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  • Wholesales and Enterprise Messaging Expert, Author, Key Note Speaker , Head of MT160

    Head of MT160 Head of the “MoreThan160” team, Andreas is a highly motivated executive with in-depth knowledge of the international enterprise message ecosystem in the fields of SMS messaging wholesale and retail, landing pages, Viber, Telegram, WhatsApp, Zalo, and OMNI-Messaging platforms. He is a qualified Professional Business Trainer of the National Organization for the Certification of Qualifications & Vocational Guidance, Judge at GCCM Awards and CX Awards, Berlin and International Customer Experience Awards UK & Southeast Europe. Last but not least, Andreas is the author of numerous best-seller Sales books and manuals.

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  • CEO Horisen – Messaging Expert

    Fabrizio is an electronic engineer, 47 years old, who loves chocolate and hates garlic. Twenty years ago, as a young man with Italian charisma and Swiss punctuality stepped into the telecommunication industry with a simple but powerful idea – make it possible for users to send SMS via an application that they could access through a browser. Following the passion for software engineering, striving for innovative and disruptive solutions, and sensing the new market that is coming, the company started developing SMS trading solutions and software development and marketing projects. Years behind brought many adventures, remarkable growth, and many messaging superheroes powered up with its technology.

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  • Business Messaging Director at HORISEN

    Rafal Nowak’s background is closely tied to large global enterprises and start-ups. An ambitious innovator with 10+ years of experience within the Telecom and B2B2C/C2B2B value chains. With initial experience in international new market development and acquisition marketing, he has extended his skills and expertise to Cloud Telecom Solutions. Rafal is driven by the passion for innovating digital services by partnering with Telecoms, BigTech, and entire ecosystems like Banking, Mobility, Gaming, or eGovernment. Until Sep 2023, he led Infobip’s Operator Partnership units in the DACH area to cover the ongoing and future business operations with all MNOs and MVNOs in the region. Today he is working in HORISEN as the Business Messaging Director.

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  • Head of HR-HUB4TELCOS

    With 15 years of experience in the Telecommunication Industry, Cristina is an enthusiastic, rigorous, and energetic self-made professional with a University graded technical background in computer science. She joined the telecom scene and VoIP industry in 2008, and since 2012 she has been helping companies develop their SMS business internationally on both wholesale and enterprise markets, structuring their business on SMS and building solid partnerships throughout the world.

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  • Co-founder & CEO at AVISO Messaging

    Vladimir Smal is the co-founder & CEO at AVISO Messaging. He recently decided to pursue a new business path after proving himself as a successful team leader of the Middle East, Africa & and Asia markets of the Voice Sales department.

    Vladimir has profound knowledge and vast experience in the Wholesale Telecom market, both in Voice & and SMS. Over the last 14 years, he has visited all major Telecom events. Vladimir is an active member, speaker, and panelist at Mobile Ecosystem Forum and Carrier Community.

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  • CEO, FSE Consulting

    Based in Paris, France, Florence is an experienced New Business Development Professional and Relationship Broker with deep expertise in the telecommunication industry. After a master’s in international Trade (Paris II Pantheon Assas), she joined Telecom Italia for almost 10 years. She founded FSE Consulting in 2009 to help companies to build market positions by locating, developing, defining, negotiating, and closing impactful business relationships. During the last years she has been moderating conferences, publishing interviews about our industry leaders and serving on the jury for the awards.

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  • Founder & CEO at Almuqeet Inc.

    Zaffar, the founder of Almuqeet Inc in 2012, has played a pivotal role in advancing technology within the Messaging and CPaaS sectors. He has assisted numerous companies in the messaging domain, offering consultancy and developing software platforms for future-ready systems.

    Presently serving as the CEO of Almuqeet Inc, he brings extensive expertise in managing intricate deployments, achieving business goals, and fostering progress in the Telecom industry, particularly in Messaging. His involvement in the academy is focused on enabling peers to swiftly and effectively grasp the technological underpinnings of the entire CPaaS and messaging ecosystem.

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  • Vice President Strategic Partnerships LATAM at VOX Solutions

    Juan Felipe Santos is the VP of Strategic Partnerships for America at Vox Solutions. He has +10 years of experience in the telecommunications and technology industry. Selected in the last ROCCO Genesis edition (2022) into the TOP 25 more influential people in the roaming, messaging, and interconnect industry.

