We’re delighted to announce that MEF members have elected Dawood Ghalaieny – CEO, Cellusys and Anurag Aggarwal – Associate Director Messaging Services, Tata Communications to join MEF’s Global Board.
The appointments further strengthen MEF’s leadership on business messaging as well as recognise the increased focus on mobile IOT following the launch of a dedicated programme in 2019 looking at the evolution of global connectivity from both security and identity perspectives.
Dawood and Anurag will serve a two-year term and join the following incumbent Directors:
Dawood Ghalaieny
Cellusys
Anurag Aggarwal
Tata Communications
- Andrew Bud – iProov
- Edwin Carvalho – Nexmo Vonage
- Jason Lunn – IMImobile
- Julian Ranger – digi.me
- Rafael Pellon – MEF LATAM Director
- Rakesh Paw – MEF Finance Director
- Robert Gerstmann – Sinch
- Surash Patel – RealNetworks
- Trevor Goldberg – Boku
- Waheed Adam – iTouch
The election of Cellusys and TATA Communications expands the board’s expertise and will undoubtedly help drive impact of our programmes over the next two years in order to underpin MEF’s work on self-regulatory best practices and sharing market insights.”
Dario Betti, MEF CEO
Edwin Carvalho has also joins the board representing Nexmo Vonage following the resignation of James Lasbrey who was elected in 2019. The new board will now meet in March and elect the Chair and Vice Chairs for 2020/2021.
MEF’s CEO Dario Betti said: “Thanks to all candidates that ran for this year’s digital elections and for the members who participated in the online vote to elect the leadership of our community.
MEF’s Global Board continues to help drive our transformation and growth across all the ecosystems combatting fraud, enabling identity, security and the importance of building trust as central themes across payments, advertising, content, personal data, IOT and business communications.
The election of Cellusys and TATA Communications expands the board’s expertise and will undoubtedly help drive impact of our programmes over the next two years in order to underpin MEF’s work on self-regulatory best practices and sharing market insights.”
