WBBA Leadership

Mr. Chen is the Vice President of Huawei and President of the Optical Business Product Line. He is responsible for Huawei's optical business from end to end, including strategy, R&D, marketing, service, and supply. He takes charge of the transformation and evolution direction of the optical business, builds the leading competitiveness, and take responsibility for the commercial success of the optical industry.

Since joining Huawei in the year 2000, Mr. Chen has taken on various management roles in the company, including President of Marketing & Solution Sales Department of Enterprise BG, President of Enterprise BG Commercial & Distribution Business Department, Marketing Director of Data Communications Product Line, Director of Network Strategy & Business Development Department, General Manager of Microwave Domain, and Director of Transmission Network Product Line. Mr. Chen also served as Director of the Latin America Network Marketing and Solution Sales Department, leading marketing and sales strategies in Latin America.

Mr. Chen has extensive experience in strategic planning, marketing, and product and solution sales, and product R&D in the carrier and government and enterprise markets, with fourteen years in research and development, four years in strategy and marketing, and five years in sales.

Chip Strange is the Chief Strategy Officer at Ookla, the global leader in network intelligence and connectivity insights.

As the Chief Strategy Officer, Chip leads global corporate development, strategic partnerships, government and industry affairs, and the Ookla for Good program. Prior to joining Ookla in 2018, he supported the successful divestiture of Mosaik Solutions to Ookla, where he had been responsible for corporate strategy, marketing, product management, and software engineering functions.

Chip has twenty-six seven years of telecom industry experience, working with network intelligence and communications service providers.

Darius Jose R. Delgado was appointed Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Globe Telecom in September 2024, bringing with him over three decades of expertise in strategy execution, transformation, integration, and business innovation. Since joining Globe in 2003, Delgado has played a pivotal role in major company milestones. He began in Internal Audit and Strategy Management before contributing to one of the company’s most extensive transformation projects—the revamp of Globe’s Billing system. He later led Globe’s Broadband business to subscriber market leadership in 2020 as Head of Consumer Broadband.

In 2021, he transitioned to lead Consumer Mobile, where he drove market innovations that significantly increased Globe’s revenue market share in total Mobile since 2022, sustaining this momentum to the present. Prior to his appointment as CCO, Delgado served as Vice President for Consumer Mobile Business and later as Officer-in-Charge of the Commercial Group, where he played a key role in shaping Globe’s strategic direction across sales, marketing, and audit. His deep understanding of market dynamics and strong track record in P&L management have consistently driven profitability and strengthened Globe’s market position.

As CCO, Delgado is committed to driving innovation, sustaining business momentum, and delivering lasting value for customers, the company, and its stakeholders. Before joining Globe, Delgado was a Director at SGV & Co. (Ernst & Young), where he gained extensive experience across multiple industries over nine years. He holds a degree in Accountancy, Magna Cum Laude, from the University of Santo Tomas and completed the Executive Development Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, in 2024.

Elif Yenihan Kaya has started her professional life as a telecom engineer in Turkcell Network Operations where she played a key role in managing mobile network operations. Over the years, she held various engineering and managerial positions in both Operations and Planning. Since 2015, she has been leading strategic planning for Turkcell's Fixed and Mobile Network Technologies. Currently, she serves as the Director of Network Capabilities for the entire network, driving the company's long-term technology strategy.

She holds a degree in Electronics & Telecommunications Engineering from Istanbul Technical University and an MBA from Istanbul Bilgi University.

Haithem is the Group Chief Technology Officer of STC, responsible for overseeing, developing and implementing the technology strategy and architecture of the group aligned with business goals.  Focus on driving synergy initiatives and centers of excellence across the group and governing the implementation of technology guidelines, to achieve technology performance goals. Directs engineering, expansion and operating activities of the telecom, IT infrastructure & applications in alignment with the STC’s Group Strategy. Identifying and evaluating emerging technologies to drive innovation.

In his position as Executive Vice President of Swisscom’s Networks unit, Markus Reber is responsible for all the network infrastructure as well as its operation and upgrading. This spans not only the mobile and fixed networks, but also the core, consisting of IP and optical transport, and Swisscom’s data centres.

