Ohad Finkelstein has over 20 years of International business experience in the finance, hardware, software, Internet, Telecom, and venture capital industries in the US, Europe, and Asia. He is an expert on developing new markets and products, as well as restructuring and turning around processes.

Currently, he is leading International investments for Venrock Associates (www.venrock.com), one of the United States’ leading venture capital funds. He is also a private investor, and has served as a board member in some of the most promising technological companies in the world such as;  QPass (sold to Amdocs 2006);   P-cube Inc. (sold to Cisco 2004);  Exanet Inc.(Independent Board Member,  www.exanet.com );  Kagoor Networks  Inc (Sold to Juniper 2005), Ethos Networks Ltd (Chairman of the Board, www.ethos-networks.com );  B-Hive Inc. (Chairman of the Board, www.bhive.net);  Sensomatix Ltd. (Chairman of the Board, www.sensomatix.com); and A-La-Mobile Inc. (Independent Board member,  www.a-la-mobile.com.) 

 
Previously Ohad has held senior management positions in several companies including; Chairman and CEO of the Interoute Telecom Group (www.interoute.com), VocalTec Communications Ltd., Eurocom Communications Ltd., and Packard Bell Electronics from the US. He has also served as a senior advisor for I.D.E.A, a London based world-leader in financial and economic analysis.

Ohad holds bachelors degrees in Political Science and International Marketing from the University of California in Los Angels (UCLA). He is a member of the Institute of Directors, UK.

Dr Paul Reynolds was appointed Chief Executive of the Telecom New Zealand - Telecom Group last year. His previous role was as CEO of BT Wholesale in the United Kingdom. Paul joined BT in 1983 after completing a doctorate in geology at the University of London.  

Paul has had a distinguished career, encompassing senior leadership roles in sales and marketing, strategy, information systems, broadband and guiding BT's wholesale business through the complex process of operational separation, when Openreach was created. He served on BT's Board of Directors from 2001. In 2006, the Telecommunications Industry Association of America awarded him its 'Global Icon' award for his leadership and innovation.

A VoIP innovator with 15 years international telecoms experience, John has led commercial operations for XConnect since June 2008 and has been instrumental in propelling IP interconnection, carrier ENUM and NGN services. John was pivotal in achieving the industry first registry tie-up with GSMA PathFinder, launching the first Korean ENUM federation and securing XConnect's Series B funding. Previously, with Interoute, John led development of Europe's largest NGN (Arena) and first Microsoft OCS-based unified communications suite.

Torsten joined Grazia Equity as a partner in 2005. He combines more than ten years of successful international venture investment practice with a proven long-term track record of building and managing high-tech organizations from their inception to multi-billion revenues and market caps.

In 1996 Torsten was appointed CEO Deutsche Telekom AG´s broadband cable business, the then world´s largest cable company, which he grew to a customer base of more than 19 million homes within 3 years and introduced one of Europe´s first digital TV offerings. After the business´ spin-off, he built MSG Media Services as its CEO which was acquired by private equity investors.

From 1999 to 2005, Torsten was a founding partner in an international VC fund that made numerous strategic investments, mostly in Silicon Valley/Hi-Tech companies.

Torsten has also served as the Vice President of the European Cable Communications Association (today Cable Europe), a trade association that groups all leading broadband cable TV operators with more than 73 million customers and their national associations throughout Europe.

Since 2003, Torsten has been a board member and Chairman of the Finance Committee of Swisscom AG´s He is also a member of the advisory board of Pictet Digital Communications Fund. Torsten joined the Board of XConnect in September 2009.

Torsten holds a Master's degree in Engineering & Technical Chemistry with a summa cum laude (Dipl.Ing) and a Ph.D (Dr.techn.) from Johannes Kepler University in Austria.

David M. Hand is a founder and Managing Partner of Crescent Point, a private equity investment firm with offices in Shanghai, Singapore and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

David serves on the boards of directors of Beijing Jadebird IT Education Company Limited, China's leading vocational education company, Masterskill (Cayman) Limited, which through its subsidiaries operates tertiary level education facilities across Malaysia, Starcloud Media Co., Limited, the holding company for Tudou.com, and Carmen Copper Corporation, a copper mining company in the Philippines.

