Cairo, Egypt
As a seasoned C-level telco executive (CxO) Frank has 30 years of experience of managing fixed and mobile converged network businesses for operators in Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Asia. He has been managing a wide variety of multinational, cross-cultural teams to design, deploy, operate, and transform organisations, networks, and technologies (incl. IoT-connectivity and related software development). Frank assures technology alignment and contribution to companies’ financial and business objectives. He actively contributes towards achieving ebitda and P&L goals by optimizing opex efficiency and revenue generation of capex investments. He is an expert in re-engineering strategic and operational business models by internal restructuring and streamlining organizations, as well as by using outsourcing models such as professional and managed services, cloud-migration, infrastructure virtualisation and advanced process automation. Recently Frank became an FT-certified Non-Executive Director and ambitions to combine his proven business acumen with these advanced governance and director skills to let companies experience the full benefit of a holistic, sustainable, and viable approach to technology contribution as a business enabler.
Following the merge between Yettel Serbia and SBB, I was appointed to lead a complex, enterprise-wide post-merger integration program, with full accountability for value realisation, operational continuity, and cultural alignment. My mandate is to deliver measurable financial and operational synergies while safeguarding base business performance and maintaining customer experience throughout the transition. In this capacity, I establish and drive the end-to-end integration governance framework, implement disciplined synergy tracking with clear EBITDA impact, and facilitate structured Steering Committee decision-making. I execute structural and process transformation without disruption to day-to-day operations, embed sustainable integration disciplines, clarify accountabilities, and strengthen organisational resilience for future transactions. Working across multiple business units, I apply commercial rigour, risk oversight, and cultural intelligence to retain critical talent, sustain employee morale, and preserve stakeholder confidence. My focus extends beyond synergy delivery to translating strategic intent into durable enterprise value while protecting brand trust and service performance.
Velos IoT is a leading supplier of global IoT connectivity, combining the businesses of Jersey’s Velos IoT, Estonia’s TopConnect and Denmark’s NextM2M, providing connectivity to over 17 million cellular devices around the world. Frank came on board when a functional split between Commercial (Revenue Growth), Operations (Product and CEX), and Technology was introduced. He focused on streamlining and uniformising the tech and IT systems across the group to prepare them for rapid growth, to assure industry relevance by erasing technological debt and to refocus on real-world customer use cases. Frank made sure that product requirements and tech solutions were aligned in a holistic approach supporting the company’s go-to-market strategy.
Jersey Telecom Global is the incumbent Channel Islands’ converged mobile and fixed network operator in Jersey and challenger operator in Guernsey. JT Global has a worldwide IoT business serving all major global IoT companies. During his tenure as interim CTIO, Frank guided JT Global through a period of network stabilisation and performance improvement. While the global IoT business of 10 million subscribers was separated from the rest of the company, particular attention was given to the quality assurance of the remaining on-islands mobile and fixed services, incl. the post-sales separation of network and IT systems. In parallel Frank initiated the journey of introducing 5G, sunsetting 2G and 3G, and modernizing the installed base away from High-Risk Vendors.
Following the merge of incumbent operators Wind and Tre, Frank as an advisor to the company’s CTO and Operations Director accompanies them in the post-merge digital transformation program. Wind Tre is Italy’s largest converged mobile-fix telecoms company with a combined user audience of 31 million. The transformation comprises of: 1. consolidating the fixed and mobile networks, IT stacks and datacentres 2. modernizing the network & IT domains, incl. adoption of SDN/NFV, introduction of RPA, AI-based data-mining, new OSS and BSS stacks, etc. 3. changing the mind-set of management and employees to support a future-proof Industry 4.0 oriented way of doing business and running tech ops 4. consolidating the technology operations teams to enable the insourcing of most vendor service contracts 5. re-engineering business processes using Lean 6-Sigma methodology 6. reducing staff (without outsourcing activities) 7. significantly boosting operational network performance in fixed and mobile provisioning and assurance