Speaker Biographies

Keynote Speakers

Speakers & Moderators

Neelie Kroes

Vice President & Commissioner for Digital Agenda, European Commission

Neelie Kroes is currently Vice President of the European Commission and European Digital Agenda Commissioner. She was born 1941 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where she also attended school and helped to build her family’s transport business. She studied economics at Erasmus University, before working there for six years as an Assistant Professor. Her political career started on the Rotterdam Municipal Council, and in 1971 she was elected as a Member of the Dutch Parliament for the liberal VVD party. From 1982-1989 she served as Minister for Transport, Public Works and Telecommunication in the Netherlands. After politics she was appointed President of Nyenrode University from 1991-2000, and served on various company boards, including Lucent Technologies, Volvo, P&O Nedlloyd. Prior to serving as European Commissioner for Competition from 2004-2009, her charity work included advising the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund and World Cancer Research Fund, and she has an ongoing interest in mental health issues.

Roberto Viola

Chairman, Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG)

Roberto Viola holds a doctor degree in electronic engineering (Dr. Eng.) and a master in business administration (MBA).

He is currently in charge of managing the overall AGCOM organisation as Secretary-General.
He is Chairman for the 2010 of the Radio Spectrum Policy group (RSPG).

He is AGCOM representative in BEREC
He was Chairman for the 2007 of the European Regulatory Group (ERG).

He served in AGCOM (1999-2004), as Director of regulation department and technical Director being in charge of , inter alia, regulation in terrestrial, cable and satellite television, frequency planning, access and interconnection of communication services, cost accounting and tariff in telecommunication and broadcasting services.

From 1985-1999 he served in various position as a staff member of the European Space Agency (ESA) in particular, he has been head of telecommunication and broadcasting satellite services.

He pioneered novel communication systems (UMTS, satellite radio, digital broadcasting) publishing more than 100 scientific papers and holding key patents in the sector.

Lambert van Nistelrooij MEP

Member, European Parliament

Born in 1953, Nuland (Dutch Brabant).

Degrees in Geography and History (Tilburg), Social Geography (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen), worked for Province of Gelderland and NCB (Farmers Union).

Since 2004: Member of the European Parliament (member of the Bureau of the Group of the European People's Party/ European Democrats)

In the European Parliament:

- Vice-president of the Dutch delegation;
- Treasurer of the Dutch delegation;
- EPP Coordinator in the Committee on Regional Development;
- Substitute member of the Committee on Industry, Research and Energy;
- Member of the Interparliamentary Delegation for relations with the Maghreb countries and the Arab Maghreb Union;
- Member of the Interparliamentary Delegation Mercosur: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay;
- Co-president of the AGE and URBAN-intergroups.

Other experiences:
- President of the Governing Board of the Knowledge4Innovation
- Board member of the "European Internet Foundation" (EIF);
- Member of Advisory Board "Netcarity" (A NETworked multisensor system for elderly people: health CARe, safety and securITY in home environment);
- President of the Supervisory Board of Foundation "Smart Homes" (National Centre of Domotics and Innovation)

Languages NL, EN, FR, DE, ES.

Julius Knapp

Chief of Office of Engineering Technology, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

Julius Knapp is Chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET). Mr. Knapp has been with the FCC for nearly 36 years. Mr. Knapp became Chief of OET in 2006, having previously served as the Deputy Chief since 2002. Prior to that he was the Chief of the Policy & Rules Division where he was responsible for FCC frequency allocation proceedings and for proceedings amending the FCC rules for radio frequency devices. Mr. Knapp was Chief of the FCC Laboratory from 1994 – 1997 where he was responsible for the FCC’s equipment authorization program and technical analyses. Mr. Knapp received a Bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the City College of New York in 1974. He is a member of the IEEE EMC Society and is a Fellow of the Radio Club of America. He was the 2001 recipient of the Eugene C. Bowler award for exceptional professionalism and dedication to public service and received the FCC’s Silver and Gold medal awards for distinguished service at the Commission.

Catherine Trautmann MEP

Member, European Parliament

Catherine Trautmann (*1951, France) has been a Member of the European Parliament for the Party of European Socialists (PES, now part of S&D group) since 2004, and had already seated from 1989 to 1994. She is a substitute member of the Industry, Research and Energy Committee as well as a full member of the Fisheries Committee. She is also Head of the French Socialist Delegation in the European Parliament.

She's been rapporteur on the review of the "Telecom package", specifically on the Framework, Access and Authorisation directives (so-called "Better Regulation").

She studied theology in Strasbourg specialising in the history of religion as well as Coptic language and literature.

During her political career she has been a member of the French parliament (1986 to 1988), Secretary of State for the Elderly and Disabled (1988) as well as president of the Inter-Ministerial Working Party on (Drug) addiction (1988 to 1989).

From 1989 to 1997 as well as from 2000 to 2001 she was Mayoress of Strasbourg. She stepped down from office in 1997 when the Prime Minister Lionel Jospin appointed her as Minister of Culture and Communications (until 2000) as well as government spokeswoman (until 1998).
Since 2000 she has been a member of the French party “Bureau National”.

She is currently a member of Strasbourg's city council as well as 2nd Vice President of Strasbourg's urban community, in charge of university and economic development.

