Samantha Haylor, Daktela
Samantha began her career in communications as the Communications Project Manager for the Contact Centre directorate at HM Revenue & Customs. Her career progressed into other industries where communication, operational excellence, and customer satisfaction were key, and she was instrumental in developing business strategy and driving growth. This includes security, global customer services, travel and […]
Rebecca Tate, TalkTalk
Rebecca has 17 years’ experience working within the telecommunications sector, having joined TalkTalk as an ACA qualified Finance Manager within the Networks part of the business. Subsequent roles included Voice Trading, Head of Carrier Services Voice and Commercial In-Life, spanning all products offered by TalkTalk Wholesale Services to an extensive Carrier and Partner base. Initial […]
Simon Burckhardt, bOnline
Simon is an experienced C Level executive in the UK and International Telecoms sector. Past executive roles include CEO at Kelly Group, Managing Director at Vonage UK and CCO in Telefonica. He continues to have a keen interest in the wider telecoms world through consultancy work and Non Exec roles at bOnline and Magrathea.
Nick Holland, 8×8 Inc.
Nick is CTO and VP for Architecture at 8×8 Inc, a unified communications provider with offices around the world. Nick splits his time between 8×8’s headquarters in San Jose, California and London, UK. Nick has over 30 years experience in the telecoms and IP communications and is primarily concerned with Regulatory Compliance and technologies which […]
Jolyon Parsons, Ciptex
Jolyon brings over 15 years’ experience in digital communications. In BT, with Accenture he built some of the first customer facing VOIP services. Jolyon setup one of the first Voice recognition voice betting services and in 2005 he co-founded Ciptex to deliver Cloud VOIP, and now a Preferred Partner of Twilio. He brings both commercial, […]
Alex Jennings, Smartnumbers
Alex has over thirty years’ experience in the UK telecoms sector and has also worked across Europe on a variety of telecom projects in that time. Her career began at Telewest (a start-up altnet which today is part of Virgin Media) as Interconnect Manager and gained a strong background in cable networks, regulation and commercial […]
Tracey Wright, Magrathea
Tracey has been working in the communications industry for 29 years in traditional areas such as calling cards, PRS and IDA services before joining Magrathea in 2003 where the focus was the development and growth of the first UK wholesale IP Voice service to be introduced in what was a fledgling sector. Still leading the […]
Dan Winfield, Voxhub
Dan Winfield is the CEO and co-founder of Voxhub, an Internet telephony company based in the UK.
Trefor Davies, Brindley Data Services
Tref is a founding member of Comms Council UK and has worked in the VoIP industry almost since it’s inception as a technology. He has been on the boards of both ISP and ITSP trade associations, served on the IPv6 Advisory Panel to Ed Vaizey, Minister for the Internet at DCMS and the Technology Reference […]
David Cargill, Vonage
David acts as a Chair of the Comms Council UK Operations Working Group and is leading on initiatives including; VoIP Security, Remote Provisioning Security, IPv6, Number Porting. He is representing Comms Council UK at Home Office & Industry Security events.
