Snapshot : Lorenzo Romano, managing director, UK & Ireland, Orange Business Services

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Lorenzo Romano: I was a trainee Foreign Exchange trader broking Italian Lira and US dollars – back in the days before the Euro.

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Snapshot : Tiago Rodrigues, senior director for PMO & Membership Services, Wireless Broadband Alliance

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Tiago Rodrigues: My first ever job was as a swimming instructor teaching young children how to swim. But my first full- time job was at

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Snapshot : Steve Polsky, CEO and founder of Juvo

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Steve Polsky: My first job out of College was with GTE’s (General Telephone & Electric) Engineering Associate Development Program. I stayed with GTE for

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Snapshot : Silvio Kutic, CEO of Infobip

What was your first job? Silvio Kutic: One of my first jobs was working part-time for a local power utility company. It was four hours a day. One day I

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Paul Bradley, 5G Strategy and Partnerships director, Gemalto

What was your first job? Paul Bradley: As a student growing up in Dublin, my first job was working in AOL technical support for the UK customer base. I often

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Keri Gilder, vice president and general manager EMEA, Ciena

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Keri Gilder: My first job was as a lifeguard, it was THE highest paid/highest skilled job in Carlsbad, New Mexico – my small town. It was

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Miguel Angel Garcia Matatoros, Managing Director, Blue Telecom Consulting

VP: What was your first job? MAGM: I have a degree in aeronautical engineering, so when I finished university I started working at the European Space Agency (ESA), in the

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Mats Nordlund, CEO & co-founder, Netrounds

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Mats Nordlund: My first job was knocking on doors in the neighbourhood where I grew up in Northern Sweden selling Christmas cards. I think

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Germain Lamonde, President and Chief Executive Officer, EXFO

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Germain Lamonde: For me it was EXFO right from the start some 30 years ago from my student flat, with simply a hundred-dollar investment.

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Patrick Buttimer, CEO of Eirteic, is our latest executive snapshot

VanillaPlus: What was your first job? Patrick Buttimer: Growing up, my parents owned a pub, so I was into customer service at a young age. Officially, my first job was

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