Ronan Kelly was elected Member of the Board April 2015 and elected as president in April 2016. Ronan brings over 19 years’ experience in the telecom industry. With first-hand experience deploying next-generation optical and copper networks, IPTV platforms, and microwave radio networks, he holds an unusually broad understanding of the challenges faced by today’s operators, incumbent and competitive alike. Combining his long standing technical knowledge with his strong telecoms business experience (operator, NREN and vendor), Ronan has assisted some of the world’s largest operators maximize their value proposition and achieve market success. For the past five years, Ronan has been dedicated to the development of ADTRAN as a global leader in the broadband access and transport arena, and continues in these efforts as we enter the exciting new era of SDN and NFV. Ronan has shared his experience with not for profit organizations tasked with advancing the Internet experience, including five years serving on the board of directors for the Irish Neutral Exchange, and working with the World of Applications committee in FTTH Council Europe. He holds an MSc in Technology & Innovation Management and an MBA from the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Tobias Ahl was elected Member of the Board April 2015.

Magnus Angermund was elected Board member in April 2016.  Magnus Angermund has been in the fiber optic business since -90 and started with fiber optic installations. He became a sales rep for the Swedish fiber optic market during -95 and focused on solutions andproducts for fiber optic networks. The fiber optic market in Sweden increased rapidly and Magnus Angermund started his own company within product developement (and sales) of products for fiber optic networks with the focus on the FTTH market. He had that business for 5 very insteresting years and learned a lot from all the projects he delivered to. Sweden was early with the deployment of FTTH and he was a pioneer who developed the network design, products and methods. He left the Fiber optic market during 2006 to join ENACO, a design and build- company within the Datacenter market. He had several management positions in the company within sales and marketing, and the last years as CEO. Now Magnus Angermund has decided to come back to the fiber optics by entering Hexatronic. The HQ for Hexatronic is in Sweden and they are working on the US market, the UK market, NZ
and the whole Nordic region. 

Antoni Bosch was elected member of the Board in April 2016. Since 2013 Antoni Bosch is Vice President Telecom Solutions Business Unit in Prysmian Group. With more than 25 years' experience in the telecom industry he has a proven track record of business achievements and experience mainly in sales, marketing and business management in an international environment. In his current position Antoni holds a unique view of the worldwide telecom market, dealing with the major telecom operators worldwide and managing a business over 800mln€, although being mainly Europe centric it is spread within EMEA, Americas and APAC regions. Antoni Bosch holds a MSc degree in Telecommunications Engineering by Polytechnic University of Catalonia (Barcelona) with a MBA from Esade Business School (Barcelona)and an Executive PDG from Iese Business School (Barcelona) and SDA Bocconi (Milan). He joined Prysmian in 1998 and since then he has developed his professional career within the telecom business holding severa! positions as Business Manager and Sales & Marketing Director. Before joining Prysmian he worked in the telecom sector as a Consultant and Head of Systems of the Air Traffic Control Center of Barcelona Airport.

Kees de Waard was elected to the Board in May 2018.

Kees de Waard holds a Degree in Applied Physics. He started his career at Philips Research. Hereafter he worked as Sales Manager at Philips Optoelectronics, providing lasers for long haul, high speed optical networks. After Philips he worked as Sales Director Europe at JDSU. In this role he was responsible for sales of optical components and modules to tier 1 operators. The JDSU products were applied in DWDM and Metro networks. After JDSU he worked at Optium which became Finisar in a later stage, providing Transponders for FO communication. In 2011 he joined Genexis, a prominent member of the FTTH council. At Genexis he was got different roles as VP Sales and VP business development.

Mike Knott was elected to the Board in May 2018.

Mike Knott is a chartered mechanical engineer with 30 years of experience in optical fibre outside plant deployments, and has focused exclusively on FTTH technology since 2007. As FTTH Market Development Manager he is recognised as an expert in this field. Mike interacts with network operators and industry bodies throughout EMEA with a brief to represent and promote Corning’s position in this key business sector.

Mike has previously held a range of roles within Corning such as Product Line Manager, and Technical Manager responsible for the development of optical jointing solutions.

As Policy and Regulatory Affairs Director, Florian Damas is responsible for the development of corporate positions on key regulatory and thought-leadership issues for Nokia on the following topics:

[TELECOMS and SERVICES]

from infrastructures (broadband access, IP, interconnection, virtualization) to cloud, software-defined networking (SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), investment policies and funds, public policies, competition, net neutrality, cybersecurity;

[DATA]

electronic identities, data values and monetization, data protection, electronic communications data (metadata and content), privacy, connected devices (IoT), Industry 4.0, smart cities, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics.

He advises regulators and competition authorities to ensure infrastructure interoperability and competition. He engages with governments in supporting national broadband plans and reaping the maximum economic and societal benefit from ICT.

Before joining Nokia, he worked for several telecommunications providers including MCI Worldcom (now Verizon) and COLT Telecom, and the equipment vendor Alcatel-Lucent.

He is personally involved during his free time in helping a non-for-profit organisation to provide online courses using open source software over fiber access.

Luigi Gambardella was elected to the Board in May 2018.

Luigi Gambardella has long and extensive experience as an international leader in the telecoms field, and in all things digital. Currently Head of European Affairs of Open Fiber, the new Italian ultra-broadband network owned by ENEL and Cassa Depositi e Prestiti (CDP). Luigi has for several years stewarded international relations for one of Europe's biggest "telcos", Telecom Italia, and from 2011 to 2014 he has chaired the Executive Board of the European Telecommunications Network Operators' Association (ETNO).
Mr Gambardella's worldwide network of top-level industry decision-makers, governments, regulators and trade organizations is unique, as are his privileged contacts throughout the global financial community and business press.

Chair:  Joël Mau was elected Chair of the Deployment and Operations Committee in June 2018. Joël Mau is a senior engineer and a fibre advocate and advisor. Since 2011, Joël has been a senior project manager at “Institut Mines-Télécom - IMT”, a French public institution dedicated to higher education, research and innovation in engineering and digital technologies. He leads transverse and transdisciplinary works on fiber optic networks and their socio-economic impacts. In particular he was one of the initiator of the partnership between IMT and Société du Grand Paris - SGP and he is notably involved in the SGP Optical Fiber Program. SGP aims to deploy around 200 kilometres of new subways around Paris with around 70 new stations and more than 200 points of presence.

Committee: This committee discusses all technical aspects of fibre networks. This includes the passive and active part of the network as well as the deployment methods, network architectures and new fibre technologies. The Deployment & Operations Committee has created white papers in the last year on new based technologies and innovations and innovative FTTH deployment technologies. The Committee is also responsible for producing and revising the FTTH Handbook, which was created a few years ago to help network operators understand the options available for fibre access network infrastructure.