Speaker Biographies

Here you find biographies of Internet professionals who have spoken at, presented during or given workshops at MENOG Meetings. Click the presenter name to read the full biography.

Aamer Akhter

Aamer Akhter, CCIE # 4543 (R&S, C&S), has over 12 years of experience in the networking industry and is currently responsible for the deployment and technical marketing of enterprise medianet systems.

Abdullah O. Al-Musa

Abdullah O. Al-Musa  is Senior Consultant to President of Saudi Telecom Group. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (1992).

Ahmed Abu-Abed

Ahmed Abu-Abed is VP of the IPv6 Forum Jordan Chapter and Managing Director of Tamkien Systems in the Middle East which provides last-mile access solutions and migration consulting with a focus on IPv6.

Alan Horne

Alan Horne was appointed as the General Director of the Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) in Bahrain in March 2007 by Royal Decree 35 of 2007.

Ali C Begen

Ali C. Begen is with the Video and Content Platforms Research and Advanced Development Group at Cisco.

Amir Tabdili

Amir Tabdili is the founder, and acts as a consultant, to UnisonIP Consulting - Arlington, VA

Anas Assiri

Anas Assiri works as an Information Technology specialist at SaudiNIC-CITC.

Andrew de la Haye

Andrew de la Haye is the Chief Operations Officer (COO) of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC).

Andrew Oon

Andrew Oon is responsible for Equinix's sales and business development activities for Southeast Asia, India and the Middle East.

Andy Davidson

Andy Davidson is Director of European Operations at Hurricane Electric.

Arnold Nipper

Arnold Nipper is one of the founders of DE-CIX and is responsible for DE-CIX‘s engineering & operations.

Axel Pawlik

Axel Pawlik is the Managing Director of the RIPE Network Coordination Centre (RIPE NCC).

Baher Esmat

Baher Esmat works for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as Regional Relations Manger for the Middle East.

Bilal Alsabbagh

Bilal Al Sabbagh is senior network consultant and information security expert at NXme FZ-LLC (new company name of Nixu Middle East).

Christan Kaufmann

Christian Kaufmann is a Director Network Architecture at Akamai Technologies, the world's largest CDN.

Daniel C. Phelps

Dan Phelps works with outreach and training at QCERT. He is an information scientist with broad research interests in information systems and technology, particularly related to information assurance, community development, and best practices.

Daniel Karrenberg

Daniel Karrenberg is Chief Scientist of the RIPE NCC (www.ripe.net), an independent not-for-profit organisation that acts as the Regional Internet Registry and supports the infrastructure of the Internet for Europe, the Middle East and parts of Central Asia.

Darren Anstee

Darren Anstee has over 15 years experience in the pre-sales, consultancy and support aspects of Telecoms and Security solutions.

David Conrad

David Conrad works for ICANN as Vice President of Research and IANA Strategy.

Doug Madory

Doug Madory is a Senior Analyst at Renesys.