Implied Logic has benefited from informal advice and feedback from a number of impromptu
advisors and countless friends in the global telecommunications industry. Following
on from a number of exploratory meetings in 2012, we are now delighted to announce
the appointment of a formal advisory board, the membership of which will be featured
prominently on our website and other high-level corporate communications.
The new board gathers a wealth of expertise and experience from engineering, research
and development, sales, marketing and finance positions with telecoms operators
and vendors, and shares a common interest and passion for the benefits of creating
business simulations for informed decision making.
1. Familiar faces and guiding lights
Andrew Bligh has held a variety of senior finance
positions at Motorola, Cisco and Xchanging, and is currently the Vice President
of Finance, EMEA for Qlik Tech – a user-driven business-intelligence software
company. While he was the Finance Director for Cisco’s EMEA
Telco and Service Provider business, Andrew helped re-introduce Cisco
to STEM, as well as the Implied Logic business modelling methodology, and then carried
this into a global role where it was used to help telco’s model and understand
the economics of selling cloud services to their customers. A unique combination
of engineering, finance, international experience and insight gained from working with STEM will enable him
to help Implied Logic to grow and develop into the future.
Oscar González Soto is collaborating with Implied
Logic on the assessment of business modelling requirements derived from the current
ICT convergent markets, services and networks. He is actively working on various
applications of STEM for emerging markets in association with the ITU-BD as a consultant
for the Information Society development projects,
and especially on techno-economic evaluations for deployment of broadband services
and solutions. Prior to his role with the ITU-BD, he was Director for Network Planning
and Strategic Studies within Alcatel Paris following various activities on teletraffic
modelling, quality of service evaluation, network planning-tools development and
business planning.
Michael Eaton is currently Deputy Director for ICT
Business Strategy & Planning for the Welsh Government, a Policy Fellow at the University
of Cambridge Centre for Science & Policy and Chartered Fellow of the British Computer
Society. He previously worked in the private sector for 23 years, and has held positions
in R&D, product management, marketing, business development, government broadband
and mobile policy, and market delivery. Direct experience of working in start-ups
(three so far), high tech corporate venturing and recent roles involving governance,
risk and complexity in large scale national network collaborations has provided
Michael with a range of experiences that create insight into new opportunities in
technologies, people and organisations.
Andy Valdar has had a wide ranging career in telecommunications,
covering network planning, international standardisation, training, marketing and
product management, advising on technical aspects of regulation, and developing
network and technology strategy. After 30 years working for BT, including three
years on secondment to the United Nations in India, he joined University College
London (UCL) in 1999 where he is currently Director of the
Telecommunications with Business Masters programme. He has authored two
books on telecommunications and is actively involved in international conferences.
He is a Director on the Institute of Telecommunications Professionals
(ITP) main board and Chairman of the editorial board of the
ITP Journal.
2. Further industry experience and expertise
Please click through to the Advisory
board page for more details.