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

Andy Mayo, Vodafone Group

Andrew Mayo is the Senior Group Fraud Manager for Vodafone Group. He is broadly responsible for fraud management across Vodafone's extensive group, having...

Amdocs RA Service Sold to Globe Telecom

A big Philippine operator bought something from the ex-Cvidya. That is all we learned from the typically ludicrous press release.

10 RAFM Issues: Ranking Their Importance

The 10-week 'reverse survey' yielded surprising results. Practitioners were more worried about the death of classic controls than the threat to jobs posed by new technology.

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.

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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