Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB)

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board: Annual Report 2017-2018 (PDF, 205.9 KB)

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board: Annual Report 2015-2016  (PDF, 367.8 KB)

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board: Annual Report 2014-2015 (PDF, 161.5 KB)

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board: Annual Report 2013-2014  (PDF, 148.0 KB)

Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board: Terms of Reference (PDF, 115.5 KB)

Input to Ofcom Strategic Review of Telecommunications Phase 2 Consultation (PDF, 34.6 KB)

Input to Ofcom Spectrum Framework Review (PDF, 41.4 KB)

Gavin Young (Chair)

Gavin’s current role is as Head of the Fixed Access Centre of Excellence within Vodafone.  He is responsible within Vodafone Group for the fixed broadband access strategy, architecture and deployment practises across the 17 countries where Vodafone currently has fixed access assets.

Gavin was previously Head of Strategy & Planning in Cable & Wireless Worldwide leading a team of architects responsible for the technology architecture and strategy. He had previously worked at Bulldog Communications (later acquired by C&W Worldwide) where he held a variety of responsibilities from product development through to network operations and CTO. Prior to that Gavin lead the Access Architecture & Design team at BT.

Gavin was a founding director of the Broadband Forum where he was overall Technical Chairman for twelve years.   In addition he has been co-chair of the UK21CN consultation’s Broadband Group, chair of the UK NICC’s DSL Task Group and also vice-chair of the NICC Ethernet Access Task Group. Gavin also serves on the IET Communications Policy Panel, the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board (OSAB) and the Broadband Forum’s executive advisory board. Gavin is a member of the IEEE, Fellow of the IET and Distinguished Fellow of the Broadband Forum.

Professor Mischa Dohler

Mischa Dohler is now Chief Architect in Ericsson Inc. in Silicon Valley, US.

He was Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence. He is a serial entrepreneur with 5 companies; composer & pianist with 5 albums on Spotify/iTunes; and fluent in several languages. He sits on the Spectrum Advisory Board of Ofcom, and acts as policy advisor on issues related to digital, skills and education. He has had ample coverage by national and international press and media. He is featured on Amazon Prime.

Greg Bensberg

Gregory Bensberg is the Managing Director of Digital 3&4 Limited, the UK’s main commercial public service DTT multiplex, carrying ITV and Channel 4 services to over 98% of UK households. He is a leading authority on both the technical and regulatory aspects of digital broadcasting and has over 30 years’ experience as a regulator and digital broadcast engineer. He is also the chair of the 5G Media Action Group’s regulatory, spectrum and policy group.

He has previously worked as a policy and technical expert for Ofcom, the UK government and the Independent Television Commission for over 20 years. He acted as a key technical and regulatory adviser to the UK Government during the development of the UK government’s switchover policy. He was also responsible for leading Ofcom’s spectrum clearance programme (800 MHz and 2.6GHz) which enabled the UK’s 4G spectrum auction in 2013 and the development of the UK’s UHF spectrum strategy.

Gregory is a chartered engineer and holds an MBA and BSc. He joined the ITC in 1992 after spells working for Marconi, the IBA, Quantel and Thames Television. He was awarded an MBE in 2014 for services to communications and media.

Niall Murphy

Niall is a technologist and entrepreneur. With 30+ years of experience in innovation and future thinking, Niall has built pioneering businesses in internet infrastructure, the mobile internet and web services. Niall was co-founder and CEO of EVRYTHNG, a World Economic Forum Global Innovator that pioneered the Product Cloud and connecting billions of consumer products to the Web with digital identity. EVRYTHNG was acquired by Digimarc Corporation in January 2022. Niall co-founded pan European WiFi network The Cloud, acquired by BSkyB in 2010. He founded one of the first internet service providers in Africa in the mid 90s. Niall also co-founded Amsterdam-based scenario thinking consultancy The Digital Thinking Network.

Wassim Chourbaji

Wassim Chourbaji is Qualcomm’s Senior Vice President and Head of Government Affairs for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He oversees Qualcomm’s public policy, regulatory affairs and senior government relations in the region. Mr Chourbaji leads a senior team dealing with innovation, 5G, intellectual property, digital economy, spectrum, standardisation, data protection and antitrust policy. Mr Chourbaji studied engineering and mathematics.

Peter Pitsch

Peter Pitsch was an employee of AURA Networks Systems until June 2021. Prior to that he consulted for the C-Band Alliance from March 2019 to April 2020. From 1998 until May 2018, he was employed by Intel Corporation, specializing in communications policy matters. Peter was the Chief of Staff to the Chairman of the FCC from 1987 to 1989 and Chief of Office of Plans and Policy from 1981 to 1987. From 1980 to 1981, Peter was a staff member of the Reagan Administration Transition Team.

