EDM06 Speakers Profiles

Mr. D’Aleo began his career as an Official in the Guardia di Finanza (Financial Police), which he left to begin work at Telecom Italia where he became Manager in 1996.

He has had various responsibilities including: performance of work analysis for the Human Resources Unit; responsibility for regulation and contracts for the Commercial Business Unit, also coordinating application of privacy regulations for the whole STETT Group; and responsibility for management of the the company’s relationship with Consumer Associations, including procedures for consumer complaints, dispute resolution, and issues related to non-profit organizations.

In November 2005 Mr. D’Aleo became responsible for special support for regulatory affairs for both fixed line and mobile telecommunications, managing the organization’s application of quality of service regulations. He frequently acts as an official Telecom Italia spokesperson, participating in television and radio interviews and at conventions in Italy and throughout the world.

Mr. D’Aleo has a Law degree from the University of Palermo, graduating with honors in 1983.
 

Mr. Durance is responsible for the leadership and strategic direction of Call Genie as well as all operational activities. Mr. Durance brings to Call Genie proven strategic vision and over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications and software industries. Prior to joining Call Genie, Mr. Durance was vice president and general manager of Toshiba Digital Solutions Division (DSD), a division of Toshiba America Information Systems. As the leader and visionary of a number of business units, Mr. Durance was charged with bringing together the core strengths of Toshiba’s telecommunications, imaging, hotspots, PDA and laptop products in bundled mobility solutions. Beyond Toshiba, his career includes a number of senior executive and general management positions including corporate vice president of Integrated Solutions Group for ADC Telecommunications, Inc., a data transmission products company based in Minnetonka, Minn.; senior vice president of Global Consulting Services, Managing director of Asia Pacific, and vice president of Product Management and Deployment for Saville Systems, a telecommunications software company based in Edmonton, Alberta; and over nine years in senior management and International positions at Nortel Networks Corporation of Brampton, Ontario. Mr. Durance has an Honours Bachelor of Commerce degree in Marketing and Management together with advanced study Certificates in telecommunications and various business disciplines.
 

As Deputy CEO since 2004, Mr. Gondé is in charge of Business Development, Product and Operations. He is, with Bruno Massiet du Biest, CEO of Le Numéro, at the origin of the DA French market opening, enforcing French regulatory body (ARCEP) to implement the 12 removal after 2 years long litigations.

Beginning in 2001, he joined Vivendi Universal as COO of Scoot France to launch enhanced DA services on phone, internet and mobile devices, and worked in order to get market entries conditions against France Telecom monopoly.

Before becoming involved in the DA market, Jean Gondé developed his career in business consulting and reengineering for various IT and Telecom industries as managing director.

Jean Gondé is a graduate of l'Ecole Polytechnique, post-graduate in Space engineering, and he earned an Executive MBA from HEC Business School.
 

Founder and CEO of Midentity (www.midentity.com) and chairman of social software and services company etribes (www.etribes.com), Simon started his career in 1991 at CERN in Geneva with members of the team who built the first web servers and browsers. Since then he has founded/co-founded a number of successful businesses including PersonalMail (Europe's first web-based emailed company), Netpoll, etribes and more recently Midentity. Simon is an advisor to a number of Internet-based businesses and sits on the executive committee of the Personal Digital Identity Association.