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Geoff Hollingworth
From accelerator controls at CERN to the economics of mobile networks, Geoff Hollingworth has spent three decades asking telecom to stop confusing new technology with a new business.
Ericsson
The 149-year-old Swedish firm that helped write the rules of 5G now has to prove those networks can grow again - under a new CEO and an AI-driven cost squeeze.
Vonage
Vonage is a cloud communications company that lets businesses and developers add voice, video, SMS, messaging and network-based verification to their apps and customer operations. Once a pioneer of home internet phone service, it reinvented itself as a platform business built on APIs, unified communications and contact-center software, and is now a wholly owned subsidiary of Ericsson operating as its Global Communications Platform.
Tim Moss
Tim Moss is the Chairman and CEO of Talkmap, a Dallas conversational-intelligence company that turns raw call-center calls and chats into structured, real-time customer insight using patented AI. A Texas A&M political science graduate with more than 30 years in technology and financial services, he previously ran the turnaround of the $800M+ carrier services company Syniverse as COO, launched a new organization as an Ericsson senior vice president, and founded IMG Venture Group and the consultancy Integrity Management Group. Talkmap raised an $8 million Series A led by Stage1 Ventures in February 2022, part of roughly $17.6 million total.
Tashinga Musiyazviriyo
Tashinga Musiyazviriyo is the Founder and CEO of The Singular, a Johannesburg-based digital transformation company building purpose-driven IoT, AI, and private 5G network solutions across industries including mining, telecommunications, manufacturing, smart cities, and healthcare. With a career forged inside Ericsson's core network engineering teams and a deep grounding in mobile network design and performance, Tashinga brings both technical precision and entrepreneurial drive to the challenge of connecting Africa's industries to the future.
Cheng Wu
Cheng Wu is a General Partner at Taiwania Capital and a four-time founder whose networking and video startups have returned over $6 billion to investors. Best known for selling ArrowPoint Communications to Cisco for $5.7 billion in 2000, he now invests in early- and growth-stage technology companies bridging Silicon Valley, Taiwan, and Asia.