Sabri Yahya is Chief Information Officer of Etisalat Egypt. He joint Etisalat UAE in 1995 as a graduate trainee in engineering department. Between 2001 and 2006, Sabri Yahya held various managerial positions in the area of switching, intelligent networks and network services development. Sabri Yahya holds a Master of Science degree in Communication Systems Engineering from University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.

Kathy Romano has nearly 30 years of experience at Verizon after beginning her career with Bell of Pennsylvania. She has held positions in nearly every aspect of telecom operations, providing a significant knowledge base and industry leading vision with regard to OSS, billing and revenue assurance. She currently serves as Executive Director of Verizon Services Billing and Revenue Assurance.

John Brooks has over twenty years in Telecommunications, with experience spanning Voice Wireline/Wireless, Data, and Video products. With Subex (formerly Connexn/Subex Azure) since 1999, he has been the principle consultant/architect and program director on other successful Cost and Revenue Assurance engagements such as AT&T Broadband and Local Services and Citizens Communications.

Catherine is co-founder and CTO of Tribold. A technology visionary, she is the principle architect of the company’s product management solutions portfolio, and responsible for product strategy, development and delivery.

Ari Banerjee is vice president of Yankee Group’s Anywhere Network research group, leading and overseeing telecom software research. Banerjee examines the breadth of software used by communications service providers in customer, business, service and infrastructure management. His area of focus includes all aspects of BSS, OSS, digital commerce, revenue and service assurance.

Dr. Dirk Lukas is working in telecommunication industries since 1994, enforcing many years the retail and wholesale business at E-Plus (Germany) and at KPN Mobile (Netherlands) with respect to Business Support Processes, then joining Detecon International and still focussing on eTOM blocks Fulfilment, Assurance, and mainly Billing. He has been fully integrated in former GBA work, he is much experienced in designing and implementing billing processes in both the wholesale and the retail business, and he is also an expert in tailoring new business models by partner management partner settlement, and dispute management processes.

Jaco has 20 years of Telecom experience in fixed and mobile communications and 10 years of charging and billing experience with focus in the real-time charging area. He has worked for fixed line and mobile operators in South Africa and moved to Ericsson 10 year ago as Director for Product Management for its Prepaid and Mediation solutions and developed both these world leading products to a complete Revenue Management portfolio. Today he is Director for Business Development and Strategies for Revenue Management where he sets the long term strategies for Ericsson with respect to the Revenue Management.

Dr. Ralf Guckert completed his studies in Physics at the University of Gießen in 1994 with a diploma and received his doctorate in 1999. From 1994 to 1999 he worked as a graduate student, as post-doc, and as staff-member at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico (USA). Since the beginning of 2000, he worked at the former LHS Group, most recently as the head of Sales Support and Business Development. . In 2003, as Vice President Products he was part of the leadership team and participated in the carve-out of the Schlumberger Product Unit BSCS. In February 2004, private equity investor General Atlantic and LHS Beteiligungs AG acquired the business operations from Schlumberger Investments Ltd. and Schlumberger S. A. After the successful launch of LHS, Dr. Ralf Guckert left LHS in 2005 and became Director System Engineering at the Charging Unit of Siemens Com and after the merge with the Network unit of Nokia he became Head of the Product Line Next Generation Charging at NSN. Late 2007, he returned to LHS as Vice President Product Strategy.

Dr. Coutand is a Doctorate in Communication Technology. Since joining Detecon he has being involved in multiple revenue management related projects He has been actively contributing to the Revenue Assurance topic development and has worked on implementation of new Revenue Assurance functions. Dr. Coutand also holds certifications in eTOM and SID.