Beckie delivers key programs across multiple organizations according to the business priorities to ensure company-wide program prioritization and deployment. Beckie has over 10 years of Comcast and holds a B.S. in Communications Systems Management from Ohio University with a minor in Business Administration.

Dale has over 12 years experience working in the communications industry and has spent the last 5 1/2 years working with Cognizant. He has worked on various engagements across the Wireless, Cable and LEC segments and is currently the Client Partner at Comcast for Cognizant.

Steve Taff, serves XO Communications as Vice President for their IT Network Systems for operational support systems, applications development, network management, and service delivery. He has over 22 years experience in the telecom industry and has held a variety of Information Technology management positions at Allegiance Telecom, MFS Communications, and Sprint.

In his role, Leonard is responsible for the positioning of Oracle’s Service Fulfillment solutions into communications providers on a global basis. Prior to Oracle, Leonard held positions with MetaSolv Software as Director of Provisioning Solutions and with Nortel and Architel Systems as the Portfolio Director for Service Provisioning where he managed the business and associated product direction of the portfolio.

In his role as billing & IT operations director, Emilio Rodriguez oversees Axtel’s billing applications and processes, including revenue assurance, e-commerce, interconnection and settlements, mediation and fraud management. Emilio has held several director-level positions throughout his 11-year tenure with Axtel. He previously served as an IT Billing Manager at Mexican CSP, Alestra.

Arnhild Schia is SVP of strategic marketing for Comptel. She joined the company in 2005, previously served as head of south and west Europe, Asia-Pacific and Americas, and led market development. Before Comptel, she was president and CEO of EDB Telecom, president and CEO of Incatel and EVP of Telesciences.

Sandip is the Senior Applications Engineer at Time Warner Cable Commercial. He has the responsibility for providing OSS solutions for the Texas Region to optimize commercial operations. He works closely with Time Warner Cable corporate OSS team to ensure unity of OSS solutions across the company. Before joining Time Warner Cable, Sandip spent over 14 years at Lucent Technologies, involved in the development of Network Management Solutions for the SONET, SDH and Optical Transport Domains. Sandip was also an active member of the TM Forum as a contributor to the MTNM standards development whilst at Lucent Technologies.

Sergio is the Solutions Architect and one of the founders at Nakina Systems and has responsibility for future product roadmap and working closely with Nakina customers. Sergio is one of Nakina’s key speakers and is very active in the OSS industry. Prior to Nakina, Sergio spent 18 years working at Bell Northern Research and Nortel Networks and was involved in the infancy and architecture of Nortel's highly successful line of HiCap and Metro Optical products.

Dr. Gadi Solotorevsky is the CTO of cVidya Networks. He is a specialist in Telecommunications and Revenue Intelligence with years of experience developing and deploying Revenue Intelligence solutions and methodologies. Dr. Solotorevsky is one of the founders and the chair of the Revenue Assurance modeling team of the TM Forum, he is one of the authors of the TM Forum documents TR131, and GB941 , he is a TM Forum Distinguished Fellow and Ambassador. Dr. Solotorevsky holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science, and is the author of several scientific papers on Distributed Artificial Intelligence and Resource Allocation.

As Vice President Revenue Accounting and Assurance for MetroPCS Inc, Terri leads a team of experts in the constant pursuit of complete accuracy and integrity of the financial statements via effective and efficient practices. In joining MetroPCS in 2004, Terri was tasked with building Revenue Accounting and Revenue Assurance teams to solidify the financial practices of these areas, as well as creating efficient automation thru a dedicated Financial Automation team. Thru these teams of experts, solid control processes have been developed, adding both cost and revenue savings, eliminating risk of revenue leakage, along with implementing best practices surrounding revenue testing and control. Prior to joining MetroPCS, Terri served as the Vice President Revenue Management for Allegiance Telecom, and has held Revenue Accounting, Revenue Assurance and Billing Automation positions in several other large businesses. With over 25 years of experience, including 18 of those years in the Telecom Industry, Terri has become a leader of innovation in the areas of Revenue Accounting, Assurance, Control and Automation.

Yoel is a telecom expert specializing in process control, auditing and financial risk management. His career includes development and marketing experience in RAD, robotics, artificial intelligence, BI, ERM and SLAs. For the last five years, he has built the architecture for two large scale business analytic projects for IBM customers.

Mr. Lopez oversees the activities of the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Prevention functions within each of the countries that NII Holdings operates in. NII Holdings has become a top performing wireless company in Latin America; its principal operations are in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Peru. Mr. Lopez has previously worked with several international carriers throughout Latin America. He has over 16 years of telecommunication experience in audit, finance, business operations, revenue assurance and fraud prevention. Mr. Lopez, holds an BS Finance and BS Accounting from Indiana University and holds an MBA from University of Phoenix.

