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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

10 RAFM Issues: The Slow Death of Switch-to-Bill

Time is catching up with the archetypal revenue assurance control. RA teams must move on to remain relevant.

Linda Vandeloop, AT&T and Chair of the US STI-GA

Linda Vandeloop is an AVP at AT&T, where her role sees her handling external and regulatory affairs. She is also the first Chair...

RAFM Awards for Viva Kuwait and MTN’s Tony Sani

New risk and assurance leaders are emerging, as shown by the judges giving prizes to an African professional and an Arab telco.

Adrian Lazar Adler, T-Mobile US

Adrian Lazar Adler works for T-Mobile USA in the role of Senior Manager, Revenue Assurance. He is a knowledgeable IT professional who enables effective...

Julian Adkins, Millicom

Julian Adkins was appointed as CFO for Millicom Africa in February 2017. In his role, he oversees financial planning and strategy and also ensures...

Mustafa Abdelmalik, Expresso Telecom

Mustafa Abdelmalik is the Group Strategy and Digital Transformation Director at Expresso, a telecoms group that serves several markets in Africa. Expresso is...

Sanjay Rajagopalan, Protiviti

Sanjay Rajagopalan is a Managing Director at Protiviti, a leading provider of consulting services relating to technology and risk services. Based in Kuwait, Sanjay...

Should Assurance Be in Finance?

Three experienced assurance managers debated the pros and cons of reporting into the Finance division of a telco.

Horia Selegean, BT

Horia Selegean is a senior manager with responsibility for revenue and margin assurance within the Group Business Assurance function of BT.Horia has extensive experience...

Vodafone Charging Mess Leads to Huge Fine

The failure to exert adequate control and assurance in Vodafone UK has ultimately led to an unprecedented regulatory fine.

10 RAFM Issues: Will AI Help You or Replace You?

The penultimate installment of this 10-part series explores whether deep learning will be used to cut staff costs or augment human expertise.

Cherrill Swint, Verizon

Cherrill Swint is a Senior Manager at Verizon with over three decades of experience in the telecoms industry. During her career she has...

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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