a child.
William Davies
Vice President, Standards and Licensing Policy, Research in Motion
Bill Davies is Executive Director, Public Policy at RIM. Born in Argentina of an Irish Argentine family, he was raised in Brazil and educated in the United States. He speaks English, Spanish and Portuguese and was previously a lawyer on Wall Street. He is also Vice Chair of the Digital Europe IPR interest Group and has been a frequent speaker at industry Fora. During his career William has also served on the Board of Standards Review of the American National Standards Institute, the Joint Government Private Committee of Experts on Electronic Commerce of the FTAA, and the Board of Trustees of Latin American Young Executives.
Erzsébet Fitori
Director, Regulatory Affairs, ECTA
Erzsébet Fitori is Director Regulatory Affairs at the European Competitive Telecommunications Association, the trade association representing over 100 pro-competitive operators across Europe.
Prior to joining ECTA in February 2008 she was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Telenor Hungary in Budapest.
Erzsébet’s early career saw her as an Assistant Professor in the Department of European Law and Private International Law at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, following traineeships at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and at law firm Baker & McKenzie in Budapest.
Erzsébet holds an LL.M. in European Community Law from Leiden University and a Degree in Law from the University of Miskolc, Hungary. In addition to her native Hungarian she speaks excellent English and intermediate level German.
Cengiz Evci
Director, European Spectrum Policy, Alcatel-Lucent
He is currently, Director, European Spectrum Policy matters in the CTO office of the Alcatel-Lucent, Carrier Group/Wireless Technologies, based in Vélizy, France. He received his Ph.D in speech coding for mobile communications from University of Technology, Loughborough, UK.
After his first experience (1982-1988) at Group Philips (TRT) in Paris, he joined Alcatel-Lucent’s R&I department in April 1988 and managed leading technical European projects which led to current UMTS and ATM wireless technologies. He was the initiator of the 3G/UMTS activities at Alcatel in the framework of the first mobile (RACE-1043) project that resulted in today’s 3G/UMTS technologies.
Between 1998-2000, he acted as the Chief Frequency Officer, first at Paris based Headquarter and then, in Vélizy for the CTO office of the Wireless Technologies. Currently, he is the Director/European Spectrum Policy. He is very active within UMTS Forum as the Chair of Manufacturers Group as well as member of General Assembly, Steering Group and Spectrum Aspects Group. In the past he was heavily involved in the work of Mobile TV Group of the UMTS Forum jointly created with GSMA and helped to develop some white papers on Mobile TV technologies and deployment issues. Recently, in the context of the Forum, he was actively involved in the work related to mobile traffic forecast for the next decade 2010-2020 studies.
Moreover, he is the Alcatel-Lucent’s lead representative in several international groups such as ITU–R (for ALU-France), European based ECC/PT1 Group related to IMT and digital dividend issues. Presently with ITU-R, he is acting as co-chair and editor for IMT.UPDATE working group. Moreover, from 2000 to 2005 he served as the Director of the Board for 3G Patents Platform Partnership (3G3P). Based on this experience, for 3 years, he co-ordinated patent issues in Alcatel Mobile Radio division before the merger with Lucent.
He has been an Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy member since 2001 and also a senior member of IEEE since 1989 and is very active in IEEE organizations and he also acted as Executive Committee members of various IEEE events for panel organisations. Finally, he is presently author/co-author of over 100 publications in IEEE and other internationally well-known magazines as well as in conference proceedings including numerous key notes speeches.
Phillipa Marks
Director, Plum Consulting
Phillipa Marks is a Plum Director based in London and is an international expert in the application of market mechanisms to the management of the radio spectrum. She advised the New Zealand government on creating the first ever national market in spectrum in 1989. Since then she developed the approach to spectrum pricing now applied in the UK and has advised numerous other regulators and operators on spectrum pricing, auctions and trading issues. She has advised regulators and operators in Australia, Canada, Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Portugal, Singapore, Sweden and the UK. She has also advised the European Commission on a wide range of spectrum policy issues.
She is currently a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board.
Before joining Plum she was a Director at Indepen and before that was Director at NERA where she led projects on spectrum management, telecoms and broadcasting policy. She has Masters degrees in economics from Canterbury University, New Zealand and Oxford University, UK.
Luc Windmolders
Corporate Affairs Director, KPN Group
Luc Windmolders has a Masters in Law and between 1992 – 2000 he was involved in the start up of a business unit called “Trainings Labour Law and Social Security Law”.
Between 2000 – 2007 Mr Windmolders was the Senior advisor on labour market policy and social affairs in the cabinet of the Belgium prime minister Guy Verhofstadt. And since 2007 he has been the Corporate Affairs Director at KPN.
