Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)

Current

Chief Executive Officer at Kull Solutions & Communications
Telecoms Strategic Advisor at Strategic Advisors Middle-East

Past

Consultant at DealConsult Associates
Senior Director at BT Global Services
Senior Programmes Director at BT Global Services

Consultant Advisor (part-time) at Radologies Services
Strategic Consultant and Advisor at GlobalSparc Innovations
CIO Consultant at ntl
Consultant Operations Advisor at Cable & Wireless
Operations Consultant at Colt Telecom
Chief Operations Officer and Executive Director at Complete Broadband Europe
VP, Global Delivery (Group CIO Office) at Cable & Wireless plc
Non-executive Director at Continental (Consulting) Group
CEO & President, EMEA, and group deputy CEO at Continental Group
Operations and Projects Director at Continental Group
Software Engineer and Projects Lead at Mountfield Group
Software Engineer and Project Leader at Philips Defence Systems

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Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)’s Summary

Jonathan hails from the United Kingdom and was Senior Business Director and Programme Director with the Global Services division of British Telecommunications (BT) before becoming CEO for his current employers, Kull Etisalat and Al-Salama Group in the Gulf.

Prior to BT, Jonathan has worked in a multitude of positions with a number of business and multinational organisations, including Cable & Wireless, Philips Electronics, and The Continental Group. His tasks and achievements include:
• The consolidation of global infrastructure focusing on IT operations and applications, delivery, supply chains and procurement, budgetary management at Cable & Wireless
• Bid management and projects delivery of a number of large complex and critical customer contracts for government customers of BT, focusing on IT, telecommunications, outsourcing and solutions
• Creation and execution of corporate and operational strategy in order to maximize opportunities for business growth and diversification, and operational performance, for a variety of technology, telecoms and IT businesses in Middle-East, UK, Europe and USA
• The rapid growth and sale of Continental Group Europe, which focussed on helping client businesses achieve succes through strategic and operational change, and the delivery of critical IT infrastructure and MIS / ERP solutions
• Development and launch of a number of funded start-up businesses

During his career Jonathan has worked across many geographies, including Italy, Benelux, Germany, Spain, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Kuwait, Egypt, Switzerland, Hong Kong, Japan, USA, and the UK.

Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)’s Specialties:

- Delivery of large and complex customer contracts, including ousourcing, managed services, offshoring
- Delivery of internal change and delivery projects, including in-sourcing / in-housing, offshoring, business prcess re-engineering, datawarehousing, datacenter build-out and migration
- Ownership and management of large £multi-million budgets (P&L / capex / opex)
- Client and supplier side outsourcing and offshoring project delivery
- Technology and IT architecture and delivery

Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)’s Experience

Chief Executive Officer

Kull Solutions & Communications

(Telecommunications industry)

October 2007 — Present (1 year 1 month)

Chief Executive for Kull Etisalat which is operating across the Gulf and parts of the Middle-East. Providing telecoms and I.T engineering and deployment services, wholesale telecoms / carrier services, outsource datacentre / callcentre / I.T services.
Kull Etisalat is the telecoms division for Al-Salama Group in Saudi Arabia and works closely with many of the leading telecoms vendors (including Ericsson, Motorola, Huawei, Nokia-Siemens) to operate and deploy various mobile and fixed infrastructures across the Gulf.
Telecoms Strategic Advisor

Strategic Advisors Middle-East

(Telecommunications industry)

September 2007 — Present (1 year 2 months)

Retained as board and investment advisor to assist with various telecoms and solutions projects across the Middle-East for private and banking investment clients.

My role includes working as acting CEO for a telecoms and services company in the Gulf, as scout and advisor for various boutique equity funds, and as strategic advisor to a number of new entry telecoms providers.
Consultant

DealConsult Associates

(Financial Services industry)

April 2007 — July 2007 (4 months)

Assisting a top-tier audit firm with a number of private-equity backed projects with regards due-diligence of various acquisition targets in UK and Europe, focussing largely on telecoms operators, managed services providers.

Primarily responsible for identifying value-add opportunities and for determining post transaction delivery planning to achieve consolidation and rationalisation of acquired operational assets.

Clients included: Ernst & Young; Credit Suisse; BT; Colt Telecom; Cable & Wireless; SAIC; Turk Telecom.
Senior Director

BT Global Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT.; Information Technology and Services industry)

March 2005 — March 2007 (2 years 1 month)

P&L ownership for a number of top-tier customer accounts, contracts and operations within Global Markets Technology and Systems Integrator channel, focussing on performance turnaround, major bids and business / client development and sales, operations and delivery with particular focus in UK and Europe.

I also advised on post-deal integration planning for a number of M&A projects.
Senior Programmes Director

BT Global Services

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BT.; Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2003 — March 2005 (1 year 5 months)

Primarily responsible for the delivery of key public sector contracts in the UK, including HM Inland Revenue, Department of Works & Pensions, which extended to the creation and productisation of a secure OSS framework and solution for secure government networks in UK and Europe.

As a consequence of the above projects, I also assisted with a number of initiatives to improve organisational and functional effectiveness, and carried out an appraisal of BT Global ICT Strategy and Delivery Capabilities, with particular focus on managed services and solutions within UK government and public sector.

