:: McLean Foster & Co. ::

Adrian Foster, MBA, CMC is a founding partner with McLean Foster & Co and leads the firm's Telecom Regulatory Specialty Practice. With over 15 years of related experience, he has advised regulators, operators, suppliers, government departments and agencies involved in telecommunications and ICT's. He is the lead author of the recently developed ITU/infoDEV ICT Regulation Online Toolkit Module 5: Radio Spectrum Management His work has included technical assistance and policy and programme analysis and development for government departments and agencies.

Mr. Foster has been on extensive field assignments in many countries including: Afghanistan, Antigua, Argentina, Germany, Indonesia, Liberia, Malaysia, Morocco, Mexico, Pakistan, Portugal, South Africa, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Suriname, Thailand, Trinidad and Tobago United Kingdom and the United States.

Mr. Foster resides in Ontario, Canada.

Partners and Senior Associates

Randy McLean
Arthur J. Birchenough
Professor Martin Cave
Robert (Bob) W. Jones
Stuart MacPherson
Dr. Sorin Cohn
Juan Sanchez
Arthur E. Solomon

Adrian M. Foster, MBA, CMC, Partner

Founding Partner of McLean Foster & Company, Mr. Foster has over with over twenty years of experience in product, manufacturing and management consulting organizations. Mr. Fosters career highlights include:

Founder and Partner - McLean Foster & Company
Partner - E*Commerce, Sierra Systems
President and GM, AGRA Spectrocan Ltd.
Vice President - AGRA International Ltd.
Senior Manager, PCS Product Marketing - Nortel Networks
Practice Leader, Ernst and Young LLP
Manager, Business Systems - Data Networks, Nortel Networks
Consultant and Audit Senior - Arthur Andersen & Co.

Randy McLean, Partner,

Founding Partner of McLean Foster & Company, Mr. McLean is a senior level consultant with over twenty years of experience in both product and consulting organizations. Mr. McLean’s recent roles have included:

Founder and Partner - McLean Foster & Company
General Manager, National Capital Region, Netergy Networks.
Partner – E*Commerce, Sierra Systems.
Director, Internet Group, Chief Technical Officer, Delivery, CGI Group
Operations Management, Digital Equipment Canada

Arthur J. Birchenough, P.Eng.,

Art is a Senior Associate with McLean Foster & Co. He has over 30 years experience in engineering and systems integration. He served as an Order in Council Appointee to the Board of the Ontario Energy Board. The Energy Board is the agency responsible for regulation, development, and establishment of market based energy generation and distribution in Ontario, Canada’s largest province which accounts for approximately half the National Gross Domestic Product. Mr. Birchenough has served in executive management roles with the largest professional design and procurement management global engineering companies.

President – Birlo Management Canada Inc.
Board Member – Ontario Energy Board
Executive Vice-President - AGRA Inc.
President and COO - AGRA Monenco Ltd and AGRA Systems Ltd.
President and CEO – Canatom Ltd.

Professor Martin Cave - B.Phil. D.Phil, Oxford University – Senior Associate,

Prof. Cave, is the Director of the Centre for Management Under Regulation at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick. He is also an adviser to Ofcom, the Postal Services Commission, European Commission, Office of Utility Regulation (Jamaica), Office of Fair Trading, Oftel, Member UK Competition Commission (1996-2002). He was previously Professor of Economics and Vice Principal, Brunel University. His recent publications include the Review of Radio Spectrum Management, DTI and HMT 2002 (Edited with S. Majumdar and I. Vogelsang), Handbook of Telecommunications Economics (Volumes 1 and 2), (With R W Crandall), Telecommunications Liberalization on Two Sides of the Atlantic, Brookings Institution, 2002, Remedies for Broadband Services’ Journal of Network Industries, 5/1, 2004, pp. 23-50 (With R Collins and P Crowther) and ‘Regulating the BBC’, Telecommunications Policy.
Prof. Martin Cave, along with Bob Jones, co-authored with Adrian Foster the recently published Radio Spectrum Management on-line toolkit for the ITU and infoDEV. The extensive and detailed content address the key trends and issues facing spectrum managers comparing both administrative and market-based methods. Please see www.ictregulationtoolkit.org

