ITSS - SNI's logistics company
SNI Services:
SNI Projects Board
Kevin
Madders, LLB
(Lond., Hons), LLM (Yale), PhD (Cantab.), Barrister
SNI Managing Partner and Chairman of the Projects Board
Roles:·
Manager· Strategist, Negotiator· Legal Expert, Draftsman·
Communicator, Mentor· Information Society and Space Analyst
Dr Kevin Madders is SNI's Managing Partner. He also heads ITSS, SNI's logistics company, and Transeurosat, a satellite services consortium founded by SNI.
Kevin is responsible for managing the SNI network, promoting its development and conducting its external relations. With Brin Hughes, he vets new SNI participants and is accountable to existing participants under SNI's network concept.
Kevin brings to SNI and its clients vast experience as a technology lawyer, expert in international affairs, and policy analyst. His early career as an English barrister trained him to be a generalist, able to cross quickly between different areas of expertise. He then broadened his horizons to become, successively, a professional editor at the Max Planck Institute for International Law, an academic at Heidelberg, Yale and Cambridge, and a space official at the European Space Agency. At Yale he immersed himself in policy science and then went on at Cambridge to propose adaptations to systems theory so as to make it a more usable tool. He then put theory to the test in a whirlwind career at ESA, during which, among other things, he took part in the landmark negotiations on the International Space Station cooperation and trade in launch services. He subsequently wrote the leading work on Europe's space sector, A New Force at a New Frontier.
As a Brussels-based consultant, Kevin has advised on questions from space liability to competition rules to arbitration, chaired the legal experts who reviewed Eutelsat's restructuring arrangements, been the Telecommunications Adviser to the Principality of Liechtenstein, acted as a satellite capacity broker, reviewed the transposition of EU telecommunications law, and participated in the work of numerous bodies including the ONP Committee of the European Commission. His output has included legislative, treaty, policy and business texts. He still enjoys writing and lecturing, and continues to publish occasionally. His membership of space related professional bodies is complemented by his chairmanship of the ICT Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce in Belgium.
Kevin's vision for the future is to see SNI expand as a business "network of networks", propagating its values as an economic cooperative at the leading edge of 21st century society.
Brinley Hughes, BSc(Eng),
CEng, FIEE, FRAeS
SNI Co-Mandatory and Secretary of the Projects Board
Roles:·
Manager· Technology Strategist· Project Quality Assurance·
Scrutiny of Internal Systems· Financial Control
Brin Hughes is one of the founders of Systemics Network International and, with Kevin Madders, an SNI Co-Mandatory for the network's participants. He is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers and Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society.
His first career was as an engineer officer in the Royal Air Force, with a range of assignments in management, coordination and programme progress control of military surveillance, air defence radar, air traffic control, electronic warfare, communication systems and aerosystem projects. Following early retirement from the RAF, Brin has lived in Brussels since 1987, working first as UK representative to and then also Head of the NATO Identification System Co-ordination Office at NATO HQ. Subsequently he has been an independent consultant specializing in air traffic management (ATM) and associated communications, navigation and surveillance (CNS) technologies. He has developed close working links at Eurocontrol and NATO, including chairmanship of specialist NATO committees. He has provided consultancy support to the European Commission, primarily as a CNS/ATM expert, for telematics, transport and Trans-European Network project activities, including proposal assessment and chairmanship of project in-depth technical reviews. The hallmark of all Brin's recent assignments has been his effective leadership and coordinator role among international partners, governmental and private.
From 1996 to March 2000 Brin was SNI's Project Leader for Eutelsat satellite capacity projects. He also edited SNI's Financial Times report on satellite opportunities. He is today TESS Ltd.'s Financial Manager. As member of the SNI Projects Board, Brin keeps a keen eye on financial and practical execution aspects of projects. He also contributes, as Co-Mandatory of the network, to vetting potential SNI participants against strict admittance criteria and to approval of projects.
Pierre
Bartholomé, I.C.E.
(Electronics), LSMIEEE
Roles:·
Technology Systems Designer· Project Manager and mentor·
Evaluator of Technical Proposals and Issues
Pierre Bartholomé is one of the founders of SNI. He is Senior Consultant in SNI and Strategy Director of Transeurosat. He is an engineer and developer of technical systems.Pierre is one of Europe's communications satellite pioneers. Indeed, before Europe had any satellites, he developed at SHAPE a system for relaying signals using meteorite showers. Pierre's initiative was rewarded by selection for the nucleus of the European Space Research Organisation's satellite communications team. He was designer for OTS, Europe's first operational communications satellite. He then became responsible for ECS, Eutelsat's first system and still the backbone of today's European satellite technology. He rose to become Head of the European Space Agency's Satellite Communications Division at its technical centre, ESTEC, in which post he oversaw the Olympus project, even today considered one of the world's most technologically advanced satellite systems. He ended his ESA career as liaison officer to the European Commission and as Rapporteur for a wide-ranging inquiry into Europe's satellite communications industry.
Pierre joined SNI upon leaving ESA and quickly began brought SNI to prominence as the Project Leader for the Financial Times Management Report Opportunities in European Satellite Communications. His involvement in SNI has been crucial to the success of SNI's satellite projects but has also extended to other areas such as radio frequency planning and general telecommunications regulatory questions of a technical nature. He has in addition been SNI consultant to the European Commission for the evaluation of technology proposals. In Transeurosat, Pierre acted with Kevin Madders in promoting the company.
On the SNI Projects Board, Pierre contributes to screening projects from a management, technical and feasibility point of view. He also brings his wealth of experience to bear on questions of business development and external relations.
Stewart Davidson,
BSc,
MSc, CEng, FIEE
Roles:·
Project Manager· Technology Systems Designer and Analyst·
Evaluator of Business Proposals and Issues· Technical Regulatory
Expert· Communicator, Mentor
Stewart Davidson is familiar to many across the telecommunications industry, thanks to his many roles in both the private and public sector. A former BT manager and Plessey design manager for the System-X PABX, he established a factory in China for the company and managed various processes including marketing. He then entered solo consultancy and took up an expert assignment at the European Commission, where he assumed the responsibilities of secretary of the Approvals Committee on Terminal Equipment. His close familiarity with equipment systems and network operation and planning led him later to be chosen as primary draftsman within the Commission for the preparation of the Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment Directive, the most far-reaching piece of deregulation legislation issued in the telecommunications equipment sector.
Stewart joined SNI in 1996, to work particularly on network planning issues. He developed a project evaluation methodology ("blue water") for one planning project that has since become SNI's standard for quick issue differentiation. This method is of particular value in evaluating competing technical and commercial offers. Stewart has advised on both sides of the regulatory divide and has played a major part in the preparation of business plans and documentation associated with tenders for wideband radio licences. He is also a gifted communicator, and has developed courses on subjects as diverse as frame relay and equipment market admissibility.
On the SNI Projects Board, Stewart screens opportunities and proposals, notably in relation to business planning and the pursuit of telecommunications regulatory projects. He often takes the lead in cases requiring preparation of a bid.
