Advisors

TA Telecom Advisors With International Expertise

Bill Crawley
Managing Director at Mara-Ison

Bill Crawley brings more than two decades of global experience to this role with rich experience and deep domain expertise in the communications and IT services industry. Bill has a long history of building internationally successful, high-growth businesses. Before joining MARA ISON, Bill served as VP Worldwide Sales for the Sequoia Capital funded Bubble Motion.

Youssri Helmy
General Partner at Newbury Ventures

Youssri is an angel investor and advisor to several startup companies. As a General Partner at Newbury Ventures, Youssri has over 25 years of experience in engineering, product management and marketing, as well as undertaking business development in a wide range of technologies. He is a serial entrepreneur who has successfully cofounded, operated, invested in and exited several startups globally, including IdealRatings, Otlob, El3ab, Swan Labs and ITWorx.

Mohamed Elmandjra
Founder of Blue Mango Capital

Mohamed Elmandjra is founder of Blue Mango Capital and holds a Ph.D. in bioengineering. Prior to this role, Mohamed served as the CEO of Meditel, the second telecom operator in Morocco and one of the country’s largest companies. He is also a board member of Planet Finance Maroc and the co-founder of the Moroccan chapter of Endeavor. He focuses on investments in technology and healthcare in Africa, energy and software.

Bashar T. Arafeh
Founder & CEO of Arafeh & Company

Bashar Arafeh is the Head of British Columbia Operations at WIND Mobile. Previously, Bashar served as the Group CCO of Zain and was overseeing all revenue generated, brand development, marketing and sales activities across all the company’s mobile operations in seven MEA countries with total revenues of over $4 billion.