“How is leadership like a tree? Well, I believe both balance protection & growth, work with others or can stand alone, adapt to the environment, renew themselves, grow to reach new heights, and develop the next generation.”

James Harding

About Us

Like a mighty tree, we at ECT have weathered twenty years in our sometimes unpredictable telecommunications industry. As entrepreneurs, we protect our own financial health and see ourselves as part of a bigger community together with our customers, the communications service providers. We adapt to a sometimes hostile environment, remaining flexible for the winds to come, and renew ourselves, our products and our services as early adopters of new technology. Join us and together we will grow to new heights and develop the next generation.

Meet the management team

Individuals can and do make a difference, but it takes a team to really mess things up.

ECT Management Hans Huber

Hans Huber

Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Application Development

Hans Huber, born 1964 in Burgau, completed his doctorate in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich, Germany. Together with the other two company officers, Walter Rott and Marshall Kavesh, Hans founded ECT in 1998 and is a principle shareholder in the company. As CTO, Hans is responsible for the application layer in all ECT solutions. His hobbies include classical music, opera and theater, as well as astronomy and physics.
ECT Management Walter Rott

Walter Rott

Chief Technical Officer (CTO) for Communications Networks

Walter Rott, born in 1963 in Munich, is a trained communications mechanic and attended Munich’s Technical College, where he majored in engineering and received a degree in Information Science. Walter has more than 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, having been a member of the Engineering Circle at Siemens, where for over 10 years he developed telecommunications products and lead development teams. Together with the other two company officers, Hans Huber and Marshall Kavesh, Walter founded ECT in 1998 and is a principle shareholder in the company. As CTO, Walter is responsible for the network layer in all ECT solutions. His hobbies include technology, scuba-diving, boating, cars and opera.
ECT Management Marshall Kavesh

Marshall E. Kavesh

Chief Executive Officer (CEO)

Marshall E. Kavesh, born in 1960 in the Unites States, received his MA in Germanic Languages and Literatures at The University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. in Social Systems Sciences at the Wharton School of Business, continuing with postdoctoral studies Mathematical Logic at the Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich. Prior to ECT, Marshall worked eight years in the telecommunications industry as a subcontractor for Siemens. Together with the other two company officers, Hans Huber and Walter Rott, Marshall founded ECT in 1998 and is a principle shareholder in the company. As CEO, Marshall is responsible for general management, sales, marketing and finances. His hobbies include the history of economics, literature, languages, folk and classical music, theater, opera, boating and fishing.
ECT Management Metin Sezer

Metin Sezer

Deputy Chief Executive Officer

Metin Sezer was born 1977 in France and joined ECT in 2000. Metin is an ECT veteran, having joined the company in 2000 and held many positions in software development, presales, product management and sales. Within the framework of ECT’s management development program, Metin recently completed his MBA at the LIMAK Austrian Business School with a thesis on the business potential of WebRTC. Metin became the Director of ECT’s new Product Innovation Department in 2015 and has now been named Deputy Chief Executive Officer. In this capacity, he participates in the Board, actively contributes to the long-term company planning and represents the Board when the CEO is not present. Metin is French of Turkish origin and fluent in English, Turkish, German and French, and currently learning Spanish, which all makes him a particularly appropriate representative of the international corporate culture at ECT. Metin’s hobbies include soccer, sightseeing, watching sports, pétanque and spending time with the family.
ECT Management Wolfgang Huber

Wolfgang Huber

Deputy Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Application Development

Wolfgang, born in Burgau in 1977, holds a degree in IT from the University of Applied Sciences in Munich. He joined us in 2004 and his department is responsible for core application development. In 2017, Wolfgang also became the Deputy of our CTO, Dr. Hans Huber. He enjoys cycling, hiking and reading.
ECT Management Francine Kavesh

Francine Kavesh

Managing Director of the European Computer Telecoms LTD in London

Francine Kavesh was born in the United States, where she attended Boston University and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree with magna cum laude. Before joining ECT, Francine worked in the British telecommunications market in various posts she held after the market’s deregulation in 1995. Francine contributed to ECT from its inception, is one of the original investors in the company and indeed made the very first ECT sale back in 1998. She is Managing Director of ECT’s UK subsidiary for sales and service in the UK, Ireland and Southern Europe. Francine’s hobbies include popular music, music publishing, cinema, traveling in Africa and India, and yoga.
ECT Management Reinier Meuwissen

Reinier Meuwissen

Managing Director of the European Computer Telecoms BV in The Hague

Reinier Meuwissen, born in 1971 in the Netherlands, holds an engineering degree in Industrial Management from the HTS in Utrecht. Reinier first joined ECT in 2000 and held various management positions in service engineering (Head of Support services), product management (Vice President Contact Center Solutions) and sales (Vice President Northern Europe). Currently, Reinier is the Managing Director of ECT’s Dutch subsidiary for sales and service in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Reinier’s hobbies include tennis, boating and having fun with his family.
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Omar Salazar

