About Us
Meet Extensia!
Everyone needs help and support in building important connections, engaging with peers, and staying up-to-date with the latest industry trends and developments, especially in the fast-paced technology and ICT business sectors. With a confusing array of networking events, conferences, exhibitions, and publications, it can be difficult to determine where to invest your time.
- The Extensia advantage: community, trust, experience, influence, innovation!
- We have 20 years of experience hosting action-oriented business summits in emerging markets
- Collaborating with host governments to boost national & regional ICT initiatives
- Providing a valuable way to connect with decision-makers who are actively driving ICT growth
- Our summits result in tangible outcomes and commitments from participants, and many industry milestones can be traced back to Extensia events
- Attendance is limited to qualified and invited individuals. All attendees at Extensia events must have clear objectives related to ICT business or industry development
- Our team is global, with members bringing knowledge, insights, and experience from Africa, Europe, Asia, Americas, and Australia
- A Solid Foundation of Values & Ethics
- Creating simplicity out of complexity.
- A trusted advisor of Industry Development, Leadership development, News and Research, Consultancy Services and Bespoke Event Services.
- Extensia is here to connect people and help buyers reach trusted solution partners
0+ Years of Experience
A Trusted & Respected Partner
Our deal-making support is widely acclaimed, and we utilise our extensive connections to facilitate relationships between our sponsors, solution providers and decision makers. We treat our clients like our community and go above and beyond to support decision makers in advancing their ICT agendas. As a trusted partner, we are renowned for our extensive industry connections and are respected as a source of knowledge and support. We invite you to join us at our next summits and see what you have been missing!
Our Values
Innovation
With over 20 years of experience working across the continent of Africa, we have supported digital transformation and business development in the ICT space. Through our consulting platform, we have gained a unique and insightful understanding of the telecoms and ICT industry and technology solutions market. We have evolved our project management service portfolio to support and accelerate a company's digital transformation. In addition to transformation training and consultancy, we offer a carefully curated portfolio of fully scalable 'As a Service' VAS solutions, giving clients the opportunity to save costs and increase revenues.
Results
Everything we do is driven by the ultimate goal of achieving results. Whether it's in our personal or professional lives, we begin by envisioning the end goal and then work backwards to determine the necessary steps to get there. As a team, we are determined to find the most efficient and effective ways to reach our objectives and help our clients reach theirs. We constantly challenge ourselves to think outside the box and come up with innovative solutions to problems. By starting with our goals and reverse engineering the most effective route to achieving them, we ensure the best outcomes for our clients.
Passion
Let's face it, a life without passion is unfulfilling. We put our energy, enthusiasm, and passion into everything we do. Our greatest passion is to help our clients achieve their desired results. We see no difference between our clients' success and our own, which is why our clients remain loyal to us.
Teamwork
We understand the significance of having a content, engaged, and motivated team. At the boardroom table, everyone's input and feedback are valued and taken into consideration. Our team not only includes the individuals who work at Extensia, but also our partners on all projects and our clients in consulting engagements. We see ourselves as an extension of our client's team.
Transparency
With 20 years of experience and numerous trusted relationships, we have nothing to hide. Our decisions are made with the collective good in mind, and we not only maintain transparency with our clients, but we also actively seek their input during our decision-making process to ensure full alignment.
Equality
In our view, everyone is equal and our decisions are always based on logical reasoning. We equally support small and underdeveloped countries as well as their larger and more developed neighbours. We provide support to large multinational corporations as well as innovative small and medium-sized enterprises beginning their journey. Our partners come from diverse backgrounds and various regions around the world, with the defining qualities of being passionate about their work and having the integrity deserving of our clients' trust.
Enjoyment
We like what we do. We are good at it and we have been doing it for a long time. More than anything we enjoy helping our clients succeed and we do that with consistent regularity!
Our Ethos
Creating simplicity out of complexity
A trusted advisor of Industry Development, Leadership development, News and Research, Consultancy Services and Bespoke Summits
Extensia is here to connect people and help buyers reach trusted solution partners

Tariq Malik
Chief Executive Officer
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Tariq Malik
Tariq H Malik is Extensia’s Chief Executive Officer and drives the direction of the company to ensure we stay aligned to our objective of supporting the growth and development of ICT in Africa. Over many years working with very high level decision makers, Tariq has strong connections with global decision makers and is able to leverage these connections to ensure Extensia stays in touch with industry stakeholders. Tariq previously has held senior management roles with the GSM Association and Euro Money.
Chief Executive Officer

