Our People

Based in Brussels, our team spans the continent.

As our story explains, our company was founded by a small group of executives from two major mobile operators.

We’ve since expanded to build a team of experts, each with years of experience within some of Europe’s best finance, retail, software and consulting firms.

Europe | Belgium | Italy | Poland | Taiwan | Brazil

Europe

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Arkadi Panitch
Founder and CEO

Professional experience

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

Education

  • Ph.D. in High Energy Physics (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)

Liudvikas Andriulis
Chief Marketing Officer

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).

Sandrine Lambert
Finance Director

Professional experiences:

  • More than 15 years’ experience in Finance & HR areas.
  • Tetra Pak Belgium Packaging industry:
    • General Manager Belgium & Luxemburg
    • Finance & HR Director
  • Tetra Pak Germany:
    • Head of Finance and control EEC
    • Project Manager Shared Service Center
  • Motorola Germany & Belgium:
    • Finance & Accounting Manager

 Education:

  • Graduate from Brussels Business School (EPHEC)

Laurent Bataille
Technical Director

Professional experiences:

  • Mobistar (Orange Group):
    • 10 years in Telecom Operations (Front and Back office) & IT

 Education:

  • Graduate in publicity

Renaud Amiel
Member of the Board

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

Belgium

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Jean-Marc Flamand
General Manager Effortel Belgium (Carrefour Mobile)

Professional experience

  • 10 years' experience in the Mobile telecom sector.
  • Mobistar (Orange Belgium):
    • Offer Manager Multimedia services,
    • Offer Manager Prepaid.
  • debitel - the largest mobile Service Provider on the European market:
    • Marketing officer,
    • Trade Marketing Manager.
  • 6 Years professional background in the Media & advertising sector.

Italy

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Antonio Cortina
General Manager Carrefour Italia Mobile (Uno Mobile)

Professional experience

  • More than 10 years’ experience in telecommunications, both in technology and business development.
  • WIND Telecomunicazioni - second largest fixed-mobile operator in Italy.
    • Head of the Transport Network Planning and Architecture
  • INFOSTRADA, first fixed operator in Italy alternative to the incumbent.
    • Senior Engineer/Project Manager in Transport&Access Network Planning.

 Education

  • Graduated in Telecommunications Engineering at University "Politecnico di Milano".
  • Stage at Radio Network Labs of ITALTEL (one of the biggest ICT technology supplier).

Poland

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Tomasz Gniewek
CEO Carrefour Polska Telecom (Carrefour Mova)

Professional Experience:

  • 10 years' experience in telecommunication.
  • Launched first retailer MVNO in Poland.
  • Effortel Polska:
    • CFO, Business Development
  • T-Mobile Polska (Era):
    • Head of Business Analyses Unit, Planning and Budgeting
  • Hogart (Management Consulting Services):
    • Project Leader (Telecoms)

Educations:

  • MBA, (WUT Business School, HEC School of Management Paris, London Business School).
  • Warsaw University of Technology (MSc, Industrial Management).

Taiwan

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Yijen Li
Director Effortel Taiwan (Carrefour Telecom)

Professional experience

  • More than 10 years’ extensive experience 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)

Brazil

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Fernando Mello
General Manager Effortel Brasil

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.
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