Ashraf Al Daoud, Ph.D. Email & Phone Number

Toronto, On, Ca

Toronto, Canada Area

Leading, coaching, and aspiring a diverse team of consultants responsible for supporting the area of regulatory economics and policies for wireless and wireline services in the company. Supervising end-to-end regulatory economic studies and tariff filings prepared for the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC). Presenting the business in regulatory public consultations for fixed, mobile and public good services with focus on competition policy advocacy, rate-setting matters, and risk mitigation strategies to drive favorable policy outcomes for the company and the industry in general. Supporting market strategies and service bid offerings through economic analysis and reviews. Providing coaching, support and training for team staff to drive efficiencies and generate better quality results.Notable accomplishments: • Led the business effort in multi-year regulatory consultations (including oral hearings) to review the wholesale framework for next-generation Internet and mobile wireless services in Canada. Responsible for supporting key policy goals, ensuring the proper use and interpretation of regulatory economic principles, conducting impact analysis, and drafting interrogatory responses related to policy objectives and rate-setting matters. • Led the preparation and filing of regulatory economic studies with the Canadian regulator (the CRTC) to develop service rates for wholesale FTTP high-speed Internet, wholesale mobile wireless, and next generation 9-1-1 services using the Long-Run Incremental Costing (LRIC) approach.• Supported the negotiation process for setting wholesale mobile virtual network operator (MVNO) rates backed by a final offer arbitration (FOA) process mandated by the CRTC.• Supervised the development of major regulatory economic models for estimating service-level costs such as access costs for next-generation passive optical networks (GPON) and wavelength transport services.

Toronto, Canada Area

Responsible for providing professional grade support for management decisions through engineering-economics guidance and expertise. Contributed to several consultations to review regulatory frameworks and policy objectives for mandated telecommunications services in Canada. Supported the service tariff filing process with the CRTC by preparing economic studies and tariff applications according to regulatory principles and methodologies. Engaged in cross functional team efforts for conducting economic analysis and ensuring proper implementation of costing principles and techniques, and other matters as required.

Toronto, Canada Area

• Collaborated with a team of experts and consultants to prepare an economic study and propose rates per MB/minute/SMS for offering competitor wireless roaming services in Canada. Study was based on the long-run incremental (LRIC) costing approach. • Provided economic analysis expertise for supporting company position in major regulatory proceedings such as CRTC reviews of wholesale wireline and wireless service frameworks and associated policies (conducted between 2013 and 2015) and the review of basic telecommunication services in Canada (conducted in 2015 and 2016). • Spearheaded efforts to revise and update access rates for company support structures to ensure full cost recovery from access service provided to competitors.

Toronto, Canada

Amman, Jordan

Waterloo, Canada

- Worked with the Wireless Networking Group at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Designed scheduling algorithms for rate control in heterogeneous wireless networks

Boston, Usa

- Conducted research in the area of network economics - Investigated economic feasibility of secondary markets of wireless spectrum - Devised pricing techniques and capacity allocation strategies for secondary provision of spectrum

Berlin, Germany

Developed game-theoretical techniques for pricing cloud computing services (R&D Department)

Ph.D., Computer Engineering

Dissertation: “Pricing and Capacity Dimensioning for Secondary Access in Cellular Wireless Networks”

M.Sc., Computer Systems Engineering

Thesis: “Controlling Selfish Traffic in Feed-Forward Packet-Switched Networks”

B.Sc., Electrical Engineering