About Us > Senior Advisors
Each of the firm’s senior advisors adds two decades or more of multi-country TMT sector experience to our group. This experience is drawn upon in the advice we provide our clients, with senior advisors at times co-authoring or reviewing key deliverables.
Philip Otieno Adar brings extensive experience in IP Transport Networks in Africa, including in Congo, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Madagascar, Malawi, South Sudan and Zambia. He has also managed Telecom Kenya’s deployment of the Government Common Core Network (GCCN) and, while at Nokia, the rollout of Airtel’s mobile broadband networks.
Kelly Cameron brings extensive experience in Africa, Asia and the Middle East, including advising several governments on the reform of their telecommunications laws. He began his as a senior attorney at the FCC, where he negotiated the World Trade Organization’s Basic Telecom Agreement. Tim has also served as Vice President of a mobile operator and as a partner at a DC law firm. His law degree is from Georgetown University.
George Debbo has held executive positions at Ericsson Sub Saharan Africa and Telkom in South Africa. He has designed, supplied and/or deployed metro and national fiber networks in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Uganda and has addressed their SDN, NFV, MEC and Open Network aspects. He recently served as President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Steve Dujmovic 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.
Abdulkareem Jama is the former Minister of Information, Posts & Telecommunications and former Chief of Staff of the President in Somalia. He serves as Executive Vice President & Provost at City University in Mogadishu and holds an M.S. in network engineering from George Mason University.
Michael Kleeman has served as Chairman of the Board (2010-18) of SEACOM, a submarine cable system, and as Partner and VP at Boston Consulting Group, where his clients included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, FLAG, Ericsson and Global Crossing. He brings extensive international consulting experience.
Gerardo Marti offers experience as Managing Director of CTC Celular, Chile’s largest mobile operator, and VP of Multimedia Services and Board Member at parent company CTC as well as acquisition and network deployment cases in Argentina and Colombia. He has been our affiliate for many years.<
Dr. Paul Mboya adds experience in the environmental and social aspects of telecom networks across Kenya, Uganda and Zambia. In the process, he has addressed underground and overhead cable deployments and related per-mitting, technical and security aspects. He has also recently assessed the e-waste mana-gement frameworks of Egypt, Mauritius and Zambia as well as examined the related appro-aches of several other countries. Paul holds B.S., M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental and Biosystems Engineering.<
Dr. Lee McKnight is Associate Professor at Syracuse University, where he teaches graduate courses on Cloud Architecture, Blockchain Management, and Information Security Policy. His experience includes advising government agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere on cloud to edge innovation, technology and Internet governance. He has also helped developed innovative Internet access approaches in Africa.<
Bob McQueen is an expert in Intelligent Transport Systems and connected vehicles, including related cloud architecture and data analytics, with experience from Chicago, Dubai, Las Vegas, Moscow, Paris, Seoul and other cities. He has examined e-payment and toll aspects of ITS programs.<.
Giovanna Menard is a lawyer with 30 years of experience, most of it in the telecom domain. She has advised the National Council of Telecommunications (CONATEL) in Haiti, including drafting of regulatory texts and law degrees, overseeing regulatory and legal disputes, and working on the electronic signature bill (2017) as well as a new telecom bill submitted to the Haitian Parliament. Previously, she headed the Legal and Regulatory Department at Haiti's dominant mobile operator (Digicel) and consulted on law formulation (including re cybersecurity) to the ITU. Giovanna holds a master’s degree in law from the Université d’Etat d’Haïti.<
Leona Mentz has addressed a wide range of telecom-related legal, regulatory, legislative and contracting issues while working at South Africa’s regulator (ICASA) as well as at British Telecom, Cell C, Mimecast, and Zoom Video. She has also conducted related due diligence. For example, at Zoom, she served as Senior Legal Counsel for Telcom Regulation in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Her legal education includes LLB and LLM (Corporate Law) degrees from the University of Pretoria and an LLM (Intellectual Property) from the University of South Africa.<
Srdjan Mihaljevic offers broad experience in radio spectrum management, NGN and regulatory processes. He has served as Deputy Minister (Communications and Spectrum Policy) at Montenegro's Ministry of Transportation, Maritime and Telecommunications, as CTO of the Telecommunication Authority in Suriname, and as spectrum consultant to ITU, World Bank, Ooredoo and Rhode & Schwarz.<
Dr. Hilda Mwakatumbula offers extensive experience in broadband-related consumer research. She specializes in ICT economics and policy with significant experience in empirical studies, both qualitative and quantitative. And she has taken part in several related multinational research projects, including After Access: ICT Access and Use, which was conducted in 16 countries on three continents. Hilda holds a Ph.D. from Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan; a Master’s from Rwanda University (KIST) and the U.K. Telecommunication Academy.<
Vitalis Olunga adds more than 25 years of broadband-related experience gained across East Africa. Previously, he headed Regulatory and Public Affairs at Safaricom and as Manager of Mobile Telephone Services at Telkom Kenya. He has also served as Chairman of GSMA Africa and has led ICT training programs across numerous countries in the region. Vitalis holds an MBA in Strategic Management and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nairobi.<
Hartmut Seibel is an EU legal specialist with more than 25 years of related experience, including in the EU’s digital strategy and its digital (euro) payment services and Digital Markets Act. Previously, he served as General Counsel at the European Payments Council and at Honeywell Specialty Materials as well as Vice President, Regulatory Affairs at Global TeleSystems. His law degrees are from the Ministries of Legal Affairs of the North Rhine Westphalia and of Lower Saxony in Germany.<
Dr. Richard Steinberg is 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.<
Rex Wonga has helped implement a fiber-to-the premises (FTTX) project in Malawi as well as advised Bengol.Net on the acquisition of an equity stake in Malawi Telecommunications, inclu-ding related due diligence work. He has also advised the UK’s Commonwealth Telecommunica- tions Organization on the setting up of the Universal Services Fund, working in the process with the Malawi’s Public Private Partnership Commission. His academic degrees include an MBA (Eastern & Southern Africa Management Institute, Tanzania) and an M.S. in Operational Telecommunications (Coventry University, UK).