Erik Splinter is Director Business Consultancy Services at Connectiva Systems Inc.. As head of the consultancy team he is responsible for consultancy in the Fraud, RA and CEM domain for existing and prospective customers. Before joining Connectiva Systems, Erik worked for several world leading Fraud and RA vendors in consultancy and business development roles. Prior to joining the software vending industry Erik was manager of Commercial Fraud & Revenue Control for the Dutch mobile operator Vodafone in Maastricht, The Netherlands.

Oscar received a Bachelor’s in Computing Sciences by Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. He holds a Master’s degree in Business Administration (MBA) by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. He is currently in the process to get the PMP certification. With 10 years experience as a consultant, he has participated in several projects worldwide implementing billing systems with customers such as Cable and Wireless, Colombia Movil, Telefonica Movistar. In Cablevision he implemented the Interconnection, Mediation and Revenue Assurance (RAID) platforms. Currently he is responsible for the Project Management Office, Revenue Assurance and Fraud (in progress) platforms.

Hans Eismann is a highly accomplished information technology project manager with extensive experience leading development projects through all life cycle phases to completion on time and within budget. Hans has proven ability to recruit, train, evaluate, and lead large and successful technical employee teams. Recognized as a creative and effective strategic planner and problem solver in meeting organizational goals he has proven to be a resourceful coordinator in fast-paced technology environments during his stages in companies such as Wedo Technologies or AT&T in the past. Currently Hans Eismann is Client Services director in WeDo Technologies for the north American market.

Mr. Belohoubek has spent the last 28 years in the high technology industry, in various roles of increasing responsibility. He spent 19 years as a member of the Nortel Networks technology team. Mr. Belohoubek joined Bell Canada in September 2001. On July 1, 2009 he assumed responsibility to Bell Business Market’s pre-sales engineering community, managing the delivery of network-based solution proposals to customers across the major centers in Ontario and Quebec.

As CEO, Mr. Bareket is focused on strategic direction, navigating the company to deliver mission critical solutions that simplify the complex lifecycle management of enabling-equipment and next-generation network-services. Prior to Netformx, he held various positions at Mercury Interactive Corporation (now HP) including President of Mercury Interactive Japan K.K. and General Manager for Japan and Korea.

Rance Best is responsible for OSS planning and implementation at SaskTel. As a senior member of the OSS solutions center Rance works with external partners and SaskTel personnel to evaluate OSS solutions for resource trouble management and oversees OSS implementation projects. Rance has over 30 years of experience in telecommunications.

Mr. Collins has an extensive career in the telecom and utility industries with executive level experience at Hamilton Hydro, its Fiberwired telecom division and Hamilton Community Energy prior to joining Toronto Hydro Telecom as the VP of Operations. He was responsible for several OSS integrations including developments at his two previous engagements and at Atria. Mr. Collins earned a B.Eng from McMaster University and a Business Administration diploma from Sir Wilfrid Laurier University.

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Syeed E. Ali is a communications-electronics researcher at US Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command (RDECOM). Mr. Ali's research interests include network fault management, policy-based network management, network interoperability, computer/user interfaces, and routing protocols. Mr. Ali is currently manager of several of the Army's Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) programs.

Tom has over 20 years experience in the telecommunication industry and has held a wide range of technical management positions at Bell Laboratories, AT&T, and Lucent Technologies where he was technical director for Lucent's Software Product Division for North America. Tom holds a BS and MS degrees in EE and CS from Cornell University.

G. Lepri joined Telecom Italia in 1990 and since then worked in the Technology Division. His experiences span from Operations to Engineering. In November 2006 he finally was in charge of the Technical quality department. His current mission is to identify and improve critical processes and design IT system to support the activities.

As Chief Technology Officer, Brian Cappellani is responsible for the architectural and technology vision and deliverables for Sigma Systems’ award-winning Service Management Platform and solutions suites. As a veteran in telecommunications, he has an extensive background in designing, architecting, and building large-scale operations and billing support systems. Mr. Cappellani also serves as an Advisory Director to the TM Forum’s Advisory Council and is also a member of the TMForum Technical Committee. He is a highly sought-after speaker on next-generation OSS and advanced advertising. Prior to joining Sigma Systems, Mr. Cappellani held numerous senior-level architecture, engineering and development management positions of increasing responsibility for Accenture and Accenture’s telecommunications practice. He holds an Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Waterloo in Waterloo, Ontario.

