About Us > Core Team
Kalba International is a global telecommunications consulting group founded and led by Dr. Kas Kalba. Our projects are led and managed by experienced consultants, including members of the firm’s core management. The Core Team members bring in-depth consulting, operating, and investment management skills to the group and our clients.
Kas Kalba, President and CEO, has directed successful strategy, regulatory, investment and market entry consultancies across 100 countries on six continents, advising on $30 billion of transactions, auctions and procurements in the process. He has served on the faculties of Yale, Harvard and MIT, and has managed numerous multi-country project teams. He recently developed a strategy for a new undersea cable wholesale operator, assessed MVNOs (Mobile Virtual Network Operators) across 25 countries, led a backbone PPP planning project, and advised on the establishment of a new regulator.
Guylaine Amyot, Senior Managing Consultant, was an intern with the firm, then a regional manager, and recently returned after additional experience in the cable TV and media industries in Europe, Africa (notably Morocco) and Asia. She has an MBA from HEC in France, has managed the preparation of a national digital strategy in Senegal, and co-developed a broadband action plan in Comoros. She is now leading the firm's activities in France.
Steve Dujmovic, Senior Advisor, is an expert in mobile network planning and deployment, having managed a wide range of mobile and fixed wireless technology projects across many countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. His experience includes due diligence and network "red teaming" as well as advising major equipment vendors. He has recently served as CTO of a mobile tower company in Myanmar and overseen the deployment of a broadband network in Saudi Arabia.
John Kaufman, Senior Managing Consultant, has twenty years of industry and consulting experience, including with Etisalat and Zain in Africa and the Middle East. He has also worked in Europe, Asia and the Americas with Kalba International, PwC and BT, where he prepared the business case for a multibillion $ investment in Japan. Most recently, he projected the financing prospects of a fixed wholesale operator in East Africa. He holds an MBA (Finance) from New York University.
Dr. Richard Steinberg, Senior Advisor, is a Professor and Chair of Operations Research at London School of Economics. He is the editor (together with Peter Cramton and Yoav Shoham) of the book Combinatorial Auctions and has advised the FCC, Canada's ISED and the UK's Department of Energy and Ofcom on auction design and implementation. He recently co-led a spectrum auction audit at Kalba International and has advised our auction clients.
Peter Lange, Managing Consultant and Co-Lead of Broadband Cases, has advised on the Asia-Pacific Information Superhighway and other technology and market cases across 70 countries, from Angola to Afghanistan and Austria to Australia. He recently helped plan and design data networks in four countries in Africa and advised a client on entry into the telecommunications market in Oman. He also helped plan several networks for connecting schools and universities and a fiber network to be operated as a PPP with railways.