She is also a Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres.

Kip Meek

Spectrum Broker, UK Government

Kip is a board member of Ingenious Media and Chair of the Ingenious Consulting Network. Ingenious Media is a provider of media and telecoms investment and advisory services. Kip is also Chair of the Broadband Stakeholder Group, a group set up to advise the UK government on broadband issues. In addition to the above, Kip is Chairman of South West Screen, a director of the RadioCentre and of Phorm. Kip was asked to be the ‘Independent Spectrum Broker’ by the UK government in February 2009 with the objective of facilitating the highly contentious ‘refarming’ process, associated with the 900 MHz spectrum band.

Prior to joining Ingenious, he was at Ofcom where he held a variety of responsibilities, including chairing the European Regulators Group. Kip lead the negotiations with British Telecom (BT) that lead to the establishment of Openreach, the functionally-separated division of BT. Before joining Ofcom, he was Managing Director of Spectrum Strategy Consultants.

Mike Byrne

Vice‐Chair of RSPG and Commissioner, ComReg

Mike Byrne is a Commissioner with ComReg, the statutory body responsible for the regulation of the electronic communications and the postal sectors in Ireland.

As independent sectoral regulator of Ireland’s €5 billion communications sector, ComReg’s role is to promote competition, support innovation and to protect and inform consumers and end-users of electronic communications and postal services in Ireland.

Appointed as member of the Commission in 2004, Mike held the Chair of ComReg in 2007. Mike is the elected Vice-Chair of the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RPSG) for 2010 and has held the role of Chairman of its Working Group on the Digital Dividend since 2008. Prior to joining ComReg, Mike was a Director of Vision Consulting, the international technology consulting firm.

Mike holds a Masters of Science (Management Practice) Degree from Trinity College, Dublin, and a Bachelors of Science Degree from University College, Galway. He has also completed post-graduate executive education programmes at University College, Cork and Stanford University, USA.

Gerry Oberst

Partner, Hogan Lovells

Gerry Oberst is a Partner in the international law firm Hogan & Hartson LLP. Gerry heads the firm’s communications practice in Brussels, where he has advised clients since 1991. Gerry represents a wide range of both governmental and commercial clients, and has worked extensively in numerous sectors of the electronic communications field. He has worked on numerous projects for the European Commission, including advising the Commission in 2006 on the overall reform of the electronic communications regulatory framework, and most recently advising on “‘Exploiting the digital dividend’ – a European approach,” a project finalized in mid 2009. He spoke at workshops sponsored by the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau on efficient orbital and frequency use in 2007 and 2008. He has published over 225 articles, columns and other materials relating to communications issues.

Martin Cave

Director, Centre for Management Under Regulation, Warwick Business School

Martin Cave is Professor at Warwick Business School, UK. He holds bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees from Oxford University. Until 2001 he was Professor of Economics at Brunel University. He specialises in regulatory economics. He is co-author of Understanding Regulation (1999) and of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management (2007), co-editor of the Handbook of Telecommunications Economics Vol. 1 (2002) and Vol. 2 (2005), Digital Broadcasting (2006) and the Oxford Handbook of Regulation (forthcoming), and author of many articles in journals.

As well as his academic work he has also undertaken studies for the European Commission and advised regulatory agencies. He was a member of the UK Competition Commission from 1996 to 2002. He has advised the European Commission on broadband and international roaming issues, and has assisted energy, postal, telecommunications, water and other regulatory agencies in the UK, Ireland, France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand and elsewhere. He is responsible for two independent reviews of spectrum management carried out for the Chancellor of the Exchequer. In 2006 he was a special adviser to the European Commissioner for Information Society and Broadcasting. His review on competition and innovation in the water industry was published in April 2009 by the British government.

Eric Fournier

Director, Spectrum Planning & International Affairs, ANFR

Eric Fournier graduated from Ecole Supérieure d’Electricité (SUPELEC) in 1991 and is currently director for Spectrum Planning and International Affairs in the Agence Nationale des Fréquences (ANFR).

In his position, he is directly involved in the management of the French refarming fund which has proved to be a powerful tool in spectrum management in France. He is also Chairman of the CEPT Conference Preparatory Group for the World Radiocommunications Conference 2012 (CPG-12) and is representing France in RSPG, where he actively contributed to the development of several opinions (WAPECS, digital dividend, EU interests in international conferences …).

Dan Maldoom

Managing Director, DotEcon

Dan Muldoom is a Partner and co-founder of DotEcon Ltd. He is an academic economist and a business consultant who specialises in quantitative economics, game theory and economic modelling in the areas of competition economics, market design and business strategy. His extensive client base includes Governments and Regulators around the world as well as multinational companies.

Richard Marsden

Director, DotEcon

Richard Marsden is a Director at DotEcon, an economic consultancy specialising in regulation, competition and market design. Over the last ten years, he has worked on more than 100 projects in the telecoms, media, spectrum management, transport and energy sectors. Richard has particular experience in applying economics to spectrum management issues, including the design and implementation of market mechanisms, such as auctions and trading. He has advised on the design of spectrum auctions in many countries, including Denmark, Hong Kong, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway and the United Kingdom, and also supported bidders worldwide. For example, for Ofcom, he has managed the DotEcon team advising on seven UK auction design and implementation projects, and played a key role in developing new auction formats. He has also worked on a number of major projects for the European Commission, including the scope for introducing trading and change of use, and uses of the digital dividend.

