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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

Ben Hooper, giffgaff

Ben Hooper works for giffgaff as their Head of Business Assurance. giffgaff is a British MVNO which describes itself as a network run...

America vs. The Global Push for Risk Management

Hungry telcos will drive the development of RAFM toward the scientific management of risk. Do North American telcos have the appetite to lead, or will change come elsewhere?

10 RAFM Issues: Professionalization

Continuing the series on the RAFM issues brings us to the widespread desire to turn RAFM practitioners into professionals, and the obstacles lying in the way.

Last Week to Nominate a Subex Excellence Award

There are two awards: telcos who innovate in risk; and individuals who contribute to our community.

Hakim Akayour, BT

Hakim Akayour is a senior manager working for the Business Assurance function of BT Group, where he oversees the assurance of consumer services, including...

Darren Rinaldi, Foxtel

Darren Rinaldi is the Head of Billing & Margin Assurance at Foxtel, an Australian pay-TV business. Foxtel provides its customers with cable, direct...

Ingrid Azzopardi, GO

Ingrid Azzopardi is the Group Internal Auditor of GO PLC and a founding member as well as a past chair of the Malta Forum...

Mustafa Ali, Batelco

Mustafa Ali is the Head of Business Assurance at Batelco, the principal telecoms company in the Kingdom of Bahrain. He is a seasoned...

Lourenço Francisco, Vodacom Mozambique

Lourenço Francisco is a Senior Specialist in the RAFM team at Vodacom Mozambique. His role covers the control of processes and procedures for...

Jeremy Fenton, ACMA

Jeremy Fenton has worked since 2010 at the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA), the national regulator of comms providers in Australia. He...

Flöckinger To Engage Lawyer to ‘Clear His Name’

So-called 'fraud expert' Daniel Flöckinger has doubled down on calling himself an imposter by promising to engage a lawyer to fight the conspiracy which has 'damaged his name'.

Mike Chalmers-Hunt, Vodafone Business

Mike Chalmers-Hunt is a Senior Manager at Vodafone Business, where he one of his responsibilities is to lead the mitigation of fraud in partnership...

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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