Our Team

Prof. Nwana, known as H, is a founding partner of Cenerva, and a former Ofcom Group Director. His experience in TMT regulation and sector re-design spans both the UK and emerging markets, and he has supported global players such as Google and Meta. As an Executive Director Emeritus of the Dynamic Spectrum Alliance, Prof Nwana is a global expert on spectrum and wireless technologies. He is Full Visiting Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Scotland within the Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department (EEE). He has authored more than 10 books.

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.

Chris is a specialist in digital regulation with over 25 years of experience spanning the public and private sectors across multiple international markets. Chris has held senior positions at Ofcom, Cable & Wireless and Plum Consulting, covering consumer policy, regulatory strategy, market reviews, number portability, network security and resilience, and sector reform.

Chris has extensive experience of managing relations with senior industry, regulatory and political stakeholders, and has delivered projects for clients around the world. At Ofcom, Chris was Director of Consumer Policy, leading work on consumer switching, digital inclusion and empowerment. At Cable & Wireless, he was Director of Regulatory Affairs, responsible for regulatory strategy across 33 jurisdictions

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.

Steve is a Chartered Engineer and Fellow of the Institute of Measurement & Control with over 35 years of experience in the Process Industries working at a senior level for companies such as Emerson, Siemens, and Honeywell. Steve provides his leadership experience to facilitate the delivery of the TRMC programme for Cenerva.

Peter is an ICT and Payments expert and former Head of Government and Public Sector at the UK’s Payments Clearing House. Peter provides Cenerva with expertise and commercial breadth across ICT, procurement, payments and mobile money, switching and portability, and public affairs.

William is a telecommunications consultant specialising in technical and strategic wireless communications advice. As a founding director of Neul, he helped develop machine-to-machine technologies before the company’s £25m acquisition by Huawei in 2014. He then served as CEO of the Weightless SIG standards body until 2019, developing global M2M technology standards.

Previously, as a Director at Ofcom, he led a technical advisory team and spearheaded major regulatory reviews including the Spectrum Framework Review, Spectrum Usage Rights development, and cognitive/white space policy.

His expertise is documented through 17 published books—including ‘The 5G Myth’, ‘Our Digital Future’ and ‘Spectrum Management’—along with over 100 papers and 18 patents.

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.

Dr Divine Ndumu is a senior technology leader and Enterprise Architect with
extensive experience delivering large scale digital, cloud and AI initiatives across
telecoms, utilities and critical infrastructure. A former BT Principal Research
Scientist with award winning work and patents in multi-agent AI, he now leads
Ashbrook Consulting, advising C-suite and programme leaders on the design,
governance and assurance of AI-enabled systems in complex, regulated
environments

Dr Tameh is a telecommunications expert with over 30 years of industry experience. After earning his PhD in Wireless Communications from Bristol University, he has worked across academia, standardisation bodies, and the private sector. His expertise spans radio planning, network operations, and telecommunications solutions for both civilian and military applications. Dr Tameh collaborates with equipment vendors and national regulators, bringing comprehensive technical knowledge to complex telecommunications projects.

Senior Project Manager | Lead GFCE-AUC Coordination at Global Forum on Cyber Expertise (GFCE) where Martin is leading coordination and collaboration between the GFCE and African Union Commission (AUC) in developing Cyber capacity and capability building in Africa. Previously Martin was the head of research and consultancy at the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organization (CTO). Martin has over 15 years experience in ICT innovation, research and development.

Is a highly experienced international policy and regulatory specialist in the telecoms, energy and utility sectors. He was a senior Director in the Ofcom Spectrum Group, and part of the Ofcom leadership team, for 12 years until end 2018. He has been closely involved in all of the key spectrum policy developments for the UK mobile sector over this time, leading several of the most high profile projects as the sector has transitioned from 2G towards 5G including mobile liberalisation, spectrum trading, auction design, spectrum fees and mobile coverage policy. He has also been a key figure in the development of UK spectrum strategy, leading the most recent Spectrum Management Strategy review in 2014. He also managed Ofcom teams dealing with satellite policy and spectrum licensing. He was previously a partner in PwC’s Consulting practice where he was a leading regulatory expert setting up and operating regulatory frameworks in the energy and utility sectors for public and private sector clients in the UK, Europe, US, Africa and Asia.

Sara is a teaching associate at the Microsoft-funded Cloud Legal Project, at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). She has 20 years’ experience working in law. For a number of years, she assisted and advised companies from different sectors in her home country, Portugal, in several fields of corporate law. Subsequently, after finishing her Masters, she lectured E-Commerce Law at QMUL while reading her PhD.
Sara’s PhD research focused on autonomy in cyberspace. In particular, she proposes a framework to analyse the complex dynamics between anonymity, the legitimate search of information online (what she called “my search and research”) and the fundamental rights of privacy, data protection, freedom of expression and information.