Jonas Wessel

Head of Section, Spectrum Licensing and Trading, The Swedish National Post and Telecommunications Agency (PTS)

Jonas Wessel holds the position as Head of Section of the Spectrum Licensing and Trading Section at the PTS, Sweden. Mr. Wessel holds an MSC from the Royal Institute of Technology in Industrual Engineering and Management. He has been with the PTS for 7 years working on spectrum liberalisation, auction design and licensing. Prior to joining the PTS Mr. Wessel was a strategy consultant focussing on business development in the telecommunications sector. Mr Wessel is an active member of the RSPG.

Erlend Fanebust

Director, Spectrum Acquisitions, Telenor

Prior to joining Telenor Group in 2008, Erlend held various positions within the Norwegian Post- and Telecommunications Authority for several years. He also worked as a business lawyer and as an independent consultant with project in various countries.

Erland has participated in a number of spectrum auctions both on the government side and supporting bidders. He has served as a Norwegian representative in the EU Licensing Committee and the EU Radio Spectrum Policy Working Group on Spectrum Trading.

Erland is currently affiliated with the University of Oslo's PhD program in Economics, where his main research is related to auctions and industrial organization.

Karen Wrege

Founding Member, KB Enterprises LLP (former CIO for auctions and licensing systems, FCC)

Karen Wrege, founder of KB Enterprises has twenty years experience in implementing high stakes, complex government auctions of non-tangible assets. In the early 1990’s, Ms. Wrege developed the national loan auction program for the United States Resolution Trust Corporation and in1994 she developed the FCC auction program and supporting software system for the US federal government. She managed dozens of auctions for the FCC that resulted in billions of dollars of revenue to the US Treasury. In early 2005, Ms. Wrege formed a consultancy specializing in auction implementation, software development and participant consulting.

Graham Louth

Director of Spectrum Markets,, Ofcom

Graham Louth joined Ofcom, the UK’s converged communications regulator, in December 2003, as Director of Spectrum Markets. In this role he is responsible for the introduction of market mechanisms to manage the radio spectrum, including the design and implementation of spectrum trading and liberalisation, refinement of the system of spectrum pricing, and the design and implementation of auctions for the release of major blocks of spectrum to the market.

Prior to joining Ofcom, Graham spent over 10 years working as a consultant with the leading telecoms strategy advisors Analysys, ultimately as head of their regulatory practice worldwide. Whilst at Analysys Graham played a leading role in the development of regulatory thinking and practice in a number of economic and policy areas, working closely with clients such as the European Commission, the IDA in Singapore, and Oftel in the UK.

Graham MacDonald

Regulatory Working Group, WiMAX Forum

Graham has worked for Intel Corporation for 6.5 years as Director EMEA Communications Policy Team within Global Public Policy. Responsibilities include spectrum and broadband policy within Europe, Middle East and Africa plus UK Public Policy. Graham currently manages a Team of four who are based in UK, France, Germany and Turkey. Graham participates in National, European and Global standards and regulatory forums and in some instances as part of the UK Delegation. Graham was part of the Intel and WiMAX Forum Team responsible for the inclusion of WiMAX within IMT-2000 and has been actively involved the in the WiMAX Forum Regulatory Working Group from day one. Graham previously worked for Philips, MOD, Radiocommunications Agency (now Ofcom), Nortel Networks, Intellect and UMTS Forum before joining Intel.

Bernard Pauchon

Senior Vice President Global Media, TDF;, & Chairman, DigiTAG Task Force on Digital Dividend

Bernard Pauchon graduated from Polytechnique School and National Superior School of Telecommunications. He joined the O.R.T.F. in 1974, and subsequently the S.F.P. (Société Française de Production) in 1975, one of the companies resulting from the split of the O.R.T.F.

There, he was in charge of Engineering of studios and post production, and participated in future strategic planning. That included the responsability of the first French production in HDTV presented at the Montreux Television Symposium in 1983.

In 1984, he joined TDF as Deputy Director International where he had to lead for French broadcasters and audiovisual authorities the international negociations for HDTV, DAB and DVB standards within the ITU process. In parallel, he was Vice-Chairman of the EBU Technical Committee and Chairman of the JTC EBU/ETC

From 1994 to 1998, he was appointed General Manager of Cognacq-Jay Image, a facility house, subsidiary of TDF, providing services of playout, production and post-production which became the leader in France in this activity.

From 1999 to 2003,he was Director of the Digital Cinema program of France Télécom’s Division Entreprises Audiovisuelles (that included TDF and GlobeCast).

In 2004, he has been appointed Senior Vice President for the Development of Broadcast Services to Mobile Devices at TDF, and was Vice-Chairman of the bmco forum.

Since 2008, he has been appointed Senior Vice President Global Media, in charge of International Partnerships and TDF Group coordination for DTT, Mobile TV, Digital Radio, Digital Cinema, Contribution and Distribution and Multimedia (including Internet Delivery, IPTV and Playout facilities), including spectrum management related to these business lines.

