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Cibenix has an international team of advisors:

Peter Zaboji: Serial entrepreneur and business angel
Peter worked for Siemens for over 20 years in a variety of roles in the US and Germany which included director of strategic planning for their telecoms business. In the early 90's he was managing director of GPT Communications in the UK, and later became managing director of o.tel.o, a German telecommunications operator. In 1999 he founded the European Telco Exchange, and in 2000 he was brought in by KKR as CEO of Bosch's communication business, later renamed Tenovis. Late 2002 he turned business angel again and is chairman of a number of young companies.

Dietrich Botsch: ex-President Siemens AG
Dietrich studied Electrical Engineering at the Technische Universität in Stuttgart, Germany. He worked as an Assistant Professor at the University and got his doctorate degree in Telephone Traffic Theory during this time. He then joined Siemens in 1967 and - with an intermediate 2 years period as a lecturer in Electrical Engineering - he went through several management positions, being responsible for the development of the first and most successful digital telephone switching system of Siemens. From 1985 until 1989 he served as a Joint Managing Director for Siemens Ltd. in South Africa. After his return to Germany he brought together a consortium to apply for the second digital mobile operator license in Germany. He subsequently received responsibility for all telephone apparatus in Siemens, including Mobile Phones, and later headed the Business Division "Private Communication Systems", which included Enterprise Networks (PABX's), Mobile Phones and Cordless Phones. After retiring from Siemens in 1998 Dietrich is now busy in a number of Supervisory and advisory boards of companies in the telecom and IT industries.

Ron Adner: Associate Professor of Strategy at INSEAD
Ron teaches courses on strategy, innovation and technology management at INSEAD. His research on these topics has published in Management Science, the Strategic Management Journal, the Rand Journal of Economics, the Academy of Management Review, the Sloan Management Review, the California Management Review, the Financial Times and in edited book chapters. Dr. Adner is a member of the executive committee of the Technology and Innovation Management division of the Academy of Management as well as a member of the research committee of the Business Policy and Strategy division. He is an associate editor of Management Science. Dr. Adner holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the Wharton School of Business as well as Master and Bachelor degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. His research examines the emergence of competition and the onset of commoditization in high technology industries.