Jonathan also inititated and chaired the European working standards committee (BS15000, ITIL, Sarbanes-Oxley) as a part of the 2004/2005 global operational review.
Consultant Advisor (part-time)

Radologies Services

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 2003 — September 2004 (1 year 1 month)

Coach and advisor to the board concerning the development of the business model, fund raising and client business development at CxO level for the provision of strategic consultancy, organisational change, business function transformation, restructuring and M&A integration.

Assisting with branding, business planning, executive skills development, bids and tenders, product and services development and strategy.
Strategic Consultant and Advisor

GlobalSparc Innovations

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

November 2003 — February 2004 (4 months)

Consultant to a variety of projects and transactions within the European / N.American telecoms, IT and professional services industry.
Advisor to a number of M&A activities with regards to technical strategy and post divestment / acquisition integration.

Projects included:
* Market and SWOT analysis of consumer mobility products and services;
* Development of telecoms technology and product alliances;
* Review of b2b customer delivery operations and resources;
* Contribution to £MMillion professional services bids and proposals;
* Review of acquisition strategies for IT and operations integration;
* Coaching and rainmaking for corporate sales strategy within professional services and strategic consulting;
* Review and coaching of business plans, new ventures and funding acquisition.
CIO Consultant

ntl

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

November 2003 — January 2004 (3 months)
Consultant Operations Advisor

Cable & Wireless

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CW.; Telecommunications industry)

October 2003 — January 2004 (4 months)

Advisor to aid lawyers with asset assessment and disposal of Cable & Wireless USA. Assisted with due-diligence and investor presentations. Based from Chicago and New York.
Operations Consultant

Colt Telecom

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

October 2003 — November 2003 (2 months)
Chief Operations Officer and Executive Director

Complete Broadband Europe

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Telecommunications industry)

January 2003 — October 2003 (10 months)

Interim COO responsible for the deployment of IT and operational business plans for pre-launch prototype and test. Focussing on customer and internal networks and IT infrastructure, Web content, PC and broadband product development;

Engagement and management of venture technology partners;

Chairman for IT and Operations steering committee;

Major contributor to engagement of European private-equity, venture capital and private funds in order to secure GBP2MMillion for launch.
VP, Global Delivery (Group CIO Office)

Cable & Wireless plc

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CW.; Telecommunications industry)

August 1999 — December 2002 (3 years 5 months)

Global consolidation of acquired and inherited assets and infrastructure including IT, networks, services, real-Estate, and major spend global internal IT projects internationally. Contributing to the significant cost drive out following de-commissioning of duplicate infrastructure, projects, assets and supplier services, totalling circa GBP1.8billion.
Non-executive Director

Continental (Consulting) Group

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Management Consulting industry)

September 1999 — October 2000 (1 year 2 months)

Board director and transitional advisor following the merger of the company's sister company and European subsidary operations.
CEO & President, EMEA, and group deputy CEO

Continental Group

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

March 1995 — August 1999 (4 years 6 months)

Broad responsibility for the development of primary European customer accounts (Fortune-100 / FTSE-50) and projects, project delivery, supplier alliances, company staff and sales governance. Management of cross-group relationships, including USA businesses. Promoted from regional Managing Director in 1997 to deputy Group CEO following the consolidation of associated group businesses.

* Leadership of European operations including sales, delivery, consulting
* GBP14Million P&L split between sales and consulting
* Group earnings circa GBP27Million
* Focus on manufacturing, media, telecoms, ICT
* Senior delivery of key account projects within BPR, ERP, MIS and EAI
* Executive management for a number of client accounts and contract teams
Operations and Projects Director

Continental Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

March 1992 — March 1995 (3 years 1 month)

Responsible for re-structuring the organisation into structured business functions ready for board election and acquisition of funding for growth and expansion. Development of project framework to support customer contracts and delivery.

Day to day responsibility for client engagement, with customers including: Akzo Nobel, Allied Signal, EDS, Informix, Cognos, Sybase, Viag-Interkom DE, Orange Mobile, Platinum Technologies, Dun & Bradstreet, SAP, Unigate, Saab Cars, General Motors, Renault UK, ABN-Amro, Credit Suisse, News International etc.
Software Engineer and Projects Lead

Mountfield Group

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1990 — March 1992 (1 year 7 months)

Senior commercial software engineer and projects lead for the development and delivery of various European customer contracts and projects.
Software Engineer and Project Leader

Philips Defence Systems

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

July 1988 — September 1990 (2 years 3 months)

Joined the Product Support division of Philips Defence Systems, previously known as MEL or Mullard Electronics Ltd, as a software engineer . Philips defence was subsequently sold to Thorn-EMI.

Additional Information

Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)’s Interests:

Very interested in working with early stage companies operating in emerging markets and based in the Middle-East and Africa.

Jonathan Brooker (TOPLINKED.COM)(LION 2600+)’s Groups:

ACCA - Association of Chartered Certified Accountants
CMA - Communications Management Association
ECUK - The Engineering Council UK
IEEE - Institute of Electronic and Electrical Engineers
IET - The Institute of Engineering and Technology
IoD - Institute of Directors
TEN - Telecommunications Executive Network (UK & Germany)