Principales miembros del equipo directivo

Consejo de Administración de Technetix

Paul Broadhurst

Paul Broadhurst

Fundador y Director Ejecutivo

DELETE

Paul Broadhurst is the President, Founder and Chief Executive of Technetix Group Ltd. The company was founded by Paul in 1990, he has since developed extensive global networks within Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia Pacific. Paul is responsible for the strategic development of the company, working closely with his senior management team across the globe to achieve aims and objectives. He has a B.Eng. degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool, an M.Sc. degree in Microwave and Optics from University College London, is a Chartered Engineer, a member of the IET (Institute of Engineering and Technology), European Engineer (Eur. Ing.), and a member of the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, USA). He has also been inducted into the class of 2020 Cable TV Pioneers. Paul is chairman of the Technetix Strategic Advisory Board, which was formed in 2019.

Philip Deakin

Chief Financial Officer

DELETE

Philip Deakin was appointed Chief Financial Officer in December 2023. Philip brings more than 20 years’ experience in financial leadership as a CFO and group finance leader in UK and US listed environments. Prior to joining Technetix, Philip held several senior finance positions in sectors spanning logistics and distribution, IT infrastructure and data-as-a-service. Companies have included EV Cargo Global Forwarding, Smiths News plc, RM plc and Dun & Bradstreet Inc. Philip’s responsibilities will cover finance, operations, IT and customer excellence functions in the company. Philip is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales and trained with PricewaterhouseCoopers.

Duncan McIntyre

Duncan McIntyre

Non-Executive Chairman

Board member

Duncan became non-executive chairman of Technetix in 2009 and is a dynamic business leader and investor with a focus on driving growth and value. Prior to this, he was the Chief Executive and a major shareholder of Morse PLC, a computer company which he grew from being a small UK-based business to an international and quoted market leader. He was the Chairman and a key member of the team which built Monitise PLC, a mobile banking and payments company, from concept to a market leading position and then to its subsequent billion-pound market capitalisation. He was the Chairman of Profero, a digital advertising agency, where he was key in re-establishing the business and then selling it to Interpublic Inc. Duncan continues to invest, chair and advise a number of companies.

Jan Ariesen

Jan Ariesen

Director de Tecnología

DELETE

Ingeniero con una dilatada carrera y más de 30 años de experiencia en el diseño de televisión por cable de banda ancha, actualmente Jan dirige el Departamento de Tecnología de Technetix. Su principal tarea consiste en actuar de enlace con nuestros principales clientes y en representar la tecnología de Technetix, desarrollando nuevas tecnologías y plataformas de producto. En 1983, Jan entró a formar parte de Tratec, empresa que Technetix adquirió. Hasta 2008, Jan fue vicepresidente de ingeniería de Technetix, puesto desde el que dirigía los equipos de Reino Unido, Bélgica y Países Bajos encargados de la investigación, el desarrollo y la invención de productos y tecnologías nuevos. Jan se unió a la Junta de Administración de Technetix en 2018.

Tony Werner

Tony Werner

Non-Executive Director (former CTO, Comcast)

DELETE

Tony Werner joined Technetix as a strategic advisor effective from January 1st 2023. He retired from Comcast Cable at the end of 2022, where his 15-year legacy as Chief Technology Officer and then President, Technology, Product, Xperience, accelerated the pace of innovation within Comcast. His team created the features that helped the X1 win Emmy Awards for both user experience and the groundbreaking X1 voice remote. In 2016, Tony won a Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award in honor of his distinguished career as a technologist, innovator and leader. 
Prior to Comcast, Tony served as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Liberty Global, Inc. in Englewood, CO. He has more than 40 years of engineering and technical management experience, having also held senior management positions with Qwest Communications, Aurora Networks, TeleCommunications, Inc. (TCI)/AT&T Broadband, Rogers Communications, Inc. and RCA Cablevision Systems.  
Tony served as President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Society of Cable Telecommunications Engineers (SCTE) and the SCTE Foundation from 2015-2017. He has been inducted into the Cable and Broadcast Hall of Fame, as well as the Cable Center Hall of Fame. In 2000, Tony received the NCTA Vanguard award for Science and Technology. He holds numerous patents and earned his degree in Telecommunications from Dakota County Technical College in Rosemount, MN. 

John Brougham

John Brougham

Non-Executive Director

Board member

John Brougham joined the board of Technetix in January 2010 as an independent non-executive director, he is also Chair of the Audit Committee. He has more than 45 years working experience in the electronics, telecoms, and software sectors, with 35 years at director level. John retired from his last full-time role as Chief Financial Officer of Monitise plc in 2012. He has held non-executive director roles since 2007, where he acts as Chair of the Audit or Finance and Performance Committees for both public sector organisations and listed companies.

