Leadership

 

Peter Caplan
Executive Director

Peter is an executive director of AlgoSpan and Chairman of UK national telco FibreSpan Ltd.  He brings 30 years experience in IT and telecommunications as a systems development engineer, moving through systems design into management consultancy.

In 1989 he founded Telecom Express to provide information, multi-media messaging and interactive voice response services.  Peter sold Telecom Express to AMV/Omnicom Inc. in 1998-2000, by which time the company was running thousands of lines with a staff of over 500.  

Prior to this he provided systems and services to, and worked closely with, many carriers including BT, Cable & Wireless/Mercury, Colt, Vodafone, AT&T, Hong Kong Telecom and Deutsche Telekom.  Peter launched the first real-time share price service using an ordinary telephone.