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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

Why You Are Wrong about Copyright

If you do not want to read this article because you think intellectual property rights are not relevant to your job, then you should, because they are.

Commsrisk Top Ten for 2015

Which were the most popular articles during 2015? This rundown will help you to catch up with the posts that your fellow professionals were reading.

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Kingsley Unah is a veteran telco risk practitioner. Now based in Canada, Kingsley was formerly at Airtel Nigeria, where he held the roles...

Lionel Dawson, Ericsson

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Jack Wraith MBE, Distinguished Crime Fighter

Until 2014 Jack was the CEO and a Director of The Telecommunications UK Fraud Forum (TUFF) a post he held for 16 years. ...

Reena Sharma, Cartesian

Reena Sharma is a Senior Consultant at Cartesian, having joined them in 2012. Her specialties include revenue assurance, KPI implementation, customer migrations and...

Ken Dickenson, ex Telkom

Until his retirement from Telkom SA, Ken was the manager who oversaw their network fraud management system. Ken's career at Telkom lasted 40 years,...

Bogdan Mingela, SORAMITSU

Bogdan Mingela is the leader of the development team at Japanese technology business SORAMITSU. He is an experienced software engineer with a deep...

Vernon Kitay, Virtual CISO

Vernon Kitay works as the Head of Governance, Risk and Controls (GRC) and the Virtual Chief Information Security Officer of Blackfoot UK. He...

Hugh Roberts, Strategist and Evangelist

Hugh Roberts is one of the best known and most widely respected individuals in our field, as made obvious by plaudits from colleagues:"Hugh is...

Luke Taylor, Digital Marketing Specialist

Luke is a seasoned executive, and was previously the Deputy CEO and the CCO of Neural Technologies, the specialist vendors of risk management solutions....

Paul Davies, Symbox

Paul works for Symbox, an enabler of digital transformation that helps some of the world's largest organisations to accelerate their transformation programmes. At Symbox...

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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