Mobile Telecommunications Consultant
Harrow, United Kingdom
- Current
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- Director at Innotel Consulting Ltd
- Past
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- Special Projects Director at iTouch plc
- Business Development Executive at Vodafone Ltd UK
- Head of Product Dev / General Manager (Vodafone South Africa) at Vodacom
- Senior Management Consultant at Andersen Consulting (South Africa)
- Education
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- University of Cape Town
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Leon Shirk’s Summary
Leon Shirk is an experienced Strategic, Operational, Business and Product Development professional with ten years mobile telecommunications and five years consulting experience. He combines those rare skills in being able to analyse “the situation today”, what the opportunity is moving forward and what is required, best practise/route to execute and importantly, tendering the contacts and companies who could be instrumental in the tactics and success of operations. Leon has a great command of the technology market and whilst his earlier career was founded on technical and management consultancy, his real aptitude is to define and execute upon new business revenue models. He is passionate about the current industry trends towards services based business models and has extensive experience in change management to develop these strategies.
Leon Shirk’s Specialties:
In the past ten years Leon has participated in a senior management capacity in a number of existing and start-up operations, defining strategy, planning operations, building partnerships and introducing new products and services into the market
Key sectors include Mobile / Fixed Network operator and Value Added Service Providers
Leon Shirk’s Experience
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Director
Innotel Consulting Ltd
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)
April 2003 — Present (5 years 7 months)
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Special Projects Director
iTouch plc
(Public Company; 201-500 employees; itu; Wireless industry)
March 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 1 month)
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Business Development Executive
Vodafone Ltd UK
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; vod; Telecommunications industry)
August 1999 — February 2001 (1 year 7 months)
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Head of Product Dev / General Manager (Vodafone South Africa)
Vodacom
(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Telecommunications industry)
January 1994 — March 1999 (5 years 3 months)
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Senior Management Consultant
Andersen Consulting (South Africa)
(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)
January 1991 — December 1993 (3 years)
Leon Shirk’s Education
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University of Cape Town
BSc Electrical / Electronic Engineering, Engineering, January 1984 — December 1988
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