Ian Vernon

Chief Executive Officer

Ian is responsible for leading the commercial operations of the company. Prior to joining AmanziTel he served as Business Development Director for companies such as LCC, WFI, EWI and Lorris Consulting. Before focusing in business development and corporate management he contributed his technical expertise to Agilent, SAFCO, ComOpt, Smart Communications, Far East Bank, World Bank and served as an associate professor at the University of Santo Tomas. He also served in the board of Q Corporation and was CTO at FTT. Ian also held consulting and advisory positions to various network operators, financial institutions, government agencies and expert witness to landmark telecom arbitration cases. Ian holds multiple degrees in engineering and master of business administration and business management.

Craig Taverner

Chief Technology Officer

Craig is responsible for the technological strategy and technical direction of the company. He previously served as Senior Software Architect at Actix as well as Research Director and Software Development Director at ComOpt, Agilent and SAFCO. Prior to joining ComOpt he worked as a software consultant for The Internet Solution, post-graduate researcher in Structural Chemistry at the University of Witwatersrand and researcher at AECI Ltd. Craig has degrees in physics, chemistry, and advanced biology from the University of Witwatersrand where he completed his Masters degree in Structural Chemistry and research toward a doctorate in Theoretical Chemistry.

Dan Jee

Lead Executive, Asia

Dan is AmanziTel's lead in Asia. Dan has over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, IT and business consulting industry working extensively in Asia-Pacific region. Dan started his career with Singapore Telecoms where he was responsible for national network operation and network management. He was later involved in the development, sales and marketing of new products and services including ISDN, voice mail, Centrex, VPN and other IN services. He moved on to other senior roles in sales and business development with major MNCs in APAC including Deutsche Telekom/T-systems and Mobile One Asia. Dan is also involved in management consulting and has helped many large and very successful enterprises improve their business performance by deploying various programs and sales strategies.

Eric Ye

Board Member

Eric Ye was born in 1963 and holds a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering. Prior to joining DingLi, he was employed at the Zhuhai Polytechnic College as an engineer and has held management positions at Jinhong Telecommunications Company and Ovislink Canada Ltd. In 2006, he became VP in charge of Overseas Marketing at DingLi and has now added the title of Managing Director. In his free time, he enjoys golf, fishing and Peking opera.

Mark Hoogerbrugge

Board Member

Mark Hoogerbrugge was born in 1965 and hails from the Netherlands, where he studied telecommunications, computer science and electronic engineering. He started his career as an engineer and worked his way up to product development, business development, sales & marketing and general management for Agilent and later Actix. Before joining DingLi, he served as the Business Development & Marketing VP for CommProve. An avid reader and polyglot, Mark's free time may also be spent on the links, slopes or waves.

Robert Lindell

Board Member

Robert Lindell studied nautical sciences & engineering at the Royal Swedish Naval Academy and was named "best friend" by his classmates upon graduation in 1987. He has worked his way up the sales ladder since that time, mostly with TEMS, where he has served as the head of sales for both their CALA and APAC divisions, culminating with his holding the post of VP of Asia-Pacific Sales. He enjoys traveling, scuba diving and photography.

Kurt Lemke

Vice President of Business Development

Kurt brings over 25 years of industry experience to DingLi and Amanzitel AB. DingLi today announced that Kurt Lemke has been named Vice President of Business Development. Kurt will develop business relationships & opportunities and manage the product portfolio roadmap to ensure consistency with customer business objectives.

Most recently Kurt started a consultancy business and worked in customer experience management. Kurt’s career started in engineering for satellite and terrestrial-based wireless networks for M/A-COM Linkabit (partially acquired by General Instrument) and SAFCO (acquired by Agilent) where he developed and managed products. He moved to Europe from America 13 years ago to serve as Director of Operations for the EMEA region focused on network & service monitoring/optimization solutions. Kurt thereafter served as Director of Sales in the EMEA region for PCTEL (partially acquired by Smith Micro Software) specializing in mobile broadband connection management, IMS applications, device management and multimedia management solutions.

Kurt received his B.S. in Engineering & Applied Science from the California of Technology and completed his coursework in Computer Science specializing in Artificial Intelligence at the Illinois Institute of Technology. He has been awarded three U.S. patents in the wireless communications field.

Jonas Schultz

Development Manager

Jonas Schultz joined AmanziTel in May 2011. Jonas has previously worked as project manager and as deployment team leader in various fields. He has worked in the medical industry, telecom and financial business for various companies and has been especially noted as a mentor for junior employees.

Jonas has taught programming classes at Malmö Collage, and has the education equivalent of a master’s degree in Computer Science. Jonas lives with his wife and two children outside Helsingborg.