Working closely with Management team, the VOSS Board provides corporate governance and guidance essential to the company’s continued growth and success.
Mike Frayne, Chief Executive Officer
Before joining VisionOSS, Mike Frayne was co-founder and Executive Chairman of Intec Telecom Systems PLC. Prior to founding the Intec Group he worked as a consultant for a number of years, following IT management roles in the investment banking industry.
Mike holds an MBA from Wits Business School, Johannesburg, and a BSc in Information Technology and Psychology. Mike was named Ernst & Young ‘Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2001. Mike’s business interests are truly global, ranging from companies in the USA, Africa, Asia-Pacific and Europe.
Mark Farmer, Non-Executive Director
Mark has 25 years' experience as entrepreneur and manager in the telecommunications software industry and is a co-founder of Eden Ventures. In 1991 he co-founded Metrica Systems, which became the leading supplier of performance management software to the telecommunications industry. During his time there Mark grew sales from zero to $28m, winning over 150 customer installations worldwide. Metrica was acquired by ADC Telecoms in 1996. Mark subsequently co-founded Smartgroups, one of the first communities web sites, (acquired by Freeserve for $95m), and Cramer Systems, which emerged as the leading supplier of inventory systems to the telecommunications industry (acquired by Amdocs for $425m).
With a strong investment track record and considerable management experience, Mark brings extensive domain knowledge of the telecommunications industry and sales skills to the Eden team. Mark was awarded the VC Personality of the Year Award, 2007, by Investor AllStars.
Cyril Bertrand, Non-Executive Director
Cyril Bertrand is a Partner at Xange Captial where he is responsible for core-technology investments and for the German-speaking area. Cyril has prior venture capital experience at DVC (Munich, Germany) where is was responsible for the Telecom & Semiconductor investments, and at TeleSoft Partners (San Mateo, CA). Prior to that, his 7-year tenure at Alcatel brought him to the position of Director in charge of creating and growing Alcatel’s first generation of 802.11 products across France, Spain and Israel in 2000.
Cyril is also a non-exec board director of Apertio (UK), MergeOptics (Germany), Panoratio (Germany), Powerlase (UK) and is an observer at BigMachines (US).
Derek Lispcombe, Executive Director
Derek Lipscombe is a co-founder of the company and is responsible for EMEA Sales. Derek has 18+ years experience in IT & T solutions sales, with a number of senior sales positions with Tandem Computers, Vicorp, Olivetti & Intec Telecoms Systems.
Whilst engaged in previous sales and sales management roles, Derek has also developed long term and fruitful business relationships with BT, HP, 3, O2, Cesky Telecom, Energis and Vodafone. At Intec, in the role of Sales Director for EMEA, Derek developed the sales team which delivered 800% revenue growth and 30 new clients over a three year period. He was Head of Sales in EMEA for JacobsRimell, where he lead the IP Telephony busisness development – responsible for the Cisco relationship.
Derek co-founded CapeConnect Ltd - a consulting business specialising in the design and implementation of wholesale and content settlement systems for telcos and he formed the EdgeAlliance EMEA based sales and business development network in partnership with Dr. Stefan Peters. Derek has a BSc in Mathematics from Heriot-Watt University.