Board of Directors

Dr. Peter Radley - Chairman
Peter has over thirty years of experience in telecommunications holding senior level positions at Industry-leading companies. His most recent position was as CEO of Alcatel UK. A technology innovations leader and manager, Peter ran the laboratories that invented ADSL. He has worked with the pioneering teams involved in Optical Communications, Global System for Mobile communications (GSM) and Broadband, and during his tenure at the world leading ITT Laboratory, STL Technologies, and Alcatel. While at Alcatel, and prior to becoming the CEO and Chairman of Alcatel UK, Peter held the position of Global Director of Marketing and Business Development, and CTO and President - Mobile Communications.

Peter has been a key player with UK Government organizations promoting the rollout of Broadband.

Paul Evans – CEO and Founder
Paul is a communications software specialist whose career has included development roles at BT Labs where he led the Internet Infrastructure Lab (IIL) and was CTO of a BT spin-off company. He founded Sharedband in August 2003 with the objective of finding new ways of efficiently delivering content across the Internet.

Paul, currently a member of the programme committee for the UK Government's Parliamentary IT Committee, has also provided consultancy to a number of blue-chip companies and has been an investment manager at a UK leading technology investor. He holds a degree from Aston University and is the author of a number of patents.

Professor Peter Cochrane - Non Executive Director
Peter is a world renowned technology and IT visionary with an impressive track record in both commerce and academia. Joining BT Laboratories in 1973, he was appointed Head of Research in 1993, and in 1999 he became BT's Chief Technologist.

After leaving BT in 2000, Peter formed his own company – ConceptLabs. He is a graduate of Nottingham Trent University and Essex University. He is a visiting professor to a number of Universities, the Collier Chair for The Public Understanding of Science & Technology at The University of Bristol, and is a Member of the New York Academy of Sciences. He has published and lectured widely on technology and the implications of IT.

Peter’s work has been recognized with many awards and in 1999, he was awarded an OBE for his contribution to international communications.

Ric Ackland-Snow - Non Executive Director.
Ric is an executive with leadership experience working with startup companies, making him an invaluable source of advice to new emerging businesses. His career includes 14 years at IBM UK and Canada, where he held senior positions in International Procurement, Product Development and Marketing.

Ric is the “Entrepreneur in Residence” and investment committee member at Create Ventures, a boutique Venture Capital company based in Cambridge, investing in businesses with high growth potential. He is a mentor and adviser to numerous early stage companies and is a business angel investor. His background as a software and systems application specialist has been instrumental to his success in setting up a number of businesses, including UK Direct Insurance for AIG Corp, the UK special Insurance facility for Aon Corp, and ASA Insurance.

Senior Management

Richard Roberts - Business Director (UK)

Richard is a highly experienced Sales, Marketing and business leader within the Telecommunications industry. He has held various senior positions in the last 15 years in BT’s international business including: Managing Director BT Worldwide Italy, Managing Director BT Portugal, and BT Director Gibtel. More recently Richard was a Senior Business Director at BT Global Services. Richard has extensive experience throughout EMEA, US and UK and is renowned for his ability to build highly successful multi-national teams delivering significant business growth, profitability and ‘turn arounds’ in a range of different markets.

He is an expert commercial troubleshooter and enjoys an excellent reputation for developing key business relationships with large multi-national customers, service providers, channel partners, suppliers as well as venture partners & shareholders in joint ventures.

Dr. David Miller - Marketing Consultant (UK)

After a strong technical background working on Direct Digital Control and Process Simulation at Pilkington Glass, Dr Miller gained a practical knowledge of Sales and Marketing at IBM. He then joined Videcom, a small private UK company, as head of Sales and increased their turnover ten fold selling to the World’s Airlines and Telcos. David went on to co-found several successful US and UK start-ups and has considerable experience marketing to and working for major Telcos.

Emma Steinberg – Vice President, Business Development (US)
Emma is a sales, business development, and product marketing executive and has twenty years of experience with telecommunications and Internet software technology companies. She has held increasingly senior positions within GTE, MCI (now Verizon), Internap Network Services, and SAVVIS, and most recently was responsible for opening up new markets in the US for NS8 Corporation for the company’s video on demand service distributed over broadband networks.

Emma has managed sales teams selling to Fortune 100 customers and has developed, implemented, and managed indirect sales distribution channels for both Internap and SAVVIS, working with multiple independent agents, and small and large alliance and technology partners. During her tenures at GTE and Internap, she developed and grew product marketing organizations to support core data and IP products, including connectivity and data center services.