Board of Directors

• Rebecca Temple, President

  

  Rebecca Temple was appointed Chief Financial Officer for Vodafone Americas and Partner Markets in July 2019. In this role, she leads Vodafone Business finance operations throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America, in addition to Vodafone partner markets including France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg, the Nordics and Vodafone’s international public sector customers.

  Rebecca joined Vodafone in 2006 and has held many roles over the years in Vodafone UK before moving to America in 2018, where she held the position of Financial Controller before taking her current role.

  Prior to joining Vodafone, Rebecca held roles at Thames Water and Trader Media Group. Rebecca is a Bachelor of Law and a Chartered Accountant (ACMA).

• Megan Doberneck, Director

  

  Megan Doberneck is Head of Legal for Business Area Global Communications Platform (BGCP). In her role supporting Vonage, Megan is responsible for the company’s global legal affairs, including commercial and technology transactions, compliance, intellectual property, litigation, privacy, employment, and regulatory matters.

  Prior to joining Vonage, Megan was with Vodafone Americas, where she was most recently General Counsel and Company Secretary. In this role, Megan was responsible for the Americas’ legal, regulatory and compliance teams, the Vodafone Americas Foundation team, and Vodafone’s global business product and procurement legal teams.

  Megan earned her J.D. from Columbia University School of Law and B.A. in Political Science from University of California at Berkeley.

• Andrew De La Torre, Director

  

  Andrew is a global technology leader who is relentless when it comes to making companies more successful. For 20+ years, he has used technology as a tool to engage worldwide customers, streamline operations, and drive profitability.

  Currently, Andrew is the Group Vice President of Technology at Oracle Communications leading the business’ Presales organization. Previously, Andrew De La Torre was the Head of Technology for Vodafone Americas based in New York, and led Vodafone Malta for four years through a transformative technological journey. Andrew was with Vodafone for over 20 years and brings with him global strategic and operational experience.

  Throughout his career, he has designed, directed, and supported enterprise, consumer, and wholesale technologies in Fortune 500 environments. Andrew inspires and motivates international teams to push innovation to the next level—achieving many first-to-industry and first-in-the-world successes.

• Peters Suh, Director

  

  Peters Suh was the CEO of the Wholesale Applications Community (WAC), an alliance of communications companies committed to building an open applications platform. WAC will deliver an open industry application development platform that will benefit the entire ecosystem. By providing a single route for developers to deliver the latest innovative applications, WAC will bring applications to more than three billion global mobile users.

  Previously, Peters was the CEO of JIL (Joint Innovation Lab), a joint venture with Vodafone, China Mobile, Verizon Wireless, and Softbank Mobile. Before joining JIL, Peters was President of Vodafone Global Enterprise Incorporated and Vodafone Ventures Limited. He was a managing director for Fremont Communications a private equity fund focusing on telecommunication investments. Peters was previously Vice President, Chief Technical Officer for Vodafone’s Global Internet Services group and also held a number of positions with AirTouch Cellular. Peters is a director of Vodafone Americas Foundation, Aspire Technologies, and the Diablo Regional Arts Association. Peters holds a B.A. and M.B.A., both from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Non-voting Officers

• Bryan Ganno, Secretary

  

  Bryan Ganno is the Compliance Officer for Vodafone Americas, a position he has held for 8 years.  He is responsible for corporate, legal and regulatory compliance across the Americas, including various entity establishment operations as well as oversight for corporate secretarial responsibilities for the region.

  He joined Vodafone Americas in 2014, where he contributed to the sale of Vodafone’s ownership percentage of Verizon Wireless back to Verizon.  Since then, Bryan has held roles within Corporate Legal, Risk Regulatory & Compliance and External Affairs.

  Prior to Vodafone, Bryan worked in a variety of roles for several different law firms, the last of which was a local Denver, CO firm where he served as Business Manager.

  Bryan holds a BA in Journalism from the University of Montana and a MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Colorado Denver.

• Rhys Saunders, Assistant Treasurer

  

  Rhys is the Financial Controller for Vodafone Americas, responsible for the Financial Operations for the United States, Canada and Latin America. He joined the New York based Finance team in January 2020 after relocating from the UK where Rhys spent twelve years at Vodafone UK and Vodafone Group.

  Starting on the Finance Graduate Scheme in 2007, Rhys has held various Finance roles at Vodafone. Most recently he led the UK Margin Assurance team as a Global Process Lead based in Newbury, UK where he drove significant transformation through the implementation of innovative technologies.

  Rhys holds a master’s degree in Physics and Astronomy, is a Chartered Accountant and is a fluent Welsh speaker.