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Executive Team

Philip Sharpe

Philip Sharpe has been active in the IT and Telecommunications industries for over 20 years. Philip was co-founder and CEO of CAPE Technologies, a pioneer and global leader in Revenue Assurance Solutions for Telecom Operators, from which DANU was divested in 2007 prior to the sale of CAPE to the Sonae Group.

Philip graduated from DCU in 1987 with a BSc in Applied Physics and having spent a year working as a graduate engineer for STC Telecommunications UK he joined Ericsson UK as one of the first employees in the emerging Cellular Networks Division.  Prior to establishing CAPE Technologies, Philip held several senior management positions within Ericsson Ireland between '93 and 2000.

 

Philip holds several additional directorships and investments in technology and software companies.

See Philip's Linked in profile:  http://www.linkedin.com/pub/9/bb8/522

 

Mick Adams

Mick has over 20 years experience in the Telecoms and IT sectors  and was a co-founder of CAPE Technologies. As CTO of CAPE Technologies Mick lead the development of the high successful product suite of:

  • RoamBroker
  • RevenueOffice Usage Assurance
  • RevenueOffice Rate Validation
  • RevenueOffice Platform Integrity

Previous to CAPE, Mick held senior positions in Ericsson, Ellemtel AB and Broadcom

Mick holds a BA, BAI Engineering and Maths from Trinity College Dublin

Mick sits on the board of DANÚ.

 

Niall Halpenny

Niall Halpenny has over 15 years international experience in the telecoms industry focusing on mobile technologies.

With a career that started as an Engineer with Ericsson supporting the Middle East and African markets, and later working within Europe for companies such as Orange, BT and the GSM Association, Niall has held various senior roles such as Systems Architect, Programme Director and CTO. He has in-depth knowledge of the telecoms industry and the underlying market and technology trends. He has been involved in the financial modeling, investor management in several major transactions in areas such as outsourcing, business unit disposal and new start-up ventures.

Niall has well rounded experience of working with bluechip C-level and board level executives and he has frequently spoken at international trade conferences.

See Niall's profile on Linkedin :http://www.linkedin.com/pub/0/392/121

 

Michael Slevin

Michael is a recognised expert in the field of telecommunications management solutions, a field in which he has worked since 1988. 

Prior to DANÚ, he led the Telecom Management division of CAPE Technologies.  Focus areas included service assurance, fault management and systems integration.  He also provided technical consulting to international clients (telecom operators, system vendors, and venture capitalists) focused on the management of Next Generation Networks.

With Broadcom Éireann Research Ltd. Michael was manager of Ericsson’s Network Management Applied Research Lab. This group evaluated the use of "bleeding edge" software technologies, protocols, architectures and techniques for solving network management challenges.

 

Martin Bolsinger

Martin has more than 18 years experience working in the telecommunications and IT industry. 

Martin has overall responsibility for the management of the development and project delivery organization in DANÚ. Previously, he managed product development organizations for CAPE Technologies and for Vertel’s European product and services division in Berlin, Germany.  Martin worked for Vertel Corp. (California) as Chief Architect driving Vertel’s product direction for 4 years.  He started his career as a Software Engineer in Softlab GmbH, a system integrator and software house located in Munich (Germany).


He has worked in several technical consultant and project management roles for companies such as BMW, ESG, European Space Agency (ESA), Mannesmann (now part of the Vodafone group), Siemens, and Vodafone Ireland.