He represents TDF at the steering Committee of the DVB consortium and at DigiTAG, where he chairs the Task force on the Digital Dividend and the future of the Digital Terrestrial Television. He is also chairman of the newly founded Broadcast Networks Europe, the European terrestrial broadcast networks operators association.

Philippe Lefebvre

Principal Administrator, Radio Spectrum Policy Unit, European Commission

Philippe Lefebvre is an official at the European Commission since 1996. He currently works in the radio spectrum policy unit (directorate-general “Information Society and Media”) which he joined in 2003. His area of responsibility includes the digital dividend and spectrum policy in the broadcasting sector, international spectrum coordination aspects and the secretariat responsibility for the Radio Spectrum Policy Group (RSPG).

During the period 1996 to 2003, Mr. Lefebvre worked in various Commission departments related to financial services, including head of sector in the electronic commerce division, in charge of research and innovation projects in the area of financial systems & technologies.

Prior to joining the European Commission, Philippe Lefebvre held several technical and marketing positions in the banking industry, with the Belgian’s Generale Bank – now Fortis (1983-1986), Eurocard International – now MasterCard Europe - as vice-president Southern Europe (1987-1991), and with Visa International in the US (1992-1995).

Philippe Lefebvre is graduated in electrical & mechanical engineering (MS) from the University of Brussels (ULB) and graduated in economics (MBA) from the same university.

Kristin Due Hauge

Spectrum Policy Director, GSMA

Ms Kristin Due Hauge joined GSMA in August 2009.

Kristin has eleven years of experience with spectrum acquisitions and spectrum policy. She has designed, implemented and participated in numerous spectrum auctions of various formats. She has worked on establishing an asset management approach to managing telco’s portfolios of spectrum usage rights and licenses. She has worked on developing, designing and implementing modern market based spectrum management regimes including flexible licensing concepts and secondary trading regimes.

Prior to joining the GSMA Kristin has held several positions within the telecoms sector mainly focusing on spectrum issues. She worked as Director of Spectrum Acquisition and as Director of Spectrum Policy for the Telenor Group between 2007 and 2009. Between 2004 and 2007 she was partner/managing consultant and leader of the board at an international consulting firm where she advised various governments and market players on spectrum reform and spectrum related business strategies. Between 2002 and 2004 Kristin worked as a senior adviser at the Norwegian Post and Telecommunication Authority (NPT) where she was one of the main architects beyond the development and implementation of the spectrum management reform which included designing flexible licenses, designing and implementing spectrum auctions and payment in kind style spectrum awards (beauty contests), developing and implementing secondary trading and developing fees and charges models for spectrum payment. In 2001 Kristin worked as an Expert at the competition authorities and followed the EU sector specific telecom framework development in Brussels. Between 1998 and 2000 Kristin worked as advisor at the NPT on strategic approach to spectrum management review.

Kristin’s educational background is law, economics and management.

Robert Horvitz

Director, Open Spectrum Foundation

Robert Horvitz has been involved in spectrum policy reform for over 30 years, initially as a journalist then as an activist. A resident of Prague since 1991, he was the Soros Foundations' radio specialist for Eastern Europe after the fall of communism, then coordinator of the Soros Foundations' Internet Program. In 2005 he founded the Open Spectrum Foundation and was one of the co-founders of the Open Spectrum Alliancein 2009.

William Webb

Head of Research & Development, Ofcom

William joined Ofcom as Head of Research and Development and Senior Technologist in 2003. Here he manages a team providing technical advice and performing research across all areas of Ofcom’s regulatory remit. He also leads some of the major reviews conducted by Ofcom including the Spectrum Framework Review, the development of Spectrum Usage Rights and most recently cognitive or white space policy. Previously, William worked for a range of communications consultancies in the UK in the fields of hardware design, computer simulation, propagation modelling, spectrum management and strategy development. William also spent three years providing strategic management across Motorola’s entire communications portfolio, based in Chicago,

William has published ten books, eighty papers, and four patents. He is a Visiting Professor at Surrey University and DeMontfort University and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, the IEEE and the IET where he is as a Vice President. His biography is included in multiple “Who’s Who” publications around the world. William has a first class honours degree in electronics, a PhD and an MBA. He can be contacted at william.webb@ofcom.org.uk.

Amit Nagpal

Partner, Analysys Mason

Amit Nagpal (Partner) leads Analysys Mason’s work in the area of spectrum management. He led several of Analysys’s high-profile spectrum studies including the introduction of spectrum trading for the European Commission and the liberalisation of mobile spectrum for Ofcom. He has supported three European regulators with studies on the digital dividend and is currently directing a major study for the European Commission to identify the optimum European approach to the digital dividend.

Much of Amit’s time is also spent working for users of the radio spectrum including assisting mobile and broadband wireless operators with the development of business plans, market-entry strategies, licence applications and spectrum valuations and Amit is therefore able to bring a strong commercial perspective to the resolution of
regulatory issues.

Amit began his career as a graduate engineer with the UK Radiocommunications Agency and holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in radio communications engineering as well as an MBA.

