Ian Buddery was a founder of eServGlobal, and past director and CEO. He holds a significant interest in the company through a private company.

During his 30 years in the technology industry, Ian has held several senior management positions with major multinational vendor organisations and local firms.

Laurent Lafarge has a 21-year track record of leadership within the high-tech industry, at companies such as Control Data, Unisys, Tandem and Hewlett-Packard. Prior to eServGlobal, he was the Chief Operating Officer at Netcentrex Comverse. He has also been Vice-President Europe and Managing Director of Lucent Technologies France and Belgium.

François is President of BT International. He has played significant roles within Lucent Technologies such as President Mobility International and President and CEO EMEA. Prior to Lucent, François worked at Ascend Communications, where he had the position of Senior Vice President, International. He has over 18 years’ experience in this industry, including executive positions within IBM, Computervision/Prime and Stratus.

Jim brings to the Board over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in Australia and Asia.

In 1994, Jim was appointed as the founding Chief Executive Officer of Peoples Telephone Company Ltd., a GSM 1800 network operator in Hong Kong.

Graham has extensive involvement in the IT industry through various directorships and hands-on consulting roles.

He is retired managing partner and a senior tax partner of a large firm of chartered accountants.

David has held senior executive positions in large scale manufacturing and merchandising businesses for more than 20 years.

This includes 13 years as chief financial officer of Tubemakers of Australia Limited and, more recently, Metal Manufactures Limited.

Anthony was formerly Group Strategic Resourcing Director at Vodafone PLC. He joined Vodafone in April 2000 as Group Management Development Director, and was appointed to the Group Policy Committee chaired by Sir Christopher Gent.