Revenue Protect recommends the following independent consultants. All of them are revenue assurance experts, all are leaders in their field, and all have extensive practical experience of working for telecommunications businesses.
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| Paul Daubney |
Gordon Fordred |
Neil Hay |
Guy Howie |
Mario Margolis |
Neil McBride |
Guy Howie ACA BSc (Hons)
Director, BIAAS & Director, Pro Optimis
Guy has over ten years of telecommunications industry experience in Revenue Assurance, Business Intelligence and Information Systems Audit.
During that time Guy has served as Head of Revenue Assurance (UK) for Cable & Wireless. Head of Revenue Assurance –Protection for Cable & Wireless Group, and BI Development & Contribution Assurance Manager for ntl:Telewest.
Prior to working in industry, Guy was a consultant in the Information Systems Assurance division of Ernst & Young, London.
Guy is well known in international revenue assurance circles through his contribution to discussions on Revenue Assurance and best practice Business Intelligence.
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Director, Pro Optimis
Paul Daubney ACA CISA BSc (Hons)
A senior finance professional with over 14 years industry experience, fully employing a combination of leadership and management skills to deliver corporate wide programmes and initiatives, with a proven track record of achieving results.
Recently launched an independent company specialising in cutting edge ‘profit optimisation’ solutions, delivering a powerful combination of ‘insight’, ‘improvement’ and ‘integrity’ services to enable companies to unlock their hidden performance potential.
In the last 5 years held the position of Head of Revenue Assurance at Ntl:Telewest, responsible for establishing and leading a highly successful function, which has been benchmarked by KPMG as a leader in the UK within this discipline.
In addition to 8 years telecommunications and cable industry experience , initial management and consultancy experience was gained with Ernst & Young, followed by blue chip financial services companies, including Household International, NatWest & Lazard Brothers.
Founder and President, Network Analytics
Mario Margolis MBA BSc
Mario's business provides independent benchmarks, consulting, managed solutions and business integration services to vendors and carriers around the world in the areas of fraud management, revenue assurance, least cost routing and quality of service improvement.
Previously, Mario was responsible for developing, managing and directing Fraud Management and Revenue Assurance software solutions for Mantas, Inc., and he has over 12 years of experience in the telecommunications and software development industries. Mario has focused on the successful design, development, adoption, commercialization and implementation of fraud management, billing verification, revenue validation and margin analysis solutions currently installed and in operation at some of the world’s largest communications carriers.
Mario has published various white papers for organizations such as the IEC, and has been a member and subject matter expert presenter at industry organizations such as the Communications Fraud Control Association (CFCA), the International Telecommunications Union’s Quality of Service Discussion Group (ITU-QSDG) and Telestrategies’ Revenue Assurance conferences.
Director, Invenio Consulting
Neil McBride BSc (Hons)
Neil has eight years of telecommunications industry experience in revenue assurance, data analysis and data quality. Neil has spent most of his career at One2One/T-Mobile and his roles include serving as a Revenue Assurance Technical Consultant and as a Data Quality Technical Consultant.
Neil's particular strengths combine his revenue assurance background with his data analysis skills to help identify revenue leakage and implement new revenue assurance controls.
Neil is proficient in Oracle, SQL Server, Unix, Business Objects and Data Profiling.
Freelance Telecoms Consultant
Gordon Fordred BComm., BSc (Hons), MSc, CFA
Gordon has 5 years of experience in the ICT industry in the UK and South Africa. His revenue assurance experience includes in-depth knowledge of CDR generation and rating assurance. Gordon has worked for several operators on projects to optimize revenues through analysis, test and reconfiguration of switch CDR output. Gordon was also credited with generating over $30m additional revenue per annum for one UK operator through his bespoke rating analysis and assurance tools.
Gordon is a versatile consultant and is as comfortable reviewing business strategy from an economic perspective as he is at mastering engineering detail. His other roles have included strategic consulting on new business development and acting as advisor to CEO, CFO, CSO and CMO executives.
Director, BAE International Limited
Neil Hay CPA BBus
Qualifying as an accountant in Australia, Neil has spent the last 10 years consulting across Europe in a variety of cultures and industries (Insurance, FMCG and predominately telecommunications) Neil’s focus is on information quality, bringing together relevant quality data, whether it be for operational management or business case modeling and counts BT, T-Mobile, Three and Tiscali among his clients.
Neil delivers reliable, timely and meaningful results through structured investigation of procedures, systems and controls and rationalisation or implementation to optimise their efficiency.
