Peter Curnow-Ford

Peter is the Founder and Managing Partner at Viatec Associates, which assists organisations with decision making and investment in the cellular, satellite, and wireless landscape. Peter works with DCMS 5G Testbed & Trials competitions, consults LEPs on 5G rollout, and is a regular 5G conference speaker. He has held Non-Exec roles with SMEs, been a board Advisor to SME and AIM listed companies and mentored many startup CEOs.

Peter is Founder and Managing Partner at Viatec Associates and its global business

With 30+ years’ experience in global telecoms and IT, Peter founded Viatec Associates in 2002 to assist organisations with decision making in the cellular, satellite & wireless infrastructure and device space, on investment, key operational and technology trends and thought leadership on wireless landscape, 4G & 5G, spectrum use and acquisition, tower (cell site) development and funding, public safety, handsets, transport connectivity and cellular backhaul including small-cell strategies and mmWave. We have supported many Investment Banks, Private Equity and Hedge Funds on infrastructure investment.

5G figures large in what we do - commercial strategy, value proposition, investment, spectrum acquisition, Deep Fibre and infrastructure. Deep interest in small-cell, spectrum valuation and auctions, Tower & DAS investment.

Member of the techUK Communication Infrastructure Council (Previously Board Advisor to the UK Spectrum Policy Forum and was Chair of Spectrum Access and Use for 5 years). Regular conference speaker and has chaired several panel sessions at TMT Finance M&A, 5G World, Small Cell World Summit and the Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation. Board Member of the UK Fibre Connectivity Forum (UKFCF) and Tech London Advocates (TLA) 5G WG

He has held Non-Exec roles in Plasma Antennas, Eisar, Bluenowhere, Safetipay, etc and is currently Board Advisor to Dahl Mobile Technology AB and ProtectMe Ltd