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Brian has over 15 years experience as a consultant and business developer. His work includes negotiating telecoms joint ventures in Ukraine, scenario planning for business and government at PA Consulting Group and leading business development activity and client relationships as Managing Director of Close Brothers Corporate Finance. In 2003, he founded Complexity Group and joined the board of the Community Broadband Network. He now works across the private and public sectors problem-solving and advising on decision-making in complex environments. He specialises in strategy formulation and implementation and in resolving the dilemmas inherent in making strategy work in human terms. Brian has extensive knowledge of the broadband scene internationally, and until recently edited the highly respected technology review Cook Report Europe. He leads on CBN’s relationship with the Dutch consultancy Close the Gap, responsible for the hugely successful Ons Net project in Nuenen and Eindhoven. Brian also set up an experimental satellite/wireless community network in Conyer, Kent. He has a PhD in Physics from the University of St Andrews, Fife, Scotland. Brian's work on the development of fibre-based NGA networks in the UK coined the phrase "a patchwork quilt" as the preferred model of three scenarios describing a fragmented market. "Da Wo" (Big Me) described a new world based on one domintant network owner, and "Islands of Connectivity" a fragmented world with sub-scale isolated network. The Patchwork model was the one adopted by the Caio Review and Digital Britain interm report. |
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 Adrian is CBN's Chief Technology Officer, where he specialises in next generation broadband strategy and architecture, while also leading on CBN’s development projects in Africa.
The main focus of his work at the moment is the "Joint Operating Network" (JON) - the stitching that holds the patchwork quilt of NGA projects together. This is the mechanism which turns "islands of connectivity" into a "patchwork quilt" to use the terminology defined by Brian Condon, and adopted by both the Caio Review and the Digital Britain Interim Report. Adrian has worked for about 20 years in the international telecommunications industry, and has been actively involved in the community-based broadband initiatives since returning to the UK five years ago. Previously, he has been the Global Communications Architect for large Silicon Valley corporations, and product strategist for a major international competitive telecommunications operator. Past projects have ranged from design and delivery of high-availability networks for critical application service providers and early fibre-optic campus networks for silicon chip design and fabrication, to the national broadband strategy for a competitive operator. His work on policy-based smart-edge networks gained international recognition. |
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 Shaun has over 20 years experience leading Internet companies. He founded Poptel, the Internet services co-operative that from 1986 to 2004 specialised in providing on-line services to the non-profit sectors. He subsequently became a senior manager at the Phone Co-op, a successful social enterprise specialising delivering telephony and broadband services. Since 2006 Shaun has been an independent consultant in broadband/Internet services, involved in projects in the North West and throughout the UK. He is an accomplished speaker and chairs Manchester Digital, the trade association for digital industries in Manchester.
Shaun is the Chair of the CBN Board. |
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Steve is the founder and director of Village Internet and Broadband Ltd, which was set up in February 2002 to provide broadband to rural communities unable to get access to fixed line broadband. Steve has worked with rural communities to enable them with broadband and provide community web sites. Steve spent 25 years in marketing and business development with companies such as Digital Equipment Corporation in the UK, Europe and the USA. Steve was also head of consulting with a company providing training, marketing and business consultancy to the Telecoms and IT sectors since 1994. Steve has been involved in new technologies since the 1980s and developed the Which Web Trader Scheme whilst working for the Consumers’ Association, Which?Online ISP, and was involved in helping many start up e-commerce companies. |
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