Peter Coroneos is Chief Executive of the Internet Industry Association, the national trade association for Internet commerce, content and connectivity in Australia. In addition to his role as primary industry advocate, political strategist and spokesperson for the IIA, Peter drives the IIA’s policy development work and has instigated the formation of specialist taskforces to leverage member expertise in diverse legal, economic and technical areas. (more…)
Andrew has worked in the telecommunications field for over 20 years. He started working with BT in 1987, where, in the infancy of the Internet he introduced a number of commercial services, including telebetting and teleshopping on PRESTEL, the UK’s dial-up view data service. He also worked in the cable & satellite TV division for BT at a time when BT owned 50% of MTV Europe (which they sold off believing it had no future) and several regional cable TV operations. (more…)
Badian Maasdorp joined Hofmeyr (now Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr) in 1998 and is a Director in the firm’s Finance, Projects and Banking practice. He became a Director in 2002. Badian is also an Associate of the South African Institute of Financial Markets. (more…)
Karen Wrege, co-founder of KB Enterprises LLC and founder of Wrege Associates has twenty years experience in implementing high stakes, complex government auctions of non-tangible assets. Beginning in the early 90’s, she developed the first combinatorial auctions for the US government, selling non-performing loans from defunct savings and loan companies for the Resolution Trust Corporation. (more…)
Dominic specialises in regulatory issues in the electronic communications industry, acting as the regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association (ISPA) and the Wireless Access Providers’ Association (WAPA) amongst others, and lectures telecommunications law to wide-eyed masters’ students at UCT. He has extensive experience in dealing with ICASA and has been closely involved in the development of the regulatory framework under the Electronic Communications Act. (more…)
Ewan Sutherland is an independent telecommunication policy analyst.
He is a research associate of the LINK Centre at the University of the Witwatersrand and also of the CRID at the University of Namur. (more…)
Angus Hay is the Chief Technology Officer at Neotel. Previously Dr Hay was the Chief Technology Officer at Transtel. Angus is well known in the telecoms and broadband community, and is a regular conference speaker at events related to telecoms and ICT. (more…)
Sibanda obtained the degrees of B.Com and B.Com (Hons) in Economics from the University of South Africa as well as an MSc (Econ.) from the University of Hull (UK). He also holds a Certificate in Competition Law from the University of the Witwatersrand. (more…)
‘An English teacher by profession; an editor by trade ‘
Fiona has over 30 years’ experience in high school education, having taught in state and independent schools in South Africa and Zimbabwe. In 2007 she “retired” as Principal of Holy Family College, Parktown, Johannesburg. (more…)
Greg is a co-founder and the managing director of Switch Telecom, a next generation telco.
Having always had a passion for the Internet and related technologies, he first got involved in Internet Service Provision in 1996 when he formed CyberSurf Technologies, an ISP based in Durban. (more…)
Malcolm Kirby is one of the founders of Muvoni Weltex the specialist mechanized trenching company responsible for the DFA metro roll out and one of the founders of DFA. He has more than 20 years experience in the Data Communications and Telecommunications industry.
Mngani Mkhize grew up in Adams Mission on the south coast of KwaZulu Natal and studied Electronic Engineering at the Durban University of Technology. After training at the Denel Centre for Learning and Development he then worked for a broadcaster in 2005, dealing with satellite and microwave links contribution systems around the country, which extended to a few other countries in Africa as well. (more…)
Lex joined Telkom in 1986 where he received training in various telecommunications technologies until 1997. Lex became Technical Manager at a startup called Valuecom where he took a leading role in building the first SA based fax over IP business. Valuecom listed on the JSE and was later sold to a leading ISP. (more…)
Aidan joined SEACOM as Head of Business Development in early 2009. Previously in management consulting, Aidan developed and implemented a number of launch strategies for mobile operators in the Middle East and Africa. (more…)
Steve Song is the Shuttleworth Foundation’s Telecommunications Fellow.
His brief at the Foundation is develop innovative initiatives to drive down the cost of access to communications infrastructure in South Africa and to promote a better understanding of its impact on social and economic growth. (more…)
Richard completed his Bachelor of Engineering degree at the University of Natal in 1997, and then joined Telkom as a junior engineer under Telkom’s Center of Excellence program in 1998. He then continued studying at the University of Natal for the next 4 years towards his Doctorate in 3G Communications. (more…)
Alison Gillwald is the Director of Research ICT Africa, a 20 African-country ICT policy and regulatory research network which is now hosted by The EDGE Institute in Johannesburg and funded by the International Development Research Council (IDRC). She has been responsible for raising funds and directing this multi-million rand project with the purpose of developing on the continent the data and analysis necessary for evidence-based ICT policy and effective regulation. (more…)
Derek Wueppelmann has over 5 years of experience in the front lines of the Anti-Spam industry. Derek joined Roaring Penguin Software in 2004 as a sales engineer handling pre-sales technical support. (more…)
Joe Botha (32) studied Industrial Engineering and Computer Science at Stellenbosch University. He worked as developer and senior systems engineer for IOL.co.za and Amazon.com. (more…)
Mike Silber is an admitted attorney and Policy and Special Projects Specialist at Neotel. Mike is also a Director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as an appointee of the country code Names Supporting Organisation, the first South African and only the fifth African to hold such a position. Mike is a former regulatory advisor to the Internet Service Providers’ Association and is also a non-executive Director of the .za Domain Name Authority. He is also a founder member of the Internet Society (South African Chapter). (more…)
Rick Shera is a partner at top niche corporate, business and Information & Communication Technology law firm, Lowndes Jordan, based in Auckland, New Zealand (www.lojo.co.nz). (more…)
