Our Team

One of our major strengths is our dedicated team of highly experienced trainers – each of whom train across a wide range of programmes. Their versatility means they can deliver training at all levels and can make complex technology issues accessible to non-technical staff as well as deliver in-depth engineering training. Our business trainers are specialists in their field, enabling them to address the key issues affecting the telecoms industry today.

Our senior training staff with added responsibility are:

Tony Wakefield

Training Director. Tony has overall responsibility for the Informa Telecoms Academy and takes the lead on programme development and delivering customised training solutions. Tony is a highly respected training professional with over twelve years experience delivering a wide range of telecoms technology and business programmes.

Alan Mayne

Training Manager. Alan manages a team of more that 30 trainers across both portfolios for Informa Telecoms Academy and takes the lead for Telecoms Mini MBA series delivery. Alan has a wide experience of the Telecoms and IT sectors, which he has gained by gained working for companies including BT, Digital and Ericsson.

Dave McNally

David is a hihgly regarded lecturer in telecommunications, with many years of industry and training experience, he takes on multiple responsibilities including lead for the WiMAX Forum Certified Training series and has responsibility for the Innovative Learning Initiative.

Dave Bowler

With over 25 years experience in telecoms training, Dave has full responsibility for our Distance Learning suite of courses as well as specialising in delivering instructor led courses in convergent technologies and IPTV. Dave also acts as a Programme Director for the Telecoms Mini MBA series.

Paul Kilby

Paul offers many years of experience in Telecoms and IT, gained by working for leading Telecoms and IT companies including Mitsubishi Electric and British Aerospace. He has worked in Telecoms Training since 2000. Paul enjoys the challenge of conveying technical concepts to his delegates whatever background they come from.

Programme Presenters

In addition to our senior training staff we employ over over 30 trainers delivering courses across a range of disciplines to ensure we have the resources to meet your training needs. Our current training staff include:

• 15 Technology and Engineering trainers
• 8 Finance trainers
• 4 Commercial/Marketing trainers
• 7 Leadership/People Management specialists

Here’s what past delegates have had to say about our trainers:

• “Excellent instructor with good command of the subject along with vast practical experience. Answered all questions in a very effective way” AH, Zain Bahrain
• “Excellent trainer with a lot of experience and solid knowledge” SD, LHS
• “The instructor made the course – very knowledgeable and good at explaining. Would have been heavy and boring without him” CS, Vodafone UK
• “I have not seen a better teacher (Tony) with knowledge and communications skills” CO, Springcell
• “Presenters personal experiences help to understand, and more importantly, remember key principles” MH, Hewlett Packard
• “Instructor was very knowledgeable” SS, Rogers
• “Excellent instructor” GL, JDSU
• “Excellent presenters and trainers” AH, Jawwal
• “The instructor is very knowledgeable” HH, Wataniya Telecom
• “Instructors illustrative skills are awesome” MM,MTC Ather
• “Very good instructor (Tony)”, JG, Unitel
• “Teacher was really good, I liked him a lot, he answered our questions immediately and directly” AB, Specter CAT