Colin Buchner

Colin Büchner

Director no ejecutivo

DELETE

Colin fue designado miembro del Consejo de Technetix en julio 2016 como Director no ejecutivo. Colin es un profesional con muchos años de experiencia en la industria de las telecomunicaciones. También es el Director de la red de acceso de Liberty Global desde 2001. En ese puesto, es responsable de desarrollar la estrategia y dirigir la innovación así como de la planificación de las actividades de ingeniería para asegurar que la red está preparada para las necesidades actuales y futuras. Sus funciones también abarcan los programas de expansión de la red para conectar millones de hogares a la banda ancha. Anteriormente, Colin trabajó para varias empresas de telecomunicaciones, entre ellas Vodafone, Viag Interkom y RSL COM. Colin fue nombrado miembro de la Junta Asesora Estratégica de Technetix en 2019.

Consejo Ejecutivo de Technetix

David Atman

David Atman

President, Technetix Canada

David ha sido presidente de Lindsay Broadband Inc. desde 2005. Antes de eso, ocupó muchos cargos en Lindsay Electronics, incluido el de presidente, director de ventas y marketing y gerente regional de ventas. Un veterano de más de 40 años en la industria de la televisión por cable, David está completamente orientado al cliente y ha encabezado el desarrollo de muchos requisitos personalizados y específicos del cliente en soluciones reales de la industria.

Phil Scott

Director de ventas

Phil began his telecoms career as a software engineer with Metaswitch Networks coding SIP and BGP stacks, before manoeuvring into sales. This pivot took him to Nokia, where he built up a distinguished sales career, before joining Aeris Communications where he led the EMEA region. Appointed as Technetix’ Chief Sales Office, Europe in October 2023, Phil is responsible for all sales activities outside of the Americas and Asia Pacific regions. His valuable and diverse skillset strengthens and grows Technetix’ presence across the European region, developing the company’s fiber, wireless gateway and network power systems businesses while continuing to support all of Technetix’ key customers.

Premton Bogaj

Premton Bogaj

Chief Product Officer

Premton Bogaj is a highly gifted engineer starting his broadband career at IPKO telecommunications as an HFC network designer. He joined Technetix in 2009 as Sales Engineering Manager, where he was responsible for technical support of the sales team covering Technetix customers in Eastern Europe, Africa and Asia-Pacific. In 2020, Premton moved to the Netherlands office to take on a new role as Product Manager, Access Network Solutions. During this time Technetix launched the award winning 1.8 GHz Direction Neutral diplexer less amplifier (DNA-1800) and led the development of the DBx smart DAA nodes, fiber nodes and RF amplifiers. In August 2021, Premton was appointed Vice President, HFC Networks and has subsequently been appointed to the core executive team as Vice President, Product Management. Premton leads HFC product management and his key focus is on bringing new technologies, solutions and products to the market. Premton holds a BSc in Telecommunications from the University of Pristina.

Premton was appointed Chief Product Officer in 2023.

Mike Chouinard

Chief Sales Officer, Americas

Mike joined Technetix in October 2023 from a decade-long leadership position at Casa Systems. Here he was responsible for cable sales in North America, increasing sales by building and leading a talented sales and sales engineering team to generate relationships with many of the major cable operators. Before joining Casa Systems, Mike was Vice President of Sales leading the Time Warner Account Team at ARRIS. Here he gained the experience to lead and build effective sales teams. Mike attended Colorado State University and Metropolitan State College, where he earned a Bachelor of Finance degree.

Johan van der Tang

Johan van der Tang

Vicepresidente, Ingeniería

Johan van der Tang dirige la función de investigación y desarrollo del grupo. Se incorporó como vicepresidente de ingeniería en agosto de 2022. Su carrera comenzó en 1995 en Philips Research en Eindhoven, Países Bajos, trabajando en sistemas de satélite y de fibra óptica. Johan trabajó anteriormente en Broadcom, donde diseñó circuitos integrados utilizados para módems DOCSIS de cable de banda ancha y Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) en transceptores de datos de redes domésticas. Luego trabajó durante cinco años en transceptores inalámbricos de baja potencia ZigBee para Qorvo. Johan luego se unió a Dialog Semiconductors (ahora Renesas) Connectivity & Audio Business Division como director senior de ingeniería de hardware. En Dialog, lideró equipos multidisciplinarios que trabajaron en el diseño de un sistema conectado en un chip (SoC), procesamiento de señales digitales (DSP) y aplicaciones a nivel de sistema para clientes ubicados en EE. UU., Europa y Asia.

