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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.

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Belinda Soh, EdgePoint Infrastructure

Belinda Soh is a highly experienced risk, audit and financial professional. In October 2021 she was appointed Head of Internal Audit at EdgePoint...

Demanding Change, with Neural Technologies

A wide-ranging conversation with Neural CCO Luke Taylor covers why he thinks Safaricom, T-Mobile USA and Turkcell are leaders and what he wants from industry associations.

Fraud Awareness Week Begins Soon

The ACFE's International Fraud Week seems more like a marketing exercise for them than a serious attempt to share advice on how to prevent fraud.

Jenny Schultz, T-Mobile US

Jenny Schultz is Senior Manager for Billing Analytics and Operations at T-Mobile USA.Based in Overland Park, Kansas, Jenny is an experienced manager who joined...

Neural Becomes First Foundation Sponsor for the Risk & Assurance Group

The deal means the Neural Technologies brand will be featured at four international conferences.

Parthiban Balasubramanian, TELUS

Parthiban Balasubramanian works at TELUS, where he is the Product Owner for their Telemetry department. Telemetry is TELUS' in-house data analytics function, a...

WeDo Will Renew Their Dilbert-Style Comic Strip

The popularity of the absurd characters in the alternative RAFM universe has led WeDo to sign a new deal with the artist who draws them.

Glen Winn, Virgin Media

Glen is the Risk, Compliance & Business Assurance Director at Virgin Media Ireland. Glen joined Virgin Media Ireland in 2000, and is one of...

The Cover Up Is Worse Than the Data Breach

Data breaches are becoming more frequent, but big businesses must be honest about them. Demands for transparency will influence corporate culture more generally.

Herman Singh, MTN Group Chief Digital Officer

Herman is the Chief Digital Officer of MTN Group, and sits on the boards of a number of MTN companies, including some of the...

How MTN Group Delivers RAFM Training

In this video Marcus Bryant discusses the options considered by MTN Group before deciding their approach to educating RAFM staff.

Commsrisk Top Ten for October 2016

New visitors from India created a surge of traffic for articles published later in the month. These were the ten most popular posts worldwide.

The Commsrisk Global Fraud Dashboard


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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