Within the framework of the Swisscom technology strategy, he purposefully guides the modernisation of the network infrastructure – whether through strategic consolidation of the core, the ongoing upgrading of mobile telephony with 5G or the continuous expansion of Switzerland’s fibre-optic network.

Markus has more than 25 years of experience in the field of information and communications technology (ICT) and was directly involved in the liberalisation of the telecommunications market from the outset. He graduated in electrical engineering from Burgdorf University of Applied Sciences in Bern Canton and holds an MBA from the prestigious University of St. Gallen. Markus also sits and plays an active role on the boards of Cablex AG, Swisscom Real Estate Ltd and the World Broadband Association.

Mohamed Amine Benziane is the vice-chairman of ITU-T Study Group 15 that deals with Networks, technologies and infrastructures for Transport, access and home, he also served as ITU-D vice-rapporteur for the 2017 – 2021 cycle, where he dealt with aspects of broadband deployment strategies and policies in developing countries.

Mohamed has represented Algeria in various ITU major conferences and meetings, such as, the World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly(WTSA), the World Telecommunication Development Conferences (WTDC), ITU Council (ITU governing body) and the ITU Plenipotentiary conferences (ITU higher decision making body), where he was Vice-Chairman of the steering committee of the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22).

He also served as African Telecommunication Union (ATU) consultant for the 2022 ITU Plenipotentiary Conference (PP-22) preparatory process for the African region, where he was in charge of defining the region’s strategy and approach to the conference.

He is currently Head of Technology Watch Unit at Algérie Télécom, overseeing SDOs technical standards, including ITU, and has more than 10 years’ experience in telecommunications engineering.

Mohamed Amine Benziane is a State Engineer in electronics and he holds an MBA.

Pa Touray is the Head of Monitoring and Evaluation at the Gambia Telecommunication Company Limited and the Telecommunications Cellular Company (GAMTEL/GAMCEL), the Gambia's primary provider of core telecommunication services. In this capacity, he focuses on developing strategies to assess the processes, viability, effectiveness, impact, and sustainability of projects to enhancing Quality of Service and the delivery thereof to aid in decision making. Pa has been in the telecommunications industry for two decades. He previously held the positions of Regional Core Engineer, Manager Transmission, and Manager Enterprise Risk Management (GAMTEL/GAMCEL). His background is Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Telecommunication systems and Digital Networks and Information Technology. Pa has also successfully completed a number of professional training programs, such as Managing Contingent Liabilities and Government Fiscal Risks in Projects, Enterprise Risk Management, CCNA, Next-generation Network Systems, WLL CDMA Engineering and Planning, and Satellite Systems and Space Technology with Application

Sami G. Jarrar career calling has been to build and develop organizations that deliver sustainable businesses and financial growth through a customer-focused approach.

His diversified experience in multiple startups as well as large organizations, be it managing P&L, people, projects, or commercial initiatives has allowed him to have an impact on business performance and market presence.

He was fortunate to have attained this from the vantage points of both a business leader, CEO/GM, and head of a variety of business units.

Sunil Piyarlall is the Executive for Network Architecture and Modelling at Openserve. With over thirty years of experience in the Information and Communications Technology fraternity, Sunil has held key Business and Technology Strategy positions within the Telkom Group.

He serves on various industry bodies, including the World Broadband Association. Sunil brings his extensive FTTH knowledge, as well as experience from presenting at several local and international conferences, to address industry challenges and advance technology evolution.

Mr. Xie Junshi joined ZTE in 2001. He has been serving as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer since September 2019. Prior to that, he acted as Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer between July 2018 and September 2019. Committed to ZTE's development in the international market, Mr. Xie successively worked as Manager of the Commercial and Technical Dept. in ZTE Europe and South Asia, Vice President of ZTE Europe, and CTO of ZTE Europe and America from 2001 to 2018.

Mr. Xie has contributed a lot to the breakthroughs in the European and American markets. He has extensive managerial experience in market operations, project management, marketing and solution management, and operations management.

Mr. Xie is dedicated to ZTE's digital transformation and operational efficiency improvement and is now in charge of Operations Management and sales business of the company. He holds a master's degree in engineering from Tsinghua University.