Managing Director - North, Central and South America

Omar Salazar Brennes was born in Mexico. Omar has a degree in Communications Engineering and Electronics from the National Polytechnic Institute of Mexico. Before joining ECT, Omar worked for over 18 years in sales in the CALA region at Broadsoft, Dialogic and Huawei. He is Managing Director of ECT’s US subsidiary for sales and service in the North, Central and South America.
ECT Management Guido Knüp

Guido Knüp

Director, Finance Department

Guido, born in 1975 in Steinfurt, completed his doctorate in economics, business administration and sociology (rerum politicarum) at the Bundeswehr Universität in Munich, Germany. He has been responsible for finances, accounting and administration within the entire ECT Group since he joined the company in 2009. His hobbies include classic cars, mountain biking and free climbing.
ECT Management Abdul Mannan

Abdul Mannan

Vice President of Project Management and Implementation

Mannan was born in 1975 in Pakistan. He originally moved to Germany to complete his MSc in Communications Technology at the University of Ulm. Since joining us in 2005, he has had a number of roles, working in project management, indirect sales support and presales engineering. Within the framework of our continuing education program, Mannan completed his MBA at the Munich Business School in 2012. In September 2020, he became our Vice President of Project Management and Implementation. Mannan’s hobbies include literature, playing cricket and traveling.
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Raymundo Olivos

Acting Director of Presales

Raymundo was born in Mexico City, Mexico, in 1990. He moved to Germany in January 2018 in order to start work with ECT as our Deputy Director of Presales. He worked in that role until September 2020, when he was appointed ECT’s Acting Director of Presales. Raymundo studied in Mexico, graduating from ITESM CEM with a B.S. in Electronic and Computer Engineering. Prior to joining ECT, he gained presales experience by working with Huawei and Ericsson. When he is not working, you will likely find Raymundo busking in the street with his guitar, trying new food, or meeting his friends.
ECT Management Team Tahir Masood

Tahir Masood

Chief Network Architect

Tahir joins us from his homeland of Pakistan, where he obtained first his bachelors in Electrical Engineering at the National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences Islamabad, and then, an MS in Computer Networks from the National University of Science and Technology, also in Islamabad. He has worked with various telecoms companies from Huawei and xFlow Research Inc., to DELLEMC and Nokia. He is now our Chief Network Architect, based at our Munich headquarters. He focuses specifically on the migration and compliance of ECT products with different cloud platforms, and works mainly with Cloud, SDN and NFV technologies. Outside of work he maintains an interest in current affairs and a passion for cricket.
ECT Management Abdullah Masood

Abdullah Masood

Director, Worldwide Maintenance Engineering

Abdullah was born in 1979 in Pakistan. He holds an MSc in Communications Technology from the University of Ulm. Abdullah joined us in 2006, originally working in our development. He took over responsibility for our maintenance engineering at all our worldwide subsidiaries in 2015. His passions include reading, listening to music, cycling and trekking.
ECT Management Michael Seisenbacher

Michael Seisenbacher

Director, Maintenance Engineering Department, ECT BV

Michael, born in 1968 in Austria, moved to the Netherlands in September 2000. He joined ECT in 2005 after working in voice network and IT in the public and private sector. In 2012, Michael became the Director of Maintenance Engineering Department at the European Computer Telecoms BV which provides services principally to our customers in Northern, Central and Eastern Europe. Michael’s hobbies include skiing and travelling by motorcycle.
ECT Management Sheraz Ahmed

Sheraz Ahmed

Director, Maintenance Engineering Department, ECT Ltd.

Sheraz was born in London in 1974. He holds an engineering degree in Computer Science from the University College London. Sheraz joined us 2004 as an engineer and for many years has been the Director of Maintenance Engineering Department at the European Computer Telecoms Ltd. which provides services principally to our customers in the UK, Ireland and Southern Europe. Sheraz’s hobbies include cinema, playing and watching cricket and staying fit.
ECT Management Team Josef Hüttinger

Josef Hüttinger

Director of Maintenance Services

Josef is one of our few Munich natives and he joined us in 1999. During his university days he studied Mathematics and Physics for Teaching at LMU here in Munich. After it proved difficult to find work as a teacher, Josef opted for a career change, settling on IT. At the start of his journey with ECT, Josef was the first service engineer based here, spending much of his time installing new hardware and software systems for our customers. Now, as a result of sustained company growth, Josef is the Director of Maintenance Services, focusing primarily on configuring and integrating new customer systems as well as updating the software of their existing systems. Other than this he is involved with projects, such as Telekom. When Josef is not working you will likely find him Salsa dancing or playing classical guitar.
ECT Management Team Diego Vivas

