Lenka Glynn
Partner
Pinsent Masons LLP
Lenka is well known as one of the leading telecoms and IT legal advisors in the region with a strong focus on telecoms regulation. Lenka has been based in Dubai for the last five years and joined Dubai office of a leading law firm – Pinsent Masons on 1 February 2010. Lenka’s considerable experience has been gained through advising clients on telecoms sector-specific transactions in the developing and emerging markets of the Middle East, Africa, Asia and Europe. Lenka is a regular contributor to various regional telecoms industry publications. Recent subjects she has written about include telecoms sale and leaseback, infrastructure sharing and how to protect telecoms investments.

Xavier Bourgois
Senior Roaming Product Manager
BICS
Xavier Bourgois has more than 14 years experience in Mobile Telecommunications. He joined Belgacom Mobile as Project Engineer in 1997 where he was responsible for the introduction of Prepaid Voice Roaming in 1999 and Prepaid SMS roaming in 2001. Later on he moved to the Marketing Department as a Product Manager for Prepaid Roaming.
In 2008 he started working for Belgacom International Carrier Services as Senior Business Development Manager for Roaming hub. Today Xavier is Senior Roaming Product Manager in charge of the BICS Open Connectivity Roaming Hub.

Abdulraheem Aqeel Al Zarouni
Vice President – Service Delivery/Carrier & Wholesale Services
Etisalat
Abdulraheem Aqeel Al Zarouni is Vice President of Service Delivery for Etisalat Carrier & Wholesale Services, responsible for managing the service delivery of all Etisalat’s international services. Al Zarouni joined Etisalat in 1990 as a Traffic Engineer and held several positions of increasing responsibility over the years including Chief Engineer. In 2004, he moved to Mobily Saudi Arabia as the Director International Operations, laying the foundation for Mobily’s international footprint.
After moving back to the UAE in 2007, among his other responsibilities, as head of Service Delivery he has been leading the expansion of Etisalat’s Signalling and related infrastructure leading to enhancement of Etisalat Roaming Platform.
Etisalat C&WS received couple of awards such as; Capacity’s Best Middle East Wholesale Operator for three consecutive years (2008, 2009, 2010).
He has a Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering from DeVry Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia, USA and is in the final stages of obtaining his MBA from Higher Colleges Technology, Abu Dhabi.

Chris Lengyel
Director of Product Management
iBasis (a KPN Company)
As Director of Product Management, Chris Lengyel is responsible for refining iBasis’ products and developing new offerings to address customer needs and market opportunities in international voice services. He brings more than a decade of telecommunications industry marketing expertise to iBasis. Prior to joining the company he lead market development and product marketing efforts as Market Development Manager, for Cantata Technology, Inc. Prior to joining Cantata, Mr. Lengyel served as Chief Technical Officer of Auris Technology, a premier hosted service provider for the prepaid industry. During his tenure at Auris, Mr. Lengyel led the development and operational efforts for a web-based hosted service platform based upon the Excel Switching platform. Mr. Lengyel has also served as Vice President of Switch Operations at Radiant Telecom and was a key architect of the Ntera VoIP network. Mr. Lengyel holds a BSEE from the University of Connecticut, School of Engineering.

Eda Altuntas
Product Marketing Manager
Turkcell Technology
As Product Marketing Manager in Turkcell Technology, Eda is responsible for all marketing activities related to Turkcell Technology’s product portfolio including roaming family of products.
She started her career in Beko as a Software Engineer in R&D department, where she later assumed Project Management Role. She has been transferred to Product Management and became the Product Manager for display devices. Before starting in Turkcell Technology, she has also worked for Turk Telekom as Customer Insight Manager.
She holds MBA and Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering degrees with academic publications in the field of signal processing and corporate strategy.

Antonio Ricciardi
Segment Manager
du
I joined du in 2006 at the time of the start up. I joined the company as Marketing Segment Manager (Value Segment). In 2007 I was Promoted as Senior Segment Manager (Visitor and Traveler segments). Finally in 2009 I became Marketing and Commercial Roaming Director. In my current capacity at du i have to strategize and deliver propositions and experience which cater to the needs of du’s customers travelling abroad.

Tariq Hamid Qureshi
Manager, International Business
Warid Telecom
Tariq is the manager for the international business division at Warid telecom and is responsible for developing and managing products and services related to international voice and roaming.
Tariq was part of the launch team during the pre-launch days of Warid and has had the opportunity to work in diverse areas like Sales, Customer Service and International Business. Tariq has an overall experience of 6 years in Pakistan’s dynamic and growing telecom industry and he’s been working in the international business arena for the last 4 years.

Kelly Tymburski
Associate
Pinsent Masons LLP
Kelly joined Pinsent Masons as an Associate Lawyer in the Telecoms, Media and Technology (TMT) group in March 2010.

Kelly specialises in the provision of TMT regulatory and commercial advice, and has been advising clients in the MENA region for more than 3 years. She regularly advises communications operators, industry associations and government / regulatory bodies in the TMT sector. Kelly has also gained experience advising regional and international clients regarding the negotiation and drafting of various agreements in the TMT space, and has gained experience working in-house with clients on a secondment basis.
Kelly is a dual (Canadian and English) qualified lawyer, and is a regular contributor to various TMT industry publications in the MENA region. Recent subjects she has written about include telecommunications sale and leaseback, infrastructure sharing and unsolicited communications.