Johan David Michels (known as “Dave”) is a Researcher and PhD candidate at the Microsoft-funded Cloud Legal Project at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), and a guest teacher at the London School of Economics (LSE). He has over 10 years’ experience working in law and policy, including at UK communications regulator Ofcom and at the United Nations in The Hague. He has lectured in IP, e-Commerce, and Information Security and the Law at QMUL and LSE. He has published articles on a range of IP/IT issues, including most recently on cybersecurity law in the European Law Review (with co-author Ian Walden). His PhD looks at the legal protection of digital assets.

President & Chief Executive Officer Bitek International Inc. Founder of Bitek International Inc., Graham has over 33 years of international experience in virtually all aspects of telecommunications services and product arenas, including co-founder and Executive Vice President of @IPBell (latterly Cascadent Communications) one of the world’s first commercial (b2b) Global VoIP networks backed by Cisco & HP. Graham is a highly sought after and internationally renowned speaker and lecturer to various global agencies on such topics as VoIP fraud & lawful intercept prevention & planning. Bitek International is member of the Global Cybersecurity agenda High level experts group for the ITU (International Telecoms Union).

Catherine is a Chartered Marketer and generative AI practitioner who has spent the past four years using AI tools, exploring advanced prompt engineering and AI image creation tools in real-world marketing projects. She holds multiple AI accreditations in Generative AI and prompt engineering and brings a strong commercial perspective underpinned by an MBA from Aston Business School.  

Tony is a former spectrum regulator following 25 years’ service with the UK Office of Communications (OFCOM) and DTI Radio communications Agency. Career progression led from spectrum monitoring into CEPT and ITU activities in satellite broadcasting regulation and frequency coordination. Latterly, he was Head of Monitoring at Baldock International Radio Monitoring Station near London, responsible for all UK spectrum monitoring activities. Tony became a spectrum management consultant in 2007 working with regulators, industry and the ITU, with a special focus on Africa. His current position is regional business development director in Africa with TCI International Inc. of Fremont, California, a leading manufacturer and global supplier of spectrum management and monitoring systems to spectrum regulators, militaries, security and intelligence agencies. Tony has a first class BSc Honours Degree, is registered with the UK Engineering Council as an Incorporated Engineer and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.

Tira is an attorney at law with extensive experience in designing legal and regulatory frameworks, reviewing and drafting electronic communications, trade and commercial laws, and preparing related policies, licences, and legal documents in the ACP region and South East Asia.

She has 16 years’ experience in ICT Policy and legislation and 20 years’ experience in drafting legislation.

Dr Wong is a Research Scientist at the University of Maryland, where he also lectures on the Comparative & International Cybersecurity Policy, Honors College Cybersecurity Program.
He has 25 years of experience working on the academic, policy, regulation, and implementation frontiers of ICT and digital technologies, as well as being a published author. He is a former president of the Digital Bridge Institute, training institute of the Nigerian Communications Commission. Current projects include developing a decision-support Cybersecurity Policy Toolkit, presented and organized in a distributed web based platform.

Professor Robert (Bob) Stewart is currently the MathWorks Professor of Signal Processing at the University of Strathclyde. He has been a professor at the University of Strathclyde since 2006 and is also a long-standing visiting professor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Extension School.

At Strathclyde, Bob is Chair and Head of the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, with more than 55 academic staff and almost 300 researchers.

He has been working on digital communications and software-defined radio in recent years, with a specific interest in radio standards such as LTE, 802.11, and most recently on wireless white space radio utilising TV spectrum frequencies.

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.

Until recently Steve was a Board member of Ofcom, the UK regulator responsible for digital communications. He set strategy for regulation in the UK, represented the UK internationally, was Ofcom’s Chief Technology Officer, and served as Acting Chief Executive.

Bronagh is a highly accomplished senior leader and non-executive director with a wealth of experience across various sectors, including the FTSE100 listed, regulated, retail hospitality and not-for-profit/performance sports sectors.

Her most recent role was Group General Counsel and Company Secretary at Severn Trent Plc, where she also oversaw regulatory compliance and assurance and the Group’s Corporate Sustainability programme. She is currently a Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Treatt Plc, a Trustee of the Canal & River Trust, and an independent advisor to EMR.

Bronagh brings to Cenerva a track record of success at board level and a passion for outstanding customer service, engaged employees, a purpose-driven business culture, and corporate sustainability with genuine impact.

Industry heavyweight, Dr Colin Tucker, has had a successful career in the in the telecommunications industry in senior leadership roles, including as COO of Orange plc and Managing Director and Deputy Chairman of 3.

