Speakers

Bernand Grave

Marketing Director - Alcatel

Bernard Grave is the Marketing Director & Architect Solutions in the Fixed Communication Group for the Middle East, Africa , and South Asia  region.

Bernard Grave spent 20 years in the telecommunication industry; first with ITT (1984-1987), with Alcatel (1987-1995), with New bridge (1995-2000) and finally with Alcatel again from 2000 .

During his career he held  several positions in sales & marketing, in the data industry first, and then  later in the convergence world with voice and  data integration. Bernard has sixteen years experience in product marketing, in his current position he is responsible for  voice / data / broadband convergence in the areas of MPLS , NGN , DSL , WDM and multimedia applications support .

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 Khaled Rifai

Director of Marketing and Business development  - Lucent

Khaled Rifai is the Director of Marketing and Business development for MEA region at Lucent Technologies. Prior to joining Lucent he held various position in the areas of Telecommunications and Network Engineering with Ascend Communications, Cisco Systems, Electronic Data Systems, ..etc.

He has a BSEE and MSEE in Communications Engineering. His interests include Next Generation Networks and Broadband Technologies.

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Hamdi Breik

Senior Manager Mobility - Lucent

Hamdi Breik is currently working for Lucent Technologies and responsible for Mobility solutions for Middle East and Africa region. Mr Breik has been working with Lucent Technologies for the past 10 years where he took several key positions in deploying GSM and 3G solutions.

Prior to his work with Lucent, Mr. Breik worked for a couple of operators in Kuwait and Australia. His involvement in mobility started in 1985 and covered all mobility generations 1G, 2G and 3G.

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Wireline Strategic Marketing Manager - Motorola

Morgan David is Wireline Strategic Marketing Manager for Motorola Networks in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). He leads a specialist team in this new growth marketplace for Motorola Wireline products, working with wireline operators to provide commercial and market-facing expertise and engagement support for these end-to-end solutions.

Morgan David has been with Motorola Wireline since 2001. He was instrumental in developing the first generation of business models aimed at providing return-on-investment analysis for customers considering Motorola's Fiber-to-the-Node and Fiber-to-the-Premise solutions, and in assisting telecommunication carriers in their triple-play strategies. As such Morgan has contributed to Motorola's market leadership in the video-over-DSL marketplace in North America with over 70 carrier deployments.

Prior to joining Motorola, Morgan worked as Market Research Manager for a Customer Relationship Management software vendor in Silicon Valley and was a Market Research Program Manager for an analyst house.  Morgan holds an MBA from the American International University, Chicago, IL, a Master in Political Sciences and a Master in International Economic Relations from the Institute of Political Sciences in Paris, France.

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Director Wireless Broadband - Motorola

Noel Kirkaldy is Director Wireless Broadband for Motorola Networks in Middle East and Africa (MEA). Noel has gained close to 20 years in Telecom Industry, having begun his Career working in Europe and the US he has spent the past 17 Years based in the Middle East and African Region.  He leads Motorola Networks Wireless Broadband MEA team who work with operators to provide commercial and market-facing expertise and engagement support for Wireless Broadband End-to-End solutions.

Noel Kirkaldy has been with Motorola since 1998. He was instrumental in developing for the use of Wireless Technologies to provide Voice and Data solutions in a number of Countries in the MEA region. As such Noel has contributed to Motorola Network's strong market position in the MEA Region.

Noel has been based in the MEA region since 1988, and his experience covers a wide territory from Egypt, UAE and Pakistan through to South Africa and Kenya. Prior to joining Motorola, Noel worked in Europe and the US in all aspects of telecoms from R&D to business development, deployment, integration and sales and marketing. Noel studied Electrical and Electronic Engineering with the Open University in the UK.

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Chief Engineer of Huawei NGN Marketing Department - Huawei

Mr. Li Zhaoyang has been working in Huawei technologies Co. Ltd for more than 9 years, grown from a programmer to project manager and then to R&D leader of one NGN component. Based on these abundant R&D experience, Mr. Li Zhaoyang is family with the system architecture of NGN and the Fixed-line network trend.

Now Mr. Li is the Chief Engineer of Huawei NGN Marketing Dept. to take charge of NGN market analysis and roadmap planning.

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Chief Engineer of Huawei Broadband Access Marketing - Huawei

Mr. Duke Fu (with Chinese name Yu Fu) has 7 years of experience in access products research, development and technical marketing for new technologies and solution. Duke holds B.S. in Electrical Engineering from University of Science and Technology of Xidian.

