18 May. 9.00am – 12.30pm
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Biographies
 |  Liu Aili
Executive Vice President & Board Member, China Mobile Communications
Mr. Liu Aili is the Executive Vice President of China Mobile Communications and also sits on the Board of Directors. Currently Mr. Liu's responsibility focus is on network O&M, enterprise IT infrastructure deployment, information security management, etc in China Mobile. Before this Mr Liu was in charge of the business expansion of China Mobile and was responsible for China Mobile's M&A execution. Mr. Liu has been actively involved in leading China Mobile's M&A practices in terms of both acquisition of overseas telecom operators and exploration of opportunities along the value chain. With his efforts China Mobile successfully acquired "Peoples", an operator in Hong Kong, acquired 19.9% shares of phoenix, a famous media company, acquired 100% shares of Paktel Limited, a local mobile operator in Pakistan, and signed a strategic cooperation agreement for a 12% stake of Far Eastone Telecommunications. Mr Liu is a professor-level senior engineer with over 27 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He has rich experiences in the operations of telecom networks and has a sharp point of view for the future of the service provider. Mr Liu received his doctoral degree in 2004 , and was a visiting scholar at Harvard University. His paper "Does participative leadership enhance work performance by inducing empowerment or trust? The differential effects on managerial and non-managerial subordinates" was published by the Journal of Organizational Behavior.
. |  |  Sally Davis
CEO, BT Wholesale
Sally Davis is CEO for BT Wholesale, where her role is to lead the company in its delivery of existing business at the same time as exploiting new opportunities in an IP-enabled world. She also champions Wholesale's contribution to helping BT become number one for customer service. Sally is a member of BT's Operating Committee.
Prior to this Sally was BT's first Chief Portfolio Officer providing overall leadership for the shape and future of the company's portfolio. Sally's role was to apply a clear commercial logic to managing today's portfolio whilst ensuring that we built innovative convergent services and solutions for the future.
. |  |  Akil Beshir
Chairman, Telecom Egypt
Mr. Beshir was appointed Chairman of Telecom Egypt in June 2000. Previously, he was General Manager and Managing Director of Giza Systems Engineering from 1978 to 2000. Beshir holds a B.Sc. in Communications Engineering from Cairo University as well as a Professional Diploma and an MA in Management from the American University in Cairo. |  |  Jan Vorstermans
Executive Vice President Technology & Solutions, Telenet
Mr. Jan Vorstermans is Executive Vice President of Technology & Infrastructure and Telenet Solutions and Member of the Executive Team of Telenet Group Holding NV. He joined the Telenet group as Senior Vice President - Technology, Engineering and Network Operations in February 2003. As of January 2008, Mr. Vorstermans assumed additional responsibilities for Telenet Solutions, the business-to-business unit within the group. From 1994 to 2003, Mr. Vorstermans held several executive positions in British Telecom’s Belgian operations, including as Director Customer Service Belgium, Director Operations Belgium and, most recently, Vice President Global Network Operations. |  |  William So
President, China Unicom (Europe)
William So is the President of China Netcom (Europe) Operations, a full service telecom operator. Mr. So oversees China Unicom operations in Europe. Previously, he was the Chief Executive Officer of China Netcom Group (Hong Kong) Operations Limited, an integrated wireline carrier and holding company for China Netcom overseas subsidiaries. Prior to that, Mr. So was the Chairman of the Board, China Netcom Taiwan and Deputy General Manager, China Netcom (Group) Co. Ltd. He is experienced in the information technology and telecommunication sectors. Before, Mr. So was senior executive of a Sino-US Joint Venture, a wholly owned foreign enterprise in China and Lenovo. He has also held management positions at IBM China and Hong Kong. |  |  Thierry Zylberberg
Executive VP Strategic Partnerships & General Manager Healthcare, France Telecom
Previously he was Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing of the Major Account Division of France Telecom.
He has served in various positions within the FT Group, including General Manager of France Telecom in Mexico, managing the controlling interest France Telecom took in Telmex in 1990, and providing assistance and consultancy to Telmex in its newly deregulated market; Marketing Director, Professional Products and Services in France Telecom, where he was in particular responsible for the development of such products as ISDN, PBX, modems and Centrex.
He helped create and managed the Theseus Institute, a Business School focusing on the impact of Information Technology on corporate management and strategy. |  | Gerd Leonhard
Media, Technology & Communications Futurist
The WSJ calls Gerd ‘one of the leading Media Futurists in the world’. He is widely known for his books ‘The Future of Music’, ‘Music2.0’ and ‘The End of Control’.
Gerd work focuses on the Future of Media, Content, Technology, Business, Marketing, Advertising and Communications, and he is considered a leading expert and influencer. His keynotes are renowned for a hard-hitting and provocative yet inspiring and motivational style; with over 300 engagements in 28 countries during the past 6 years Gerd’s clients include Nokia, Google, Sony/BMG, ITV, the BBC, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, DDB, NSN and many others. Gerd is a fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts (London), and resides in Basel, Switzerland.
|  |  Nick Ogden
CEO, Voice Commerce
As founder and CEO of The Voice Commerce Group, a regulated Financial Service Group which operates and delivers mobile financial, payment, identity and verification services and solutions to consumers and businesses. Nick is primarily responsible for the company’s overall corporate strategy and business development.
