Tom Luciano is the founder and President of The Luciano Group including its subsidiaries: GW Tracker, and International Telecom Strategies and Solutions.

Tom is an expert in understanding the international telecom industry.  He has 18 years of international operational experience in achieving significant margin improvement for AT&T. Coupled with 33 years background with AT&T in Engineering, Regulatory, Sales, and Product Management, he has a unique ability to understand the market dynamics and translate that into actionable cost savings and profit generating programs. Some of the highlights of Tom's career include:

Tom founded The Luciano Group to provide products and services to executives operating in the international telecom service market. Industry downsizing has produced both a business need for short-term project expertise as well as a talent pool of industry consultants to draw upon. The Luciano Group is focused on meeting that need for the International Telecom Service market.

David Schropfer is a telecommunication leader with almost 20 years of experience in both telecommunication and credit card industries. His recent primary focus is the area of is the emerging industry of Mobile Payments, and he also helps companies build worldwide business teams, create new business strategies, and raise funds for new projects.

Prior to joining The Luciano Group, David was Senior Vice President with IDT Telecom, and head of worldwide Strategic Management. In this role, David created over six million new EBIT dollars by reducing operations costs, improving quality of service, and growing new relationships with Tier-1 carriers around the globe.

In addition to his role as CEO of an application service provider in the late '90s David worked in management and executive positions in Fortune 500 companies, including the position of Business Development Officer for Capital One in the credit card industry.

Since graduating Boston College, David earned an Executive MBA from the University of Miami. Through his professional and academic education, he has established a proven track record for strategic planning, business development, financial analysis, and entrepreneurial results. He serves on the Boards of several companies, and is often involved in speaking engagements and expert panel discussions.

Bryan Pearson has more than 40 years of management experience in the telecommunications industry. He started his career local exchange operations in London, followed by 17 years in BT headquarters dealing primarily with national policy issues and international operational matters at a senior level.

Bryan also served at senior executive levels for telecommunications companies such as Tele2, Millicom International Cellular and Mobile Systems International. He also served in several critical roles within the industry, such as:

At various times, Bryan has had operational responsibility for developing and managing international telecommunications routes, and Bryan has also supervised many others in these roles.

Bryan provides a wide range of business development services to companies and national governments in relation to the telecommunications industry, including the negotiation of interconnection and license agreements, the funding for network development, and the development of business and strategic plans for telecommunications operators and investors.

Jeff has led, managed, or participated in engagements that involved the strategic assessment of Wireless Industry global business opportunities, business diversification, competitive assessment, organizational implications and planning, new service/concept assessment and development, satellite services, and strategic alliance planning. He also created strategic market assessments such as Wireline/Wireless Convergence for a major PTT that focused on competitive initiatives, customer trends, and implications of transformational technologies.

Jeff has also served as Global Director of Wireless IP Strategy and Marketing for a major global services provider, where he also developed MVNO strategy and plans for new Wireless services. Additional positions have included Global Managing Director for a portfolio of global wholesale Telecom services, which included product management and strategy responsibilities, and Practice Planning Director for Strategic Planning and Business Diversification at a premier telecommunications outsourcing organization. He has directed the development of integrated, multiple business unit globalization strategies focused on potential global/regional alliances and product/service opportunities, assessment of international strengths and weaknesses, competitive trends and needs, joint venture opportunities, customer needs, and market sizing.

Jeff is a Board member of a New Jersey-sponsored Incubator Group for startup, high-technology companies where he provides Marketing and Strategy mentoring and consulting. He holds a Masters Degree in Management Sciences and a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, and is a member of several professional and industry societies. 

Charlie has had frequent contact with telecom experts at the U.S. FCC and the Departments of State, Commerce and Justice and has met with telecom policy advisors at the OECD, the ITU, the WTO, and various other countries. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing business strategies for lessening or avoiding government regulation and in advising businesses on strategies to minimize the impact to their operations from governmental requirements.

While in AT&T’s international operations group Charlie managed a $20 million business unit responsible for providing interconnection and transport services at AT&T owned satellite earth stations and submarine cable stations.

Since leaving AT&T in 1998, Charlie has had numerous consulting engagements with a full range of entities, from small U.S. resellers to large government owned carriers. These engagements include advising an Asian government on the expected impact on market dynamics of its proposed “dominant” carrier regulation, advising a Latin American carrier on new revenue opportunities in implementing an advanced network technology, providing advice to a U.S. carrier on the WTO dispute on basic telecommunications between the United States and Mexico and advising an Asian wireless carrier on its interconnection strategies.

Charlie holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Industrial Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, a Master of Science degree from Pace University School of Advanced Management and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Simon is an information technology and telecommunications executive with over 30 years experience leading large and small software and telecommunications companies - growing revenues and profits, developing products and markets and improving operational results. He has had significant success with Product Management, Marketing, Sales, Strategic Planning and Mergers and Acquisitions. Some highlights of Simon's career include: