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Future Broadband Business Models

Team Biographies

Martin Geddes

Chief Analyst & Founder STL Partners / Telco 2.0™

Martin is one of the world’s leading thinkers on the telecommunications industry and is frequently asked to speak at major industry events and privately for operators and vendors. He has 14 years experience in telecoms and IT, with a background in large systems development with Oracle and in product strategy at Sprint-Nextel. He is well known for his Telepocalypse telecom strategy blog, cited by Business Week, Forbes and Wall Street Journal and for his recent analysis on STL Partners’ Telco 2.0™ blog. Author of the Telco 2.0™ research on Future Broadband Business Models, 2-Sided Business Model, and Voice & Messaging 2.0. He is regularly engaged by companies across the industry to offer strategic insight into strategy and marketing at a senior level because, as one VP put it recently, he has ‘a remarkable vision and intuition of the future of the telecoms industry’. He has a MA in Mathematics from Oxford University.

Chris Barraclough

MD & Founder STL Partners/ Telco 2.0™

MD and consulting lead for Telco 2.0 and key report author. 18 years experience in strategy, marketing and finance; 12 years in TMT. During this time he has worked extensively in both the wired and wireless sectors, including stints as Marketing Director at MCI WorldCom UK and Orange Group. He specialises in strategic analysis and proposition development and has developed strategies for new products, services and businesses for several operators and vendor companies in the UK and across EMEA and North America. Additional consulting experience with Bain, Gemini Consulting, Cambrian, Oxford Strategic Marketing, Burlington. MA, Oxford University.

Keith McMahon

Senior Analyst, STL Partners / Telco 2.0™

Keith writes about the telecom scene and consults for Telco 2.0 following a distinguished solo blogging career at TeleBusillis. A co-author of the research on Future Broadband Business Models, 2-Sided Business Model, and Voice & Messaging 2.0. Keith previously held senior technology operations and strategy positions in the Telcoms industry around the world working for companies such as Cable & Wireless, America Movil, Wiltel & Accenture.

Alex Harrowell

Senior Analyst, STL Partners / Telco 2.0™

Key Telco 2.0™ blogger and co-author of the research on Future Broadband Business Models, 2-Sided Business Model, and Voice & Messaging 2.0. Alex used to write for leading industry magazine Mobile Communications International, where he specialised in network infrastructure and related issues. He's been blogging independently since 2003, a passion which saw him short-listed for UK newspaper The Guardian's Political Blog of the Year award in 2004. His specialist subjects include MVNOs, IMS, SDP, core networks, and UMTS-TDD, as well as telecoms policy and economics.

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