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Megan Corcoran is Regulatory Affairs and Industry Engagement Manager at Gamma.

As a non-executive director on the FCS board since 2018, Megan also currently co-chairs the CP Only SMF and the Gaining Provider Led Business Steering Group for Industry.

With a career which has facilitated her concentrated operational and regulatory knowledge of the communications industry, Megan started as a trainee cad technician in the design and engineering department for a fibre design and manufacturing company in the late 1990s. In 2003 she moved to Sprint Ltd TA SCS, a specialist business communications provider. Within four years, she was promoted to Operations Director at just 27 years old, from which role she saw SCS through substantial growth until its eventual sale in 2020.

Megan brings deep operational understanding along with a passion for championing the smaller communication provider, the business market, the rights of the end consumer and the careers of women in the telecoms industry.

Megan has always been highly active within a variety of industry fora, and as a member of FCS since 2005 and Co-Chair of CSP (formerly FSP) from 2012-2020, has driven many changes to the benefit of the industry. She has represented the smaller CP and the business market in numerous consultations and developments and is the voice of the small provider at fixed line industry fora.

John has always worked in Telecoms, starting as an apprentice with Post Office Telephones, moving through various departments culminating in radio and data services. He then ran his own company specialising in the supply and installation of mobile radio, BT Radiophone and cellular mobile phones. This was followed by a period at Talkland International, (a cellular service provider), where John developed a vehicle installation and field maintenance team and subsequently a network of franchised mobile phone repair centres.

He has worked at Panorama Antennas since 1995 where his role involves providing product technical support and technical training for Panorama global sales teams and customer projects, product compliance testing and troubleshooting.

He is Chairman of FCS Installers Committee, which is the lead group for maintenance and review of the FCS 1362 code of practice and worked on a review project with the Energy Institute to produce FCS1364, the updated ‘pet reg’ installation document for fuel carrying vehicles.

John was appointed as a Non-Executive Director in January 2008.

Itret Latif joined the FCS board in 2009 and was appointed FCS Deputy Chairman in summer 2016. He also brings more than 18 years of telecoms and energy industry leadership, regulatory and policy development expertise and management experience. Itret has held several leading non-executive director positions in Telecoms and Energy and has been invited to provide evidence to both the House of Commons and House of Lords on telecoms and energy. In his evidence to the House of Lords in 2012 he was first to identify broadband as an essential service and a utility. At the same hearing, he called for Regulatory change and restructuring of BT with Openreach being separated to become a legal entity owning both the infrastructure assets and engineering operation.

As a former senior executive of Scottish and Southern Energy plc (SSE), he established and headed highly profitable SSE retail telecoms and gas businesses. Other roles include Chairman respectively of the Gas Forum and SPAA organisations where he led on behalf of members the development of industry governance arrangements for the gas supply industry retail competition. He has considerable experience and appreciation of the challenges faced by new entrants. He brings a wealth of leadership, business policy development and regulatory experience to the FCS Board.

Martyn King is an experienced operations professional with over 35 years in the telecommunications industry; including an extensive technical background in BT, Mercury/Cable and Wireless and CableTel/Ntl: (now Virgin Media). Throughout his career he gained detailed telephone switching, transmission systems, CATV, fixed radio access, network management and submarine cable systems experience.

He has held previous management/director positions in a number of UK companies including Ionica, Redstone Telecom, Band-X and Zimo Communications, and was Managing Director of Nexbridge Communications and Director of UK conference call business WHYPAY? for over 10 years until 2022.

Martyn set up the BT IP Exchange Customer Forum in 2011; an environment for fellow CPs of IP Exchange to discuss operational concerns and help develop and shape the product. He chaired the forum for over 6 years. Martyn has also been an active member of the OTA Number Port Executive Steering Group since its inception.

In his spare time, Martyn is a trustee for registered charity South Powys Youth Music, and Non Executive Director of Lampeter based youth organisation Stage Goat Theatre Company CIC.

With a diverse a diverse telecommunications career spanning 38 years, Richard Russell gained extensive experience in Business and Mission Critical narrow and broadband radio communication technologies.

Richard is proud to have joined Tait Communications in July 2018 as Business Development & Indirect Chanel Sales Manager UK & Ireland. Focused on critical communications for Utilities, Transportation and in particular Public Safety and development of distribution channels sales. Richard is convinced “This is an area of special relevance with exciting developments of solutions from Tait that will add real-life value to our front-line services”.

