Nadine BEREZAK-LAZARUS

bmp TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANTS Managing Director

Curriculum Vitae

Mrs. Nadine Berezak-Lazarus, French, graduated at the MBA Grande Ecole Commerciale (3rd in ranking), ESCP -EAP and studied in Paris, Oxford and Berlin in 1987.

From 1987 to 1991, she held a position as Credit manager in an international bank (Société Générale), followed by a 2 years as a product manager in the telecommunication service of a PBX based enterprise (S-Siedle & Söhne Co. KG). Since 1993 she has been focussed on the strategic assessment of broadband access technologies such as xDSL, ATM, CATV, Wireless Access, Power Line Communications, Fiber to the x... in her former position as Managing Consultant at the leading Germany based telecommunications consultancy Eutelis Consult. There she advised clients such as Deutsche Telekom (she supported their strategy on DSL from 95 to mid-99), France Télécom, Siemens, and many others... on their broadband positioning and related issues. During this time she worked also on the mobile sector (GSM, PRS, UMTS) having started with the Green Paper on mobile communications in the year 2010 for the European Commission.

In 1999 Mrs. Nadine Berezak-Lazarus founded bmp TELECOMMUNICATIONS CONSULTANTS (bmp TC) and where she held the position of managing director since. bmp TC continues to offer strategic and operational support for international stakeholders of the broadband market (operators, utilities, manufacturers and enablers, investors, public authorities and institutions). bmp TC’s topics address business models over a variety of last mile platforms such as xDSL, CATV, Wireless (WLL, WiMax, WiFi) , PLC or FTTx/ NGN and issues related to innovation and service development in the e-home, smart services and Smart building services, IPTV and FMC sector.

Worldwide customers include high ranking service providers such as Electro-Com (Russia), France Telecom (France), 9telecom/Cégétel (France), GTS Central Europe (Hungary), Smart Telecom (Ireland); utilities such as Electricité de France, Electricity Authority of Cyprus, ESB (Ireland), CIE (Côte d’Ivoire); manufacturers such as Legrand (France), Mitsubishi (Japan), NEC (Japan) or Siemens (Germany); venture capitalists/ incubators such as BVCP (Russia), CMGI (France), Morgan Stanley (UK) or Durlacher (UK). 

Further bmp TC is one pionneering consultancy involved in the public intervention field, having been among the first public realised projects within broadband in France since 2003, involved in Ireland, Germany or in Cyprus on these subjects,or accompanying the first Public Private Partnership within France for a broadband very high data rate network with a global investment of more than 150Mio€.Mrs. Berezak-Lazarus has led projects for public authorities and institutions such as the Strategy Councel for Telecom for the Prime Minister in France (CSTI), the Economic And Digital Development Agency in France (DATAR/CIADT), the DCMNR Body within the Irish government, or the African Telecommunications Union (ATU). Numerous municipalities/local regional authorities have been supported by Mrs. Berezak-Lazarus regarding their digital strategy and policy (fighting the Digital Divide). 

Conferences, publications, associations

-       Mrs. Berezak-Lazarus regularly chairs and takes part in conferences and seminars discussing relevant topics in the various telecommunications fields. These are held in- and outside of Europe (North and South America, Africa and Asia). 

-       Moreover she has published various articles in the dedicated telecommunication press on these issues and a book on ADSL technology in October 1999 (mitp Verlag: “ADSL: Auf der Überholspur durch die Multimediawelt” [“ADSL: On the Fast Lane through the Multimedia World”] – www.mitp.de).

-       In 1997 Mrs. Berezak-Lazarus was co-initiator of the Powerline Telecommunications Forum (PTF), continually supporting the work of this forum by bringing together experts in the field which today has been partly turned into the PLCforum (www.plcforum.org) the worldwide organisation for Powerline. The PTF was dissolved in 2007.