Mr. Stuart Newstead

Council Member Biography

Stuart Newstead is CEO of Ellare, an independent consultancy, which he has run since 2002. He has over 30 years in fixed and mobile telecoms, specializing in wireless data strategies, mobile market trends, mergers, acquisitions, MVNO, spectrum auctions, triple play, fiber to the home, ICT, convergence, the commercial impact of telecoms regulation especially broadband IP & next-generation networks, plus functional and structural separation. He has worked with clients including BT, Virgin Media, Openreach, T-Mobile, O2, 3, Moov, BlackBerry, Cisco, Intel, HP, Sun, Guardian Media, AOL, Ofcom, European regulators, DFJ Esprit Capital. Clients in over 20 countries, including, Africa & Asia - Botswana Telecom, Sri Lanka Telecom. Mr. Newstead was previously, a Vice President at mobile operator O2, where he devised O2's data strategy and led the exclusive European launch of BlackBerry. Prior to O2, he was GM at BT Wholesale and was instrumental in developing, negotiating and implementing the UK interconnect regime after liberalization. Mr. Newstead was commissioned in 2013 by The Guardian newspaper group to write a series of insights on the mobile industry; two published insights are Mobile Bandwidth-http://bit.ly/10YQE7S and Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2013 notes-http://bit.ly/10YQNrQ. He chaired a London 2012 Olympics Committee, the Mobile Experience Group, to ensure delivery of an excellent public mobile service during the Olympics. Mr. Newstead is a MBA and MPhil in Statistics from Yale University, USA, and an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge University, UK. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2002 - Unspecified

Chief Executive Officer, Ellare

1997 - 2002

VP, Wireless Data Services, TELEFONICA UK LTD

1993 - 1997

Head of Commercial Operations, BRITISH TELECOM

1983 - 1993

Principal Consultant, BRITISH TELECOM