Vafa Shams

October 06, 2020 | Tuesday | 5 PM

BIOGRAPHY

Vafa has his professional background in Cellular technologies at Ericsson and Alcatel-Lucent Bell-Labs where he gained valuable global experience from leading major accounts such as Telstra, Vodafone and Softbank. Vafa has also been an active contributor to the innovation and start-up ecosystem in Australia as an angel investor, mentor, advisory board member and non-executive director in programs like CSIRO ON Innovation and Translational Research (TRaM) program at University of Melbourne. Vafa holds an Electrical Engineering degree (Honours) from Monash University and an MBA from Macquarie and Sophia University in Japan. Currently, Vafa is Wirepas head of APAC. Wirepas is an industrial IoT start-up from Finland and a spin-off from the Technical University of Tampere after ten years of deep Tech research.

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