Management

Christian VanGhelder
Managing Director
Trustive BV

Christian VanGhelder has more than 25 years of international business experience in the ICT Industry. He is the founder or a senior board member of more than 10 companies (including EHPT-Sweden, MACH-Luxembourg, Netman-Denmark, Theseus University-France, Azure Solutions-UK, Navlink-Geneva, Trendium-Florida.). Due to his hands-on approach and thanks to his previous positions as the VP of Lucent Technologies and General Manager at Hewlett Packard, Christian is highly experienced in the set-up and management of large international and multi-cultural organisations.

Christian is also very interested in the management of SMEs and has considerable experience in managing spin-offs and organising the necessary financial structure required in the life cycles of such companies.

Christian is conscious of the importance that young talent plays in the growth of business and has forged a number of successful partnerships between the business world and universities, management schools and R&D labs.

Rodolphe Savoure
Technical Director
Trustive BV

Since completing his degree in telecom & computer engineering at the Éole Polytechnique de l'Universitée Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France (Ex. ESSI) Rodolphe has accrued over 15 years of experience reviewing, analyzing, designing and implementing OSS/BSS and network and information systems for telecom operators and service providers.

As Trustive's C.T.O., Rodolphe is now responsible for overseeing the planning, implementation and maintenance of Trustive.s IP roaming and clearing system. Rodolphe is also the project leader for the design and development of Trustive.s WISPr-compliant smart-client, MyHotspotter; a unique piece of software offering end-users one-click access to the nearest Wi-Fi hotspot as well as a host of other value added features such as an embedded SMTP service.

More recently, Rodolphe is leading Trustive.s involvement in the global implementation of emerging technologies. Thanks to his previous experience in the interconnect, data clearing and financial settlement fields, Rodolphe is able to take an active role in the definition of the WiMAX roaming exchange architecture currently being set-out by WiMAX Forum.s Global Roaming Work Group.