Benedict Bannister

Ben Bannister is responsible for proposition development and execution for global mobility, IoT, voice and collaboration services and solutions at Tata Communications. He joined Tata Communications from Syniverse, where he was Director of Product Marketing and previously served as Director of Product Marketing with clearing house service provider MACH. Before this he held a variety of product marketing, product management, marketing operations and programme management roles working in the BSS/OSS software industry, with CSG, NetCracker, MDS and Amdocs. In addition to a 15 year career in the IT services and applications software sectors, Mr. Bannister spent more than a decade working in the semiconductor industry in a variety of operations, channel marketing and customer support roles with AMD, National Semiconductor, and Intel. He holds a B.A. (Hons) in English from Essex University, an MBA in International Business Management from Strathclyde Graduate Business School, an MSc in Information Systems Design from Kingston University, and a Diploma in Marketing from the U.K. Chartered Institute of Marketing. Mr. Bannister has written and contributed to a number of published articles and is a regular speaker and panellist at industry conferences.