Bela Virag

Partner at Arthur D. Little

Speaker

Consulting focus

• Global lead for the enterprise segment in TIME industries
• Enterprise: service differentiation, mission critical, ICT, managed services, go-2-market, etc. n
• Delivery: operations, audit, production model, platform design, process design

Professional background

• 20+ years telecommunication experience both as a consultant, but also within the industry
• Led & managed sizeable teams (up to 70 people directly, 250-300 in Matrix)

Education

• MBA: focus on strategy development, international marketing and finance

Experience

• Developed mobile private network strategies for campus, slicing and other forms (incl. use cases, their evolution, tech evaluation, etc.)
• Dozens of B2B commercial cases: managed services, ICT, mission critical (incl. blue light), SMEs, channel strategy, operating model, go-2-market, etc.
• Managed multiple large projects and programs (>100 participants) in multi-country setups with executive leaders
• Techno-economics for IT & networks: 3G, 4G, 5G, SDN, NFV, Fiber, etc.
• Development of 5G networking strategy for automated train operations
• Development of a managed services capability building approach
• Supported telecom operators and enterprises alike