Karl-Heinz Laudan
Vice President Spectrum Policy Public & Regulatory Affairs, Deutsche Telekom AG
Karl-Heinz Laudan, born in Goslar in 1960, is Vice President for Spectrum Policy in the Department „Public and Regulatory Affairs“ at Deutsche Telekom AG.
He studied electrotechnical engineering at the University of Braunschweig and graduated with a degree as Diplom-Ingenieur.
He began his career in 1987 at Deutsche Telekom, moving afterwards to the Federal Ministry for Post and Telecommunication. He worked in the policy directorate for the departments responsible for research and development policy and for mobile licensing.
After returning to Deutsche Telekom AG, he worked in various positions before he joined T-Mobile International in 2001 and became responsible for Spectrum Policy.
With the expiry of T-Mobile International AG in July 2009 his responsibilities were transferred to Deutsche Telekom AG.
Cecil Ameil
Senior Manager, Regulatory Affairs, SES
Cécil Ameil has joined SES in 1998 to represent the Luxembourg-base satellite operator on public affairs and regulatory matters with the European Union (EU), the CEPT, the Council of Europe and the ITU, under the responsibility of the SES General Counsel.
Cécil Ameil has been the chairperson of the working group on regulation & market access in ESOA (European Satellite Operators Association) for several years. In this capacity, he’s looking at and influencing the development of communications rules at the EU level. Cécil is also raising satellite matters in the context of bilateral trade negotiations between the EU and outside countries. Cécil Ameil has also been active in the Satellite Action Plan Regulatory Working Group (SAP REG), participating to the increased visibility and understanding of the satellite industry from European institutions.
In the early 2000s, Cécil Ameil has coordinated SES’ regulatory efforts at national level to facilitate the deployment of interactive satellite systems in Europe, paving the way for two-way broadband communications.
Before joining SES, Cécil Ameil was a consultant on public affairs in the telecommunications, e-commerce, audiovisual and copyright areas. Prior to this, he worked with the European Parliament and the Commission on raising public awareness about the effect of the telecoms liberalisation and the advent of the Internet.
Cécil Ameil looks back at 18 years of experience in dealing with European affairs, now specialised in radio spectrum policies as well as telecommunications and broadcasting regulations. His dedicated expertise covers the impact of the new EU telecoms legislation and the challenges of future spectrum policies for communications systems in the context of increased liberalisation in radio frequency management.
Alessandro Casagni
Head of EU Wireless Regulatory Policy in the WEU Wireless Solution, Business Strategy department, Huawei Technologies
Head of EU Wireless Regulatory Policy in the Western EU Wireless Solution, Business Strategy department, managing the wireless regulation issues within Huawei European Strategy & Planning organization.
Alessandro holds a master degree in electronic engineering from Rome University.
During the period 2007 to 2009, Alessandro worked in Huawei WiMAX and LTE Product Line departments with special focus on the European regulation matters.
Prior to joining Huawei, Alessandro held several marketing and technical positions in Mediaset broadcasting company (2006 – 2007), Siemens mobile communications (2002 – 2006) and Accenture ICT consulting company (2000 – 2002).
Vieri Vanghi
Senior Director, Technology, Qualcomm
Vieri Vanghi is with Qualcomm Europe, Sr. Director of technology, with responsibilities in WWAN technology and modem product management.
He has been with the Company for the past 15 years, where he started as a systems engineer working on CDMA base stations design.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, he was with the European Space Agency, Holland.
Vieri Vanghi holds a Doct. of Science degree from The George Washington University, Washington D.C., and a MBA from the University of San Diego, San Diego CA.
Frederick De Backer
Manager Regulatory Affairs, Telefónica SA
Frederick De Backer has been a Manager of Regulatory Affairs at Telefónica’s Brussels office since 2007. Prior to that, he worked in Spain as a Strategy Manager at Telefónica and worked as a consultant with McKinsey & Company in a variety of sectors. He began his career as a researcher at Siemens. Frederick obtained a PhD degree from the University of Cantabria and a Masters degree in Engineering from the University of Ghent.
Ross Biggam
Director General, Association of Commercial Television in Europe
After studying law at Exeter and Saarbrücken, Ross Biggam worked as Legal Adviser to the House of Lords EU Select Committee before joining ITV, the leading television channel in the UK, where he ended up as Head of European Affairs. He is a Visiting Professor in Creative Industries at Glasgow University.
