Mr. Ben Amor holds a Master diploma in International Project Management from the "Conservatoire National d'Arts et des Métiers", CNAM - Paris (France), and a Diploma of Engineer from the Naval Academy, AN (Tunisia).
Hichem Besbes is the Head of the Telecommunication National Regulatory Authority of TUNISIA (INTT) since April 2014. He holds a HDR "Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches" in Telecommunications and a PhD in Electrical Engineering.
Stefan has an unusual and wide-ranging background combining telecom strategy consulting, telecom finance and also being a start-up entrepreneur in broadband (thrice – two in fibre, one in wireless). As a result, he has a wide perspective of the industry, of its economics and also a wide range of contacts in the operational, financial, regulatory and technical communities.
Ms. Fatima Mohd. Saleh is the Vice president of Fixed Access Network department of Etisalat which is responsible for the FTTH deployment, Fibre To The Mobile sites and Legacy offloading within the entire UAE. The task managed by Ms. Fatima covers the scope of providing Fibre access infrastructure to 1.9 million strong residential and business tenancies, transport network connecting all switches and Fiber backbone of mobile sites. Further, replacing the aging legacy network with Fibre based IP platform is a major task assigned to Ms. Fatima.
Mr. Bader Al Zeidi has over 15 years of experience in Telecommunications and IT. He has worked before as a Senior Manager of Access Networks Design for Mobile and Fixed Networks of incumbent Omantel. He joined Oman Broadband as GM of Projects and then moved to be the GM of Network Planning & Technology.
Mr. Salem Saeed Al Taboor is Director/Access Services for the Fixed Access Network (FAN) group of Etisalat. The Access Services is responsible for quality control for FAN Projects as well as to manage the geographical data using Geographical Information System (GIS) and logical data with Network Resource Management (NRM).
Guillaume is an analyst for Diffraction Analysis, a boutique analyst firm focused on the workings and implications of Next Generation Access development in fixed networks.
Christine Beylouni is the Director General of FTTH Council Middle East and North Africa since 2011 and President of the FTTH Councils Global Alliance for 2015. She helped, since July 2011, increasing the strategic evolution, the member's platform and the council's portfolio in terms of technology, international relations and regulation in the MENA region and globally. In addition she contributed in the four committees' development and deliverables especially training and related reporting.
Ciaran joined Corning Optical Communications in 2016 and bringing a wealth of technical and commercial experience. As sales director for carrier networks in MEA, he and his team have the responsibility to engage directly with all network operators and associated companies to advance the design and performance of their networks by capitalizing on the power and innovation of Corning optical innovations and solutions. He commented "Joining Corning was like coming home, coming to the home and heart of optical fibre".
Thomas Martin is a Pre-Sales Consultant in the Global Sales team at Calix.
Thomas has more than 20 years' experience in Service Provider Access solutions, covering the SP markets in EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa)/, Latin America and now on a global base.
Laurent is graduated from the Ecole Supérieure de Physique et Chimie Industrielles de Paris (ESPCI-ParisTech) and from the Business School of the University of Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris. He has more than 20 years of experience in the optical fiber industry.
Gamal Hegazi is the founding board member of the FTTH Council MENA. Gamal is a Solution architect with Alcatel-lucent Solutions & Marketing with responsibilities ranging from network design & architecture, business development, Solution marketing for the Africa & middle east region focusing on IP transformation, Ultra speed broadband and new innovative service introduction.