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Eric Priezkalns

During his career, Eric has been a Director of Risk Management for a national telco, the Chief Executive of the Risk & Assurance Group, a Chief Marketing Officer for a software business, a consultant, a public speaker and the publisher of Commsrisk since its launch in 2006. Look here for more about the history of Commsrisk and the role played by Eric.

The comms providers that Eric has worked for include Qatar Telecom, Cable & Wireless, T‑Mobile, Sky and Worldcom. In addition to his proficiency at speaking about the current scamdemic, Eric is also a qualified chartered accountant and a subject matter expert in consumer protection, enterprise risk management, fraud prevention, data integrity and billing accuracy. Eric was the lead author of Revenue Assurance: Expert Opinions for Communications Providers, published by CRC Press. He can be reached through the contact form on this website.

Articles by This Author

Prashanthi Koutha, Netflix

Prashanthi Koutha works for Netflix in the capacity of Senior Risk Engineer, a role which draws upon her strengths in cybersecurity, technology and quantified...

Persuading C-Level Execs to Back Risk Training

Shoaib Qureshi has a funny little story about how he encouraged the entire executive team of Ooredoo Qatar to support his risk training program.

Gjurgjica Pesheva, Deutsche Telekom

Gjurgjica 'Gina' Pesheva is Senior Manager for Business Assurance and Billing at Deutsche Telekom Group, where she oversees their strategies and policies for business...

Delia Guglielmi, Bell Canada

Delia Guglielmi is the Associate Director for Fraud Control and Detection at Bell Canada Enterprises (BCE). She works as part of the BCE...

IMSI-Catcher Disguised as HP Printer

The external appearance of the device made by conceptual artist Julian Oliver gives no hint of the trickery which lies inside.

Robert McKay, UScellular

Robert McKay works for UScellular where he has the title of Senior Manager responsible for Revenue Assurance Operations. He is a proven leader...

How Much Might Supplier Assurance Be Worth?

Supplier assurance is a good idea, but SirionLabs intend to promote it with the same crappy marketing promises that were used to sell revenue assurance in the bad old days.

Ken Bessant, Xplornet Communications

Ken Bessant works for Xplornet Communications where he is Director of Information Security.Ken is an expert in the areas of cyber security, lawful access,...

Roman Lukes

Roman Lukes was formerly the Vice President of Customer Finance at Deutsche Telekom Group. In this role he was responsible for credit, fraud,...

Silly Stats from the Vendor Previously Known as Cvidya

The maths geniuses who work in the Amdocs Revenue Guard shed published some figures derived from their collective bottoms.

Mohammad Sha’ad Hossenbaccus, Millicom Group

Sha'ad is a highly experienced and well-travelled business assurance professional with a proven track record of creating and developing teams in Europe, Africa and...

Jacqui Biggart, TELUS

Jacqui Biggart is a member of the RAG Steering Committee who also works for Canadian operator TELUS in the role of Manager - Technology...

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Our Global Fraud Dashboard uses AI-powered search to collate, update and visualize data about scams and other network abuses from around the world. New charts are added each month. See it here.

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