For over 18 years, I have been a part of the company's Board of Directors managing all international business development and B2B technology sales at PortaOne, a global telecom software developer. The company’s products enable communication service providers, mobile operators, national telcos, and carriers to run a broad line of retail, business, and wholesale services on a single integrated BSS & OCS and UCaaS (SBC & C4/5 Softswitch) platform both on-premises and in the cloud. PortaOne’s flagship platforms, PortaSwitch and PortaBilling are fundamental parts of the business infrastructure for 500+ communication service providers and telcos in over 100 countries worldwide. Over two-thirds of nearly 300 PortaOne staff are support engineers providing the best-in-industry 24/7 technical support services for clients involved in mobile communication, cloud PBX and SIP trunking services, wholesale SMS & VoIP, IPTV and residential triple-play, MVNO and MVNE, data and voice over LTE, IoT/M2M, and more.

Branan is an integrated consulting, legal and investment firm that was established in 1999 by former senior managers from the Moscow office of PricewaterhouseCoopers, and has since completed more than 100 projects primarily in the energy, utilities and technology sectors in Russia and the CIS .

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Nextra Czech Republic once a major Czech ISP owned by Telenor, then part of GTS Central European Holding, and acquired by T-Mobile in 2014.GTS Central Europe, owned by Deutsche Telekom AG, is the leading infrastructure-based telecommunications service provider in Central and Eastern Europe. Telenor is the largest provider of telecommunications services in Norway, and has substantial international operations.

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