Leadership
WAC is managed by a Board of Directors from the WAC Operator community and includes a representative of the GSM Association. The board consists of 16 voting Operator Members and six non-voting Observers. The WAC operational team is led by its CEO, Peters Suh.
| |  | | Michel Combes, Chairman, WAC Michel Combes was appointed at Chairman of WAC in June 2010. He is also currently CEO of Vodafone Europe. He began his career at France Telecom in 1986 in the External Networks Division, and then moved to the Industrial and International Affairs Division. He is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Assystem SA in France and serves as a non-Executive director on the boards of ISS Equity A/S, ISS Holding A/S and ISS A/S. |
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| |  | | Peters Suh, CEO, WAC Peters Suh is the CEO of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). Previously, Peters was the CEO of JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), a joint venture with Vodafone, China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Softbank Mobile. Peters is a director of Vodafone Americas Foundation, Aspire Technologies, and the DRAA. |
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| |  | | Yotam Ben-Ami - CFO and CSO of the Wholesale Applications Community Yotam Ben-Ami is the CFO and CSO of the Wholesale Applications Community. Previously, he held various leadership positions in Telefonica, during which he headed the Consumer Applications vertical business unit and Telefonica's global Strategic Partnership area. Yotam is a McKinsey alumnus and before coming to Telefonica, he headed Warner Bros.' North American Anti-Piracy operations. |
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| |  | | Aref Matin, CTO, WAC Aref Matin is CTO of WAC. He previously worked at TomTom and has a rich technology & infrastructure operations background where he was the CTO at the TeleAtlas Mapping division and SVP of Services and Delivery for TomTom's Global navigation services. |
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| |  | | Paul Kenny - VP of Business Development Paul is the VP of Business Development at WAC and is responsible for membership and for content partnerships. |
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| |  | | Erik de Kroon, VP Devices & Products, WAC Erik de Kroon is VP Devices & Products for WAC. He previously worked at Vodafone Group as Head of Marketing for Internet Discovery, an area which included mobile apps, operator API's, mobile advertising, mobile search and browsing. |
