About Us > Senior Advisors
Each of the firm’s senior advisors adds two decades or more of multi-country TMT sector experience to our group. This experience is drawn upon in the advice we provide our clients, with senior advisors at times co-authoring or reviewing key deliverables.
George Debbo has held executive positions at Ericsson Sub Saharan Africa and Telkom in South Africa. He has designed, supplied and/or deployed metro and national fiber networks in Botswana, Lesotho, Malawi, Namibia and Uganda and has addressed their SDN, NFV, MEC and Open Network aspects. He recently served as President of the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers.
Dr. Karla Hoffman, Senior Auction Consultant, is Professor of Systems Engineering and Operations at George Mason University. She specializes in combinatorial optimization and has advised the FCC and other entities on the organization and implementation of spectrum auctions.
Abdulkareem Jama is the former Minister of Information, Posts & Telecommunications and former Chief of Staff of the President in Somalia. He serves as Executive Vice President & Provost at City University in Mogadishu and holds an M.S. in network engineering from George Mason University.
Michael Kleeman has served as Chairman of the Board (2010-18) of SEACOM, a submarine cable system, and as Partner and VP at Boston Consulting Group, where his clients included Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco, FLAG, Ericsson and Global Crossing. He brings extensive international consulting experience.
Gerardo Marti offers experience as Managing Director of CTC Celular, Chile’s largest mobile operator, and VP of Multimedia Services and Board Member at parent company CTC as well as acquisition and network deployment cases in Argentina and Colombia. He has been our affiliate for many years.
Dr. Lee McKnight is Associate Professor at Syracuse University, where he teaches graduate courses on Cloud Architecture, Blockchain Management, and Information Security Policy. His experience includes advising government agencies in the U.S. and elsewhere on cloud to edge innovation, technology and Internet governance. He has also helped developed innovative Internet access approaches in Africa.
Bob McQueen is an expert in Intelligent Transport Systems and connected vehicles, including related cloud architecture and data analytics, with experience from Chicago, Dubai, Las Vegas, Moscow, Paris, Seoul and other cities. He has examined e-payment and toll aspects of ITS programs.
Srdjan Mihaljevic offers broad experience in radio spectrum management, NGN and regulatory processes. He has served as Deputy Minister (Communications and Spectrum Policy) at Montenegro's Ministry of Transportation, Maritime and Telecommunications, as CTO of the Telecommunication Authority in Suriname, and as spectrum consultant to ITU, World Bank, Ooredoo and Rhode & Schwarz.
Dr. Nancy L. Ruther is a specialist in higher education, including smart use of education technologies and development of online curricula. She has held senior positions at Yale University and the University of Connecticut, and has worked in Bolivia and other developing countries.
Macy Summers is a former CTO with senior management experience at Lockheed Martin, Pegasus Communications, EMS Technologies and Scientific-Atlanta including in R&D, technology incubation, satellite business development, and investment partnering. He has worked in Indonesia, Senegal, South Africa and other countries.