Day in the Life of
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46 year-old Matera, lives with his wife and two sons in Sicily
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How the Estonian military and a small seafood business set him up to lead Messente from the front.
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Vincent Tran a senior infrastructure engineer at Evocative. He lives in Orange County, California with his wife and son. Being part of a team that builds data centres from the ground up.
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When 27-year-old South African Ruan Crouse isn’t riding motorcycles or competing in national squash competitions, he’s busy helping field technicians learn how to safely climb Africa’s telecom towers.
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Over the last 30 years, Evan Kirstel has built up a large following as one of very few B2B influencers operating in the tech and telecoms space. It could be argued he has carved out a following in an industry seen as a niche to those outside of it. But while he is fond of niches, Kirstel does not believe it would be accurate to describe the industry in that way.
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An industry veteran and one of the few female CEOs in telecoms, Ineke Botter has held integral roles in the build-out of Europe’s mobile ecosystem – a story which she tells in her new book, Your Phone, My Life.
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While coming to terms with the culture shock remote working inflicted when it was forced on him in 2020, Charles Upchurch had beautiful Swiss scenery to gaze upon during his daily eight-kilometre walks.
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A new challenge awaits Eugina Jordan as she enters into the next phase of career, having recently been appointed chief marketing officer at Telecom Infra Project (TIP). While she is still settling into her new position, her daily activities have remained consistent.
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Launched in 2020, Mangata Networks is the latest in a string of telco startups innovating the way communications networks are operated.
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An industry analyst with more than 30 years of experience, Chris Lewis’s day is anything but typical. Overlay this with the fact that Lewis is registered blind, and the experience becomes even more unique.
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Like most of us, Erik Sonnerskog, head engineer at Zsah Managed IT Services, starts his day by looking at his email for “new inquires, going over the days schedule of meetings, checking the logs to make sure there was no unexpected glitches or outages on any of the networks overnight”.
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Getting exercise and oxygen is how Dayo Akinrinade, founder and chief executive of the social audio app Wisdom, starts her day.
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Formed in 2017 as a joint venture between Vodafone and Technoport, Luxembourg’s “technology incubator”, Tomorrow Street is a start-up accelerator focused on leading-edge technologies, through partnering with scale-ups and growing their technology across the Vodafone ecosystem.
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As a man with several jobs, Vodafone’s Rhys Shegar-Astoralli wears a number of hats that keep him comfortability busy. First is his day job “which looks at innovation and how we scale late-stage scale-ups across Vodafone’s footprint”.
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In her own words, Angselius-Schönbeck’s day usually starts with “my loving husband making me a cup of coffee and, whilst enjoying the best drink of the day, I digest the world news and do the morning round of e-mails before preparing for my daily team meeting at work”.
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Named one of Forbes’ “30 under 30 – energy”, Alexandra Rasch is a CEO busy innovating in the telecoms energy space.
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Eva Gouwens tells Melanie Mingas what it takes to run the social enterprise that is working to make smartphones sustainable
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It should come as no surprise that “no two days are alike” for Joshi. A typical day at work for her involves wearing multiple hats split carefully between business, strategy, and execution.
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Ever modest, Belle Lajoie, the first CEO of Cloudscene, finds her achievements nothing much to shout about – but we think differently!
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It must be a major step change for Paul Scott, former president of C&W Networks, to have so much more time on his hands. To go from having his head down, executing plans and budgets, to a time to think and reflect on the industry at large.
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Vinay Nagpal’s bio reads like the who’s who in the wholesale infrastructure space having previously worked for companies like Digital Realty Trust, DuPont Fabros Technology, Tata Communications, Verizon, MCI, Digex and UUNET.
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Stephanie Liston has “a portfolio of things that I do now”, including consulting on international strategy, and being a board director, lawyer and regulator.
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Matthew Whalley enjoys the creative challenge of communicating innovation on behalf of his clients
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Though he admits that proof of concept is the biggest hurdle they need to overcome in order to build confidence from the subsea cable industry. “It’s really about getting a demonstrable pilot out there in the water to show that it can work,” he explains.
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Navigating the minefield that is the telecoms industry, Magdalena Dudek, senior sales manager at Tata Communications, adds to her list of responsibilities as both a mother of two and an active member of her local community
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Ruth Kennedy is a natural problem- solver and, as TalkTalk Business’s director of business solutions, is ultimately charged with delivering the best possible packages to its direct customers and channel partners.
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“We are moulded by the rhythm of what’s going on in the world,” that’s what Alexander Thomas said when asked what a typical day at Télécoms Sans Frontiéres (TSF) was like.
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James Wekesa is a deal maker. As the chief commercial officer at Africa’s carriers’ carrier WIOCC, Wekesa has an interesting and varied job which includes managing strong, mutually beneficial relationships with WIOCC’s 14 African shareholders.
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McCorcle is known throughout the industry for her advocacy of diversity and gender equality
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Hearing Global Capacity’s plans for the year was truly insightful when Capacity met Mary Stanhope at the Metro Connect event in Miami as the business is set to go truly global this year.