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).
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 leading global business, responsible for driving MVNO thought leadership and sales and marketing - launching core full services for MVNO/ MNO.
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.
Chris Liveing – Customer Marketing Director
Chris joins Lycamobile from Genie Global UK where he was Chief Executive Officer, prior to this Chris was Chief Marketing Officer at Tesco Mobile from 2003 to 2008. He was responsible for the launch of Tesco Mobile in 2003 and the development of the business to 1.7 million customer base and profitability in 2008. Chris has also held senior positions with 02 mobile and BT Cellnet from 1992 to 2003. Chris is responsible at Lycamobile for delivering customer experience for the brand, heading up the Knowledge based marketing function and delivering customer loyalty and retention across all markets.
Chris holds a BA Honours degree in History and is an active member of the Marketing Society.
Stephen Lodge- Head of Legal
Stephen is Head of Legal for the Lycamobile businesses, managing legal and regulatory affairs across Lycamobile's current operations and International developments.
Prior to Lycamobile Stephen worked at Virgin Mobile for ten years - including three years as Head of Legal and Management team member - from its launch through its listing as a FTSE 250 company on the London Stock Exchange and eventual acquisition and integration into Virgin Media.
Stephen trained and worked for eight years at two City of London law firms as a corporate lawyer. He is qualified in England, Wales and in Hong Kong and has spoken at high profile legal events in Europe and Asia.
Stephen holds an MA from Cambridge University and is studying for an MBA at Bath University's School of Management.