Richard spent 25 years at Motorola, having numerous technical and business positions including Product Management of Devices and Infrastructure, Business Development for Accessories & Energy and Go-To-Market Product Specialist. Having worked with Fire Rescue Service and SCBA manufacturers, Richard drove a development program of fire ground incident communications and SCBA communication solutions to significantly improve the quality of fire fighter communications and enhance their safety.

After leaving Motorola, Richard obtained valuable experience at Roadphone NRB, who specialise in resilient (life safety) digital radio communications infrastructure solutions. They have been deployed across Critical National Infrastructure, corporate (high profile), high value facilities and iconic real estate through-out London and UK.

Richard is a contributor & adviser to industry journals and is proud to be a non-executive director with the FCS and volunteers time and support of British APCO as an Executive Committee Member of BAPCO.

He has wide experience of practical and regulatory matters regarding radiocommunications and radio coverage planning software and techniques. He currently works for LS telcom as a Senior Consultant and is a member of the FCS Business Radio Council.

Dave Dadds has over 30 years experience in the telecoms business, starting at British Telecom and then going on to establish DRD Communications Ltd in 1986. Originally involved in the fixed line Business System market, call minutes and mobile phones, the business has evolved since 2005 into a “Cloud” application provider for business communications under the vanillaIP.com and qudo.com brands.

Dave is a director of the FCS and Merton Chamber of Commerce; he was elected to Chair in 2016. He lives with his partner in South London along with his 3 children. In his spare time Dave likes to play golf and enjoy life!

As All-IP Product Manager, Martin is Giacom’s lead for All-IP, representing Giacom in numerous Advisory Boards including both the Telecare and Fire & Alarm Security Board and regular takes part in presenting at Industry Events both virtually and in person as an industry expert for All-IP.

Martin’s role can vary from dealing with Product enhancements to supporting Giacom’s Partner base to win at All-IP whilst regularly updating Giacom’s All-IP documentation to further support the move to All-IP.

Martin has also been a CSP Co-Chair for the FCS since being appointed in 2022.

Outside of work, Martin is a Brown Belt in Traditional Jujitsu and Co-Editor for Rock Out Stand Out, who not only promote the latest in rock and heavy metal but also promote Mental Health Awareness.

Paul Anslow is the CEO of Triangle Networks, an independent ISP specialising in full-fibre demand building, working in collaboration with the property sector and MSP community.

Paul has been an active member of the FCS for over a decade, during which time, he has been involved with initiatives supporting improvements to the delivery of voice and data connectivity, particularly for SME business in the UK.

Paul’s main areas of activity include dial-through fraud prevention best practices and later on, as a key influencer for alternative network services, where Triangle launched CityFibre’s first ‘Gigabit City’ (Bristol) in early 2016. 

With a wealth of experience in building community-led connectivity demand and his influential presence in the sector, Paul now joins FCS in a more formal role, as a Director to further support the SME community and the providers supporting them.

Robert Compton is a highly experienced Electronic and Electrical Engineer with over 40 years’ experience across radio communications, vehicle electrical systems, reliability engineering, and project management.

Working with vehicle-based systems for over 25 years, primarily emergency services, Robert carried out design and installation of overt and covert communications equipment.

With proven expertise working in safety-critical and harsh environments including emergency services, motorsport, aviation support, and defence-related facilities, Robert is recognised for technical leadership, regulatory compliance expertise, and a “right first time” engineering ethos.

Robert has been an FCS member for over 20 years, sitting on the FCS1362 committee for about 15 years, and the FITAS committee since its inception.

He brings this knowledge to his work with FCS, where he has been Head of Business Radio for the last seven years.

Stefanie will be involved in consultations, dealing with member queries and also developing FCS relationships with Government mainly dealing with Communication Provider members, though as the market place is converging, there will be overlaps with the Business Radio members.

Nicola has been in the telecoms industry for over 30 years; nearly half of that in the Regulatory and Industry Engagement arena as well as with BT, TalkTalk and latterly PlatformX Communications (TalkTalk Group’s wholesale division). In her last role, as the Openreach and Industry engagement lead, Nicola worked closely with Openreach, the OTA, Communication Providers and a variety of other stakeholders to help shape solutions that create value for customers and businesses.