About us
Jonathan Nelson
Chief Executive Office and founder of Voipex.
He has over 20 years of Sales and General Management experience in Telecommunications and Information Technology.
He has worked extensively in Financial, Oil and Gas and Government verticals. Jonathan held senior sales roles at Mitel Telecom and British Telecom, before moving into the channel. Since then he has held senior advisory and executive roles in several companies including Decorum Networks, Call UK, Virtual Network Services and Powernet.
Email: jnelson@voip-x.co.uk
Adam Hill
Chief Technical Officer and co founder of Voipex
Adam graduated from Aston University in 1991 with First Class Honours in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He has over 15 years experience in Telecommunications and software development having worked for GEC Telecommunications and others. Latterly he has been Technical Director for Powernet.
His focus for the last 10 years has been on creating solutions for the problems ISPs and customers have in IP wide area networking.
Email: ahill@voip-x.co.uk
Keith Balding
Senior Vice President Technical Operations
Keith has over 25 years experience in the computer, electronics and telecoms industries. For 12 years Keith was a partner and Technical Director of Mosaic Systems, a company specialising in design consultancy and network attached storage systems. He subsequently worked as Technical Director of the Storage Division of Primary Storage plc until being appointed IT Director of the Telecoms Division of that company. Here he was responsible for managing IT and Internet infrastructure and a software team that successfully developed a combined web-based billing, CRM, online signup and provisioning solution for the companys Telecoms and VISP services.
Before leaving to join Voipex Keith spent the last two years as a partner and Technical Director of Alliance Communications, a company supplying telecoms and network services for business and specialising in the provision of hosted VoIP services.
Email: kbalding@voip-x.co.uk
Owen Rodgers
Senior Vice President Sales and Marketing Africa Region
Owen joins VOIPEX after many years of success in Sales and Marketing both in the UK and overseas. Most recently Owen lived and worked in South Africa where he undertook several challenging business development roles and was a partner in Baligugu Interactions and lead figure in bringing their web based software solutions to market. Prior to his time in South Africa Owen held a number of senior sales and marketing positions in voice and software technology. His appointments include Mercury Communications, Mitel and Rockwell Electronic Commerce. His experience covers both direct and indirect sales where he has worked in the finance, healthcare and technology sectors. Owen is a business and finance graduate from the University of Stirling.
Email: orodgers@voip-x.co.uk
Dino Joannides
Non Executive
Dino has over 17 years international Sales, Marketing and General Management experience with pre-IPO and larger Public Companies.
He is SVP of Sales and Business Development EMEA and a member of the advisory board of Lingospot Inc
He was also a co-founder and CEO of Upstream Systems, a pioneer in Mobile Media and Marketing. Dino undertook Business Development at Picsel Technologies, responsible for driving the go-to-market strategy and execution for a new mobile content solutions portfolio. He has also held a number of non-executive director, consulting and full-time sales roles with companies including Wecomm- Global VP Sales ,Activemedia Technologies- Advisor, Bristol York - Director, Mitel Corporation - Head of Sales and Marketing EMEAAP, MCI and Signalsoft Corporation- VP Sales and Marketing. He has a BA (Hons) in Political Science from Hull University, UK and recepient of a 3 year Postgraduate Research Scholarship from the ESRC based at IEP , Paris.
Email: djoannides@voip-x.co.uk
Simon Burckhardt
Non Executive
Simon has had some 20 years plus experience in Marketing, Sales and Customer care in the Telco sector. Up until April 2008 he was Chief Marketing Officer for Telefonica O2 Czech Republic. Telefonica O2 Czech is the number 1 fixed and mobile operator in Czech with a turnover of c2bn Euros. Simon started to work in Prague from Jan 2005 firstly as CMO for the fixed incumbent operator Czech Telecom, before it was purchased by Telefonica.
Prior to his experience in the Czech Republic Simon was a founding Director of the Telco consultancy, Route 30, working for operators such as Mobinil in Eygpt, SFR in France, Eurotel in Czech Republic, COLT Telecom in UK, TP in Poland, Bulldog (C&W) in UK, OTE in Greece, STC in Saudi, sunrise in Switzerland, Terradata and Gemplus.
He spent 2 years in the IT sector working for the Analytical CRM vendor Clarity Blue as Marketing Director. Clarity Blue worked with most of the UK Telco operators and ISPs including Orange, O2, Vodafone, T-Mobile and Wanadoo.Simon's Telco career started in BT where he spent 8 years in various senior UK and International Marketing and Strategy roles.
Email: sburckhardt@voip-x.co.uk