About Us >Senior Advisors
Each of the firm’s senior advisors adds two decades or more of multi-country telecommunications and ICT sector experience to the group. This experience is drawn upon in the advice we provide our clients, with senior advisors often leading or reviewing the preparation of key deliverables.
Peter Barnes, Senior Advisor, was formerly CEO of the Canadian Wireless Telecommunications Association and has worked at several fixed and mobile operators in Canada. He has recently served on the Business Advisory Council to Canada’s Prime Minister on Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC).
Dr. Yale Braunstein, Senior Economist, has developed and applied mobile forecasting models at Kalba International and served as our expert on copyright and licensing cases in Europe and North America. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University and is Professor of Information Management at UC Berkeley.
Hendrick Cornelis, Senior Investment Advisor, has worked in investment banking and corporate finance since 1997, most recently as Global Head of the Telecoms, Media & Technology Sector Team at ING Bank in London. He has also worked at Skadden, Arps and other law firms, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School.
Reg Coutts, Senior Advisor and former Head of Mobile Strategy at Telstra, has managed and advised the firm’s spectrum auction strategy and bid training teams in Canada, Italy, and Thailand. He recently advised the Australian government on its new broadband strategy and is a member of the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA).
Steve Dujmovic, Senior Technology Advisor, is an expert in mobile network planning and deployment, having managed a wide range mobile technology projects (including LTE and WiMax) across many countries in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Prof. Rob Frieden, Senior Regulatory Advisor, is a specialist in broadband, Internet, VoIP and international services policy, legislation and regulation. He has contributed to Kalba international projects in Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.
Harry Elhart, Senior Advisor, has led AT&T’s public affairs activities at the European Union and served as vice president of a telecommunications startup in the Netherlands. Educated at the University of Stuttgart and Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, his experience includes securing telecommunications operating licenses in 15 European countries.
Dr. Heather Hudson, Senior Telecommunications Development Advisor, recently co-led our engagement in Tanzania to help establish the country’s Universal Communications Access Fund. She has led and advised on communications access studies and consultancies across Africa, Asia, North and South America, the Caribbean and the Pacific Islands.
Calvin Monson, Senior Economic Advisor, has led the development of the ITU- and World bank-sponsored Competition, Pricing and Interconnection regulatory toolkit. He was formerly Vice President of Regulatory Affairs for BellSouth in Latin America and is fluent in Spanish.
Frank Robert, Senior Operations Advisor, has managed a mobile network deployment in India, served as Shadow CEO of an incumbent telecommunications operator in Southeast Asia, and advised several FTTx service and technology providers on strategy, technology and operational issues.
Dr. John Ure, Senior Advisor, serves as Professor of Economics at Hong Kong University and is an authority on the ICT policies of Asian countries, including China. He advised OFTA on Hong Kong’s innovative revenue-based spectrum fee framework and has recently conducted a spectrum pricing policy review for the MCMC in Malaysia.