As founding CEO of 3, the first 3G mobile operator in the UK, Dr Tucker developed the role to become the Deputy Chairman of the Hutchison 3G group in Europe.

He brings exceptional insights to open doors to companies, advise management teams, and advise the Board.

International CEO and Independent Director with a proven track record in Technology, Infrastructure, and Banking sectors.
Chairman of Board Audit, Risk, and Compliance Committees.

With expertise spanning India, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Philippines, Thailand, Myanmar, Nepal, UK, USA, Australia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, Simon brings invaluable insights into diverse business environments.

Experience in business acquisition includes conducting due-diligence, merger integration, and achieving synergy and scale benefits.
Proficient in business sales, from preparing and presenting Information Memoranda to compiling data rooms and delivering investor presentations.

Simon has successfully led re-financing projects, IPOs, seed capital, venture capital, and bank financing facilities.

Current directorial roles include positions at J-Trust Royal Bank Cambodia and a leading mobile operator in Cambodia.

Dr Crockett is a Senior Teaching Fellow at the University of Strathclyde. She teaches across several years of the degree programmes in Electronic & Electrical Engineering, covering digital systems design with VHDL and FPGAs, digital signal processing implementation, and wireless communications. Louise also leads a team of PhD researchers working on FPGAs and SDR.

As lead-author / editor, Louise has published three books in collaboration with AMD (formerly Xilinx) on FPGA-based System on Chip (SoC) technology, including most recently Software Defined Radio with Zynq UltraScale+ RFSoC in 2023.

Dr Crawford is a Principal Knowledge Exchange Fellow at the University of Strathclyde, where he manages a programme of industry/academic collaborative projects focusing on shared spectrum, private 5G networks, and future advanced communications. David has championed the development of shared spectrum methods and adoption for more than a decade.

David holds four degrees, all from Strathclyde, including a PhD and MBA. Prior to rejoining the University, initially to manage the Centre for White Space Communications, David worked in industry for Epson and Motorola.

Fabrizio joined the School of Government and Public Policy at the University of Strathclyde in 2012.

Before moving to Glasgow he was a Marie Curie postdoctoral researcher at the University of Zurich and a Premier Assistant at the Institut d’études politiques et internationales, University of Lausanne. He completed his PhD at the University of Exeter in 2010.

A revised version of his PhD thesis on policy diffusion has been published by the ECPR press. Focusing on regulatory impact as a case study, this book shows how the OECD transnational networks have framed and diffused such a policy innovation, but there is a limited extent of policy interdependence in the implementation and evaluation stages.

Dr Sumanasena now leads the spectrum practice at Real Wireless and he has experience in supporting regulators such as Ofcom (UK), ComReg (Ireland) and ICASA (South Africa). He has a deep understanding of spectrum regulation, spectrum policy development and licensing regimes across a range of international market environments.
He is Chairman of the UK Spectrum Policy Forum Steering Board, an industry-led ‘sounding board’ to the UK Government and Ofcom on future spectrum policy.

James Westby is an associate with Cenerva. With over 25 years’ experience in wholesale Telecoms, working for BT, Orange and CK Hutchison, James brings a wealth of knowledge in the heavily regulated area of Wholesale, being responsible for interconnection and regulation of termination rates; international roaming and compliance to EU regulation; numbering strategy; mobile number portability policy and implementation; and compliance on access to short codes, including emergency calling.

Mark Spracklen, with over 25 years of experience in the telecoms industry, is a renowned consultant and leader in telecoms profitability. His expertise in telecoms costing and customer lifetime value is a cornerstone of his teachings.

Currently the Head of Economics, Telecoms Infrastructure & Spectrum, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). Jibrila has a history of delivering high profile complex market investigations and policy decisions across various industries. He was previously Senior Economist at Ofgem (the regulator for the UK’s electricity and gas industries) and Visiting Lecturer at City University of London, lecturing in Economics of Regulation in the Masters Class.

Kevin Werry is a Chartered Engineer and Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) with over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He holds an MEng in Communications, Information and Electronic Engineering from Plymouth and a PGCert in Economics for Competition Law from King’s College London. He is currently pursuing an LLM in Technology, Media and Telecoms Laws at Queen Mary’s University London. He has worked for ex-monopoly operators, start-ups, as a regulator, and as a consultant for nearly 20 years. Kevin was previously an Associate Director of Economics and Regulation at KPMG and a Telecoms Regulatory Manager at the Channel Islands Competition and Regulatory Authority (CICRA). He is currently an Associate of Cenerva on the TRMC training program.

A Visiting Professor in Practice at the London School of Economics, Prof. Myers specialises in public policy, regulation, and market design. With a 30-year career in regulatory and competition agencies in the UK and Jamaica, including a significant tenure at Ofcom, his insights are rooted in both academic research and practical application.