MuhaMMAD SAMEH ABDEL RAHMAN
Muhammad is an entrepreneur and expert on digital transformation and digital business matters.
He is the Founder of Internet Egypt, Egypt’s first ISP, and a former Chief Executive Officer of IM Holding, and Chief Digital Officer, Telecom Egypt (TE) Group & Board Member of MERC.
He holds a number of awards and accolades
Award of the Operator best CXO in MENA region 2019 (5G MENA by Informa)
World IoT innovation Award in London 2019 World Summit
Winner of the Egyptian 1st prize "Made in Egypt" for 2008 from three Ministries (Education, Trade and Communication)
Winner of a Bronze medal at the World Championship in fencing 1990 and Bronze at the World Cup in fencing 1992
Mr Sameh holds a Master of Science in Management of Technology at Nile University in collaboration with Minnesota University, a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, American University in Cairo, and has completed Executive Education studies at the Harvard Business School on Growth Strategies.
He advises on digital transformation, digital economies, digital ventures and AI/machine learning.
TÕNU GRÜNBERG
Tõnu is a senior executive and telecom expert with over 20 years experience.
He has served as CEO of Ucell Uzbekistan, CTO and VP of Telia Company Eurasia, and VP of Telia Company Nordic Mobility.
He is a previous Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Uzbekistan, a Member of the Management Board of GS1 Estonia,
Supervisory Council Member of Telecommunications & IT Faculty at the Tallinn Technical University, Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Estonian Broadband Development Foundation, Vice President of the Association of Estonian Information Technology & Telecommunications (ITL), Member of the Supervisory Council of the Estonian Information Technology Foundation (EITSA), and Chairman of the Supervisory Council of the Foundation Look@World.
He has led the technology strategy for the first mobile operator worldwide to launch 4G (LTE) commercial services, and enabled the first Mobile-ID assisted parliament elections in the world.
Tõnu advises on technology strategy, network rollouts, innovation & new service development, performance management and governance issues.
Erik Hallberg
Erik is a senior executive with over 30 years of operative experience.
He has held various executive leadership positions for Telia Company (Head of Global Business Segment and EVP & President of Eurasia, President International Carrier, SVP Head of Broadband Sweden, SVP Head of Mobility Sweden, Head of Baltic Region at TeliaSonera) and served as Chairman of Eesti Telecom, Latvijas Mobilais Telefons, Omnitel, SIA, TEO, Ncell, Ucell, Tcell, Geocell, Azercell. He has been a board member of Yoigo Spain and Northwest Telecom St Petersburg. He is a former Chairman and co-founder of Glocalnet AB and has served as CEO of Carl Lamm System AB and Diners Club Sweden.
He presently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors at Fidesmo, Chairman of Zynapp, and is a Board Member of HiQ.
He advises on telecom, strategic, operational and board matters.
Håkan hederstierna
Dr. Håkan is a renowned international expert on building world-class organisations in the private and public sector, for profit and-non profit organisations, with a particular emphasis on branding, pricing, funding, revenue generation and sales transformation.
Håkan is a Previous President and CEO of the Stockholm School of Economics Executive Education, President of the Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Chairman Stockholm School of Economics in Riga. He has served as a President and CEO of Mercuri International Group, a global leader in sales transformation.
Håkan has participated in and organised workshops with Bill Clinton, Bill Gates, Steve Ballmer, George Soros and others.
He advises on organisational excellence, branding, pricing, funding and revenue generation matters.