Advising on the commercial impact of technology and
    market changes in telecoms, software and IT services

Leith H Campbell, Principal Consultant

Leith Campbell is a Principal Consultant working from Melbourne, Australia. He joined Ovum in September 2006 after more than 20 years' experience in the telecommunications industry. He consults in telecommunications generally with a special emphasis on commercial telecommunications and strategy.

Leith came to Ovum after five years as CEO of the Australian Telecommunications Cooperative Research Centre, a consortium of industrial and university partners, where he oversaw research and commercialisation of telecommunications technologies for fixed and mobile networks. Prior to that assignment, he spent nearly 14 years with Telstra Research Laboratories in a variety of management roles, including leadership of future-oriented R&D, the formation of a new network management research section and the early work in Australia on intelligent networks. He contributed to Telstra's technology strategy in a number of areas.

In the period 1975-1987, Leith worked outside Australia, for the first six years in the UK, where he held academic positions at the Universities of Cambridge and Durham. He then worked in the US at Bell Laboratories and Bellcore (now Telcordia Technologies), where he was responsible for the systems engineering of an advanced loop planning system.

Leith holds a B.Sc. (Hons) and Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of Adelaide, Australia. He serves on the Council for the World Telecommunications Congress and chaired the international technical committee for WTC 2006 (Budapest). He is an editor of the Telecommunications Journal of Australia and the Journal of Network and Systems Management. He is a member of IEEE and INFORMS.