Paul Berriman brings over 40 years of international experience in telecommunications, media and convergence. Until January 2021 he was Group Chief Technology Officer of PCCW and HKT in Hong Kong, where he was responsible for leading the group’s product and technology roadmap and strategic development for almost 20 years. Prior to this he was Managing Director of management consultancy Arthur D. Little in Hong Kong and he has held roles in Reuters and several major Hong Kong service providers. In 2009 Paul was recognised by the IPTV World Forum with its Special Merit Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution and in 2008 he was listed as one of the Global Telecoms Business Magazine’s top 100 “most influential persons in telecoms”. He is a Chartered Engineer who holds a Bachelor of Science in electro-acoustics from the University of Salford (UK) and a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Hong Kong. Paul is a non-executive director of Spark New Zealand and a director of Rain Networks in South Africa. He is also a former director of the global NGMN (Next Generation Mobile Networks) Alliance of mobile network operators. He is also a member of the IT Management Committee of the Hong Kong Management Association.