Adrian Scrase played a central role in creation of the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) and is responsible for the operations of the 3GPP Project Co-ordination Group. He also Heads 3GPPs’ Mobile Competence Centre (MCC) which is an International team of 20 experts who provide comprehensive support to the Project.

Adrian has more than 25 years experience in the telecommunications field, which includes 20 years of experience in standardization. He is Vice President within ETSI with responsibility for International Partnership Projects.

Christian Daigneault is the Chief Technology Officer of CSL Limited since July 2007. In these two years with CSL, Christian has orchestrated a full network transformation and brought the first All IP HSPA+ 21 Mbps network in the world.

Christian came to CSL with a strong telecommunications background with more than 20 years experience in the wireless mobile industry. 

He started his career with Bell Mobility Cellular in Canada, where he was responsible for radio network planning and strategies.  At Bell Mobility, he pioneered several radio network configurations from omnidirectional to 3 and 6 sectors configurations, to increase capacity and to meet the fast growing traffic.

He later joined Canadian operator Telesystem International Wireless (TIW), developing wireless networks in Europe, Asia and South America. During that period, Christian successfully launched a TDMA network in Brazil for Claro Digital, was instrumental in deploying the first foreign joint venture GSM network in China with China Unicom in Hunan Province, and was responsible for the development of the Dolphin Tetra network in the United Kingdom, Germany and France.

More recently, Christian was the Director of RF Engineering and Operations at Telus Mobility in Canada, where he was successful in improving network quality from unsatisfactory performance to best in class.  Prior to joining CSL, Christian was Deputy CTO for Wataniya Telecom in Algeria.

Christian holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree from the University of Sherbrooke (Quebec, Canada).

Kugan Thirunavakarasu
General Manager /Head of Product & Infotainment Business
Maxis Communications Berhad

Kugan joined Maxis in 2003 and currently drives and manages the company’s extensive portfolio of voice and non-voice products and services, including SMS, MMS, mobile data and browsing, mobile commerce, mobile TV and mobile music/games, among others. In his capacity, Kugan also drives the development and deployment of new mobile data technologies for Maxis as part of the company’s overall strategy to build on its leadership as Malaysia’s largest mobile infotainment business.

Kugan has over 14 years experience in telecommunications, starting with his stint at Ericsson Sweden as Implementation Manager overseeing operations in the North African and Asia market. He then moved to Ericsson Thailand to be Head of Product, managing the AIS account.

In 2000, Kugan joined DiGi Telecommunications Malaysia as the Head of Product Development and Management and was responsible for key strategies and deployment of key initiatives within the prepaid segment.

Kugan graduated from University Technology Malaysia and holds a B. Eng. (Electrical).

Dr. Wen-Hao Yang is the Acting Managing Director of Wireless Communication Technology Lab. of Telecommunication Laboratories, Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd. (CHT-TL), Taiwan. He received his Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C., in 1994. His research interests are in the areas of cellular communications, wireless access technologies and antennas. Recently, he leads the 3G, HSPA/HSPA+, and LTE/LTE-Advanced research projects in CHT-TL.

Mothilal is the Group Chief Strategy Officer of Dialog Telekom PLC, Sri Lanka, and a subsidiary of Telekom Malaysia. His portfolio consists of Business and Strategic and Corporate Planning, Quality Management and Process Improvement, Information Systems, Business Intelligence and Enterprise Risk Management. He also actively gets involved in creating a strategy and roadmap for a convergent Next Generation Network.  This covers group wide initiatives for IMS, SDP and NGOSS. He has gained authoritative knowledge in the strategic aspects of these areas and participated in several international forums as a speaker. Mothilal holds a dual hat position in the parent company, Telekom Malaysia International Berhad as the Vice President Process Excellence and Group Operations.

Mothilal spearheaded many company wide initiatives, projects that culminate to the winning of many national and international awards. Among them are GSM in the Community Award 2001, Sri Lanka National Quality Award 2001, International Asia Pacific Quality Award 2002, and GSM in the Community Award 2002 for wireless Accessibility, GSM in the Community Award 2003 for Best use of wireless for Emergency and National Business Excellence Award 2004.

Mothilal holds a Bachelor of Science in Production Engineering from University of Peradeniya, Master of Science in Information Technology from University Of Kellee, UK, MBA from Post Graduate Institute of Management Sri Lanka (PIM), and Post Graduate Diploma in Strategic Management from Netherlands International Institute of Management, Maastricht, and Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing Management from PIM Sri Lanka. Currently he is following Doctor of Business Administration at Asian Institute Of Technology, Bangkok. His research interest is Strategic Outsourcing in Telecommunication.

