• OUR PEOPLE

Olaf
Acker

Senior Advisor, Telecom, Media &Technology

Olaf is a senior digital transformation expert with an international track record of helping corporates with technology and data-enabled business performance improvement. Ensuring a connection between technology, design and business strategy domains to create measurable businesses impact.

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Dave
Liu

Head of Media & Entertainment Consulting, North America

Dave has over 20 years of work and project experience across various industries, such as media and entertainment, technology, retail, automotive, telecom, consumer products, and financial services. He’s a cross-functional leader whose expertise and passion is in defining innovative strategies and bringing them to life across the media technology and operations landscape.

• OUR PEOPLE

Alix
Burge

Head of Telecom Consulting 

As a highly experience ICT executive consultant, Alix brings over 20 years of experience in telecommunications, driving digital and technological transformation and innovation through emerging technologies to global multinational corporations.

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Akash
Mittal

Head of Telecom Practice, North America

Akash is the head of the telecom practice in North America. In the past decade, he has worked with telecom operators and equipment providers to build new revenue driving strategies using core telecom assets, use data intelligence to reduce cost from operations and scale digital solutions across the telecom ecosystem.

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Cristina
Garces

CEO, Optiva Media an EPAM Company

Working in TV and media for over 20 years, Cristina delivers high-quality metaverse solutions, helping global companies build creative solutions that deliver business value and innovative experiences with a proven track record in executing the necessary components of core media and entertainment transformational programs.

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Vitalii 
Vashchuk

Global Head, Gaming Solutions

Supporting EPAM’s Gaming practice, Vitalii brings more than 15 years of experience in managing large scale gaming, media and telecom products. Bringing innovative products to market with a laser focus on cloud gaming tools, creator community experience and safety, online services, and user data monetization on a 500M+ players scale.