Peter Gillingwater, Chairperson

TM Forum is pleased to announce our Judge's Chairperson for this year's 2008 Excellence Awards, Peter Gillingwater

Peter will be heading a distinguished panel of judges chosen for our 2nd annual Excellence Awards.

Peter has helped build and worked with many OSS and BSS companies since the early 1990’s and has developed a significant global network of investors, executives and advisors within these markets. In 2000 he founded Nexec Partners which is a market leading search firm within the global technology and telecom markets. In 2006 he co-founded the European Leadership Programme which provides a community-based support infrastructure for CEOs of high growth TMT companies in Europe.

Peter’s career began in EDS as a technology consultant in his native New Zealand and with Citigroup when he came to London in 1987. He moved into global technology Executive Search in 1988 and amassed experience within Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. He was also a Director and Board Member of the AIM listed Corporate Executive Search Group that was instrumental in building many management teams for many leading TMT companies in their international growth plans.