Dr Chris Doyle
Dr Chris Doyle is a specialist in regulation and competition issues affecting the electronic communications sector. He is an Associate at Warwick Business School and at the Department of Economics, Warwick University. Among his many consulting assignments Dr Doyle was the principal advisor and auction designer for world’s first ascending clock spectrum auction held in Nigeria in 2001. He has advised numerous clients about auction design and auction bid strategies. He is a co-author of Essentials of Modern Spectrum Management, Cambridge University Press 2007.
Professor Jean-Sébastien Lantz
Jean-Sébastien Lantz is a Professor at the University of Law at Aix-en-Provence in France and his book on financial economics won the Turgot Prize in 2005. He conducts research on the financing of technology projects and the valuation of licenses as intangible assets. His methodologies have been implemented in the telecoms, nuclear energy and biotechnology sectors, and used by organisations such as the mobile operator Orange and the Thai regulatory body, NTC.
Karen Wrege
Karen Wrege has over 18 years of auction experience centred on the sale of large non-tangible government assets. In 1991 she developed and implemented the National Non-Performing Loan Auction Program for the Resolution Trust Corporation. In 1994 she implemented the FCC spectrum auction and licensing programs and managed technical and operational aspects for the next eleven years. In 2008, Ms. Wrege co-founded KB Enterprises, LLC and Wrege recently joined Power Auctions LLC, a leading provider of consulting and software development services for high-stakes online auctions.
Phil Ashcroft
Phil Ashcroft is the Director of Auction Manager Services at PowerAuctions LLC. He has been involved in over 70 high-stakes auctions, and has ten years of auction experience supporting clients in Europe and the US such as GDF, E.ON, Endesa, Iberdrola, Electrabel, EDF, the US Federal Aviation Administration, and BHP Billiton. He is typically involved in all stages of auction implementation, including auction system design and testing, bidder support and training, and auction operation. Prior to joining Power Auctions LLC, he worked for over 9 years at IBM and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Rod Kirwan
Rod Kirwan leads the Communications group in the Technology, Media and Telecoms department at the UK law firm Denton Wilde Sapte. He has particular experience of mobile networks, virtual mobile networks, spectrum management, telecommunications regulatory licensing, strategic outsourcing, mobile payments, digital media and online services. He has worked for Virgin Mobile, Vodafone, Nokia, Zain, Huawei, the UK Government and regulators in the UK, Ireland, Bulgaria, Egypt and UAE.
Richard Womersley
Richard Womersley leads the telecoms and spectrum business at UK consultancy Helios. He has over 15 years' consulting experience in radio spectrum management, public telecoms and digital broadcasting. He is an experienced trainer and has conducted projects for regulators, operators, governments and end-users on issues covering national and international policy; regulation and its implications; pricing, auctions and licensing; service and technology roll-out; and interference.
Martin Sims
Martin Sims is a journalist and academic who specialises in communications policy issues. He set up PolicyTracker, the
spectrum policy newsletter and has published articles on many facets of the subject. His work has been published in
academic journals and books and he is a former editor of, the
policy journal Intermedia. As a journalist he was a news editor in independent radio then worked for BBC network news. He has an honours degree and a masters degree in communication studies and lectures at the University of East London.