A serial entrepreneur, Nick has consistently been at the forefront of innovation in technology since 1985. In 1993, he founded Multi Media Investments Limited, a technology research and development company that brought the Internet to the Channel Islands through Interactive Telephony Ltd. This led to the construction of Europe's first on-line store, Wine Warehouse, in October 1994 and the development of one of the first bank-endorsed e-commerce initiatives in the form of the UK’s first electronic shopping mall, ‘BarclaySquare’, in 1995.
In 1997 Nick founded WorldPay, which guarantees internet transactions worldwide, and led the company through its growth to over 270 employees with 20,000 merchants in 120 countries and processing transactions in excess of $2bn per annum. WorldPay was acquired by the Royal Bank of Scotland in 2002.
|  |  Thomas Capka
COO, A1 Bank
Thomas Capka has more than 20 years professional experience in the payment industry.
Since 2004 he is COO of A1 Bank, the banking arm of mobilkom austria, the largest austrian mobile operator. He is responsible for payment processing, Risk management and merchant relations.
He held several leading positions at VISA Austria from 1986 to 2001 including Head of IT and Operations. He was Managing Director of KSG, the processing Company of VISA Austria from 1991 to 2001. In this role he was responsible for the development of POS-Solutions and the processing of Loyality Card programmes.
He was also a member of the VISA International New Products Advisory Forum which focused on the issues of e- and m-commerce. In 2001 he joined paybox austria and in his role as COO he was responsible for setting up the infrastructure for this m-payment company.
|  |  Emily Nagle Green
President & CEO, Yankee Group
Emily Nagle Green is chartered with continuing Yankee Group's leadership in navigating the global connectivity revolution as the president and CEO. She also sits on the Board of Directors for Yankee Group. She is also author of the book ANYWHERE: How Global Connectivity Is Revolutionizing the Way We Do Business, which offers an unprecedented road map for how ubiquitous connectivity will impact our lives.
Before joining Yankee Group, Green was the CEO of Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), the preeminent research and consulting firm in the energy sector, and led its sale in 2004 to IHS Energy. Previously, Green served for nine years in leadership roles with the IT advisory firm Forrester Research, helping the company grow from a privately held boutique to a publicly traded market leader. From 2001 to 2003, she was managing director, Forrester Research North America; she also launched and built the company's European operations from 1998 to 2001
|  |  Giovanni Chiarelli,
CIO, Telecom Italia
Giovanni Chiarelli was appointed head of Telecom Italia Information Technology General Management in February 2008. Chiarelli has also worked as the Head of Wireline Operations Support Systems as well as Technical Information Services Manager for Telecom Italia.
Prior to Telecom Italia, Mr. Chiarelli joined Accenture, working as IT Manager for 9Telecom in France, before taking over responsibility for Telecom Italia’s CRM project. He has also worked at Infostrada as Manager of Business Support Systems Planning, and subsequently Network Support Systems Planning.
Mr Chiarelli sits on the Board of Directors at TM Forum and on the Te.Ma Infomobility consortium steering committee. In 2008, he became chairman of IT Telecom s.r.l., and joined the board at SSC srl.
|  | Iain Morris,
Editor, Technology Briefing - Telecommunications & IT, Economist Intelligence Unit
Iain Morris has handled much of the Economist Intelligence Unit's analysis of the global telecommunication and IT industries since joining the company in 2007. He was previously the Features Editor of Telecommunications magazine, a leading trade journal, and before that worked as an Editor for Analysys Consulting (now Analysys Mason), which advises telecoms service providers, equipment vendors and regulatory bodies around the world.
|  |  Mehrdad Mansourpour
Managing Director/CIO, UPC Broadband
As Managing Director and CIO of UPC Broadband, Mehrdad Mansourpour is responsible for all IT Systems, Data Centres and Network Operational Centres supporting the BSS, OSS and Enterprise systems, including the Front Office systems, in 132 European countries. CIO is also responsible for development of major solutions to support the current and new product development and their deployment. The CIO office is responsible for supporting all M&A activities and for transition support in a number of countries, whilst developing and implementing total Architecture and new solutions for the company. Mehrdad Mansourpour is Chairman of the CIO Board of Liberty Global.
Mehrdad Mansourpour has worked in the IT and Telecommunications industries in various regions of the world for over 22 years. His recent appointments have been as CIO and Senior Vice President for Corporate Services and HR at Flag Telecom. He was also a member of Senior Executive Management, followed by the appointment of Head of the technical group representing major Telecom’s successfully taking over Tyco Global Communications Networks. Mehrdad has held various senior positions in a number of industries including Pharmaceuticals, FMCG and computer industries and has been heavily involved in M&A, setting up and supporting systems and infrastructure for the past fifteen years.
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