Peter received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1973 and his J.D. from Georgetown University Law Centre in 1976.

Rosalind Singleton

Rosalind Singleton is a CEO, board chair, NED, advisor and investor with over 30 years of experience in the technology sector.   She is the CEO of Spring Fibre, an FTTH start up and the Chair of the UK5G Advisory Board.  UK5G is the national innovation network dedicated to the promotion of research, collaboration and the commercial application of 5G in the UK, providing advice to and working closely with the Department for Digital, Cultural, Media and Sport (DCMS).

For the last six years Rosalind has been an active angel investor and mentor and has led several deals, focussing on tech businesses with a female founder.  She is a member of the Angel Academe Advisory Board.

Rosalind joined UK Broadband in 2013 and was Managing Director from 2017 until it integrated into it’s parent company in 2019 having held senior roles at BT Openreach, Cable and Wireless, Vodafone, various VNOs, and international operators.

Rosalind is a member of the UK Government’s Telecoms Supply Chain Diversification Advisory Council and Ofcom’s Spectrum Advisory Board.  She is an Independent NED on the board of Alphawave PLC and serves as an INCA Board Member.

Peter Hadinger

Peter Hadinger is the Chief Technology Officer at Inmarsat. Peter and his high calibre engineering team are developing next generation technologies and satellite infrastructure that will enable innovative connectivity services and solutions across land, sea and in the air. These services and solutions sustain operational, safety and mission critical applications for businesses and governments across the world.

After joining Inmarsat in 2011 to help develop the market-leading Global Xpress programme, Peter became President of the business unit responsible for US Government sales and programmes at Inmarsat and subsequently became CTO in late 2017.

Prior to joining Inmarsat, Peter spent 30 years as a leader in technology development, engineering and government spacecraft programmes at Northrop Grumman. He holds multiple patents in advanced communications technology and systems.

He also has a diverse regulatory and policy background, having successfully led industry efforts in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Telecom Services Agreement, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) World Radio Conference Advisory Committee, the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee, plus a one-year fellowship in the United States Senate.

Peter received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from California State Polytechnic University, an MBA with emphasis in finance and strategic planning from George Mason University and serves on engineering advisory boards at Virginia Tech. He was inducted into the Cal Poly Pomona Engineering Hall of Fame in 2014.

Alastair Macpherson

Alastair Macpherson is an economic advisor to the communications to the communications sector. He recently retired from PwC where he was the partner leading PwC’s economic practice and specialising in the communications and other regulated sectors. He has advised operators, regulators and governments around the globe. A major part of his interest and work has focused around the debate defining the appropriate form of regulatory intervention in the case of market failure in the communications and technology sectors in the face for technology change.  He also advised clients in other regulated sectors including posts, health and water. Alastair has acted as an expert in regulatory, competition and arbitration proceedings including the UK Competition Commission, Competition Appeals Tribunal, European Commission DG Competition and the London Court of International Arbitration.

Prior to joining PwC Alastair worked at BT plc where he held various roles in corporate finance, new businesses and regulatory affairs.

David Meyer

David is a former central government Chief Information Officer and was previously a senior army officer in the Royal Corps of Signals. In the course of his career he has worked in the UK Government digital and cyber risk fields, and on electromagnetic spectrum policy issues with Ofcom, industry and the Government.

David chairs a private limited company, DMSL, trading as 'at800', and has been a member of the Ofcom Spectrum Advisory Board since 2009. He has also chaired an industrial technical body, the Spectrum Policy Forum, since 2016.

Dr. Robert Pepper

Robert Pepper is Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning at Meta. Robert previously was Cisco’s Vice President for Global Technology Policy helping governments develop national digital strategies, addressing wireless and spectrum policy, security, privacy and Internet governance.

Robert was Chief of the Office of Plans and Policy and Chief of Policy Development at the FCC for 16 years beginning in 1989 where he led the first U.S. spectrum auctions, developing policies promoting the development of the Internet, implementing telecommunications legislation, and planning for the transition to digital television.  He also has led the Office of Policy and Development at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.

His academic appointments included faculty positions at the Universities of Iowa, Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and as a research affiliate at Harvard University. In addition to OSAB, he is a board member of the Internet Society, the OpenRAN Policy Coalition, the U.S. Telecommunications Training Institute and advisory boards at Columbia University and Michigan State University. He has chaired the U.S. Department of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy and has served on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Spectrum Management Advisory Committee.

Robert received his BA. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.