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		Chris Gilbert, CEO Chris has a formidable track record in the communications industry. As CEO at IPWireless, he transformed the company from a niche, wireless broadband player into a mainstream cellular provider. The company was a Red Herring Top 100 Private Company, an Always On Top Innovator and was awarded Network Magazine Wireless Product of the Year.Previously Chris held senior roles with Motorola where he managed the company's cellular infrastructure business in some 60 EMEA countries.

		Will Franks, Founder & CTO Will co-founded Ubiquisys in 2004 inspired by his frustrations of poor mobile coverage and high mobile costs at home. Prior to this, he developed the hugely successful wireless innovation centres for Lucent Technologies – inventing and developing innovative solutions based on cellular, WiFi and IMS technologies. He also led Lucent’s EMEA business development for fixed wireless.Previously Will was with Racal Electronics' radio division where he held a number of key positions including head of their Saudi Arabian operation. Will also founded the Small Cell Forum (formerly the Femto Forum) in 2007 to bring direction and a voice to the industry.

		Fraser Park, CFO Fraser is an experienced CFO having held similar roles in a wide range of fast-growing technology businesses. He has been a lead member of executive teams that have grown profitably through organic and acquisitive activities, leading IPO and business disposal processes to generate substantial value creation for shareholders. Previous CFO roles include Psion, Tandberg Television and a number of smaller, early-stage technology ventures. An alumnus of McKinsey and Co. Inc, where he was an active member of the Corporate finance practice, Fraser qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen and has an honours degree in accountancy and finance.

		Pete Keevill, Founder & VP Engineering Pete is an experienced technical leader with a proven track record in the delivery of complex development programmes in the wireless and semiconductor sectors. Pete was 11 years at Lucent Technologies where, as Technical Director, he had global responsibility for Lucent’s UMTS base station ASIC development activity, co-ordinating a multi-disciplinary engineering team of around 100 people in five countries.Prior to the UMTS position, Pete was a project leader for a CDMA fixed wireless product. More recently, he has been successfully running his own consultancy and has also developed a successful conference business focused on the base station market. Before Lucent, Pete led a digital TV silicon design team for Pioneer, and has worked in a variety of roles in the EDA software industry. Pete holds a MEng in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Bath.

		Richard Staveley, VP Global Sales Richard has 17 years management experience in sales and marketing roles in the military and telecommunications industries. Before Ubiquisys, he worked for IPWireless as VP Sales & Business Development and Motorola as Business Development Director, Global Accounts. Richard earned his MBA from the University of Bath Business School and his BA from King’s College London. After King’s College, Richard attended the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, where he completed officer training.

		Paul Phillipson, VP Programme Delivery Paul has a long track record of success in delivering complex high value telecoms equipment programmes. He has extensive international business experience in supplying major mobile network operators and is a seasoned Executive and General Manager. Paul has led a series of high profile new product and technology introduction, development and delivery projects including major equipment manufacturers and mobile network operators. Before joining Ubiquisys Paul ran an independent consultancy (projects included Cisco/AT&T Femto technology introduction)and before that was General Manager of Lucent Technologies W-CDMA BSR product unit (Femto and Small Cells products), General Manager of Lucent Technologies GSM Product Unit where he led the delivery of the first commercial GPRS network, and previously held senior positions with GEC Plessey Semiconductors (CMOS VLSI) and Chelton Ltd (Aerospace Systems).

		Andrea Giustina, VP Systems Engineering Andrea was a central part of the first engineering team at Ubiquisys and leads the company’s system design, technical sales, product management and solution architecture activities. With 20 years of experience in telecoms, he previously held senior management positions in Lucent Technologies in systems engineering and professional services for GPRS, UMTS and IMS technologies and was a researcher for Telecom Italia. Andrea holds a Doctor degree in Electronics Engineering, a Telecommunications master and an MBA from Bath University.

		Keith Day, VP Marketing Keith has 20 years marketing leadership experience in the IT and telecommunications industry, spanning software, hardware, managed services and outsourcing. Before joining Ubiquisys, Keith was Director of Product Marketing for UK telecoms software pioneer Cramer Systems, where he was responsible for business positioning and communications worldwide. In 2006 Cramer was acquired by Amdocs (NYSE: DOX) in one of the biggest ever deals involving a European software business. Previously, Keith was EMEA Marketing Director at Unisys (NYSE: UIS) and European Regional Marketing Director at BMC Software (NYSE: BMC).