Tom Higgins

TOM HIGGINS, CEO, founded Interactive Enterprise Ltd. in early 1998 with
a mission to develop service enabling OSS software platforms for the
global broadband market. He began in the cable industry in 1981 at
Marlin Communal Aerials, an Irish cable operator owned by Rogers
Cablesystems, and which was later acquired by NTL. With responsibility
for OSS, multi-media, and advanced services, he led a number of
European-wide cable and wireless initiatives, such as interactive
distance learning via TV, cable telephony, high-speed Internet and
wireless field customer support over GSM. While recognizing the
potential for advanced multiple services over cable, he believed that
the back office support systems would have an enormous impact on the
operator’s ability to rapidly launch services in the future.