Diego Vivas

Head of Joint Agile Product Development Department

Diego joined us in Munich in 2016 as an Innovation Manager, but, after successfully helping to conceive the next generation of ECT solutions, he founded our new Joint Agile Product Development Department, of which he is now the Head. He has a Joint MSc in Global Innovation Management from the Hamburg University of Technology and the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland. Having lived in Scotland and Germany he has had ample opportunity to enjoy his passion for the outdoors. When he is not hiking up every mountain that he comes across, he can normally be found at the opera. He joins us from his hometown of Bucaramanga in Colombia.
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Ugur Mutlu

Director of Products Innovation

Ugur joins us from his hometown of Istanbul, Turkey, where he also received his education. He holds degrees in both Engineering, and, Product Design from the Istanbul Technical University and he even published his thesis entitled, ‘A Study on Designer Entrepreneurs’ Innovative Business Model Generation Practices’. Ugur is our Director of Products Innovation focusing on identifying opportunities for CSPs in the market and turning them into new products and services. Prior to joining ECT he founded two start-ups and assisted many companies with innovation via new digital solutions. Outside of work Ugur likes to cycle, to go window shopping, and to write with fountain pens, trying out different types of ink and paper.
ECT Management Team Ángel Sánchez

Ángel Sánchez

Director Content Marketing

Ángel R. Sánchez is our Director of Content Marketing here in Munich. His role with ECT allows him to combine both halves of his educational and professional background: the interest in technology that brought him to study Electronics Engineering in Mexico (where he is from), and a love of reading magazines and writing short stories that lead him to start a career as a writer. The content he now oversees relates to the technology and principles of ECT but he has been published widely on topics from finance and pop culture, to videogames and cloud technology. When he is not working Ángel is probably playing videogames, watching basketball or listening to music.
ECT Management Michael Wiedemann

Michael Wiedemann

Director, Project Management Department

Michael was born in Mainz, Germany. Michael has a masters degree in Electrical Engineering and Business Administration from the Technical University in Darmstadt. Having joined us in 2001, Michael has been and continues to be responsible for the management of major telecommunications projects worldwide. In addition to English and German, Michael speaks Spanish and has strong ties to South America. He has a big sweet tooth and enjoys travelling, motorcycles, IoT and home automation.
ECT Management Michel Fontaine

Michel Fontaine

Director, Solution Specification Department

Michel was born in 1963 in the border city of Saarbrücken where he was raised in a French-German binational and bilingual family. He holds a degree in Mathematics from the University of Bonn in Germany. Before joining us in 2002, Michel was a teaching assistant at the Mathematical Institute of the University of Bonn and the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in Bonn. After successful years as a Senior Project Manager, he founded and now manages our Solution Specification Department which is responsible for amongst other things the analysis of customer requirements, including data analyses in migration projects. Michel’s hobbies include classical music, opera, good food and good wine, as well as traveling.
ECT Management Team Jukka Sipilae

Jukka Sipilae

Deputy Director of Solution Development

Jukka joined us at ECT in 2018 as the Deputy Director of our Solutions Development. He has an MSc in Economics and Business Administration and has held various positions with Nokia and Siemens in different countries. His hobbies include travelling, and watching and playing sports. He comes from Finland.

Our Values

Our values stem from the following four roots:
Transparency, Commitment, Responsibility and Initiative

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Transparency

At the very core of our values, we offer a transparent approach that is truly rare in business. We believe in a completely honest dialogue that ensures both our and our customers' interests are served. Our dedication to deliver on this win-win scenario is testified by our annual report - both consolidated and audited - which is openly available.

Commitment

Only through technical excellence can we claim a meaningful commitment to our customers. Striving always for all parties to benefit from our solutions, we believe passionately in our value-added products and services because we know how much they can contribute to your success – which, in turn, is our ultimate objective.

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Responsibility

Our customers know us as a diligent partner, dedicated to communication by way of concise and accurate reporting. Only through dialogue with our customers can we identify challenges to solve and opportunities to seize. The upshot of taking responsibility this way is an unparalleled quality of service, which we're always seeking to improve.

Initiative

Taking initiative is the key to continuous improvement and it's a principle we value highly at ECT. That's why, when finding a solution for our customers, we will always endeavour to be pro- and interactive rather than reactive to circumstantial factors (such as time constraints) which tends to counter ingenuity.

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Career Opportunities

Our personnel policy is to create the most international workforce possible and weld it together as a team. On average every third team member has another nationality; a diversity we are particularly proud of, as it nurtures a global culture full of opportunities for valuable knowledge transfer. As many members also share the same experiences when starting out in a new country, we lend each other a helping hand, which encourages us all to work as partners.

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Company Structure

Our Board represents our shareholders' interests and, working with our Chief Executive Officer and Executive Leadership Team, it approves business strategy, monitors performance against objectives and ensures that appropriate governance and risk management practices are in place to protect and grow our company.

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