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.

Michael Johansson was elected as a Member of the Board in April 2016. Michael Johansson has more than twenty years of experience from customer and business related leadership roles within the Information and Communications Technology industry, working for Ericsson.
Currently he holds the position as Global Head of Strategy and Marketing, Fiber Network Deployment at Ericsson.

Joël Mau was elected member of the Board April 2014 and re-elected in April 2016.  Joël is a senior engineer and a FTTH advocate and advisor. He graduated from two world-known “Grandes Écoles”: École Polytechnique and Télécom ParisTech.
Since 2011, Joël has been a Mission Director in charge of fibre at “Institut Mines-Télécom”. He is leading the “Recommendations for Fibre Commons*”. RFC is a collective, independent and neutral cross disciplinary initiative aimed to enlighten private and public decision-makers to the digital transformation of the society.
In 2009, Joël was appointed Director of the high-speed Broadband Market and Local Authority Relations department at ARCEP, the French national regulation authority.
From 1988 to 2009, he worked for France Telecom (now Orange), the French incumbent, and held various technical and managerial positions, the most important ones being R&D Director and Development Director, in the fields of video coding standardisation (MPEG2 and MPEG4), Internet intermediation platforms, circuit-switched telephony migration to VoIP and carrier's fixed network development strategy (copper, fibre, wireless, etc.).
* Commons refers to resources accessible to all. It includes public goods such as public space, public education, health and related infrastructures to allow society to function - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

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.

Chair: Rong Zhao is Chair of the Deployment & Operations Committee since May 2017.

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.

Chair: Florian Damas was appointed as Chair of the Fibre Business Models Committee in October 2017.

Committee: the Fibre Business Models Committee was formed at the spring General Assembly 2017. The Fibre Business Models workshop we organised at the FTTH Conference 2018 - was a great success.