Risk & Assurance Group

Michael Ruppel, Deutsche Telekom

Michael Ruppel works in the Technology & Innovation department of Deutsche Telekom AG. At present he is the program manager of the group's...

Michael Lazarou, Epic

Michael serves as the Revenue Assurance and Fraud Manager at Epic, formerly known as MTN Cyprus. He is also an active supporter of...

Dan Ret, Sagacity

Dan Ret is Business Development Director of Sagacity Solutions. He joined Sagacity in January 2012, and in his current role he has dual...

Alexander Eristavi, UK National Fraud Intelligence Bureau

Alexander Eristavi works for the UK's National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB), which is a part of the City of London Police. In August 2018...

James Brown, Thames Water

James Brown is Head of Billing for Thames Water in the UK. He is responsible for the meter to cash journey within the...

Katherine Butterworth, Rogers Communications

Katherine Butterworth is employed by Rogers Communications, where she is the Senior Manager in their Fraud Management function. Katherine has been with Rogers...

Clint Breithaupt, Sprint

Clint Breithaupt is the Fraud Manager of Sprint's Criminal Analytics Team. He is also the corporate represenatative for Sprint in criminal prosecutions and...

Francis Afful, MTN Ghana

Francis Afful works for MTN Ghana, where he is their Senior Manager for Revenue Assurance and Fraud Management. He has a broad understanding...

David Rogers MBE, GSMA Fraud and Security Group

David Rogers is a mobile phone and IoT security expert who runs Copper Horse Ltd, a software and security firm based in the UK. They...

Clodagh Durkan, CISO and Security Governance Expert

Clodagh Durkan is a well travelled leader and expert in the fields of security governance, data protection, cryptography and perimeter threat detection. She...

Ulrich Heister, Deutsche Telekom

Ulrich is the Vice President of Fraud Management at Deutsche Telekom. He has worked for Deutsche Telekom Group since the 90's, serving in...

Mahfuz Alam, Robi Axiata

Mahfuz Alam is an RA Manager at Robi Axiata in Bangladesh. He has detailed hands-on knowledge of leakage and fraud detection, risk assessment,...

Madan Jangra, Optus

Madan Jangra works for Australian telco Optus as their Senior Manager for Networks Assurance.Madan's expertise lies in enabling, implementing and improving business processes. He...

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

Theresa is the Commercial Risk and Investigations Manager at Colt Telecom. She has kindly agreed to be a panellist at our Bonn Conference...

Patrick Kinoti, Safaricom

Patrick Kinoti is the Head of Ethics and Compliance at Safaricom, one of Kenya's leading operators. He is responsible for fraud management and...

Nikhil Sehgal, Colt Technology Services

Nikhil Sehgal is responsible for Engineering Governance at Colt Technology Services, a multinational provider of wholesale and enterprise communications services. In this role...

Robert Gerstmann, Sinch

Robert Gerstmann is the Chief Evangelist and a co-founder of Sinch, a global leader in cloud communications for messaging. The Sinch enterprise service portfolio...

Todd Borchert, CenturyLink Business

Todd Borchert is Senior Director, Decision Science, at CenturyLink Business. Todd joined CenturyLink when Cognilytics, a leading provider of advanced predictive analytics and...

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...

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...

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...

Ģirts Kaimiņš, Tele2 Latvia

Ģirts is the Fraud Prevention and Security Manager at Tele2 Latvia. He has specialised in information security and fraud management since he joined...

Pauline Kieleko, Safaricom

Pauline Kieleko is Head of Revenue Assurance at Safaricom, a leading network operator in Kenya. She is responsible for billing assurance, platform integrity,...

Hilary Onuorah, MTN Nigeria

Hilary Onuorah is responsible for IT audits at MTN Nigeria. He is an innovative telecommunications professional with more than 14 years’ hands-on experience...

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