Maarten Boute

CEO Effortel Europe

Professional experience

• Mobistar (Orange Belgium)
  • Senior Head of Projects, Programs and Processes
  • Head of Billing
• debitel – the largest mobile Service Provider on the European market
  • Head of Technical Operations (Order Management, Billing, CRM, Credit and Collections and Accounting systems)
  • Project manager - managed several customer base migrations (mergers) – Motorola Telco, Talkline

Education

• 10 years' practical experience and training in telecommunication services environment 
• Project Management – Management Centre Europe, Belgium (2004)
• Certified Boatbuilder, UK (1995)

Arkadi Panitch

Deputy CEO Effortel Belgium and Europe

Professional experience

• Mobistar (Orange Group)
• Boston Consulting Group
• IBM

Education

Antoine Wilhelmi

Head of Corporate Affairs Effortel Europe

Professional experience

• Creasoft Belgium: CFO and VP Investor Relations
• 8 years' experience in Legal & Finance area, mostly in High-Tech industry

Education

M.D. in Law (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Liudvikas Andriulis

CMO Effortel Europe

Professional experience

• 10 years of experience in telecommunications
• Eurocom, largest MVNO in the Baltic states
  • CEO
  • Launched TeleMaxima- one of the first integrated retail loyalty/prepaid mobile products in Europe.
• Bite Lietuva, second biggest mobile operator in Lithuania
  • Business solutions group manager, responsible for fixed and mobile data services
  • Launched EDGE mobile data service in November 2004, one of the first EDGE implementations in Europe
• Lietuvos Telekomas, incumbent fixed line operator
  • ISDN product manager

Education

• History B.Sc., Vilnius University
• MBA, International School of Management, Vilnius (in progress)

Renaud Amiel

Effortel Europe Board Member

Professional experience

• Board member of several start-ups in IT and Telecom
• The Boston Consulting Group, Partner for 10 years, with a focus on Telecom
• Procter & Gamble, Brand Manager

Education

• Civil Engineer – France
• MBA, Insead

Michail Susov

Board Member Effortel Europe; CEO Effortel Russia

Professional experience

Education

• Graduated from Moscow Technical University of Communications and Informatics
• MBA, Graduate School of International Business (GSIB) of the Academy of National Economy of the Government of the Russian Federation
• Ph.D. in Business Administration, International Academic Accreditation & Certification Committee (IAACC)

Patrick Rambaldi

Director Effortel France

Professional experience

• PSA Peugeot Citroën: 8 years' experience in Telematics fields (telecom and services solutions) through different positions : purchasing, strategy, innovation project management
• Egery: Business Development Manager

Education

Ph.D. in Atomic Physics (Université Claude Bernard Lyon I, France)

Francesco de’ Medici

Managing Director Effortel Italy

Professional experience

• Globalpraxis Group: Senior Project Manager
• Proximus (Belgium): Sales
• 11 years' experience in Management Consulting

Education

Marcin Burakowski

CEO Effortel Poland

Professional experience

• 10 years' experience in new business development in IT and Telecommunication. Leader of number of new business initiatives and new products market launches in large and small organizations.
• T-Mobile Polska: Director of Business Development - Internet and telco initiatives
• TDC Internet Polska: Director of Product and Business Development
• Exatel SA: Head of Strategy and Business Development

Education

• The Chartered Institute of Marketing (Associate CIM)
• Warsaw School of Economics (Postgraduate Program - Private Equity and Enterprise Development)
• Warsaw University of Technology (MSc, Industrial Management)

Tomasz Kepinski

CFO Effortel Poland

Professional experience

• Independent Manager/Advisor responsible for organizing start-ups of e-commerce and telecommunication projects in Poland
• TDC Internet Polska (branch of Teledanmark):
  • Vice President, Business Development
• Polbox (one of first internet access providers in Poland): CEO, Co-founder

Sergey Nesterov

General Manager Effortel Russia Mobile

Professional experience

• 10 years' experience in cellular and enterprise communications (Motorola, Siemens). Director of Sales, system integration
• Implemented a number of product development projects with 3G core (soft-switch, IMS, PoC, IN)

Education

• M.Sc. in telecommunications engineering (University of Moscow)
• Pr. Manager professional (George Washington University, US)
• MBA (Open University Business School, UK)

Fernando Mello

General Manager – Effortel Brazil

Professional experience

• 22 years of experience in technology and telecommunications, mostly new businesses
• CEO Iqara Telecom - BG Group (first Metro Ethernet operator in Latin America)
• CEO DirectNet – BG Group (largest independent wireless ISP and first WiMax network in Brazil)
• Managing Director Compugraf Network Services (competitive corporate data network provider)
• Vice-President Marketing & Sales Metrored – Fidelity Investments
• Director Professional Services AT&T/Lucent Technologies
• Vice President Proudfoot Consulting

Education

• MBA by FGV - Brazil
• Computer Sciences by Mackenzie University

Yijen Li

General Manager Effortel Taiwan

Professional experience

• +10 years extensive experiences in APAC IT and Telecommunication
• The Boston Consulting Group 
• Far Eastone Telecommunications
• Primax Electronics
• Procter & Gamble

Education

• National Taiwan University, Taiwan (MBA, International business)
• National Tsing Hwa University, Taiwan (BA, Economics)