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Technical Director for Wireline Networks - Ericsson

Mr. Peter Linder is Technical Director for Wireline Networks at Ericsson and is in charge of the technical direction of Ericsson's Wireline operations and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. His role covers Broadband Access, IP Softswitching for Telephony and Multimedia applications as well as the installed base of AXE. Prior to his current position he was Technical Director for Broadband access, when Ericsson re-positioned towards Public Ethernet and introduced Ethernet DSL access, the most powerful IP-DSLAM in the market to date. In his role at Ericsson he is actively involved in the work to advance IP/Ethernet Broadband standards for Triple play service delivery in DSL Forum, Metro Ethernet Forum, MUSE, IEEE, ITU-T, ANSI and ETSI.

In addition to his responsibilities at Ericsson, has served as Ericsson's representative on the Board of Ethernet in the First Mile Alliance (EFMA) since the formation of the alliance in 2001 and has also served as the Vice President of Marketing from early 2002 until EFMA morphed into Metro Ethernet Forum in the spring of 2005 after the EFM standard (IEEE 802.3ah) was completed.

He is a frequent speaker at various Broadband industry events, with international appearances in 2004 covering Broadband World Forum (Seoul & Venice), Voice-on-the-Net (Boston) & xDSL Summit (Nice). International speaking commitments in 2005 is involving: 21 Century Communications World Forum (London), VON Spring (San Jose), VON Europe (Stockholm), Broadband World Forum Asia (Yokohama) & SuperComm (Chicago).

He joined Ericsson in 1991 on a program for Telecommunication system engineers and has during his career been holding positions in Sweden, the US and Mexico. Between 1993 and 2001 he held various product management and management positions in the Broadband access area for Ericsson, covering a wide range of products such as DSL, LMDS, HFC and Fiber Ethernet access as well as broader solution offerings for Interactive Video, Public Hot spot applications.

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Senior Program and Consulting Manager - IDC CEMA

Mohsen Malaki joined IDC in May 2001 and is based in IDC CEMA's  headquarters in Prague, Czech Republic.

Mohsen Malaki is the Communication Group's Senior Program and Consulting Manager for the MEA Region, covering the Telecommunications, mobile, data, and Internet markets of the Middle East and Africa.

Mr. Malaki has conducted extensive research on the telecommunications markets of the MEA region. Studies have included market sizing and forecasts for the telecoms, mobile, managed data network services and Internet access markets for Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Morocco, the UAE, and other MENA countries.

Mr. Malaki holds an economics degree from Columbia University, New York City

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P.Engineer - Nortel / ITU

John Visser earned a Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada in 1973. After gaining practical experience in diverse areas within military communications as an officer in the Canadian Armed Forces, John joined Bell-Northern Research, then the R&D arm of Nortel, in 1978. Since then, he has been involved in many key network standards, systems engineering, planning, product design, and product line management support activities for many years.

He has an extensive background in SS7, ISDN, Intelligent Networks and mobile networks, and has held a series of positions of increasing responsibility, both internally and within standards bodies, in these areas over his career with Nortel. Together with prior activities in ANSI T1, TIA, and other areas in ITU T, and the 3G Partnership Projects, John is very active in International Mobile Telecommunications (IMT-2000) standardization work in ITU-T. In October 2000, John was appointed Chairman of the ITU-T Special Study Group (SSG) on "IMT-2000 and Beyond."

In October 2004, he was appointed Chairman of the successor to ITU-T Special Study Group, SG 19 "Mobile Telecommunication Networks". The SSG and SG 19 have been successfully globalizing the 3GPP and 3GPP2 specifications as adopted by their partner organizations, and progressing the vision and requirements for the core network infrastructure of next generation mobile systems.

The latter includes inter-system mobility management, and the convergence of fixed and mobile networks. John is a member of the Advisory Board of the Advanced Software Engineering Research and Training (ASERT) Laboratories at the University of Ottawa and Carleton University. He is also a guest lecturer at Carleton University and a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars. John is a Registered Professional Engineer in the province of Ontario and a member of IEEE.

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Ericsson Broadband Portfolio - Ericsson

Stig Persson has over 30 years experience from the Telecommunications market. He has had different management positions at Telia in Sweden. Between 1995-1999 he was responsible for Internet and Broadband services as well as development.

From 1999-2000 Stig has been responsible for Network strategies and architectures for telephony, datacom and Internet. In 2001 joined Ericsson where he has had several management positions in both fixed and Mobile. Since 2004, Stig has been globally responsible for Ericsson Broadband portfolio.

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Vice Chief Engineer of Huawei NGN Marketing Department

Mr. Tripathi has held the position of Technical Lead for Huawei's SoftSwitch Division and System Engineering Group of Next Generation Networks and IMS Product Line. In his current position, he is involved in the Planning, Technology Trend Analysis, Solution Design, Roadmaps & Global Marketing of Huawei's U-SYS NGN and IMS Solution.

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