Bam, currently VP of Advanced Services Engineering at Insight Communications, has over 29 years experience in Engineering, IS/IT and Operations environments, starting at Bell Canada, Canada’s largest telephone company, and recently at Charter Communications, the forth largest Cable Company in the U.S., and at Accenture, the largest systems integrator in the world. At Insight Communications, Bam is responsible for the technology design, engineering, development, integration, validation & deployment of Insight’s revenue generating as well as corporate IP data & VoIP phone networks. Bam is also responsible for the design, development, integration, validation, deployment & support of Insight’s network-facing support systems. Bam had similar responsibilities at Charter. While an Associate Partner at Accenture, Bam is responsible for architecting solutions in system integration projects as well as the program management and execution of said projects, such as the CRM/BSS/OSS design, development & deployment at WINfirst (now SureWest) – a FTTH over-builder in Sacramento. In addition to the above, Bam’s experience also includes working in the Engineering, Operations and IS/IT departments of Jones Intercable, MediaOne, AT&T Broadband (all now Comcast), Casema (a Dutch cable company), Nortel, Dynamic City (a public FTTH project in Utah), USWest (now Qwest), eircom (an Irish wire-line service provider), NCIC (a Taiwanese wire-line service provider), FET (a Taiwanese wireless service provider), CyberCity (a Danish DSL service provider), Bell Sygma Telecom Solutions (now CSC), Extant (now Dynegy) and West Interactive (an Call Center and IVR service provider). Bam has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, majoring in computer science, from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 1982.

Oliver Tavakoli is CTO for Juniper's SLT Business Group. In this role he sets overall technical direction for Juniper's Firewall, IDP, SSL VPN and WAN acceleration product lines. Prior to joining Juniper Networks via acquisition, Oliver was CTO at Funk Software, a pioneer in the AAA and 802.1X spaces which fielded market-leading products such as Steel-Belted Radius and Odyssey Client. Oliver joined Funk Software through its acquisition of Trilogy, Inc., a company which Oliver co-founded in 1994. Earlier in his career, Oliver developed system and networking software at IBM and Novell.

Since joining NetCracker in 2006, Bob has held various strategic roles with the company in both the delivery and sales organizations. In his current role, he is responsible for overseeing the design and delivery of solutions that enable services providers and large enterprises to deliver next-generation services over converged networks. Prior to joining NetCracker, Bob spent ten years at Accenture, where he worked in the company’s Communications and High Technology practice as an SME in its Network Service Line of Business. During his tenure at Accenture, Bob’s responsibilities included developing OSS market offerings and providing network sales, delivery, and operational consulting for Tier 1 Communications Service Providers including Bell Canada, TELUS, Pacific Bell, Nextel, and Sprint-PCS.

E. P. Matthews is a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff in the Network Planning and Performance Engineering Center of Bell Laboratories. She holds a B.S and M.S from Union College in mathematics. Her area of expertise is telecommunications operations analysis and solution design. She was awarded a patent for numerical analysis of a new video-encoding algorithm, the Bell Labs President's award for modeling of telecom and operations flow, is the author of several papers in operations and telecommunications, and was the Chief Editor for ITU SG2 standard E41.TOC: Operations Competency Metrics. Most recently she has been working on identifying and quantifying operations impacts of leading edge technologies.

Glen Ragoonanan is the lead analyst for Analysys Mason's Infrastructure Solutions research programme. He joined Analysys Mason in 2008 and has worked as a consultant on projects on next-generation IT and telecoms networks, systems and technologies for incumbents, new entrants, private companies, regulators and public-sector clients. His primary areas of specialization include operations and business support systems (OSS/BSS) solution architecture and integration for business process re-engineering, business process optimization, business continuity planning, procurement and outsourcing operations and strategies. Before joining Analysys Mason, Glen worked for Fujitsu, designing, delivering and managing integrated solutions. Glen is a Chartered Engineer and project management professional with an MSc from Coventry University.

Hermes Figueroa is the Head of Global Services (GS) Sales at Nokia Siemens Networks for Latin America. He has worked for more than 20 years in the IT and Telecommunications sector in Europe and Latin America. He has held several positions in Sales, Marketing and Business Development, such as Head of Managed Services for Latin America at Nokia. Previously at NSN he acted as Head of Services Sales for America Movil/Telmex. Mr. Figueroa has a Computer Engineering degree and an MBA from USP in Brazil.

Dr. Erik Odberg has 15 years of experience from the telecommunications industry, mainly as an Enterprise Architect and with particular focus on alignment of OSS/BSS initiatives with business strategies. Odberg has a PhD in Computer Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

Borger Warlo has over 20 years of experience from the telecommunications industry, both from the supplier- and operator side. Warlo is currently head of IT Architecture in Telenor Norway and has an MSc in Telecommunications from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.

Dr. Vidar Vetland has 14 years of experience from the telecommunications industry, mainly as an Enterprise Architect with particular focus on the interplay between business, IT and technology strategies and how the strategies are best communicated to top-level management. Vetland has a PhD in Computer Science from the Norwegian Institute of Technology.