Chris Perera

Senior Adviser & Manager 2.6 GHz Auctions, Ministry of Economic Development, New Zealand

Chris Perera has been with the New Zealand Spectrum Regulator; the Radio Spectrum Policy and Planning Group of the Ministry of Economic Development for the last 5 & 1/2 years. Her expertise & areas of interest include Spectrum Management Frameworks and Principles, Allocation methodologies, Broadband Wireless Access and New Wireless technologies. Chris managed the 2.3 GHz & 2.6 GHz Spectrum Auctions held in New Zealand.

Prior to joining the Regulator, Chris was with Telecom New Zealand for 6 years as the Spectrum Investment Manager and as an Adviser on Wireless Technologies.

Chris has a Masters (Thesis) Degree from the Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering from the University of Auckland, New Zealand and a Management Accounting Degree from the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants, United Kingdom.

Philipp Metzger

Vice-Director & Head of Telecom Services, Ofcom Switzerland

Philipp Metzger qualified as a Swiss attorney in 1992 and holds a degree of Master of Arts from the College of Europe. He practiced commercial law in major firms in Geneva and London. Thereafter, he held several positions at the European Free Trade Association in Brussels and Geneva, mostly dealing with the EEA. After having worked as a Senior Corporate Counsel for the EMEA customer advocacy operations of a leading American IT corporation in Amsterdam, he returned to EFTA as Director of the Trade Relations Division. He has been Vice-director and Head of the Telecom Services Division at OFCOM (Switzerland) since 2007.

Andy Hudson

Head of Spectrum Policy, Vodafone Group

Andy Hudson is Head of Spectrum Policy at Vodafone Group. Andrew has extensive international telecoms experience in the rapidly developing world of mobile data, understanding both the operator and customer perspectives. Over the last 8 years he has held various roles within Group Marketing and Strategy, including the development of mobile broadband software, Built-in devices and most recently managing spectrum auctions across the Vodafone Group.

Before joining Vodafone he was part of the senior management team which spun an internet payments and encryption company out of NatWest. Andrew was a Management Consultant for NatWest and was previously at Sharp Laboratories of Europe and Sony Corporation, based in Japan. He has a doctorate in Engineering Science from Oxford University and an MBA.

Serge Willenegger

Vice President, Technology, Qualcomm

Serge is currently responsible for Qualcomm's global 3GPP WWAN industry strategy and for QCT's WWAN product technology strategy in Europe; QCT is the worldÕs largest provider of wireless chipsets and software solutions. Serge began his career at Qualcomm in 1995 initially contributing to the IS-95 and cdma2000 system design & enhancements. From 1997 until 2008, Serge was a leading contributor to Qualcomm's UMTS system engineering activities; he also developed and led Qualcomm's participation to 3GPP. Serge's contribution was instrumental in establishing and expanding Qualcomm's commitment to UMTS and LTE systems, products and standardization. Serge holds a Master in Telecommunication Sciences from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne.

Dan Reed

Corporate VP, Extreme Computing, Microsoft

As Corporate Vice President of Technology Policy and Strategy and leader of the eXtreme Computing Group (XCG), Dan Reed helps shape Microsoft's long-term vision and strategy for technology innovations and the company's associated policy engagement with governments and institutions around the world. Given the centrality of information technology to communication and social interaction, research and development, education and learning, health and safety, the environment and economic development, such strategic technology identification and policy coordination are critical to our future. In this capacity, Reed reports to and works closely with Craig Mundie, Microsoft's Chief Research and Strategy Officer.

As leader of XCG within Microsoft Research (MSR), Reed is responsible for R&D on the cutting edge of parallel and ultrafast computing, as well as Microsoft's cloud computing research. In addition to directing Microsoft's research in these areas, he spearheads collaborations with university and government researchers working in the field. In this capacity, Reed reports to and works closely with Rick Rashid, head of MSR.

XCG was formed in June of 2009 with the goal of developing radical new approaches to ultrascale and high-performance computing hardware and software, an area of research that the U.S. government has identified as critical for the future. The group's research activities include work in computer security, cryptography, operating system design, parallel programming models, cloud software, data center architectures, specialty hardware accelerators and quantum computing.

Reed joined Microsoft in December 2007 as Scalable and Multicore Computing Strategist. In February 2008, he took on the added responsibility of directing a new Cloud Computing Futures initiative, which is exploring new approaches to cloud services and data center design, including ways to reduce hardware costs and power consumption, and increasing data centers' adaptability and resilience to failure.

Before coming to Microsoft, Reed held a number of strategic positions, including Gutgsell Professor, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois, Chancellor's Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill and Founding Director of UNC's Renaissance Computing Institute. He was also the Chancellor's Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation at UNC.

In addition to his technical activities, Reed has also been deeply involved in policy initiatives related to science, technology and innovation. He served as a member of the U.S. President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and chair of the computational science subcommittee of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC).

Christoph Legutko

Wireless Standards and Regulations Manager, Global Public Policy, EMEA Communications Policy Team, Intel Corporation

Christoph Legutko is wireless standards and regulations manager for Intel Corporation in Germany. Christoph is responsible for global public policy in the German speaking and Central East European countries, and represents Intel at the International Telecommunication Union, the European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations’ Electronic Communications Committee and other regulatory and industrial bodies.

