Jeremy Turk is an economist and strategist with some 20 years experience in telecommunications. After working for the Bank of England, Shell International and in academia, he was Manager of Regulatory Economics and Head of Strategic Economics at BT; while at BT he had close involvement with BT’s contribution to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission investigation of fixed number portability and with Ofcom’s Strategic Review. He was for several years Special Economic Advisor to the General Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Bahrain. He has taught and lectured on telecommunications regulation and economics and also acted as a consultant in telecommunications and more generally in the sphere of regional economic development.

John Cluny is a highly experienced regulatory economist and commercial strategist with wide-ranging experience of both the broadcasting and telecommunications markets. He has held senior posts covering regulatory affairs, economic analysis and interconnect strategy at Oftel, TeleWest (and ntl-Telewest) and the Independent Television Commission before becoming an independent consultant specialising in market liberalisation, market development and the commercial challenges of Next Generation technologies. He has worked with broadcasting and telecoms regulators in both the UK and the Middle East, and has substantial commercial experience in network access, pricing and interconnection issues.

Hugh Collins is a Director with InterConnect and has over 30 years experience in the telecoms sector. He has specialist skills in business and financial modelling including LRIC, strategy development, technology evaluation, market analysis, telecommunications policy, and regulatory advice. Hugh has advised a number of governments on privatisation matters and prepared detailed market analysis to support to determine requirements for additional licence requirements. He has also advised on competition policy, the optimum number of licences in country markets, using industry sector models to provide the correct forecast and structural advice.

Leo Borwick has worked in a variety of senior roles in the telecommunications industry for over 20 years, specialising in business modelling, pricing, regulatory policy and strategy. He has worked with fixed and mobile operators, challengers, ISPs, equipment suppliers and regulators in the UK, Europe, Africa and South East Asia. His recent work has focused on LRIC cost analysis, pricing strategy and price cap reviews. Recent assignments have included building LRIC cost models of fixed and mobile operators, assisting an industry body with developing a consensus on NGN interconnection, assisting the UK regulator, Ofcom, with their review of the future of mobile termination charges and developing a set of scenarios concerning the future of the communications industry for the City of London.

Phillipa Marks has particular expertise in the application of market mechanisms to the management of the radio spectrum. She advised the New Zealand government on creating the first ever national market in spectrum in 1989, and since then has developed the approach to spectrum pricing now applied in the UK. She also specialises in the analysis of economic, public policy and regulatory issues in the media and telecommunications industries and has twenty years experience of working in these sectors.

Matthew Cherry is a regulatory and competition law specialist with experience across a range of regulated industries both as a consultant and working in-house in regulated telecommunications companies. He is an economist with a masters degree in economics from University College London. Matthew recently worked for five years at Hutchison 3G UK Limited (the UK 3G only mobile network operator), providing strategic regulatory advice on a wide range of cutting edge regulatory issues including spectrum licensing matters and call termination. He represented the company in the recently concluded Competition Commission inquiry into mobile call termination. He has detailed recent experience of dealing with mobile related regulatory matters in the UK and EU and has been involved in the regulatory debates around mobile cost modelling for over seven years.

Adam Mantzos has 20 years’ experience of advising clients on financial and economic issues in regulation and competition, having specialised in this area since qualifying as a chartered accountant in 1990. His experience includes the development of regulatory policy, the introduction of competition into monopoly markets, network access, the level and structure of price controls, cost attribution, efficiency assessment and forecasting, the analysis of anti-competitive behaviour including predatory pricing and margin squeeze, and financial modelling, impact and viability issues. Adam’s experience covers the gas, electricity, telecoms, media, water, rail and postal industries.

Malcolm Taylor has been Managing Director of Cable Europe Labs since June 2007 and chair of its EuroDOCSIS Certification Board since August 2000. After joining Cable and Wireless in 1967, he moved to W S Atkins in 1978, to head up a new telecoms consulting division. In 1992, he joined Energis to negotiate its interconnection agreement with BT and became Director of Regulatory Affairs. In 1995, he moved to Telewest, as VP, Regulatory and Public Policy. Between 2001-2007, he was closely involved with the Broadband Stakeholders’ Group, including chairing its regulatory group, and he was a co-author of the BSG’s 2007 report, ‘Pipe Dreams - Prospects for Next Generation Broadband’.