Robert (Bob) W. Jones , B.A.Sc., M.A.Sc., M.B.A – Senior Associate,

Bob has 32 years of direct experience in the policy, strategic and managerial aspects of spectrum management at both the national and international levels. Mr. Jones has a Bachelor and a Masters degree in Electrical Engineering as well as a Master of Business Administration degree. He has held positions of increasing responsibility in the Canadian spectrum regulatory body rising to the position of Director General of the Radiocommunications and Broadcasting Regulatory Branch. In 1994, he was elected by the Member States of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) to the position of Director of the Radiocommunication Bureau at the ITU’s headquarters in Geneva. In 1998, he was re-elected for a second four year term. Two terms being the maximum allowed, at the end of 2002, Mr. Jones returned to Canada where he has been providing consulting services related to the field of spectrum management. In November, 2006, he was elected to the ITU Radio Regulations Board for a four year term.

Bob Jones, along with Prof. Martin Cave, co-authored with Adrian Foster the recently published Radio Spectrum Management on-line toolkit for the ITU and infoDEV. The extensive and detailed content address the key trends and issues facing spectrum managers comparing both administrative and market-based methods. Please see www.ictregulationtoolkit.org

Stuart MacPherson , P.Eng - Senior Associate,

Stuart is a senior associate who has been responsible for leading significant telecom regulatory change in Canada. He combines first hand knowledge of telecommunications regulation in Canada and internationally with practical operations skills and experience gained at operators.

Founder, MacPherson Telecom Consulting.
Associate - McLean Foster & Co.
VP President Regulatory and Business Development - Combined Telecom Inc.
Vice President, Western Canada – WIC Connexus
Executive Director, Telecommunications and DG Telecommunications Operations - CRTC
Special Advisor, Telecom Reform - Government of the Philippines.
Manager, Electronic Switching Systems Development – Bell Northern Research
Member Technical Staff – Bell Labs.

Dr. Sorin Cohn, Ph.D. P. Eng - Associate.

Sorin is a Senior Associate of McLean Foster & Co. He has repeatedly initiated new business drives, built-up teams and gained entry into new markets. Business structure understanding: from market segmentation to technological innovation, from team building to effective process establishment, from customer knowledge to product definition, development and global deployment.
He understands the value of lead customers and major account management and has successfully exploited Government development programs. He is persuasive senior level marketer and can win investors, partners, customers and team commitment. He takes a multidisciplinary approach and has trained and mentored staff in their career development. Published extensively and contributed to tens of industry forums. Taught generations of graduate engineers & worked well in applied research. Passionate, results oriented performer with a track record of business and technical successes.
Dr, Cohn possesses strong oral and written communication skills (English, French, Romanian, and Russian).

Juan Sanchez

Juan has managed large budgets ($10M and 100 staff) for PLM, Marketing, Development and Support personnel. He has provided leadership and direction to functional core team members by identifying problems in advance and encouraging collaborative effort and timely resolution. Defined the requirements and selected the Integrated Project Team members. Led a cross functional team in developing and productizing network management software that facilitates e-business application services enablement and OSS component management, targeted at the ASP market space. Developed and drove product business plans, market requirements analysis, and release plans which addressed competition, product differentiation, training and service. He has collaborated with third party organizations to launch new product programs, negotiated pricing and delivery of outsourced development activities.

Arthur E. Solomon , Associate,

Art Solomon is a senior associate of McLean Foster & Co. As Director of Spectrum Management with Industry Canada, on assignments with the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and in private sector initiatives have gained over thirty-eight years experience in all aspects of spectrum management related to radio communications, communications systems, legislation, regulatory infrastructure, and policy. Spectrum management responsibilities have encompassed the development and implementation of administrative and operational systems and programs that included: automated monitoring, technical measurements and direction finding systems for use in both national and international venues; the licensing of radio stations; equipment type approval, standards and technical specifications; frequency allocation tables and standard radio system band plans; and, the development and enforcement of spectrum policies and radio regulations.