Barney Lane recently joined CRA in our Hong Kong office.  He is a leading expert advisor in telecoms regulation and strategy with an economics background encompassing 15 years of experience in a range of senior positions in industry and consultancy. Mr Lane’s expertise lies in regulatory finance and economics with a particular focus on the telecommunications industry. He has in-depth knowledge and experience of a wide range of regulatory systems throughout the world, particularly the EU regulatory framework. He has advised on the commercial implications of regulatory change and reform, acted as expert witness on regulatory and economic matters in the telecoms industry, prepared cost models, and devised regulatory frameworks for new technology and Next Generation Networks.

TC is vice president of Taiwan Mobile head of ip network division since 2008 and new technology development division since 2003. Before Join Taiwan Mobile in 1996 as GSM network engineering manager, TC was in Lucent technology and led billing system development of IN services .  He is appointed to be the director of TWM Value Added Service Department in 1998.  He led the develop of IN in-house SCP platform for MVPN  and pre-paid system in 1999 , in-house music ring back tone service in 2003 and GSM/WiFi Dual mode IMS VCC service in 2006. He is now the architect of Taiwan Mobile ip infrastructure committee. Leading on NGN core/metro network and E2E QoS management 、IMS 、NGOSS development. He is also the chair person of system operation SIG in Taiwan 3G Club, Leading the next generation service platform and open service interface Taiwan Standardization/Specification development TC received a MS degree from University of Missouri in 1993.

Steve joined RBS as Head of Asia Telecom in August 2008.  Previously, Steve was Global Head of Structured Loans and Advisory in ABN Amro Bank (2006-2007) and ran the Bank’s TMT Finance Groups in Latin America (1998-2001), Asia (2001-2004) and Europe (2004-2006).  Steve also worked at Tele2 AB, a mobile operator headquartered in Sweden.  Prior to that, Steve served in Turkey and Egypt as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Department of State.

Steve received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in Economics from Stanford University in 1977 and Master in Business Administration in 1990 at the Anderson School at UCLA

Mr. Siva Balendra is graduated in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering from Bangalore University, India. He has been involved in Telecom industry for the past 20 years, in the fields of design, development and manufacturing of telecom equipment, GSM & CDMA Network Rollouts and RF optimization. Mr Siva has worked on international projects for rolling out GSM and CDMA networks in Guatemala, Australia, Thailand, Germany, Tajikistan Afghanistan, etc.

Presently head of Netowrk at LOOP Telecom, India

Arief Hamdani Gunawan
Senior Officer
PT Telkom, Indonesia

Arief Hamdani Gunawan has more than 13 years experiences in the biggest telecommunication operator in Indonesia, TELKOM INDONESIA. He also actively participated in international organizations and activities, such as IEEE, Communications Society, ITU, APEC-Tel and ASEAN. He has Master Degree from Strategic Intelligence Studies, University of Indonesia. He holds CCNP, CCDP, MCSE, MCSA, and IT Project Management (Project+). Currently, he is a Senior Officer at TELKOM INDONESIA.

Jaikishan Rajaraman is Senior Director of Services at the GSMA. His main responsibilities centre around the development of inter-operable solutions for new services and technologies within the GSM world.

As Senior Director for Asia, Mr Rajaraman currently drives GSMA services and technology strategy for the greater Asia-Pacific region, a role that he fulfils from his base in Singapore. He has more than 10 years’ experience in mobile product development, strategy and management, specialising in roaming and inter-working solutions. His expertise spans both developed and developing markets in Asia and Europe.

Mr Rajaraman sits on the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), the industry body that drives services standardisation for mobile telecommunications, and was a Member of its Board of Directors.

Besides an Honours degree in Telecommunications Engineering, Mr Rajaraman also holds a Masters degree in Financial Engineering from the National University of Singapore.

Amrish Kacker heads the strategy consulting practice for Analysys Mason in Asia Pacific based out of Singapore. He moved to Singapore from the head office of Analysys Mason in Cambridge, UK in 2006.  Analysys Mason is the world’s premier advisory group in telecoms, IT and media supporting operators, regulators, financial institutions and technology vendors in commercial decision making.

Amrish specialises in supporting Board level investment and strategy decision making in the telecoms and media sector. He is the thought leader in the Wireless Broadband and Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) space within Analysys Mason having worked on a range of wireless broadband projects for across a range of different technologies – HSPA, WiMAX and CDMA. He has recently undertaken a review of the commercial strategy for an North Asian operator multi-play operator, including a significant HSPA wireless broadband proposition. He has recently led a project to successfully support a mobile operator in Hong Kong in acquiring a 2.6 GHz LTE license. He has also worked with a leading South-East Asian operator in assessing network costs – in the context of growing mobile broadband traffic.

Amrish’s previous work experience includes having worked for a large general management strategy consulting firm in Europe as well as large international FMCG company.  Amrish has an engineering degree in Computer Science from BITS, Pilani and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.