Home Agenda Speakers Registration Exhibition Hotel Contacts               Speakers         - Anthony Meijer - Cort Isernhagen - Foo Tuan Tong - Gaby Waisman - Guy Yair - Luca Spada                         Speakers         Anthony Meijer Security Consultant to Sydney Ports Corporation   After 18 years service with Sydney Ports Corporation, Anthony co-founded HATAMOTO in 2007 with his business partner and former colleague Peter Shepherd in order to meet the growing demand for business resilience within the government and the commercial sectors. While at Sydney Ports Corporation, Anthony acquired significant operational experience in multiple roles across various business units. During his most recent role, he was responsible for the planning and implementation of a port security management programme at a number of key port facilities, including two international cruise terminals. He draws further experience from working as an internal operational and technical planning consultant on a number of large infrastructure projects in NSW, including developing the conceptual design study, project justification analysis and the environmental impact assessment for a $1 billion intermodal and logistics hub public tender. Anthony has worked closely with subject matter experts, executives and officials across all levels of government in planning for port operations and has played a pivotal role in the application of environmental and crisis management plans. Anthony holds tertiary qualifications in business management and post graduate qualifications in counter terrorism.               Cort Isernhagen Vice President, IDC's Industry Insights - International       As Vice President for the international divisions of IDC's Industry Insights businesses, Cort Isernhagen is responsible for the overall management and research services of the Financial, Manufacturing, Government, Health, and Energy industry sectors in Asia/Pacific, Europe, Middle East, and Africa. He leads IDC's "Insights" business units whose dedicated analyst teams provide guidance on industry-specific technology and business process issues facing corporate leaders in these industries. Prior to this role, Cort was Vice President of Marketing & Business Operations for IDC's Vertical Market business units and New Ventures group. In this role, he ensured that research products in each portfolio fit the needs of the target market, and assessed the market demand for new products. He managed the marketing groups for these businesses, established operational and financial objectives, and provided general management for all units in the portfolio. Cort also held the position of Vice President for IDC's Interactive Products and Services. He was responsible for the development, communication, and implementation of an interactive products strategy for IDC. This included the delivery of research and information to customers and prospects via the Web, Lotus Notes, and Intranet products, management of IDC's company web sites, and technical customer support teams. At IDC, Cort has also previously held the post of Regional Marketing Director for IDC's Asia/Pacific operations. Under his direction, the marketing and business development activities were coordinated for the first time through all countries in the region. He launched IDC's regional events and conferences business in Asia/Pacific where he created and branded several multi-country sponsored events. Prior to joining IDC, he also has held the position of General Manager and led online marketing consultants for the business solutions division of Chinadotcom, based in Singapore. He was also Associate Director at IDG Asia/Pacific based in San Mateo, California. Cort holds a Master's Degree in Business Administration from the American Graduate School of International Management-Thunderbird, and a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration: International Business from Hawaii Pacific University.             Tuan Tong Pre-sales Director, Alvarion APAC     Foo Tuan Tong is a telecom professional with more than 10 years of experience in the Wireless Industry. He started with Nortel Networks focusing on a wide spectrum of wireless solutions from GSM, CDMA to UMTS and WiMAX from an end-to-end perspective. He has also spent a lot of time on the value added services space like VMS, SMS, OSS and Billing System on the many projects he has worked on. In the last 3 years, he has directed his focus on the WiMAX arena and has gone on many roadshows with Alvarion speaking at various trade events and customers oriented seminars. He currently holds the position of Alvarion APAC Pre-sales Director             Gaby Waisman Managing Director, Asia-Pacific Alvarion Singapore Pte. Ltd.     Gaby Waisman is the Managing Director of Alvarion Asia-Pacific. In this role he assumes responsibility for the Alvarion overall business in the region, and help in shaping & implementing the company’s strategy in WiMAX/Broadband Wireless Access for Carriers as well as Enterprises. Prior to this position, Gaby was the General Manager of Alvarion West-Europe and beforehand was responsible for the company’s Strategic Accounts (Globally) and WiMAX marketing in Europe the Middle East & Africa. Prior to joining Alvarion, he held various senior sales & marketing management positions at Comverse Network Systems and Infogate Online. His client roster included, among others, service providers as Deutsche Telekom, Telenor, France Telecom-Orange and Telecom Italia. Gaby holds a B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering from the Technion Institute Of Technology, Israel and MBA in Business Administration from the, Tel-Aviv University, Israel.             Guy Yair Global Managing Director, Alvarion Enterprise Line of Business, Wireless Business Division     Guy brings extensive experience to Alvarion from both telecom and IT industries, He joined Alvarion in July 2007 serving 2.5 years, reporting directly to the President, running Alvarion’s Enterprise business, with the larger channel integrators covering vertical markets such as enterprise, municipalities, utility, defense and public government sectors. He also was in charge of the company commercial units, finance team, O&M and pricing teams. In September 2009 and at present, he is the Managing Director for the Enterprise Business Unit responsible for broadband wireless solutions for private and alternative networks for all the global Enterprise markets. From August 1998 to June 2007, Guy served as VP of Sales as executive management team member reporting directly to the CEO, for Bynet Data Communication Ltd. He graduated from Tel Aviv University with EMBA in 2008.             Luca Spada CEO and Founder of NGI Italy       Mr. Spada was born in 1973 in Varese, which is located near Milan - North of Italy. His passion for the hi-tech and the computer world brings him to make his first steps in the technology at an early age. Luca manages amateurly Fidonet BBS named "SkyLink BBS" (Fidonet: 2:331/106) which grows in a short time till becoming the most popular Commodore Amiga software exchange point worldwide. In 1991 cofounded and become shareholder of Db-Line Srl which has videogames and Commodore Amiga accessories distribution as core businness. In 1994 established "SkyLink Srl", one of the very first Italian ISP which is going to become I.NET SpA exclusive partner in the Varese County the following year. In 1999 he becomes I.NET SpA shareholder with a 2.75% share and giving in 100% of Skylink and founds NGI Spa. NGI main success is related to the wireless services provided to over twenty thousand customers in North Italy. NGI estimates turnover for 2010 is over 17 million € with nearly 15% growth compared to 2009 turnover, EBITDA 6,5 million € with over 20% growth compared to 2009.