Speaker Biography

Jeff McAllister, SVP Sales, Cellum

Jeff is a native of Madison, Wisconsin, USA and has been a European resident for the past 18 years, living in Budapest, Prague, Warsaw, Brussels and Vienna. He has a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He had a 10 year career in the telecom industry with GTE (now Verizon), starting in Minneapolis and then was responsible for two European start-ups in Belgium and Hungary. After the merger with Bell Atlantic to become Verizion, Jeff left GTE to become the CEO of New World Publishing, the owner of the Budapest, Prague and Warsaw Business Journals. He returned to the telecom industry as the Director of Business Development for Alcatel-Lucent in Hungary and has applied his love of history to many side projects including writing, directing and producing his own documentary. He now applies his vast range of business experience and energy to Cellum. Jeff is 48 years old, married with three children and lives in Budapest, Hungary.

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