Dr Arjang Zadeh - Chief Executive Officer

Dr. Arjang Zadeh has been a pioneer in broadband, telecom, cable and software industries for over 20 years.

Prior to creating Azdio, Dr Zadeh was the Global Managing Partner of Network Practice for Accenture Communications & High Tech Operating Group.

In 2000, Dr Zadeh founded Imagine Broadband a world leading Network Design and Integration and NGOSS Products company.  Under his leadership Imagine broadband successfully delivered some of the most complex and largest projects for many of the major Telecom and Cable operators around the world. Dr Zadeh was the CEO of the company until its acquisition and integration into Accenture in Jan 2004. In this role, Arjang was selected as one of the top 50 European executives in broadband Industry ("Broadband Euro 50 - 2003"). Dr Zadeh has a BSc(Hons.) and a PhD degrees in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK.

Mr Nicholas Kassem - Chief Technology Officer

For over two decades Nicholas has been at the forefront of the latest software technologies in the areas of Distributed Systems, Open Standards, Web Services, Messaging, Operating Systems and Data Communications.

Nicholas has an unrivalled successful experience of design, development and implementation of very large and complex software systems. 

Most recently, Mr Kassem was Technology Director for Web services at Sun Microsystems Inc. in Silicon Valley. 

As a lead Java standards Architect within Sun's Web Technology & Standards organization, Nicholas was responsible for architecting Sun’s Service Oriented application programming model and underlying infrastructure architecture. Nicholas conceived of and contributed to the cross-industry Java Business Integration (JBI) initiative. 

Nicholas Kassem authored the first book on the Enterprise Java platform programming model - Designing Enterprise Applications with the Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition.

Mr Kieran O'Donnell - Senior Vice President - Technology Delivery and Services

Kieran O'Donnell is one of the most experienced and senior technical delivery executives in the Digital TV, Broadband, Web services and Software development industry.

Mr O'Donnell has been responsible for many world firsts in the area of Digital Interactive TV and Broadband. He has unparalleled experience of success in the design and delivery of large scale network and OSS systems. In addition, Kieran has worked as the lead for the design and development of some of the largest IT projects in the industry.

Until very recently Mr O'Donnell was the Vice President of Engineering for ChelloMedia - a Liberty Global Europe company. Prior to this Mr O'Donnell worked for Accenture and Imagine broadband.

As the Director and member of the leadership team in Imagine broadband he was first in charge of Imagine broadband Asia-Pacific business and then in charge of the global Sales Support and also Software development activities. Kieran was instrumental for the very successful growth of Imagine broadband services and also implementation of its NGOSS products.

Prior to above, Kieran worked for Andersen Consulting as one of the leaders in the Digital TV and broadband implementation projects. Mr O'Donnell was also responsible for the implementation and Operation of a number of very large-scale software and IT projects.

Yves Roguies - Senior Vice President - Outsourcing Operations

Mr Roguies has been a pioneer in the Digital TV, IPTV and Broadband industry. He has over 15 years of Telecom experience and has been in charge of many major projects and world first deliveries in the broadband and Digital TV sectors. Yves’ experience expands from strategy to deep knowledge of the technical infrastructure and service delivery platforms for broadband and video services.

Prior to joining Azdio Yves worked for many years for Accenture where he was a senior technical delivery executive. Prior to that he was a founding member of Imagine broadband, a world leading consulting company in the design and delivery of broadband and video platforms, where he was in charge of its France consulting operations.

Yves leads Azdio's operations in Switzerland and Eastern Europe. Yves has a Masters Degree in Telecommunications and Digital Signal Processing from the Ecole Supérieure en Sciences Informatiques, Sophia Antipolis, France, and an MBA from Mc Gill University, Montreal, Canada.

Ms Julia Colleran - Senior Executive - Relationship Management

The technology and operational excellence means nothing without offering world leading customer experience to our clients. Julia Colleran leads our activities to help us deliver world class customer experience, by listening to our clients and always acting on their needs. We believe this high degree of client focus is vital to our success to help our clients to achieve their business objectives to the highest quality.