Experience

VOSS

• United States
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Nov 2003 - May 2022

  Reading, United Kingdom VOSS is an Independent Software Vendor, developing products for the Telecommunications industry. VOSS specializes in cloud communications fulfillment solutions. Customers include the world's leading service providers and multi-national organizations, including AT&T, BT, DxC, Fujitsu, HCL, NTT, SingTel Optus, SparkNZ, Telefonica, Telstra, Vodafone, Verizon. In 2003/04, together with 4 colleagues, we founded VOSS to meet the needs of Cisco Systems' entry into the service provider market.… Show more VOSS is an Independent Software Vendor, developing products for the Telecommunications industry. VOSS specializes in cloud communications fulfillment solutions. Customers include the world's leading service providers and multi-national organizations, including AT&T, BT, DxC, Fujitsu, HCL, NTT, SingTel Optus, SparkNZ, Telefonica, Telstra, Vodafone, Verizon. In 2003/04, together with 4 colleagues, we founded VOSS to meet the needs of Cisco Systems' entry into the service provider market. My initial responsibilities were to support the testing and delivery of products to beachhead customers, along with marketing and business development. This evolved into various management roles to build partnerships and open new territories; with my current focus on Business Development as the Telecommunications industry is undergoing massive change.

• VP Business Development and COO - Asia Pacific

  • Jan 2011 - Jun 2021

  Sydney, Australia As COO, APac, responsibilities include sales, customer & partner management, operations and delivery. The APac region is high growth for VOSS and hence business development and partner management plays a big role. Major account that have been secured under my leadership include Telstra, SingTel-Optus, NTT Japan, China Unicom, HCL in India and the APac region and Spark in New Zealand. My responsibilities also include the global role for marketing and business development. This involves… Show more As COO, APac, responsibilities include sales, customer & partner management, operations and delivery. The APac region is high growth for VOSS and hence business development and partner management plays a big role. Major account that have been secured under my leadership include Telstra, SingTel-Optus, NTT Japan, China Unicom, HCL in India and the APac region and Spark in New Zealand. My responsibilities also include the global role for marketing and business development. This involves creating the VOSS go to market message, promoting the VOSS technology with analysts and speaking at various industry events.

• President - North America

  • Mar 2007 - Dec 2010

  Richardson, TX VOSS is an Independent Software Vendor, developing products for the Telecommunications industry. VOSS specializes in cloud communications fulfillment solutions. Customers include the world's leading service providers and multi-national organizations, including AT&T, BT, CSC, Fujitsu, NTT, Telefonica, Telstra, SingTel, Vodafone, Verizon. In 2007 VOSS opened a presence in North America, ultimately re-locating the VOSS head-office to the USA in 2010. As President, responsibilities include… Show more VOSS is an Independent Software Vendor, developing products for the Telecommunications industry. VOSS specializes in cloud communications fulfillment solutions. Customers include the world's leading service providers and multi-national organizations, including AT&T, BT, CSC, Fujitsu, NTT, Telefonica, Telstra, SingTel, Vodafone, Verizon. In 2007 VOSS opened a presence in North America, ultimately re-locating the VOSS head-office to the USA in 2010. As President, responsibilities include sales, customer management, operations and delivery, but initially the focus was on building a relationship with our partner Cisco and developing the NA market. Major deals with IBM, AT&T and Centurylink triggered continuing investment into the NA territory.



Jacobs Rimell Limited

• COO - Asia Pacific

  • Mar 2000 - Oct 2003

  Jacobs Rimell creates and delivers Operational Support Systems to Telecommunication and MSO service providers. This covers service activation and automation systems for voice, video and data services. I ran the Asia Pacific operations - covering customer relationships, deployments, sales, support and administration, with strong focus on Japan, Korea and Australia.



Broadcentic Limited

• Co-Founder & Senior Consultant

  • Feb 1994 - Mar 2000

  Amsterdam Area, Netherlands Co-Founded Broadcentric Limited, a technology consultancy specialising in voice, video and data service delivery. Held contracts with: 1. GE Americom (USA) - planning the satellite delivery of iTV and Data services for India 2. Optus Telecom (Australia) - launching Optus' internet service, including both dial-up and high speed, broadband data services 3. Australis Limited (Australia) - launching digital satelite television 4. UPC (Netherlands) - planning European satellite-based… Show more Co-Founded Broadcentric Limited, a technology consultancy specialising in voice, video and data service delivery. Held contracts with: 1. GE Americom (USA) - planning the satellite delivery of iTV and Data services for India 2. Optus Telecom (Australia) - launching Optus' internet service, including both dial-up and high speed, broadband data services 3. Australis Limited (Australia) - launching digital satelite television 4. UPC (Netherlands) - planning European satellite-based high-speed data service. Show less



Cable & Wireless Optus

• Project Director, Business Development

  • Jan 1997 - Jan 1999

  Responsible for heading the team that launched both Optus ISP (which became No 2 in the market) and Optus Broadband



TCI

• Telecommunications
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project/Technical Director - Australis Ltd

  • Jan 1994 - Jan 1996

  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia Responsible for heading up the team that launched digital satellite TV and iTV into the Australian market. This was the first digital iTV technology delivered globally and required a massive investment in time and effort to manage 3rd party suppliers and the internal technical and delivery teams, to ensure that the Galaxy PayTV service could be launched on-time.



Unify

• Germany
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Director, Business Development

  • Jan 1991 - Jan 1994

  Responsible for project management and business development for Government communications projects



SLB

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 700 & Above Employee

• Country Manager

  • Feb 1985 - Dec 1990

  International Worked in the Schlumberger Wireline business in Asia and the Middle East. Initially joined as a field engineer, but was steadily promoted to Country Manager.