Before joining Intel in 2006, Christoph held a number of roles at Siemens since 1984. Most recently, he was responsible director for frequency policy issues for the Mobile Sector of Siemens Communications.

Earlier in his career, he focused on the developing markets for computing and telecommunication investment goods and set up sales organizations to introduce IT software and telecommunication hardware systems into international markets. Initially, he developed I/O processors for main frame computers and a RISC CPU for Siemens.

He began his professional career in a medium-sized electronic company in Germany where he developed distance and movement sensors.
Christoph studied at the Mining and Metallurgical Academy in Krakow, Poland, and earned a master’s degree in electronics engineering in 1981.

Fabio Leite

Deputy Director, Radiocommunication Bureau, ITU

Mr Fabio Leite holds a Master of Applied Science degree in Electrical Engineering with specialization in Telecommunications (1980).

In his professional life, he has held different positions in the radiocommunications field in Brazil, in both public and private sectors, as well as in the International Telecommunication Union (ITU).

Brazil
Mr Leite worked for EMBRATEL, the Brazilian long-distance telecommunication carrier, where he was responsible for the engineering of BRAZILSAT, the first Brazilian domestic satellite system, successfully launched in 1985.

Since 1980, he participated in many ITU radiocommunication conferences and meetings as member of Brazilian delegations, responsible for technical and regulatory issues. He was elected Vice-Chairman of the ITU Radiocommunication Study Group responsible for satellite services in 1986.

ITU
His career in the ITU started in 1987 and since then he has held several functions at the Union, such as Radiocommunication Engineer in the Space Services Department of BR, Counsellor in the Study Group Department of BR and Project Manager of ITU’s third generation mobile communications project, namely International Mobile Telecommunications-2000 (IMT-2000) in the Office of the Secretary-General.
Radiocommunication Conferences
Mr Leite took part in several ITU Radiocommunication Conferences, either as member of the Brazilian delegation (WARC-ORB-85 and RARC-SAT-R2-83), as ITU staff and Technical Secretary (WRC-2000, WRC-97, WRC-95, WRC-92 and WARC-ORB-88) or as Executive Secretary (WRC-07, RRC-06, WRC-03).

Current position
As of 2005, Mr Leite holds the positions of Deputy-Director and Chief of the Informatics, Administration and Publications Department (IAP) of BR.
Mr. Fabio Leite is candidate of Brazil for the post of Director of the ITU Radiocommunication Bureau.

Lasse Wieweg

Director, Government and Industry Relations, Ericsson

Lasse Wieweg, Director, Government and industry relations, at Ericsson, has worked with telecommunications topics his whole professional career, starting in 1973 with Ericsson. In 1986, following some over-seas assignments, he took up a position at the Frequency Management department within the Swedish Telecommunications Authority.  In 1994, he took up a new position within the Swedish Defence Material Administration, looking after Frequency Management for the Swedish Defence Forces. Since 1997, Lasse is back in Ericsson, particularly addressing international policies in the Radio Regulatory and Spectrum domains within the Ericsson Group Function in Stockholm, Sweden.

Aarti Holla-Maini

Secretary General, European Satellite Operators Association

Aarti Holla has been Secretary General of ‘ESOA’, the association of all European satellite operators, for the last 6 years. She works on key issues impacting the industry, strengthening awareness of the benefits of satellite-delivered services with key decision-makers to ensure the global availability of these services.

Ms. Holla’s professional history includes representing Galileo Industries, the joint venture company of EADS Astrium, Alenia Spazio, Alcatel Space and Galileo Systemas y Servicios in Brussels, where she worked closely with European Institutions on the development of the public private partnership scheme and management aspects of the Galileo programme and project & strategic management at DaimlerChrysler Aerospace (now EADS) in Munich, Germany.

Ms. Holla-Maini holds an MBA from HEC in France, a diploma in German law from the University of Passau, Germany and a law degree from King’s College at the University of London. She has regularly given workshops on negotiation skills for young managers. She qualified as a Solicitor of the Supreme Court in London in 1995, working with the law firm of Pannone Pritchard Englefield. She lives in Brussels and speaks 5 languages.

Michael Bartholomew

Director, ETNO

Michael Bartholomew is Director of the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association (ETNO), the trade association for Europe’s largest e-communications operators. ETNO’s 41 members in 35 European countries account for a total turnover of more than 270 billion € and up to one million employees.

Mr. Bartholomew is a key interlocutor with European and International institutions for all policies impacting on the EU telecoms industry. As main spokesman for the industry, he is a frequent speaker on telecoms related regulatory and market developments at European and international conferences and events.

The ETNO Director runs the Brussels secretariat and coordinates the work of ETNO’s 20 expert groups, developing common industry positions on key issues such as economic regulation, spectrum management, fraud and security, data protection, sustainability, content related issues, Internet Governance and social dialogue. He represents these positions at the EU and international level.

Prior to joining ETNO, Mr. Bartholomew served as Director for European Affairs for the Motion Picture Association that represents the global interests of Hollywood’s major studios.

Earlier, Mr. Bartholomew also funded and managed for nine years a Brussels public affairs consultancy and worked with major EU and international clients in the audiovisual and publishing sectors.