Shady Eneim
Head of International Roaming
Vodafone Egypt
I joined Vodafone Egypt in 2000 and have held a number of positions in Technology, Marketing, Strategy, Sales and CEO Office. I have been leading the International & Roaming area since 1 June 2010.

My current role is to lead a business unit which generates 16% of total company revenues across three businesses: International, Outbound Roaming and Inbound Visitors. Our ambition is to be the operator of choice for international users and travellers from Egypt and my role is to lead a marketing team of 17 people to deliver our ambition and deliver bottom line growth at a time of price competition.

Adel Darwish
Manager, Market and Competition
TRA Bahrain
Having spent a decade in the telecommunication Adel Darwish brings to the TRA the experience from both an Incumbent and a competing operator.

Besides his involvement in the GCC roaming discussions as part of the GCC Council, Adel has also been involved in the deployment of Local Loop Unbundling within the Kingdom of Bahrain. Having experience with the operators, Adel is also responsible and very much involved in the Reference Offers of different players in the Bahraini market place.

Sami Elloumi
International Wholesale and Roaming Manager
Orange Tunisie
I have joined Orange Tunisie a year ago and since I joined I was managing the international wholesale, roaming and the unbundling of the local loop, then as the operator grew I focused on the international services (wholesale and roaming).

Having setup the roaming department and defined the roaming strategy for Orange Tunisie as a 3rd entrant in the Tunisian market which is one of the most expensive roaming markets.

Prior to Orange Tunisie, I was working in a management and strategy consulting company based in Dubai where I worked for Telecom operators in the MENA region.

Mohamed Abdelbassit
Managing Director – MENA
BICS
Mohamed Bassit is the Managing Director for Middle East and North Africa at BICS, previously known as Belgacom International Carrier Services. He has 14 years of experience in the ICT industry spanning sales, business and product development, Outsourcing and partnerships. He has been responsible for the region for 8 years.

He was formerly the mobile Business director, where he contributed to position BICS as the leading mobile data provider in the region (signalling, SMS, MMS, and GRX) and to create strategic partnerships with the major telecom Groups in the region.

Mohamed Bassit holds a Masters Degree in Marketing from university of Michigan and bachelor degree in Commerce from Cairo University.

Simon Hanson
Marketing Roaming Lead
Telefonica O2 UK Ltd
Simon has more than 15 years experience in the mobile telecommunications industry, in a career spanning Programme, Product and Marketing Management roles.

He joined O2 UK as Roaming Product Manager in 2002, with primary responsibility for the Roaming Customer Experience and went on to lead the development and delivery of all O2 UK’s roaming services and technologies, becoming Head of Roaming Products in 2005.

Simon currently has overall responsibility for Telefonica O2 UK’s Retail Roaming business, including all Product, Pricing and Marketing related activities. He also represents Telefonica O2 UK on all Telefonica Group roaming initiatives.

Dimitri Kallinis
Partner
SVP Advisors
Dimitri has more than 10 years experience in strategy advice, regulation and operations in the TMT sector. As Partner at SVP Advisors, he is now heading the business unit responsible of providing advisory services to top-class telecom operators in several countries. He has recently completed a national roaming project for a large mobile operator and has supported a mobile operator in the reshaping of its wholesale strategy. Before this, as Head of the Residential unit at On Telecoms, Dimitri successfully launched the first triple play offer in the Greek market with a highly innovative package bundling unlimited free telephony with broadband Internet and IPTV. In the early years of his career Dimitri worked as Consultant for Analysys, an advisory firm specializing in telecoms, and participated in 2 Internet start-ups in Italy. Graduated from the Luigi Bocconi University in Milan in Business Administration, Dimitri speaks fluently Italian, Greek, English and has a very good knowledge of Spanish.

Erhan Donmez
Roaming Manager
AVEA
I joined Avea 7 months ago. I have been working for roaming for 3,5 years. Before joining to Avea, I was working for Turkcell responsible for wholesale roaming negotiations. Before Turkcell I held sales and marketing positions in chemical and automotive industries. My role involves management of retail and wholesale roaming together with retail offers for international calls. Having in depth knowledge about the roaming market in Turkey and market trends both in retail and wholesale roaming qualifies me to speak about this subject. I have an MBA degree from Koc University and I am a member of Bogazici University’s alumni society.

Faisal Al Dwaikat
Director, Roaming and International Business
VIVA Kuwait
A telecommunication engineer by qualification & having an extensive experience of almost 10 years in telecom sector with majors in International Business; he has been working for VIVA Kuwait as Director Roaming, International & Interconnect Services since Q3 2008.

In his earlier career, he played a pivotal role in some leading telecommunication companies at very important managerial positions.

He is an expert in the areas of International & Interconnect Business. This includes Operator License negotiation & management, Wholesale business, Inter-carrier & Interconnect relations and Roaming (national & international) business. In addition to this, his strong personal & interpersonal skills, has earned him some very good telecommunication business ties worldwide.
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Peter Burge
Director of Legal Affairs

Telecoms Reg Authority of the UAE

Torbjorn Petterson
Technical Sales Manager – Mobile Services and Product Manager SIM Box Detection
Telenor
Torbjorn joined TGS early 2009 and have worked in Telecom Business for 15 years, former role as Senior Roaming Specialist at Telenor Sweden. Today Torbjorn focus on helping MNO and MVNO to improve growth and facilitate roaming and interconnect traffic worldwide. Torbjorn has worked during the last years with GSM Association as GRQ Europe chairman, today Torbjorn is the Global Roaming Quality advisor from GSM Association.