GÉANT2 Launch Event Speaker Biographies

Session I: GÉANT2 - A Different Kind of Network

Chair

Ulf Dahlsten 

Director ‘Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures’– DG-Information Society and Media, European Commission

Prior to joining the European Commission as Director of “Emerging Technologies and Infrastructures” at the Directorate-General Information Society, Ulf Dahlsten was President and CEO of Icon Medialab International, an Internet consultancy offering solutions in eCommerce.

Previously, from 1988 to 1999, Mr Dahlsten worked with the Swedish Postal Services, first as Director-General and following deregulation as President and CEO of Posten AB.  From 1982 to 1988, he occupied various posts with the Swedish government, including State Secretary for Energy, then for Communications as well as State Secretary of the Prime Minister’s Office.

Ulf Dahlsten holds a Civil Engineer’s degree in Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the Stockholm School of Economics.

Speakers

Roberto Sabatino 

Chief Technical Officer, DANTE

Roberto Sabatino joined DANTE in July 1997 as a Network Engineer. In November 1998 he was promoted to Head of Network Planning and became Chief Technical Officer in August 2002.

Prior to joining DANTE, he worked for two years at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory as a Research Associate.  From January 1984 until April 1995 he worked in Italy in the telecommunications industry and at the University of Turin, Italy.

Roberto Sabatino has a degree in Computer Science from the University of Turin.

Dany Vandromme 

Vice Chair of GÉANT2 Executive Committee; Member of DANTE’s Board of Directors; Director of RENATER

Dany Vandromme has been a University Professor since 1988 at the National Institute for Applied Sciences at Rouen. As a researcher he is responsible for the Computational Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (LMFN), a component of CORIA, UMR 6614 of CNRS (National Center for Scientific Research).

Responsible for the regional network SYRHANO (Upper Normandy region) since its beginning in 1993, and Chairman of the networking and computing Centre of Upper Normandy (CRIHAN) since its creation in 1992, Dany Vandromme has been a user of ARPANET in the early 80's, and later on of INTERNET, as a post-doc and associate research fellow at NASA Ames Research Center from 1980 to 1990.

He has been Director of GIP RENATER since 1 July 1998. Since January 2001, he has served as a member of DANTE’s Board of Directors. From January 2003 until January 2005, he was Chairman of the DANTE Board.

Patrick Aerts 

Director of NOW/NCF; Chair of e-IRG

Patrick Aerts has been Director of the Netherlands National Computing Facilities Foundation (NCF) since 1990; he is responsible for the high-end national computing infrastructure.  In addition to his role as Chairman of the section of computer applications of the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society, he is also an Advisor to the Board of ‘ICT for Science’ of the SURF Foundation where he is responsible for the advancement of ICT-use for higher education and research; he is the sole shareholder of SURFnet bv.

On behalf of NOW, Patrick Aerts is involved in linking universities’ and research organisations’ administrative systems as well as in the set-up of digital academic repositories. He is theme coordinator of NWO’s e-Science Program (“D&I”).

He is currently serving as Chairman of the e-Infrastructure Reflection Group (e-IRG).

Eva Lindqvist 

President, TeliaSonera International Carrier

Eva Lindqvist, President of TeliaSonera International Carrier, has held a long line of positions within the telecom industry.

She has been President of TeliaSonera International Carrier since 2002. She is responsible for all international carrier activities within the TeliaSonera Group. Ms Lindqvist joined Telia in 2000 as Senior Vice President and project leader for broadening the ownership of companies in the Enterprises Business Area. The following year she was appointed Head of the Equity Business Area and became a member of Telia’s Group Management.

Early in 2002, Ms Lindqvist left Equity Business Area for Telia Mobile where she was assigned Senior Vice President with special responsibility for all staff units and overall strategic business development.

Before joining Telia, Eva Lindqvist was employed by the Ericsson Group for 18 years where she held leading positions in Japan, Australia and the US. Back in Sweden in 1998, Ms Lindqvist was nominated R&D Director for Corporate Technology at Ericsson.

Eva Lindqvist holds a Master of Science, Engineering degree, in Applied Physics from Linköping Institute of Technology, Sweden, and a Master of Business Administration from Melbourne Graduate School of Management, Melbourne University, Australia.

Stefano Lorenzi 

Senior Vice President, Alcatel Optical Networks

Stefano Lorenzi is Senior Vice President of Alcatel, in charge of Network Services and Project Management activities of the Optics Division. Stefano has extensive management experience in the service operator arena.

Prior to joining Alcatel in 2003, he worked for AT&T Europe as VP Customer Services, and previously held a variety of management positions in KPN-Qwest, GTS and the Telecom Italia group.