    He has developed his career throughout the entire chain of our ecosystem, From MNO´s, aggregators, and technology providers. Devoting all his efforts to develop new strategies, alliances, and solutions, with the aim of defining the best solution for each case.

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  • Head of IT Operations and Security / DPO at HORISEN AG

    MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, PhD candidate in the area of quantum security in optical networks. Focused on leadership, governance and implementation of Information Security and Data Protection and Privacy technical and organizational measures in the modern SaaS business environment. Certified DPO and ISO 27001:2013 Lead Implementer.

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  • Head of Training at Cellusys

    Steve DeVries is working as a Head Of Training at Cellusys. He joined  Cellusys in July, 2017, he has worked as a telecom signalling training contractor
    Developed and taught many SS7 and related signalling courses for Bellcore (Telcordia Technologies) in the 1990s
    Early protocols were X.25, BX.25, SS7 as a Resident Visitor to Bellcore
    Technical support manager
    Central office maintenance
    Phone installation, pole climbing, coin phone repair (long, long time ago)

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  • VP Sales at Annecto

    A 20-year history as a Sales Professional, including 10 years in Telco Sales. Andrew has been instrumental with numerous start-ups in the A2P industry in building their brand – helping them to achieve rapid growth leading to acquisition/public listing. 
    An experienced Sales Leader with a proven track record in building high performing teams through education & mentoring. 
    Andrew lives in Essex, UK, with his fiancée. In his spare time, Andrew is a keen motorist, football and music lover.

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  • Wholesale Business Unit Director

    Bernardo is a Commercial & Operations Executive with expertise in commercial strategy, business development and procurement. He has more than 20 years of experience in the TMT industry and started his career at Vodafone in 2001, where he held positions in Wholesale Voice, Marketing and Procurement at Group level in several countries. In 2015, Bernardo co-founded a distributor for Mobile Operators and Handset manufacturers in Colombia. Back to Europe in 2018, he joins Go4Mobility to build the Wholesale Business unit, where he grew the A2P SMS business to an international level and set up also the Voice DIDs and Transit business lines.
    Bernardo is energetic and focused on the workplace and uses his positive attitude to encourage others to succeed. Bernardo is inspired daily by his wife and his three daughters. In his free time, Bernardo likes to be at the beach, meet people and be with his close friends.”

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  • CCO at BSG

    I help your message surf the world! 16 years of experience in A2P SMS and other communication services that are used by businesses for better interaction with their clients. Used to manage local PSMS company in Kyiv, coordinated the project that launched the first direct carrier billing payment in Ukraine (World of Tanks via Kyivstar), was thoroughly burned with own SMS company but came back to the business.Chief Commercial Officer at BSG now: dream work that has got a dream team.

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  • Principal Consultant / Messaging

    Extensive sales and business development experience in the fixed and mobile telecom industry. Successful background in channel alliances and indirect channel sales with OEMs, ISVs, Operators and SI’s selling to global enterprises and SMBs. Currently focused on mobile customer engagement for voice, video, collaboration and messaging. Expert in Rich Business Messaging go to market strategies and pricing. Extensive ecosystem with established relationships in mobile operators and aggregators globally. Specialist in CPaaS & Rich Business Messaging, A2P/P2A customer engagement, Collaboration, UCaaS, IoT & Cloud.

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  • CPaaS consultant, Engage Mobile Limited

    Michael is one of the industry’s leading messaging evangelists, having collaborated with all major messaging providers and mobile network operators to bring to market the next generation of omnichannel applications, APIs and CPaaS platforms. 

    With over 25 years of defining commercial models and improving profitability at all levels of the value chain, Michael has enjoyed global success with brands of varying scales and in multiple sectors, including Santander, Parcelforce, Yokogawa, CMC Markets and Hendersons Global Investors to name a few.

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  • Chief Technology Office at ZARIOT

    Charles Bernard has 18 years of experience in the mobile industry. He made a career of helping mobile operators: expand their roaming footprints, enhance their customer’s roaming experiences, optimize roaming costs, and monetize A2P traffic.

    As the Chief Technology Officer of ZARIOT, he now uses his knowledge to bring the best of cellular IoT to enterprise businesses for their IoT projects. He is driven by the quest for operational excellence and a passion for delivering a complex solution, simply.