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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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Patrick Gill, Millicom Group

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Malebu Makgalemela, Telkom

Malebu Makgalemela works for Telkom, where she has been the Executive responsible for Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) since the beginning of 2018. She...

Christian Lagresle, Orange Group

Christian Lagresle is the Revenue Assurance Director of Orange Group. He has kindly agreed to be a panellist at our RAG Bonn Conference,...

Ferya Topal, Turkcell

Ferya Topal works for Turkcell Technology Research and Development, where she is a Scrum Master and is responsible for developing the company's revenue assurance...

James Pearson, Lebara

James has served as the Head of Revenue Assurance and Fraud at Lebara Mobile since the start of 2014. He will be a...

Msimisi Fakudze, MTN Group

Msimisi Fakudze works at MTN Group where he leads a team responsible for technology design and audit to mitigate revenue risks. In this...

Rita Handayani, Indosat Ooredoo

Rita Handayani is the Head of the Revenue Assurance Operation Division at Indosat Ooredoo, one of the largest telcos in Indonesia. With nearly...

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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