I draw from more than 35 years in the telecom sector, grounded in engineering, project management, and business excellence with 19 years at Telstra, Australia’s leading operator, and 19 years in senior roles across Asia and MENA; extensive hands-on experience with all aspects of telecom businesses; a keen technologist; commercially and customer savvy; successful in multiple CTO positions; group COO, Board & CEO advisor, and extensive boardroom experience; strong operational and project execution capability; a proven track record of building strong teams and delivering exceptional operational and financial results in complex international and multi-cultural environments; an innovative thinker, challenger of norms; strong business acumen and a deep understanding of the whole business; always committed to the company’s best interests.I have lived, worked, and overseen telco businesses across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Asia Pacific, included extended periods as a resident of Australia, Indonesia, Kuwait, Malaysia, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Qatar. I have extensive experience with infrastructure and the global telecom ecosystem and am confident of my ability to manage cultural sensitivities, whilst building empowered teams to grow the business. I have been engaged in business and network strategy, planning, rollout, project management, and operations of dozens of telecom operations across the developed and developing world; have developed a keen ability to identify problems, pitfalls, and opportunities; and am very experienced in working with local teams to develop and implement complex plans.