Avi Legmann

Avi Legmann has been a serial entrepreneur in the telecommunications industry and has held senior executive roles in both large and start-up companies, over his 20 years technology sector experience covering engineering, marketing, sales, business development and general management. Since 2006, Avi has led strategic consulting projects for range of customers, has served on boards of early stage ventures and has held interim executive positions as the CEO of a business accelerator (Jay Young) and the SVP of business development for a Service Assurance company (Auspice). Other recent projects include business development between American and Israeli companies and fund raising to support such collaborations.

From 2002 to 2006 Avi was founder, Senior Vice President and later Co-CEO of Quarry Technologies, heading operations, business development and sales. Quarry, a supplier of a carrier-class managed security edge device/router was created in 1998 as a spin off from BBN. The product evolved from a one arm blade to a full blown network based edge device and ultimately into a security gateway for FMC (predominantly IMS) networks. In 2006, Quarry Technologies became Reef Point Systems, merged with NextTone and today is part of GenBand. Avi’s led the company’s strategic vision and raised more than $80M of capital. In business development, Avi led the alignment with OEM and channel partners worldwide, including signing Alcatel and Samsung as OEM partners. He also built the full international sales team covering EMEA and APAC. From 2001 to 2002, Avi was a Vice President and Partner in a Boston based venture fund, Beacon Telco, and led investments in two early stage ventures (one is A123). From 1998 – 2001 Avi was the SVO of Business Development of Elron Software, an Israeli software company that initiating US market entry. Avi helped transition the company from a professional service business into a a product company, which successfully delivered three products targeting the CSP markets. While with Elron Telesoft, Avi closed OEM and channel partners, including Agilent and ECTel, and grew the US operation to 60 people and increasing revenue. From 1995 - 1998 Avi served as the Director of Business Development at BBN, a technology company based in Cambridge MA. Avi’s many responsibilities included P and L management of two business units totaling $45M in revenues and leading the creation of a strategic alliance with NEC that resulted in a $50M licensing and joint development deal for early GigaBit routers. When GTE acquired BBN in 1997, Avi led the spin-off of Quarry from BBN.testing

Csaba A. Szabó - ICST Executive Director

Head, Multimedia Networks Laboratory, Department of Telecommunications, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary Csaba A. Szabó received his Ph.D. degree from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BME) and a Doctor of Technical Sciences title from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. He is a Professor at the Department of Telecommunications of BME. He has also been with Create-Net, an international research center, based in Trento, Italy, as a Senior Advisor since 2004. His 30+ years of experience in academia, Research and Development and telecommunication business includes metropolitan area networks, integrated services wireless networks, video conferencing and media streaming, broadband optical and wireless networks, community network technologies and applications. Dr. Szabó has been a member of editorial boards of several journals including Computer Networks, and is the Editor-in-Chief of the “Infocommunications Journal”. He has been General Chair and Steering committee chair of several international conferences, including Multimedia Services Access Networks (MSAN), the 1st International IEEE/Create-Net Workshop on Telemedicine over Broadband (BroadMed), and the series of IEEE/Create-Net Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures (Tridentcom). He is a Senior Member of IEEE.

Wim Bartholomeus

Wim Bartholomeus was born in Gent (Belgium), the 5th January 1972. In June 1995 he obtained his degree of Master in law "cum laude" from the University of Gent. In September 1995 he became lawyer at the Barr of Gent. In September 1999 he started his own lawfirm. In 2004 he was founder of Rabotlaw (www.rabotlaw.be), a mid-sized law firm in Gent mainly focused on civil and commercial law in a wide sense.

The clients of Rabotlaw are mostly national and international medium sized companies. 
In October 2003, he was co-founder of Iusful European Legal Network (www.iusful.com).

 Since Rabotlaw is also founding member of Consilium Juris (www.consilium-iuris.net), the law firm of Wim Bartholomeus has on a daily basis close cooperation with offices in most of the European countries.

The aim of these international legal networks is to provide services primarily to small and medium sized companies, to contribute to opening up new business opportunities and to help to realize these business opportunities by providing high quality legal service for a competitive price.

Besides the legal job, since the age of 16, Wim Bartholomeus has played bassguitar with many national and international artists.
In 2007, he became the President of ICST i.v.z.w.