Mr Ibrahim Al-Dhobaie is currently the VP of IT at Saudi Telecom Co. since Jan 2004. He has spent all of his 28-year working experience in telecommunication industry. He has a wide spectrum of expertise that almost covers all technological aspects of the telecommunication business. He has held various senior positions in network and IT and has tangible contributions that excelled the corporate business. Ibrahim is one of those few executives who has lived the two eras of STC, namely pre- and post-privatization eras. Mr. Dhobaie is also one of the pioneers who contributed in transforming the IT at STC from a single department to one of the biggest world-class IT sector in the Middle East region. Mr. Dhobaie has chaired numerous strategic programs that involved key changes or transformations that IT or STC as a whole has or is undergoing.

Sabri Yahya is Chief Information Officer of Etisalat Egypt. He joint Etisalat UAE in 1995 as a graduate trainee in engineering department. Between 2001 and 2006, Sabri Yahya held various managerial positions in the area of switching, intelligent networks and network services development. Sabri Yahya holds a Master of Science degree in Communication Systems Engineering from University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

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Kathy Romano has over 30 years of experience at Verizon after beginning her career with Bell of Pennsylvania. She has held positions in nearly every aspect of telecom operations, providing a significant knowledge base and industry leading vision with regard to OSS, billing and revenue assurance. She currently serves as Executive Director of Verizon Services Billing and Revenue Assurance.

I have been with BT for 36 years currently having a focussed role, initiating the implementation of Revenue Assurance processes and procedures into all the major billing streams associated across BT both for subscription products, managed services and network applications.

Larry is head of Analysys Mason’s Telecom Software team which specializes in analysis of communications service providers’ use of software systems. He co-founded OSS Observer, now part of Analysys Mason. Larry has over 30 years’ experience in telecoms software and network management. Before founding OSS Observer in 2003, he was OSS Program Director at RHK. Prior to joining RHK, he was Director of the Network Solutions Group at Tellabs, managed OSS development at GTE (now Verizon) and spent 12 years at Hewlett-Packard, where he was a manager responsible for HP OpenView development.

Catherine Michel is CTO and cofounder of Tribold Limited. She is the principle architect of the company’s product and solutions portfolio. Her extensive experience in CSP transformational strategies and systems development has made her a recognized authority in the industry. Prior to co-founding Tribold, Catherine was a senior executive in Accenture’s Communications & High Tech practice, devising and delivering business strategy and large-scale BSS / OSS solutions. Catherine also sits on the TM Forum Executive Committee.

Jörg Steinbauer joined BearingPoint INFONOVA in 2001. As Program Manager for OSS Solutions he is responsible for the implementation of large-scale OSS/BSS projects. Since November 2002 he is Program Manager for an Austrian Telco & ISP in the areas BSS and Billing infrastructure.

Appointed as Director of Network of Services in April 2007, she has more than 15 years experience in the telecommunications industry, mainly in Network and Engineering. She joined XL in 1996, and served as Manager of Radio Network Design Engineering and other key positions in the XL Network and Engineering Department, serving last as Senior Vice President of Network Planning & Development. She graduated from Bandung Institute of Technology majoring in Telecommunications in 1991.

Dr. Dirk Lukas is working in telecommunication industries since 1994, enforcing many years the retail and wholesale business at E-Plus (Germany) and at KPN Mobile (Netherlands) with respect to Business Support Processes, then joining Detecon International and still focussing on eTOM blocks Fulfilment, Assurance, and mainly Billing. He has been fully integrated in former GBA work, he is much experienced in designing and implementing billing processes in both the wholesale and the retail business, and he is also an expert in tailoring new business models by partner management partner settlement, and dispute management processes.

Jonathan Jensen is Online Payments Business Lead for BT Agilemedia, identifying payments opportunities in the online market. Previously Jonathan worked in BT Billing on billing convergence and billing strategy. Jonathan has ten years experience in billing and payment services, both within BT and previously at Copernicus Global Billing Services and in the telecommunications industry. Prior to billing Jonathan worked in the IT industry. Jonathan represents BT on the TM Forum Revenue Management Initiative & is co‑chairman of the Revenue Management Initiative Billers Club, for operators.

Dr. Haiping Che, is Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Fulfilling the role of CTO of Huawei Software. Dr Che graduated from Nankai University majoring in Automatic Control in 1997, and joined Huawei the same year. He participated in development of commercial products of GSM NSS, SMSC, WIN, WCDMA. He has been the Head of Dept. of Wireless Core Network, Vice President of Wireless Product Line, and has been awarded the first grade of China National Technology Advancement Prize.

Dr. Ralf Guckert completed his studies in Physics at the University of Gießen in 1994 with a diploma and received his doctorate in 1999. From 1994 to 1999 he worked as a graduate student, as post-doc, and as staff-member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (USA). Since the beginning of 2000, he worked at the former LHS Group, most recently as the head of Sales Support and Business Development. . In 2003, as Vice President Products he was part of the leadership team and participated in the carve-out of the Schlumberger Product Unit BSCS. In February 2004, private equity investor General Atlantic and LHS Beteiligungs AG acquired the business operations from Schlumberger Investments Ltd. and Schlumberger S. A. After the successful launch of LHS, Dr. Ralf Guckert left LHS in 2005 and became Director System Engineering at the Charging Unit of Siemens Com and after the merge with the Network unit of Nokia he became Head of the Product Line Next Generation Charging at NSN. Late 2007, he returned to LHS as Vice President Product Strategy.

Prior to joining Highdeal, Fergus was Principal Product Manager AOL iPlanet’s eCommerce Solutions. Previously, he was co-founder and CEO of FindShare, Inc., a provider of Internet knowledge management solutions. His other international experience includes management and technical positions at 3Com, Capgemini and Ascent Technology.

Rose Moura, director of Revenue Assurance for Swisscom Switzerland, earned a master’s degree in mechanical engineering in Brazil, and is certified in financial modules at iimt MBA, Switzerland. Rose has more than 23 years of professional experience in a wide range of industries (AO telecommunications, IT, finance and manufacturing), and has been working at Swisscom since 2003.

Dr. Coutand is a Doctorate in Communication Technology. Since joining Detecon he has being involved in multiple revenue management related projects He has been actively contributing to the Revenue Assurance topic development and has worked on implementation of new Revenue Assurance functions. Dr. Coutand also holds certifications in eTOM and SID.

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