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Mark Rowland

Partner

United States

Mark helps clients in the telecom and wireless industries tackle complex challenges around business and technology strategy, technology & new product development and operations improvement.

Areas of Focus

Education

Sheffield Hallam University
Master of Science

Past Experience

MAG
Co-founder & Partner – Telecom Services
IBB Consulting
Partner – Wireless Consulting

Mark is a Partner based in the US and is a member of the firm’s global Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME) practice.

Mark is an experienced executive and management consultant with 30+ years of experience in the telecom and wireless industries across Asia, Europe, and North America. Mark’s focus spans strategy development, market and product planning, technology development and operational improvement, leveraging a deep knowledge of telecommunications and IT technology.

Mark is a proven team leader and mentor with an ability to collaborate with all levels within an organization. Mark serves as a trusted advisor to clients with a proven capability to deliver actionable results leveraging a broad range of skills, growth strategy, product roadmap, technology strategy and planning, operational planning and improvement, business and financial analysis, change management, technology development and commercial due diligence.

Mark earned his MS in Computer Science from Sheffield Hallam University.

Synthetic data: facilitating innovative solutions
Synthetic data: facilitating innovative solutions
Synthetic data (artificially generated data that mimics real-world data) enables AI development by addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns, enhancing model performance, enabling testing and validation, mitigating bias and security vulnerabilities, and facilitating prototyping. As we explore in this Viewpoint, synthetic data helps create robust, secure, unbiased AI systems by overcoming data challenges and privacy limitations.
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From legacy to leading: Mastering large-scale it transformations
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
From legacy to leading: Mastering large-scale it transformations
Communication service providers (CSPs) — especially standalone operators — tend to face serious roadblocks in the initial stage of IT transformations. Discussions about IT architecture and vendor options often lead to analysis paralysis, which hinders progress to the point where operators are unable to keep pace with industry evolution. This Viewpoint provides a blueprint for mastering large-scale IT transformations.
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Tightening the data belt
Tightening the data belt
Mark Rowland, Michael Papadopoulos, Lokesh Dadhich, Sri Rajagopal
The era of big data has delivered real business impacts across industries. However, increased data gathering has a downside; ever-growing data storage volumes and compute requirements lead to budgetary and operational constraints. Automatically generated log files silently drive this rapid, enormous data growth. This Viewpoint identifies how companies can successfully improve holistic log file management to deliver benefits by controlling costs, ensuring compliance, and unlocking data value.
Find out more

Mark is a Partner based in the US and is a member of the firm’s global Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME) practice.

Mark is an experienced executive and management consultant with 30+ years of experience in the telecom and wireless industries across Asia, Europe, and North America. Mark’s focus spans strategy development, market and product planning, technology development and operational improvement, leveraging a deep knowledge of telecommunications and IT technology.

Mark is a proven team leader and mentor with an ability to collaborate with all levels within an organization. Mark serves as a trusted advisor to clients with a proven capability to deliver actionable results leveraging a broad range of skills, growth strategy, product roadmap, technology strategy and planning, operational planning and improvement, business and financial analysis, change management, technology development and commercial due diligence.

Mark earned his MS in Computer Science from Sheffield Hallam University.

Synthetic data: facilitating innovative solutions
Synthetic data: facilitating innovative solutions
Synthetic data (artificially generated data that mimics real-world data) enables AI development by addressing data scarcity and privacy concerns, enhancing model performance, enabling testing and validation, mitigating bias and security vulnerabilities, and facilitating prototyping. As we explore in this Viewpoint, synthetic data helps create robust, secure, unbiased AI systems by overcoming data challenges and privacy limitations.
Find out more
From legacy to leading: Mastering large-scale it transformations
Telecommunications, Information technology, Media & Electronics (TIME)
From legacy to leading: Mastering large-scale it transformations
Communication service providers (CSPs) — especially standalone operators — tend to face serious roadblocks in the initial stage of IT transformations. Discussions about IT architecture and vendor options often lead to analysis paralysis, which hinders progress to the point where operators are unable to keep pace with industry evolution. This Viewpoint provides a blueprint for mastering large-scale IT transformations.
Find out more
Tightening the data belt
Tightening the data belt
Mark Rowland, Michael Papadopoulos, Lokesh Dadhich, Sri Rajagopal
The era of big data has delivered real business impacts across industries. However, increased data gathering has a downside; ever-growing data storage volumes and compute requirements lead to budgetary and operational constraints. Automatically generated log files silently drive this rapid, enormous data growth. This Viewpoint identifies how companies can successfully improve holistic log file management to deliver benefits by controlling costs, ensuring compliance, and unlocking data value.
Find out more

More About mark
  • Sheffield Hallam University
    Master of Science
  • MAG
    Co-founder & Partner – Telecom Services
  • IBB Consulting
    Partner – Wireless Consulting