Johan tiene un doctorado en Ingeniería Electrónica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Eindhoven en los Países Bajos. Es miembro sénior del Instituto de Ingenieros Eléctricos y Electrónicos de EE. UU. (IEEE) y ha publicado más de 50 artículos de IEEE, varios libros de ingeniería y seis patentes.

Adrianne Sale

Chief People Officer

Adrianne joined Technetix Group as Chief People Officer in January 2024, leading on all HR activities globally. Beginning her career in the USA, she brings with her more than 20 years’ experience from the likes of Enron, Nokia, Symbian, CGG Veritas, The Hoxby Collective and Premise Data. Before her appointment, she led the international people function at Premise, growing their UK business from five people to thirty people within two years. Her insight into how small, medium, and large organizations operate culturally and globally provides Technetix with immense value in understanding the nuances of its own culture. She is a qualified ILM 7 executive and senior leadership coach; SHL and KornFerry qualified practitioner; Agile Project Manager; and Mental Health First Aider. 

Tom Plowman

Group General Counsel

Tom joined Technetix in August 2023 as an experienced commercial lawyer, with responsibility for all legal and company secretarial functions. Tom is accountable for maintaining legally compliant relationships with our customers, partners and suppliers. Before taking up his position with Technetix, he worked in a senior legal role for esure Group, joining the business as it underwent a large-scale digital transformation program. Prior to that, Tom was a practicing lawyer at international law firm Charles Russell Speechlys, where he focused on commercial and disputes work.

Sarah Constable

Finance Director

Sarah’s extensive career in finance began after she graduated with a BA Hons in Business Administration from the University of Surrey, followed by her Fellowship from the Association of Chartered Accountants while she worked in practice. Her experience within industry is varied, spanning both tech – with CSC Computer Sciences Corporation (now DXC Technology, a Fortune 500 company) – and engineering. Beginning at Parsons Brinckerhoff in the USA, later acquired by Balfour Beatty plc, Sarah’s most recent position was with TP Group plc, whose business focus is engineering and consultancy. She took up her role as Finance Director at Technetix in September 2023.

Geert van Gesink 

Vice President, Information Technology 

Geert is a highly motivated professional with over 30 years’ experience in information technology. He joined Technetix’ original acquisition, Tratec, in 1988 to develop their IT department, successfully building and leading a dynamic team of professionals responsible for IT hardware, network infrastructure, software applications, and the ERP system. Geert’s leadership has been instrumental in the success of automation projects, showcasing his dedication to innovation and efficiency in IT solutions. Furthermore, he played a pivotal role in achieving the ISO 27001 certification, demonstrating his commitment to maintaining the highest standards of information security. Geert was promoted to IT Director in 2013, and Vice President IT in 2023. 

Junta Asesora Estratégica de Technetix

Lorenz Glatz

Lorenz Glatz

Miembro de la Junta Asesora Estratégica (ex CTO, Kabel Deutschland)

Con experiencia en tecnolgías de acceso a internet y televisión por cable, Lorenz actualmente es asesor en el campo de las telecomunicaciones con un enfoque particular en la innovación. De 2006 a 2015 fue director de tecnología de Kabel Deutschland (KD), el mayor operador de cable de Alemania. En 2010, Lorenz formó parte del equipo ejecutivo que preparó y ejecutó la exitosa OPI de KD y tres años más tarde lanzó y vendió la compañía a Vodafone. De 2009 a 2015, Lorenz se desempeñó como presidente del brazo europeo de CableLabs. Antes de su puesto en KD, Lorenz trabajó como vicepresidente senior de diseño y arquitectura de redes y sistemas para Liberty Global en Europa. Lorenz se educó tanto en la Universidad de Viena como en la Universidad de California, Santa Cruz, y posee un master en Física que obtuvo en 1995.

Jay Rolls

Miembro de la Junta Asesora Estratégica (ex CTO, Charter Communications)

Jay Rolls fue vicepresidente sénior y director de tecnología en Charter Communications, Denver CO, de 2011 a 2019. Él y su equipo fueron responsables de la ingeniería y la arquitectura en todos los aspectos del negocio de telefonía fija de Charter. Anteriormente, Jay trabajó en una variedad puestos durante 13 años en Cox Communications, incluido el de vicepresidente sénior de tecnología. En Pacific Broadband fue vicepresidente de desarrollo de negocios y entre 1999 y 2000 se desempeñó como vicepresidente de ingeniería de redes en Excite @ Home. Al principio de su carrera, el Sr. Rolls pasó nueve años en Alemania ctrabajanod en Alcatel y BBN Communications (ahora Nivel 3). Comenzó su carrera trabajando en la comunidad de inteligencia de los Estados Unidos. Jay recibió un B.S. en Ingeniería Eléctrica de la Universidad de Virginia en 1983 y un M.S. en Sistemas de Gestión de la Universidad del Sur de California en 1988.

