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Sophie is the Executive Chairman of 26FIVE, a global consulting firm and innovation labs specialized in brand and growth management. The firm works with F1000, VCs and PEs across offices in New York, Mumbai, and Singapore, and has been behind the reinvention of numerous tech brands, resulting in billion dollars in growth and increased brand valuation. Partners and missions include Accenture, Atos, Equinix, iBASIS, Medidata, Microsoft, PDG, PTC, Tata Communications, Vodafone, and VEON.

She is a global Ambassador for Télécoms Sans Frontières (TSF) and serves on several non-profit boards. Named Top 15 CEO and Top 10 firm by PR News and PR Week, she was a 2019 Global Women in Tech nominee for Outstanding Achievement as a Disruptor. Sophie is featured on CNBC, MSNBC, BNN and published in Time Magazine, USA Today, AdWeek, PR Week and Luxury Daily, covering trends in innovation, M&A, digital disruption, and consumer behavior. She holds a BA in Economics and a Law Degree from La Sorbonne, Paris. 

Ms. Gahir has worked in various capacities covering operations, relationship management, sales, business development and management.
Her accomplishments include building teams from customer service agents through to senior account managers from the ground up and guiding the strategies they have applied to a wide spectrum of customers - from SME to global entities. Throughout, she has applied the same ethos of finding the right solutions to drive performance.
The most interesting thing about her experience is the incredible people she has had the privilege of working with in an international arena - both internal and external stakeholders. Helping them solve long-term challenges with solutions designed to help their businesses' success is one of the many facets of her career that she is passionate about.
She has had the responsibility of using her 11 years' experience in the EMEA region, her skills and energy to lead a team of exceptional account managers in their mission to consistently exceed targets. They work in a relationship-driven business that yields significant revenues - their success is nothing without the trust of their customers and the ability they have to galvanise their strengths internally.
Telstra's values reflect the importance of their customers: showing they care; working better together; trusting each other to deliver; making the complex simple and finding their courage. Their customers are the foundation on which their business is built and their mission is to ensure their customers are delighted with their experience.
She thrives in an environment where she is challenged and the volatility of changing markets within the dynamic region where she works demands a constant willingness to learn, develop, initiate change and be unafraid of taking responsibility for calculated risks in order to protect the longevity of their success.

Anne Morel is Senior Vice President Global Carrier Sales for Orange International Carriers, one of the world's leading players in its field delivering cutting edge wholesale solutions to over 1,000 mobile operators, international carriers, ISPs and content providers worldwide. In this role, Anne is responsible for overseeing the global sales strategy and business development of wholesale services for Voice, Data, Mobile and Security. Since joining the International Wholesale Division at Orange, Anne has actively contributed to its strategy, growth and transformation into one of the industry world leaders. Anne has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility within the International Carriers management team including Head of European Carrier Sales, and since 2012, Senior Vice President of Global Carrier Sales.  In her most current position, she oversaw the implementation of a new Global Sales organization to assemble the regional Sales teams across voice, data and mobile products.

Prior to working in international wholesale, Anne has held various management positions spanning the fields of business development, regulation and merger & acquisitions in both international and multicultural environments. In particular, she worked as Managing Director for Orange in the UK, and actively contributed to the development of the Orange group in the UK through partnership and acquisition.

I am a tech-savvy professional with a Master and Bachelor Degree in Computer Science at Coimbra University and over 15 years of experience in technology across a variety of disciplines, including but not limited to Project Management, Program Management Office (PMO), Demand Manager, Technical Pre-Sales, IT Consultant and Software Developer.

In a nutshell, I'm a versatile IT multilingual professional (Portuguese, English and Spanish), with an in-depth understanding of technology and ability to translate technical and complex projects in a business and commercial orientated solution. Highly skilled in leading and building teams and collaborating with senior executives in improving operations, developing innovative solutions and starting up new business while managing staff and budgets.

Joanna is a global telecoms expert with close to a decade worth of experience in mobile messaging market. Since starting in this field, Joanna has performed numerous commercial and operational roles in the industry including launching the global A2P SMS hub for HGC Global Communications Limited as a part of core leadership team.

Currently, Joanna heads up Global Market Intelligence unit at HAUD  with a strong focus on working with Mobile Operators to help them stay in control of their networks, increase A2P revenues and build great customer experience.

Naaz is responsible for all of Seaborn’s global industry conferences and events. Naaz’s industry experience, gained over 20 years, in operational and marketing roles and her relationships within the market have enabled Seaborn to become a highly recognizable presence in the subsea marketing events space.

Naaz worked as an Events Coordinator in Bermuda for companies such as the Gillette Golf Tour Challenge, Flag Telecom and others creating industry focused events. She was Inventory Manager for the Pan-European Network of Global Crossing, subsequently moving to the Global Network at GC in marketing event initiatives. Naaz was a co-founder of Bax Consulting successfully building out the SGSS system between Trinidad, Guyana and Suriname.

Naaz is a founding member of ‘The Women in Subsea’ movement and is working on Seaborn’s initiative to encourage a younger, more diverse workforce to consider the subsea industry for their future.