Advisory Board
Murray Cooke
Murray is a Telecoms Consultant specializing in next generation networks.
Previously as Chief Business Services Architect in British Telecom Group CTO, he was responsible for the planned migration of BT’s services for Corporate and Enterprise customers to BT’s 21st Century Network NGN platform. He led BT’s technology strategy for the introduction of IT processing chassis technologies into the 21C platform to handle a portfolio of internal and customer facing applications.
Prior to joining BT Group CTO, Mr Cooke was the head of Operational Engineering in BT’s Global Solutions division, running UK Banking, Retail and Governmental networks. He has also held a number of Strategy and Business Development roles, and is a Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology.
Nigel Horncastle
Nigel has been active in the design and implementation of telecoms and Information and Communication solutions for the last 30 years. He has held positions at AT&T, Uniplex, Morse PLC and most recently, Eircom.
His projects have been implemented across EMEA in both public and private sector organisations. Specific companies to have benefitted from his expertise include AT&T International, Norconsult A/S, AT&T Philips Telecommunications, LM Ericsson, Saudi Tel and British Telecom along with private clients including House of Fraser, National Audit Office, DHL, Bonhams and The NHS.
Over the last few years Nigel has specialised in Unified Communications to deliver business solutions that utilise existing voice and data networks and add presence, instant messaging, VoIP and PSTN voice and video calling and conferencing.
Paul Hewitt
For the last 25 years, Paul has been a senior executive or non-executive director of start-ups and large corporate organisations, in both the private equity and quoted markets.
These include: Kiln plc, RAC plc, Redland plc, and the Co-Operative Group, where he was Deputy Group Chief Executive and is now a non executive director of Co-operative Financial Services. He is also an industrial partner with Lyceum Capital.
Paul is a Chartered Accountant and holds a 1st Class MA in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dan Lane
Dan is a serial entrepreneur and telecommunications specialist with over a decade of technical expertise earned in telco and carrier environments, including a wealth of experience in technology start-ups.
As well as being a founder of Howler and several other innovative telecom companies he also advises a number of early-stage startups and provides consultancy to some of the world’s largest telecommunications providers including Hutchison Whampoa and philanthropic organisations such as The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
Dan's adventures in technology have been covered by the press, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Le Monde and BBC News. Dan is also a founder of the mobile technology website 'The Really Mobile Project’ which reviews the latest mobile gadgets and provides opinion on the mobile industry.
