Flint International
Ian Ashford has a diverse work experience in the telecommunications industry. Ian is currently the Chief Sales & Marketing Officer at Flint International Ltd since February 2023. Prior to that, they served as the Head of Sales & Marketing at Flint Consulting from October 2018 to June 2023. Before joining Flint, Ian worked as the Vice President of Business Development at Mavenir from October 2017 to September 2018. Ian also held the position of Vice President of Carrier Acquisition at PGi from December 2016 to October 2017. Ian's earlier experiences include serving as the General Manager & Head of Carrier Solution Sales, EMEA at NEC Corporation from March 2015 to November 2016, Service Sales Director at Cisco Systems from September 2013 to December 2014 and July 2010 to August 2013, and Business Development Manager at Nortel from 1997 to 2000. Ian also worked at Phoenix IT Services and Cabletron Systems Ltd in various account management roles. Overall, Ian has a strong background in sales and marketing, as well as business development in the telecommunications industry.
Ian Ashford attended Kingston University from 1991 to 1994, where they obtained a BSc degree in Earth Science. Prior to that, they attended Kingswood School, although the specific duration and details of their education at this institution are not provided.
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Flint International
Services designed for you to reduce cost, accelerate new technology introduction and provide international scaling. Flint is an international services company with over 20 years’ experience helping customers solve their technical challenges. We are deeply rooted within the ICT community, with Flint starting its journey as an engineering company in 1999. In-depth knowledge of the industry and technology gives our company a unique understanding of our customers’ challenges and objectives. We are committed to building strong and long-lasting relationships with our customers, some already spanning close to 20 years. Our comprehensive portfolio of lifecycle services enables customers to design, implement and operate their networks in a cost-effective and agile manner. With expertise in mobile, automation, orchestration, enterprise networking, security and data centre; our technical experts can help you reduce time to market and provide additional capacity or capability to your in-house team. Through our learning services line of business, some of the industry’s largest players are able to accelerate new product introduction and adoption. We draw on this deep technical expertise to uniquely enable our strategic resourcing team to provide excellent contingent workers in a compliant manner throughout our international business. In today’s business environment, speed is of the essence, and we at Flint have proven we know how to mobilize quickly to achieve your market window of opportunity. We don’t stop there; to stay ahead, we spend time and energy equipping our people with the right technical, human and business competences, to make things happen; even if that means creating a new business entity to support the expansion of your business into new geography. Flint’s team of 1800 currently supports over 50 customers in more than 40 countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Russia, Asia and North America.