The winners in the two categories – Trailblazer and Gamechanger – will be announced after the invitation-only virtual roundtable on 16 September
Mobile Europe would like to congratulate those who made it to the shortlist for 2025’s CTO of the Year Awards, sponsored by Amdocs. The winners will be announced after the invitation-only, roundtable discussion which will take place at 15:00 BST on 16 September*.
Huge congratulations to the shortlist. The quality of the entries overall was the best we have ever received – and the Awards are now in their twelfth year.
Entrants from the GAMECHANGER category who are shortlisted:
- Ayman Amiri, CTIO, Orange Egypt
- Stefano Paggi, CTO, Fibercop
- Jeanie York, CTO, Virgin Media O2 (UK)
And this is the shortlist for the TRAILBLAZER Award 2025:
- Rami Farah, CTO, MTN South Africa
- Marius Maican, Technology Director, Orange Romania
- Eric Maintenay, CTO, Orange Slovakia
- Jorge Méndez Prieto, CTO, Onivia (Spain)
Congratulations to you all – Mobile Europe would like to thank the judging panel for its time and effort: Kester Mann, Director, Consumer and Connectivity at CCS Insight, Bengt Nordstrom, CEO Northspring and Senior Advisor, Analysys Mason, Annie Turner, Editor, Mobile Europe and Wasim Azhar, Head of Solution Consulting at Amdocs.
Who will join the hall of fame of illustrious previous winners?
2024
Gamechanger – Jose Pedro Nascimento, CTO Altice Portugal
Trailblazer Colin Bannon, CTO of BT Global
2023
Gamechanger Miguel Santos, CTO, of MÁSMÓVIL
Trailblazer Yusuf Kıraç, CTO of Turk Telekom
2022
Gamechanger Didier Clavero, Group Networks Operations Director at Vodafone Spain
Trailblazer Andrea Dona, Chief Network Officer and Network Development Director at Vodafone UK
2021
Gamechanger Enrique Blanco, Group CTIO at Telefónica (the only person to win an Award twice)
Trailblazer Philippe Ensarguet, CTO, Orange Business Services
2020
Gamechanger Catalin Buliga, CTO of Vodafone Romania
Trailblazer Micha Berger, CTO of Telenet Belgium
2019
Elmar Grasser, CTO, Sunrise Communications
Boris Drilo, CTIO, Hrvatski Telekom
2018
Group CTO of the Year – Johan Wilbergh, Group CTO, Vodafone
Regional CTO of the Year – Gediz Sezgin, CTO, Turkcell
2017
Group CTO of the Year – Yogesh Malik, Group CTO, VEON
Regional CTO of the Year –Geert Standaert, CTO, Proximus
2016
Bruno Jacobfeuerborn, Group CTO, Deutsche Telekom
2015
Fotis Karonis, CTO, EE
2014
Enrique Blanco, Group CTIO at Telefónica
* Note that the original date for the roundtable was 9 September, but we unfortunately we were obliged to move it due to circumstances beyond our control
