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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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Artem Smirnov, Transformation Consultant

Artem Smirnov has worked to facilitate change within telcos for well over a decade. At present he works for MTS Group, Russia, where he...

Theresa Whelan, COLT Telecom

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Patrick Kinoti, Safaricom

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Robert Gerstmann, Sinch

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Todd Borchert, CenturyLink Business

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Bartek Bukowski, Vodafone

Bartek works for Vodafone in the UK as their Interconnect Finance Manager. Previously he was the Revenue Assurance Manager for Hutchinson 3G, Billing...

John Preston, Tesco Mobile

John is a member of the RAG's steering committee. He is the Head of Billing, Collections Risk and Assurance for Tesco Mobile, the...

ASN.1 Bug Lets Hackers Attack Mobile Carriers

A patch addresses the vulnerability but operators will find it a burden to update software across their routers, switches and masts.

Matthew Gamble, Internet Society

Matthew Gamble is a technologist, innovator and Vice Chair of the Internet Society Canadian Chapter. He has spent his career focusing on disruptive...

Hack of Polish Telco Mixes Crime with Politics

The real hack of Polish telco Netia has been used to draw attention to a lot of faked documents, created by people with a political motive.

Andreas Manolis, BT

Andreas is the Head of Innovation & Strategy for BT Group Business Services. He is a highly experienced telecoms professional whose knowledge of...

Simon Walsh, Telefónica UK

Simon is the Head Of Disclosure at Telefónica UK, which trades commercially in the UK using the O2 brand. He is responsible for...

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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