Protect Your Nation's Critical Communications Before Disaster Strikes

James is a founding partner of Cenerva and an acknowledged global expert on number portability. With 25 years’ experience across a variety of senior telecoms roles and consultancy assignments in over 30 countries, James brings extensive international experience to Cenerva.

Phil is a highly experienced ICT executive with 35 years of incredibly varied global experience covering 20+ markets in Europe, Africa, Asia Pacific and North America. Phil has CEO, COO, Finance, M&A, Commercial, Business Development and Project Management experience from operator groups including Cable & Wireless, Millicom International / Tigo, Digicel and Afrimax Vodafone.

Based in Malaysia, Phil manages Cenerva’s Regulatory consulting business across the Asia Pacific region. With six years of broad Regulatory consulting experience, Phil is involved in many of Cenerva’s Number Portability implementation projects.

Phil also heads Cenerva’s growing Telecommunications Emergency Preparedness practice globally.

Phil is from the UK, is a qualified Management Accountant (FCMA & CGMA) and holds an MBA from Manchester University.

Andrew is a Partner with Cenerva. Andrew has spent over 27 years working in the private and public sectors on ICT regulation. This includes several years consulting for Cenerva. He worked previously as the Group Head of Regulatory Affairs for Digicel in highly competitive and challenging circumstances as a new entrant operator in multiple telecommunications markets. Digicel launched and operated mobile, WiMax, cable, submarine cable and broadcasting networks in around 30 countries. He has also worked for Vodafone and the UK telecommunications regulator.

Julian Wilkins brings over 34 years of telecommunications leadership across the Caribbean and UK markets, holding executive positions in Business Development, Government Relations, and Operations Management.

His extensive experience spans launching the English-speaking Caribbean’s first GSM network and driving regulatory strategy across multiple territories.

Julian’s unique blend of technical expertise and governance leadership has made him a trusted industry authority, culminating in his influential role as CANTO Chairman from 2015 to 2019 and his current position as VP Business Development Caribbean Region at 6D Technologies.

Richard has over 40 years of experience in the design and development of telecommunications services and equipment for tier-1 carriers in Europe, where he led the BT Group’s first network trials of Voice over IP. Most recently he has worked in the Latin-America region, leading core network signalling projects including Number Portability implementation for Liberty Latin America across multiple markets. He founded D-BIT Technology Consulting to address specialist requirements for technology advice across the “Networked ICT” sector and has partnered with the wider Cenerva team on many projects since 2023, ranging from National Disaster Planning and Number Portability to techno-regulatory policy. Richard is also a board-level technical advisor.

Richard has a first-class BSc Honors Degree in Electronic Engineering, is registered with the UK Engineering Council as a Chartered Engineer, is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology and is a Senior Member of the Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers. He has edited and co-authored two books on Voice over IP and published numerous papers on advanced communications systems and technology.