In April 2000, he moved to Brussels to become Director General of the Association of Commercial Television in Europe (ACT) which represents the interests of the commercial broadcasting sector in Europe. Formed in 1989, the ACT has thirty-one member companies licensed in 30 different European countries and distributed across 45 European markets and beyond. Our members operate several hundred free-to-air and pay-tv channels and distribute many more channels and new services. The ACT members encompass several business models: free-to-air broadcasters and pay-TV players, digital platform operators and multimedia groups.
Dennis Ward
Principal, DJ Consulting – Spectrum Auctions
After graduating from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario with a Master’s degree in Economics, Dennis Ward commenced his career with Canada’s public service.
From 1979 until the spring of 2000, he served in a number of policy and regulatory positions (primarily in telecommunications and transportation).
From that time until his retirement in 2010, Mr Ward was the Senior Economist and Auctioneer in Industry Canada’s spectrum management programme with primary responsibility for advising on domestic auction theory, design and implementation. Monitoring foreign auctions based on the Simultaneous Multiple Round Auction design (eg European UMTS, FCC PCS and 700 MHz, Germany’s LTE auction) as well as studying innovative approaches such as Ofcom’s Clock Combo and Sweden’s SMRA with switching rules) were other areas of significant interest.
Since Canada’s spectrum management policy is to set spectrum fees to promote efficient use and to deliver an appropriate return to Canadians for the private use of this public resource, other analytic tools such as financial modelling, opportunity cost and optimal deprival were also employed in an attempt to determine appropriate market values for spectrum.
Dennis was the Auctioneer for the four SMRA auctions (which generated $C6 billion in revenue) that were held by Industry Canada from the Spring of 2000 until 2008 - the PCS in 2001 ($1.4B), the FWA/WCS @ 2.3 and 3.5GHz in 2004 and 2005 and the AWS in 2008 ($4.3B). An "odds and ends" auction (2008) and two sealed bid, second price auctions (2009) were also run.
In two of those auctions, Mr. Ward implemented mechanisms to encourage competition among incumbents. Spectrum caps were employed in the PCS auction and an explicit set-aside of 40 MHz was used in the AWS auction, on which only “new entrants” could bid. This tool was very successful at achieving the expected outcome of enhanced competitive entry and this has had a very favourable impact on prices, penetration and services over the last two years.
Maria Maher
Senior Consultant, NERA
Dr. Maria Maher is a Senior Consultant based in Washington, DC, where she specialises in auction design and implementation. She transferred from NERA’s London office, where she was a Senior Consultant in NERA’s Competition Policy practice. She is an established professional with over twenty years experience as an economist specialising in regulatory and competition matters, advising clients in the telecommunications and energy sectors, regulatory authorities and government departments. She has directed and worked on a variety of regulatory and competition matters and has provided litigation support and expert reports in relation to European competition law cases in the area of abuse of dominance. Her experience includes auction design and implementation, assessments of different regulatory and competition regimes, mobile call termination, network access and investment incentives, market liberalisation, contract theory, vertical agreements, and switching costs.
Prior to joining NERA, Dr. Maher worked at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and in academia. She has held positions at Cambridge University, where she was also a Fellow in Economics at Christ's College, Birkbeck College, and the American University in Paris, where she was an adjunct Associate Professor in Economics. In her academic positions, Dr. Maher has taught both undergraduates and graduate students on a wide range of topics including industrial economics, microeconomic theory, competition and regulatory policy, public economics, and mathematics for economists.
Dr. Maher holds a PhD in economics from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in economics and BA in economics and mathematics (with distinction in economics) from Boston University. She is fluent in English, French, and Italian.
Paul Adams
Head of Spectrum Policy, Ministry of Defence, UK
Paul Adams joined the Ministry of Defence in 2002 after graduating with an honors degree in Electronic Engineering from Brunel University. In 2002, he joined the Defence Engineering Science Group graduate programme and completed temporary placements in Defence acquisition, research, test and development, production engineering and policy development. After completing the Graduate course, he joined the UK MOD Tactical Data Links Project Team where he was responsible for managing the delivery of the UK’s Link 16 network management system.
Paul moved in to the spectrum area in 2006 when he transferred to MOD’s strategic headquarters in London as a Spectrum Manager. He was responsible for managing the national military frequency plan and coordinating use with other public and private sector bodies. In 2009, Paul became the Head of Spectrum Policy and is now responsible for providing strategic advice and guidance on military spectrum matters.
Logistics
When
Tue 14 June, 2011 08.55 to
Thu 16 June, 2011 13.30
CET
Where
The Management Centre Europe
rue de l'Aqueduc 118
1050 Brussels
Belgium
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