Dave Tanner is an experienced consultant and engineer with over fifteen years’ technical and management experience in the telecommunications arena, in particular in personal mobile radiocommunications. Dave has used his expertise to provide strategic and operational advice to diverse players, from new entrants to major businesses, across the telecoms industry and around the globe. Recently Dave has focussed on technical and operational business strategy development and due diligence, undertaking projects within Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to joining InterConnect, Dave spent two years as a Principal Consultant in the Information, Communications and Media Practice at Mott MacDonald, and eight years as a Lead Consultant at Analysys Mason. Prior to that, Dave worked for ICO Global Communications for three years in Regulatory Affairs, where he worked on standards development for 3G/ IMT-2000 and licensing of ICO’s global satellite service. And before ICO, Dave spent three years at the Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom) in the Public Networks group.

Hugh Collins is a Director with InterConnect and has 35 years experience in the telecoms sector. He has a BA (Honours) degree in Mechanical Sciences and an MA in Management Studies from Cambridge University. He has specialist skills in business and financial modelling including long range incremental cost (LRIC), spectrum licensing, strategy development, technology evaluation, market analysis, telecommunications policy, and regulatory advice. He has worked in over 50 countries in Europe, North America, Australasia, the Asia-Pacific region Latin America and Africa. His focus is on strategy development, technology evaluation, business and financial modelling, and market analysis and forecasting for existing and planned communications services, media and technologies. He has provided telecommunications policy and regulatory advice to governments and regulatory bodies including 3G licensing, spectrum management and the development of a mobile cellular policy.

Francis Haysom is the Executive Director - Strategic Architecture in Telcordia’s Strategy organisation. He is responsible for defining the company’s strategic solutions and market direction. Dr. Haysom has over 20 years in telecoms BSS and OSS software. Prior to Telcordia, he was Vice President of OSS Architecture at Cramer Systems. Dr. Haysom was one of the original employees of Cramer and was responsible for the creation and development of its professional services organisation and its strategic deployment architecture. He also led development teams at BT and Convergys. Dr. Haysom received his PH.D from the University of Bath and a BSc. in Engineering Science from the University of Exeter.

Ehsan Hamadani is a seasoned academic in the field of modern wireless research. He has detailed knowledge of GSM, WiMAX, UMTS and LTE technologies with in-depth understanding of network simulation of wireless and wired network operation using MATLB and OPNET. Ehsan is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Greenwich and was previously a research manager at the University of Surrey where he managed research into car-to-car communications, WiMAX schedulers and multi-path routing algorithms. His own research also includes development of an enhanced signalling protocol for LTE systems and methods of reduce handover delay in all-IP networks. Ehsan is a visiting lecturer at the City University, London. He has a BSc from Isfahan University in Iran, an MSc from Imperial College London and a PhD from City University, London.

Glyn Carter is an experienced consultant with expertise in a range of areas including mobile/wireless technologies, spectrum management and terminals. He has also spent over 10 years working for mobile operators in different countries, including the UK, Romania and Portugal, with network technologies including CDMA/EV-DO, UMTS/HSPA, TETRA and WiMax. This work has included responsibility for technology strategy, spectrum and other regulatory aspects, standards, and specification and procurement of voice and data terminals/products and services. Glyn’s work as a consultant has included projects for regulators, operators and users of telecommunications, including replanning of the radio spectrum in South Africa and specification of the GSM-R radio system, amongst many others.