Adrian Hall
Chief Operating Officer
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Adrian Hall
Adrian Hall is Extensia’s Chief Operating Officer and ensures the company strategy and process align with the corporate vision. Adrian keeps close communications with Ministers, Regulators and CxOs from Africa’s top operators, to keep abreast of the policy, regulatory and service delivery objectives and growth requirements of the sector. Adrian has previously held senior management roles with World Trade Group and World Summit Organization.
Chief Operating Officer

Myles Freedman
Business Operations Director
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Myles Freedman
Myles serves as Extensia’s Business Operations Director, driving organisational alignment, operational excellence, and strategic communication across the business.
He ensures the Extensia team remains fully informed on major industry developments, enabling rapid, coordinated responses to the fast‑evolving ICT and telecoms landscape.
In addition to overseeing internal operations, Myles leads Extensia’s public‑facing communications, shaping the organisation’s voice across digital platforms and strengthening engagement with partners, stakeholders, and the wider industry. He also directs the delivery of Extensia’s onsite events and its online news service, a key industry resource that curates and disseminates the most relevant updates from Africa’s telecoms and ICT sectors across Extensia’s website and social channels.
Myles brings extensive experience from senior roles at Azlan, Tech Data, and Rocom, where he developed deep expertise in channel operations, partner engagement, and technology‑sector communications.
Business Operations Director

Dr. Madanmohan Rao
Executive Director
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Dr. Madanmohan Rao
Extensia has a strategic partnership with Dr. Madanmohan Rao for the delivery of our summit programmes, Madan is a true globetrotter but has his base in India. Dr. Madanmohan Rao, a consultant and writer from Bangalore, is research projects director at MobileMonday, research director at YourStory.in, and research advisor at the Asian Media Information and Communication centre (AMIC). He is the editor of five book series: The Asia Pacific Internet Handbook, The Knowledge Management Chronicles, AfricaDotEdu, Global Citizen and World of Proverbs. He is also editor-at-large of DestinationKM and contributor to the Poynter Institute blog on new media trends. Madan was on the international editorial board of the book, Transforming e-Knowledge.
Executive Director

Yoadan Tilahun
Head of Operations
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Yoadan Tilahun
Extensia has a strategic partnership with Flawless Events of Ethiopia for the development of operations and coordination activities for Extensia events. Flawless Events is led by Yoadan Tilahun, an experienced hospitality industry professional with an innately hospitable personality, passion for perfection, flare for creativity, and drive for excellence. With over 10 years of event management experience, Yoadan has established Flawless Events as the leading corporate event firm in Ethiopia, with increasing presence around the African continent. Yoadan holds a Masters in Business Administration (MBA) in International Business and is fluent in Amharic, English, and French, and conversational in Spanish.
Head of Operations

Tom Corke
Executive Director Extensia Consulting
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Tom Corke
Tom is responsible for coordinating across Partners and Associates within Extensia Consulting . Tom has over 40yrs in the Telecoms and ICT sector internationally covering fixed, mobile. Having worked for some of the biggest names in the industry such as British Telecom, Saudi Telecom, Vodafone, Orange, Zain, Huawei, Nokia Siemens, Logica CMG. Tom is well positioned to provide knowledge and vendor management services to support client objectives.
Executive Director Extensia Consulting

Mounir Qalam
Advisor - Extensia Consulting
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Mounir Qalam
An experienced International Executives who got field experience and competency in operational and strategic management within the telecoms sector. With 30 years of experience in Senior Executive positions with global telecoms vendors and regional telecoms service providers, He has a well-established record in managing and deploying commercial operation within start-ups and restructure incumbent services providers and developed partnership. He successfully opened up new geographical operation and launched new products and services in high growth and culturally diverse national markets. A market development-oriented team builder and leader with strong focus on financial results.
Advisor - Extensia Consulting

Farsad Sudheer
Business Support Executive
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Farsad Sudheer
As a Business Executive at Extensia Limited, Farsad supports developing and implementing various projects and initiatives that enhance the company's performance and growth. He applies his skills and knowledge in customer relationship management, brand awareness, and customer experience to deliver high-quality solutions and services to our clients and partners.
Farsad has a degree in Business from York St. John University.
Business Support Executive