Claude Achcar

Proven management and leadership skills developed over 30 years of ICT and consulting experience. Extensive experience managing multi-disciplinary teams across diverse regions. Consulted for Venture Capital and VC backed innovation and entrepreneurship, Private Equity, and various verticals including telecoms, finance, and government. Performed diligence studies on investment and M&A targets.

Founder and Managing Partner of Actel Consulting, a highly specialised Tech advisory firm operating globally with a focus on Asia. Actel Consulting offers independent, deep-dive, hands-on, and implementable advisory.

Started career as Research Associate with CRIM in Canada followed by eleven years with Nortel Networks to hold a wide range of responsibilities from Systems Engineering to Program Management, Marketing and Major Accounts Executive in Canada, France, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Prior to Actel Consulting, led the Asian operations of Ciena, a leading intelligent optical networking vendor, to build a self-sustaining and growing organization across Asia from a greenfield start.

Electrical engineer by training. Holds a B.Eng and M.S. Engineering from Ecole Polytechnique and MBA from McGill University, Montreal, Canada.