Speaker Biography
Stuart Newstead
Director
Ellare
Stuart Newstead is CEO of independent consultancy Ellare. He builds on a 20-year record in fixed & mobile markets to specialise in wireless data strategies, TMT convergence and the commercial impact of telecoms regulation.
Clients include Guardian Media Group, AOL, BT Group, ntl:Telewest, RIM, T-Mobile, Cisco Systems, HP, Close Enterprise Ventures and Esprit Capital. Stuart was previously VP at O2, where he devised the mobile data strategy and led the European exclusive launch of BlackBerry.
Before that he was GM at BT Wholesale and was instrumental in developing, negotiating and implementing the UK interconnect regime for telephony. As well as an MBA, Stuart has an MPhil in Statistics from Yale and an MA in Mathematics from Cambridge.