Prior to founding Crescent Point, David worked at Morgan Stanley and was based in New York and Singapore. Mr. Hand received his bachelor’s degree in Economics from Yale University and an M.B.A from the Harvard Business School.

Yuval Shachar is a seasoned entrepreneur and IP communications expert with nearly 30 years experience in voice- and data-networking technology.

For five years ending in 2009, Yuval was a general manager in Cisco Systems' service provider group. He joined Cisco after leading the creation of three companies that Cisco acquired: P-Cube, which specialized in IP service engineering; Pentacom, a pioneer in Dynamic Packet Transport products; and Infogear, an early developer of Web appliances. Yuval managed the growth of P-Cube as its president and CEO and, prior to that role, was a co-founder of Pentacom.

Previously, as vice president of research and development at VocalTec, he directed programs resulting in creation of the first set of VoIP architectures and products; VocalTec went public on NASDAQ. Earlier in his career, Yuval guided development of data and voice communications products and protocols while holding senior positions at National Semiconductor Corporation and Motorola.

Jon Arnold is Principal of J Arnold & Associates, an independent telecom analyst and marketing consultancy based in Toronto, Ontario. The consultancy's primary focus is on IP communications and disruptive technologies, such as VoIP, mobile broadband, telepresence, unified communications, social media and Web 2.0.

He has been consulting about these technologies since 2001, and can be followed on his widely-read Analyst 2.0 blog and his bi-monthly Service Provider Views column published on TMCnet.  Jon contributes to numerous other publishers, is a regular speaker at industry events, and is regularly cited in both the trade press and mainstream business press.

Richard Stastny, a senior analyst in OeFEG, has studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Vienna. He has over 30 years of experience in computing, staring with Digital PDP-8 in 1970, and digital switching, working for Schrack and later OeFEG. He was involved in the adaptation of the digital switching system OES-D (Nortel DMS-100) and the introduction of OAM and billing systems within Telekom Austria. He is an active participant in various international standard bodies and fora such as ETSI, ITU-T, IETF, VISIONng and TMF. At OeFEG, he has been responsible for the convergence of NGN networks, the migration to IP based networks, IP Communications, VoIP, ENUM and access to emergency services. Richard is also the chair of the Austrian ENUM platform.

Rohan Mahy is a senior consultant on SIP, VoIP, and Network Address Translation. Previously, Rohan was Chief Voice Architect at Airespace, working on integration of location and real-time services into the Airespace wireless LAN system, and assisting partners with implementation of voice over wireless LANs. Prior to Airespace, Rohan worked for Cisco Systems for eleven years, most recently as a Network Architect in the Voice Technology Group, where Rohan led initiatives in voice security, configuration and administration, distributed call control, and NAT and firewall traversal. Rohan is a well known leader within the VoIP industry, including regular speaking engagements and heavy involvement in the IETF, where he is co-chair of both the SIP and SIPPING working groups. Rohan is also chair of the recently formed SIP Forum Technical working group, and active in the design of the reSIProcate open-source SIP stack.

An internationally recognized expert and pioneer in ENUM technology and services, Richard Shockey is a founder and has been co-chairman since 2002 of the IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) ENUM Working Group. He also co-chairs the IETF working group on Data for Reachability of Inter/Intra NetworK SIP (DRINKS), which deals with provisioning data for VoIP/NGN peering federations.

In addition, Shockey is a member of the board of directors and technical working group co-chair of the SIP Forum, an organization of IP communications companies that promotes adoption of SIP-based products and services.

Shockey has helped develop several ENUM-based commercial products. From 2000 to January 2009, he was as a director and distinguished member of the technical staff at NeuStar. In the information technology forefront since 1992, Shockey previously designed and deployed IP communications solutions for companies including HP and Xerox.

He frequently speaks on ENUM, SIP, NGN and related topics; has written numerous published articles; and has been featured and honored in industry publications.