Rolf Blomberg - President, ASIA Pacific
 

Rolf, is a founder of Max16, a specialised technical telecommunications consultancy serving clients in Asia, the Americas and Europe. He currently heads up their Asia Pacific Region and for the past two years has been responsible for planning, rolling-out and managing the national network of the WiMAX-based ISP bracNet, located in Bangladesh. As CTO and later COO, Rolf is the architect behind the national roll-out of their 3.5GHz WiMAX/802.16-2005, fiber and microwave backbone and 2.3GHz mobile-WiMAX/802.16e network.
Rolf has also designed and rolled-out market-adapted value-added services for business and residential customers and is accountable for the sales and marketing operation.

 
  Rolf's interest in wireless ISP's began as a co-founder and CTO of Traffic Center AB, a wireless ISP operating in the Stockholm archipelago, where he was responsible for rolling-out and managing their network.

Prior to this Rolf held multiple positions within Ericsson in Sweden and USA working in R&D, Marketing/Sales and Services, always at the leading edge of technology. In 1998 he was appointed by Ericsson as Director of Technology for MCI/WorldCom where he played a principal role in expanding business with a special focus on datacom (ATM, IP). His earlier contributions included the development of Ericsson's very first Dial-up Internet solution together with Bay Networks and he was a key contributor in R&D receiving special awards for inventing and developing new tools and processes.

This background gives Rolf a unique experience in terms of understanding how to successfully develop and manage wireless data networks and ISP operations, specifically using IEEE 802.16 technologies.