Mr. Bartholomew is member of the Cercle Royal Gaulois, the Centre for European Policy Studies and former board director of the International Press Association. For the past three years, he is a member of the Jury for the annual World Communications Award and is listed in Who’s Who in the World and in Who’s Who in Science and Technology.

With a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University in Illinois, he began his career as a journalist and has worked for the Associated Press, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. His columns on European affairs have been published in the Wall Street Journal and other leading international newspapers.

Stefan Koreneef

Project Manager, "Vision on Mobile Communication", Ministry of Economic Affairs, The Netherlands

Biography to appear here shortly...

Pearse O'Donohue

Head of Radio Spectrum Policy Unit, European Commission

Pearse O'Donohue is responsible for the development and implementation of policies for efficient spectrum use and a coordinated approach to frequency management in the EU. This also involves the development of spectrum harmonisation measures in the electronic communications field and in other internal market sectors such as transport and research. He is Chairman of the EU Radio Spectrum Committee.
Prior to taking over his current post in June 2008, Pearse O'Donohue was the Assistant to the Director-General of DG INFSO (Information Society and Media). Before that, he was Deputy Head of the Unit responsible for monitoring and enforcing implementation of the EU regulatory framework in electronic communications, where he dealt amongst other things with spectrum authorisation and broadband access issues.
Pearse O'Donohue began his career in the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs, from which he was posted to the Permanent Representation of Ireland to the EU in Brussels. In 1991 he was appointed Assistant Director of the Brussels office of the Irish Business & Employers' Confederation and in 1995 he joined the European Commission.

Kris Shields

Head of Spectrum Management, Computech

Kris Shields is Head of Spectrum Management at Computech - a technology consulting firm, that specialising in building mission-critical custom systems that support numerous federal agencies and commercial organisations.

Kris has worked at Computech since 2003, and has been in his current role since May 2009.

Kris holds an MBA in Information Systems from the University of Maryland, and a BS in Information Systems from the American University in Washington DC.

Lieven Vermaele

Technical Director, EBU

Lieven Vermaele has been Director of EBU TECHNICAL at the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) since 1 September 2007. Achievements include the introduction of new working methods and tools; spectrum policy (ITU, European commission); European-wide P2P projects; “Heads of Research”, a collaborative initiative between broadcasting research centres in Europe and outside (Japan, Canada); and the strengthening of industry-wide ties. He is Chairman of the ETSI/EBU/CENELEC Joint Technical Committee, which is responsible for setting European standards for broadcasting systems. EBU TECHNICAL's objective is to be ‘your reference in media technology and innovation’, which is reflected in the mission: connect and share, develop and guide, promote and represent, drive and harmonize.

Lieven Vermaele started his career at VRT where he worked for six years, mainly developing strategies for the implementation of new technologies. He was in charge of the renegotiation with the Flemish Government of VRT's management contract for 2006-2011. He later joined Alcatel-Lucent dealing with strategic issues before taking up his appointment at the EBU.

Lieven Vermaele was born in Ghent, Belgium in 1975. He is married and has a child.

Erzsébet Fitori

Regulatory Affairs Manager, ECTA

Erzsébet Fitori is currently Acting Director, Regulatory Affairs at ECTA, the trade association representing over 100 competitive operators across Europe.
Prior to joining ECTA in February 2008 she was Head of Regulatory Affairs at Pannon GSM (Telenor Group) in Budapest.

Erzsébet’s early career saw her as an Assistant Professor in the Department of European Law and Private International Law at the University of Miskolc in Hungary, following traineeships at the European Central Bank in Frankfurt and at law firm Baker & McKenzie in Budapest.

Erzsébet holds an LL.M. in European Community Law from Leiden University and a Degree in Law from the University of Miskolc, Hungary. In addition to her native Hungarian she speaks excellent English and intermediate level German.

Hans Borgonjen

Vice Chairman, The TETRA Association

Hans Borgonjen is vice chairman of the Tetra Association. He is also Senior Coordinator International Standardisation at Vts Politie Netherlands and chairman of Public Safety Radiocommunication Group (PSRG).

Caroline van Weede

Managing Director, Cable Europe

Caroline van Weede is the Managing Director of Cable Europe since December 2005.

Before joining Cable Europe, Caroline worked for the SFR Cegetel Group (France) where she initially dealt with European Affairs. During that period she chaired GSM Europe (2000 - 2001) and was later promoted to Head of the Business Intelligence Department.

Between 1994 and 1997 she was a member of the European Commission's "Improvement of the Business Environment" unit (DG XXIII responsible for Enterprise Policy). Prior to that she worked for UNICE (Union of Industrial and Employers' Confederations of Europe) as an Industrial Affairs Adviser. She began her career at the Banque Paribas Belgium in 1988.

Caroline holds a Degree in Applied Economics from UCL in Belgium.

Janette Dobson

Senior Manager, Analysys Mason

Janette Dobson is a Senior Manager at Analysys Mason, and is a highly qualified wireless technology specialist with 15 years’ experience in radio engineering and spectrum management. She is based in Analysys Mason’s office in Edinburgh.

