Wayne Nielsen

Managing Director

wnielsen@wfnstrategies.com

Biography

Wayne Nielsen has over 25 years of telecoms experience and developed and managed international projects in the Americas, Far East/Pac Rim, Europe and Middle East.  He possesses a postgraduate Masters degree in International Relations, and Bachelor's Degrees in Economics and Political Science.  Throughout the 1980s and 90s he worked for British Telecom, Cable & Wireless and SAIC.  In 2001, he founded WFN Strategies, which provides project development and engineering of remote communications for telecoms, defense and oil & gas clients.  Recent projects have included inter-platform systems in Australia, Gulf of Mexico, US west coast, North Sea and Angola; Antarctica and Prudhoe Bay multi-telecoms systems; and numerous transoceanic submarine cable systems.  He is also founder and publisher of Submarine Telecoms Forum magazine (www.subtelforum.com), the industry’s considerable voice on the topic.

Areas of Expertise

Telecoms system strategy, organization and management

Education

• Master of Arts degree in Political Science (International Relations), Central Michigan University,1982

• Bachelor of Science degrees in Economics and Political Science, Central Michigan University, 1980

Special Certification, Licensure and Awards

• Inter-Corporate Study on Future Undersea Sensor Technologies, US Navy, 1996

• International Acquisitions, Institute of Directors (London), 1993

• Executive Leadership Programme, British Telecom (London), 1993

• Government Contracting, 1984

Curriculum Vitae