Speaker Biography
Simon Torrance
CEO, STL Partners;
Founder, Telco 2.0™ Initiative
Simon specializes in stimulating new ideas about business model innovation in the Telco, Media and Technology (TMT) sector. In May 2006 his company set up the Telco 2.0™ Initiative (www.telco2.net), a global research, advisory and ‘executive brainstorming’ programme to catalyse change in the industry.
The Telco 2.0™ Initiative is supported by the mobile industry (via a partnership with the GSM Association), and the fixed industry (via the Broadband Stakeholder Group). It has run recent programmes on ‘Telco 2.0 Corporate Strategy’, ‘Voice & Messaging 2.0’, ‘Telcos Role in the Advertising Value Chain’, and ‘Future Broadband Business Models’. Supporting its activities Telco 2.0 runs one of the most widely read blogs in the sector, which Simon edits - www.telco2.net/blog.
Simon's earlier career was in marketing and innovation consulting with various WPP and Omnicom companies. He has an MA in History from Cambridge University.
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