Ron Coppock

Miembro de la Junta Asesora Estratégica (ex presidente de ventas, Arris International)

Ron Coppock ha trabajadop como consultor de estrategia para Technetix desde octubre de 2017. Ron se retiró de Arris en mayo de 2017 como EVP y Presidente de Ventas y Marketing Global después de 26 años con la compañía. Se unió a Arris a través de Antec, que se convirtió en parte de la empresa conjunta Arris Interactive con Nortel Networks. Antec compró Nortel a la empresa conjunta en 2000 y mantuvo el nombre de Arris. Arris creció y se expandió durante el mandato de Ron, incluida una serie de adquisiciones, incluidas las principales adquisiciones de Pace PLC y Motorola Home, así como otros acuerdos, incluidos C-COR y BigBand Networks. Ron era parte del equipo estratégico que organizó todos estos acuerdos. Ron fue incluido en los pioneros de la televisión por cable en 2013. Ron también dedica tiempo a intereses personales y caritativos, incluida la Junta de la Fundación de Fibrosis Quística, la Asociación Nacional de Encarcelamiento y la Asociación de Antiguos Alumnos de la Universidad de Auburn.

Derek Elder

Derek Elder

Miembro del Consejo Asesor Estratégico (ex CEO, Concurrent)

Technetix da la bienvenida a Derek Elder a la Junta Asesora Estratégica en julio de 2022. Derek ha desarrollado su carrera en la industria de las telecomunicaciones aportando una amplia experiencia global desde su época como CEO y Director de Concurrent Computer Corporation (NASDAQ), Presidente de Sercomm Corporation (TPE), Independent Director de Vecima Networks (TSX) y vicepresidente sénior de ARRIS. Derek actualmente dirige Sky Advisors, una consultoría de estrategia centrada en las telecomunicaciones y forma parte de la junta directiva de Miratech Group y QTRACT. Derek Elder tiene una Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Universidad de Maryland y una Maestría en Administración de Empresas de la Universidad Estatal de Pensilvania. Es miembro de gobierno de NACD, la Asociación Nacional de Directores Corporativos; también es titular de una patente y mantiene una autorización de seguridad secreta activa.

Hernan Benavides

Member of the Strategic Advisory Board (CTO LATAM)

Hernan joined as CTO for LATAM markets in June 2023, with 28 years’ experience in the cable TV industry. Originally from Santiago, Chile, he holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from Technology University Federico Santa Maria and a post-graduate diploma in networking technologies from UCLA. A member of the SCTE since 1995, Hernan has played a key role in Latin American operators’ transition to telco players. Notable achievements include pioneering Fixed Telephony over Cable services, deploying DOCSIS services in Latin America, and leading the evolution from analog to digital HD and IPTV services. In his previous role as Senior Engineering Director for Liberty Latin America and VTR, Hernan shaped end-to-end technology strategies, earning a stellar reputation for his results-focused and positive leadership.

John Chapman

John Chapman

Member of the Strategic Advisory Board (Former-CTO Broadband and Fellow at Cisco)

John Chapman was appointed to the Strategic Advisory board in February 2023. He is a former CTO Broadband and Fellow at Cisco. He is a senior executive with decades of experience of leadership, strategy, innovation, and execution. John co-founded the cable business unit at Cisco as an internal startup. Under John’s vision, technology leadership, and execution, the unit grew to a $1B business, making it the most successful internal startup ever at Cisco.

Con más de 130 patentes y 50 artículos publicados, John es un inventor prolífico. Ha pasado repetidamente por las etapas de crear una idea, establecer la estrategia, diseñar una solución, escribir especificaciones, presentar el producto a clientes y ejecutivos, obtener financiación y luego trabajar con un gran equipo para construir, enviar y respaldar ese producto. Algunas de las contribuciones originales de John a la industria del cable incluyen Remote PHY, FDX DOCSIS, LLX, channel bonding, DSG y DTP. Antes de Cisco, John trabajó en ROLM, IBM y Siemens.

John fue incluido en la sociedad Cable TV Pioneer en 2015 y en el Salón de la Fama de SCTE y la Cable Circle of Eagles Society en 2012. También recibió el Premio Nacional de Innovación de China en 2012 por su invención de Remote PHY y tres premios Pioneer en Cisco. CableFax incluyó a John en la lista de los top 100 ejecutivos más influyentes de 2021 y 2022.