Management Profiles
Subaskaran Allirajah - Group Chairman
Subas has 15 years experience in the prepaid telecommunications market. Subas’s knowledge, drive and determination have been instrumental in the success of the Lycatel and Lycamobile brands. A keen entrepreneur Subas has a proven track record of realising key opportunities to grow the Lycatel and Lycamobile brands.
Subas is a member of the Institute of Directors.
Milind Kangle - Group CEO
Milind is often sought after to share his knowledge at various telecommunications industry forums such Carriers World, Economist Conferences and Informa MVNO Congress globally.
Over the past 20 years Milind has held leadership positions in blue chip organisations such as Motorola and MashreqBank psc, the UAE's number one private bank. At MashreqBank, Milind led the Customer Knowledge Based Marketing, Market Research and the Financial and Strategic planning teams, from inception to deliver customer acquisition, retention, cross-sell and cost management programs to significantly enhance product and customer profitability.
Chris Tooley – Executive Vice President
Chris has over 16 years of senior level experience in the prepaid telecom industry. He pioneered many of the technical, commercial and legal industry standards in Europe for prepaid products and has worked extensively with Government Regulators and Tax Authorities. Chris was founder and CEO of Unitel Communications in 1994, co-founder of ECCSA (European Calling Card Services Association) in 1999, Chairman from 2001 to 2005.
Chris has been a regular media contributor and commentator on issues arising in the industry with BBC TV and Radio, Financial Times, other Telecoms media.
Chris was educated at Oxford University and holds degrees in History and Economics.
Premananthan Sivasamy - Group Chief Operating Officer
Prem has over 11 Years experience in the Prepaid International telecommunications industry and prior to joining Lycatel was the Managing Director of United Networks Calling Card Division, He was also Managing Director of Voice Telecom with overall responsibility for driving revenue for both their calling card and residential telecoms products.
Prem has a BA Honours Degree from Middlesex University, where he studied Accounting and Finance.
Kashmir Nijar – Chief Strategy Officer, Lycamobile
Kashmir has over 15 years experience within the Mobile Industry. Kashmir joins Lycamobile from KPN Mobile, where he was Head of International Wholesale. He was Instrumental in pioneering the new wholesale challenger strategy for KPN Mobile International resulting in remarkable growth experienced at both BASE and E-plus in 2005/2007.He also successfully launched 11 major MVNO’s & Branded partners in 2006 across multiple segments (FMCG, media, data, ethnic, mobile retail and fixed) including 5 group deals.
Kashmir has an MSc in Satellite and Telecommunication Eng from the University of Surrey and a BEng (Hons) degree in Electronic Eng from UMIST (Manchester).
Rob Beswick - Group Marketing Director
Rob has a broad range of marketing experience ranging from telecommunications through to FMCG. Prior to Lycatel, Rob worked as a key member of the Nelson Bakewell Retail Marketing team driving cross-promotional and strategic marketing initiatives over a portfolio of over 20 retail destinations. He has also worked on developing marketing and communications strategy for well-respected global brands such as Sony, Coca-Cola, Lexus, Nissan, and Jaguar.
Rob is an Associate Member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Marketing awarded by the CIM
Mohammed Malique - Group Legal Counsel
Mohammed is a Solicitor of the Supreme Court (England & Wales) and is Head of Legal, for Lycatel. He specialises in Telecommunications and also has wide ranging experience of Civil Litigation, with particular emphasis on High Court Litigation (Administrative Court).
Previous experience includes Powell & Company, where Mohammed led Human Rights Litigation, conducting several leading cases before the Court of Appeal and House of Lords, and commercial work in the telecoms market. He has experience in drafting and negotiating a wide range of commercial contracts in the Telecoms sector. He also advises on mergers and acquisitions, in addition to IP rights, Telecom Regulatory matters and Corporate Immigration.
Mohammed has lectured on Corporate Immigration, Human Rights matters and Company Commercial work, both in the U.K. and abroad.
Mohan Kumar – Group Chief Technology Officer
Mohan joined Lycatel as Chief Technology Officer in 2007 with the responsibility for spearheading strategic technology, research and development across Lycatel and Lycamobile.
Mohan has over 19 years senior experience in the technology and mobile sector and brings an unrivalled knowledge of implementing full MVNO technological architecture to Lycatel. Mohan’s experience includes XIUS-bcgi, MEGASOFT, where he was President of the business, responsible for driving MVNO thought leadership and sales and marketing - launching core network platforms for MVNO/ MNO including HLR and GSMC.
Prior to this Mohan was VP Technology and Chief Architect for Upaid Sytems in France, he also worked for HCL Technologies, and prior to this was the Manager of Information Systems for Ashok Leyland in Chennai, India.
Mohan has a BSc in IT and lives in Chennai, India.