Mike Johnston
BEng, MBA Managing Consultant , United KingdomMike has over 25 years’ experience in telecoms and specialises in fibre network infrastructure and project delivery. He works on strategic development projects for government intervention to accelerate fibre delivery, technical M&A due diligence for private sector and financial institutions and business strategy and planning for telecom operators.
Mike Johnston is a highly experienced telecoms business specialist and Project Director, with experience leading and consulting on projects in both public and private sectors on telecom network, M&A due diligence, passive digital infrastructure and broadband projects:
His experience includes:
- Strategic business planning and feasibility studies for open access fibre network development ranging from national broadband plan to connect underserved provinces to greenfield city development and targeted urban co-deployment projects.
- Technical due diligence of fixed operator networks, vendor and buyer side, for support merger and acquisitions in Asia and United Kingdom.
- Leadership of telecoms projects in both commercial and transport infrastructure environment ranging from the build and commercialisation of an open access fibre network design to development of a rail passenger information system utilising the dedicated rail mobile network.
He also served as a commissioned officer in the British Army for ten years.
Education
Imperial College of Science and Technology
- B.Eng (Hons) ACGI Electrical Engineering
Warwick Business School
- MBA
Other team members
Ken Pearson
Managing ConsultantKen Pearson is a seasoned advisor with over three decades of experience of guiding telecommunications regulators and mobile network operators worldwide.
Graham Friend
Managing DirectorGraham Friend is the co-founder and Managing Director of Coleago, where he focuses on strategic business planning, valuation, auction bidding strategy and regulatory issues.
David Barker
Managing ConsultantDavid is a cellular network and technical radio spectrum domain expert in Coleago’s spectrum strategy and spectrum valuation practice areas. He is a specialist in the analysis of spectrum holdings, inference risks and development of technical valuation models.
