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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

Looking Forward to the 2014 Subex User Conference

Sharing a taxi on the final night of last year's event, Mansi Chouhan, Subex's personable Marketing Director, asked my opinion about possible venues for...

Do CEOs Understand Revenue Assurance?

Last week, an anonymous individual explained why they were frustrated with their telco's approach to revenue assurance. Ultimately, the complaint was that management...

Big Data World Championship Coming Soon

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Poll Result: Do not ask stupid questions!

This week talkRA experimented with its first opinion poll. Not knowing how popular it would be, I had no idea how long to...

Live Poll: Do revenue assurance and fraud management belong together?

Observant readers may already have noticed a new addition to talkRA's right hand sidebar. Since Monday, it has boasted an online opinion poll,...

Kevin Trapp, The ID Co.

Kevin is the Business Development Manager for The ID Co., a company principally servicing the finance industry with a capability to embed identity verification...

Craig McDermott, Apply Mobile

Craig is the CEO of Apply Mobile, a business investing in research and patents relating to the security and productivity of mobile devices. ...

Tony Poulos Joins WeDo; Market strategist role is a pointer to the future

WeDo, the Portuguese business assurance vendor, have hired Tony Poulos to be a market strategist and spokesperson for the company; you can find the...

The End of talkRA?

We Need Fewer, Bigger, Better Vendors

There has been a lot of revealing news recently. But when I say 'revealing', I mean that in the sense of a man...

The Difficult Relationship Between Telcos and P2P

Do you ever share files for work? Most of us do, and most of us find it can be an annoyingly convoluted process....

Mara-Ison Connectiva Rebrands; Shifts Focus to Analytics

The vendor formerly known as Mara-Ison Connectiva has changed its official name to Connectiva Insights and Analytics Ltd, and has adopted the new (but...

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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