Management Team

Graduated from l'Ecole Supérieure d'Electricité, Philippe Oros started his career as a Consultant for several large enterprises. He then became General Manager of Sinfor Electronique. Founder of Synaptel S.A., he worked as President and General Manager until 1996, date of acquisition by Interphase Corporation, where he was appointed Vice-President of WAN Technologies. In 1999, he founded QuesCom.

Robert Urban graduated from University of Karlsruhe in Germany with a Master in Industrial Engineering. He co-founded in 1994 a value added distributor Dolphin Communication Technologies GmbH acquired by Cycos AG (YOS) in May 2000. Within Cycos he headed International Sales. He has joined QuesCom shortly after Siemens has acquired Cycos AG in 2003 and was instrumental in rapidly developing new territories and new business opportunities.

Doctor of Engineering. He graduated from ENST Paris and obtained an Executive MBA from HEC. Alain Tassy was successively Marketing Director and Radio Terminal Programme Director at Alcatel, Purchase and Technical Director at Vodafone S.A., Technical Director at Uunet and finally Operations Director for Southern Europe at MCI-Worldcom. In 2005, he becomes General Director for VoIP Telecom after organising its fundraising. At QuesCom, he is in charge of Hardware R&D, Production, Purchase and Logistics.

Earned a Master in Business Administration (ISG) studying in France, the US and Japan. Xavier is also a Certified Public Accountant. Served as a consultant and an auditor for 10 years with Big 4 international firms (Ernst & Young, and Deloitte), became an expert in financial engineering & financial planning conducting numerous M&A mid-caps transactions. Before creating its own company specialized in bringing convergence between technology and luxury brands, where he successfully developed several products for Tier 1 luxury brands (mobile phone, USB key), Xavier was a senior financial manager for multinational luxury groups (YSL, Hermès, Prada) in the US with focus and extensive exposure to high-growth & turn over situations. At QuesCom he is serving as VP Finance & Administration.

Stéphan Malric graduated in Information Management System from EISTI, majoring in computer science, management and communication skills. After starting as a software engineer, he developed expertise in telecommunication and was appointed R&D manager for Soft-Inter Technologies, a software editor company of middleware platforms for mainframe computers. He then gained valuable experience as Product Leader for an international telecom company (Landis & Gyr / IPM), where he deployed carrier grade telephony services and subsequently created his own consulting company (Smatch Telecom). Stephan Malric started at Quescom as Business Developer and Product Manager, and is now working as Vice-President of Product Management & Engineering.

Francois Maritz qualified with a diploma in Electronics and completed an apprenticeship in Electronics with Atlas Aircraft Corporation in 1984.
He joined a very successful Research and Development Company subcontracted by Armaments Corporation of South Africa (Armscor). He was very involved in designing some of the Airborne System deployed in the Rooivalk helicopter, Mirage and Cheetah fighter planes. In 1994, he created Innovations that introduced products for the fast growing GSM market. Now QuesCom SA is a worldwide vendor of GSM gateway solutions and biggest LCR vendor in South Africa.