Richard Sitruk
Telecommunications industry

Richard Sitruk was managing director and then the Director of External Relations & Major Events at ETIS (e- and telecommunications information services) located in Brussels (Belgium until December 2003). He has held these positions since 1993. He was previously managing ETIS' central office. Richard is a professional IT executive with broad technical and management experience across several industry sectors, essentially in the Telecommunications industry. He holds a degree in Mathematics and a Masters of Computer Science from the University of Paris in France. He is a French national with multi-company (both European and American) experience in the development and management of large projects. He has been involved in the re-engineering of business and organisation processes, involving the implementation of new Information Technologies. He has held several positions within ITT France, Alcatel and Digital Equipment.

Richard was strongly involved in standardisation bodies such as ETSI and organisations like the ITU-T. He is the, vice-chairman of CEN/ISSS EC workshop, member of OMG, TMF, TOG, GBA, of a new created executive committee. Richard is currently involved in 2 major EC funded projects dedicated to Web Services and security issues. He is the organiser and the chair of global conferences dedicated to CRM and IT in general.

He is a recognised expert on Telecommunication, IT, and educational matters by the EC. He has been and continues to be involved in many key European funded projects, dedicated to Telecommunication, IT, educations and e-learning programs.
He also gives lectures to MBA students in a Dutch university on topics like CRM and New Business models in the Telecom industry. He published the "ETIS 2002 strategic report: The CIO perspective".

Recently, Richard has given another direction to his career and is in the move to join telecom and IT organisations in the area of Sophia Antipolis, the so-called European "Silicon Valley". He is also a senior advisor to the EMF (European Multimedia Forum).