Janette previously worked for the Radiocommunications Agency (now part of Ofcom) where she held various roles, latterly Senior Spectrum Engineer in the 3G Auction Team, where she was responsible for determining UK spectrum plans for the 3G licence award, interacting with CEPT and ITU working groups. Her particular focus is spectrum management and frequency regulation, particularly in the European mobile communications market.

Since joining Analysys Mason, her broad experience includes researching market opportunities, business planning, user requirements definition, procurement support and technical due diligence. She focuses on the public sector, and has worked with a wide range of clients during seven years in Analysys Mason, including regulators, emergency services, central government, transport and local authorities.

Lee Sanders

Partner, Analysys Mason

Lee Sanders (Partner) joined Analysys Mason in 2005 and has led projects across a broad range of topics, including spectrum issues, network sharing and next generation access networks. He leads the majority of Analysys Mason’s spectrum management projects, in particular those relating to the 2.6GHz band, the digital dividend and GSM spectrum re-farming.

Lee has advised a wide range of clients worldwide including regulators, government bodies and operators. He has led several of Analysys Mason’s very high-profile spectrum-related studies for regulators, including advising Ofcom on the awards of the 2.6GHz band, the digital dividend and L-Band; as well as our study for the European Commission on the digital dividend. Lee is also experienced in advising spectrum users – he has recently supported European mobile operators to respond to consultations regarding GSM spectrum re-farming and to value 900MHz spectrum. He is currently assisting a mobile operator to prepare for an upcoming 2.6GHz award.

Before joining Analysys Mason, Lee spent several years working for Mercer Management Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) and holds a Masters Degree in Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cambridge.

Andrea Renda

Senior Research Fellow, Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS)

Andrea Renda is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), where he started and currently manages the Regulatory Affairs Programme. He is Professor of Economic Analysis of Law, Antitrust and EU policymaking at LUISS Guido Carli University in Rome, as well as a Senior Research Fellow at LUISS’ Law and Economics Lab. Andrea sits in the Scientific Board of the International Telecommunications Society and of the EuroCPR, and is the author of several publications and expert reports in the field of telecommunications policy and spectrum management.

Gerard Pogorel

Professor of Economics, Telecom ParisTech (ENST) & Supervisory Board Member (Independent ), Open Access-Telecom Italia

Telecom ParisTech (ENST) is a first-tier European Research and higher education institution, with campuses in Paris and Sophia Antipolis (France). It is a member of the IDEA League and ATHENS European University networks.

Gerard Pogorell graduated from HEC Graduate School of Management (Paris) and holds a Doctorate in Economics from Université de Paris Pantheon-Sorbonne.

He published numerous articles, books, and reports including: “The Radio Spectrum: managing a strategic resource” with JM Chaduc, previously Director General ANFR, (Wiley-ISTEC London); “Nine regimes of spectrum management: a 4-step decision guide”, Communications & Strategies; and “Towards More Flexible Spectrum Regulation”, WIK-BundesNetzAgentur report (Bonn, co-author).

Gérard Pogorel has been Chair of numerous EU RTD Framework Programme monitoring and evaluation panels (composed of independent experts). including ICT, “ICT-Policy Support Programme”, and the RTD FP as a whole. He is currently and Independent Supervisory Board Member of Open Access Telecom Italia, as well as a member of the international panel of experts for the World Competitiveness Yearbook, (IMD, Lausanne). He is team co-ordinator for the ParisTech “Innovation 2020: coping with tectonic shifts in global innovation” research project.

Rüdiger Hahn

Head of Department, Legal Aspects of Telecommunications Regulation, Frequency Regulation, BNetzA

1990 Entry into the service of the Federal Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications

until 1992 Assistant Head of Section
“Principles of Regulation”

from 1993 Assistant Head of Section
“Legal Aspects of Regulation”

from 1996 Head of Section
“Mobile and Satellite Communications”

from 1998 Head of Division
“Regulation and Licences” at the Regulatory Authority for Telecommunications and Posts

since 2001 Head of Department
“Legal Aspects of Telecommunications Regulation, Frequency Regulation” at the Federal Network Agency

Philippe Defraigne

Director, Cullen International

Philippe Defraigne is a director of Cullen International, a company monitoring regulatory developments in telecommunications, media and electronic commerce. He is an economist by training and has spent the last 20 years monitoring telecommunications regulation and market developments across Europe. He started his telecommunications career as a researcher at the University of Namur in 1988. Between 1991 and 1994, Philippe worked for the European Commission where he was mainly involved in the legislative process that lead to the adoption of the ONP Leased Lines Directive.

Jérôme Rousseau

Director of the Spectrum Regulation and Techology Directorate, ARCEP

Jérôme Rousseau is Director of the Spectrum regulation and technology directorate at ARCEP (Autorité de régulation des communications électroniques et des postes) in France.
Jérôme Rousseau is a graduate of Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications (ENST), with a DEA degree in Industrial Economics.

He joined ARCEP in September 1997 where he first participated in the introduction of the wireless local loop in France. He was named head of the Mobile Operators Unit in September 2000, where he was responsible for the UMTS application procedures.

Jérôme Rousseau was Director of the Operators and Scarce Resources Division fron July 2003 until December 2009.