Tony Poulos
Vice President of Strategic Relations, Asia, Reef Point Systems

Tony Poulos has been involved with software development and systems integration in travel and telecommunications for over 20 years. He was involved in the development of convergent billing system in the early nineties in Australia and from there he worked in a business development role with Unisys' Telecommunications Practice in Europe. He was co-founder of Copernicus Global Billing Services, a London based, web-enabled, managed service provider for outsourced billing and payments collection. He then acted as VP Business Development of Telecoms Solutions with Logica Asia. Tony was GM Asia Pacific for leading revenue assurance solution provider, Azure Solutions after its acquisition of Connexn Technologies, Inc. which he established in AsiaPac three years earlier. Tony is founder and managing director of Facilitasia, based in Singapore which consults on Business Support Solutions (BSS) and content business in Asia.

Tony has become an international authority on telecoms BSS with strong knowledge in billing, revenue assurance, managed services, adjunct/ consolidated billing, payments and mobile content delivery. He is a renowned speaker and chairman of international telecoms conferences and has presented papers on a wide range of billing subjects including Telephony (Fixed and Mobile), Outsourced Billing, IP and ISP Billing including Usage Based Billing, IDC/Co-Hosting, IP Mediation, Utilities Billing, Convergent Billing, Content Billing, Adjunct Billing, Revenue Management, Revenue Assurance, Risk Management, Business Continuity Management, Gaming and 3G Content. His ability to communicate both the technical and business challenges facing this growing industry is in high demand. He is a regular contributor to trade publications and acts in a voluntary role as the Head of Asia Pacific for the Global Billing Association. He is also a Contributing Analyst for leading research firm, IDC Asia Pacific and runs training classes in Billing for the TeleManagement Forum.