Wayne Nielsen

Wayne Nielsen is Managing Director of WFN Strategies and possesses more than 35 years of experience in submarine cable systems, including Arctic and offshore Oil & Gas submarine fiber systems, and has developed and managed international telecoms projects in Antarctica, the Americas, Arctic, Europe, Far East/Pac Rim and the Middle East. In 2001, he founded WFN Strategies, which provides design, development, and implementation support, as well as commercial and technical due diligence of submarine cable systems for commercial, governmental, and Oil & Gas clients. He is the founder and publisher of Submarine Telecoms Forum magazine, the industry’s considerable voice on the topic. He received a postgraduate master’s degree in International Relations, and bachelor’s degrees in Economics and Political Science, and is a former employee of British Telecom, Cable & Wireless and SAIC, and is an American citizen based in Sterling, Virginia USA.