Amadou Bachirou Diop
Expert in Customer Relations ManagementAmadou Bachirou Diop
Expert in Customer Relations Management- Customer relationship and commercial transaction management,
- Management of outcome indicators and skills development,
- Team Management and Planning,
- Consulting, management, and client recruitment techniques.
Obiora Offor
ICT & ITU-R Expert- 2014-present: Member, Technical Advisory Committee of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy of Nigeria on ITU-R affairs.
- 2016-2019: National coordinator on general issues agenda items for ITU’s WRC-19.
- Delegate of Nigeria to ITU’s WRC-15, WRC-19 and the associated ATU Prep meetings
- 2017-present: Radiocommunication Expert Group, ATU.
- 2016-2018: Advisor to President, Nigerian Society of Engineers on ICT.
- 2016-2018: Vice- Chairman, Private Sector Working Party, Forum for Telecom Regulation and Partnership in Africa.
- Email: obiora.offor@wesaywedo.com
Coumba Geneviève Diémé
Office ManagerDr Abdou Khadre Lo
CEOAvant de fonder We Say-We Do, Abdou était Directeur Afrique du cabinet international «Access Partnership » pendant plus de 6 ans. Avant de rejoindre ce groupe anglo-américain, il était fondateur et directeur général de « Primum Africa Consulting » qui a fusionné avec Access Partnership en 2015. Auparavant, il avait déjà acquis une expérience de consultant international en collaborant avec le ministère français des Affaires étrangères, des organisations non gouvernementales telles que l’Institut de recherche juridique au Mexique, l’Institut international pour la démocratie et l’assistance électorale (IDEA) en Afrique du Sud, l’Institut Panos Afrique de l’Ouest (IPAO) et West Africa Democrarcy Radio à Dakar. Il a également été chroniqueur à Radio France Internationale, à Paris.
Abdou est un expert réputé qui conseille ses clients dans un large éventail de secteurs, y compris dans les stratégies de communication, la réglementation d’Internet, les télécommunications, le pétrole et le gaz. Il est membre de l’Union africaine des télécommunications (UAT) et de l’Union internationale des télécommunications (UIT). Il s’est spécialisé dans la réglementation des technologies spatiales et a accompagné des opérateurs satellitaires américains dans le cycle des conférences mondiales des radiocommunications de 2015 (Genève) et 2019 (Charm El Cheikh).
- Phone: (+221) 77 529 52 51
- Email: abdou.lo@wesaywedo.com
Khalilou Niane
Telecom Regulation ExpertKhalilou Niane
Telecom Regulation ExpertMr. Khalilou Niane worked within the Regulatory Authority of Telecommunications and Posts (ARTP) of Senegal, from October 2005 to June 2020. He successively held the positions of:
- Head of Engineering and Spectrum Planning Department in charge of the coordination and notification of space and terrestrial services
- Head of Radio Network Management Department;
- Head of Universal Service Technical Studies Department;
- Head of Frequency Management Department;
- Head of Engineering and Planning Department in charge of the coordination and notification of space and terrestrial services;
- Rapporteur of the National Committee for the Transition from Analogue to Digital Television;
- Head of the Technical Control and Inspection Department;
- Director of Radiocommunications until June 2020.
- Email: khalilou.niane@wesaywedo.com
Genevieve Coumba Dieme
Office ManagerGeneviève has extensive experience working in non-governmental organizations and on development projects. She is in charge of We Say-We Do's clients and the management of the office's administration.
Dr Abdou Khadre Lo
Director GeneralPrior to founding We Say-We Do , Abdou was Director for Africa of the international firm Access Partnership for more than 6 years. Before joining this Anglo-American consultancy firm, he was founder and managing director of Primum Africa Consulting which merged with Access Partnership in 2015.
Previously, he had already gained experience as an international consultant by collaborating with the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Paris, non-governmental organizations such as the Legal Research Institute in Mexico, the International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance (IDEA) in South Africa, the Panos Institute West Africa (PIWA) and West Africa Democracy Radio (WADR) in Dakar. He was also a columnist at Radio France Internationale in Paris. Abdou is a renowned expert who advises clients in a wide range of sectors, including communication strategies, Internet governance, telecommunications, oil and gas.
He is a member of the African Telecommunication Union (ATU) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU). He specializes in the regulation of space technologies and accompanied American satellite operators in the cycle of World Radiocommunication Conferences of 2015 (Geneva) and 2019 (Sharm El Sheikh). He is also a Senegal Delegate in International Telecommunication Meetings (Ecowas, ATU, WRC, PP).
Abdou has privileged access to decision-makers in Africa.
- Email: abdou.lo@wesaywedo.com
Jacob Mohlamme
Telecom & Defence ExpertJacob Mohlamme
Telecom & Defence ExpertJacob has over 25 years’ experience in the software and hardware development, technology, ICT sector and Defence Sector. He started his career at Siemens Telecommunications (Sietel) in July 1995. In 2000 he moved to Siemens Germany as a product manager for the 1st Commercial Software release of UMTS (today known as 3G). Jacob came back to South Africa in 2004 as a divisional manager to deploy the first 3G network on the Vodacom South Africa network and many other African countries.
In 2007 he moved to Egypt to head NOKIA’s MAGHREB region Radio technical sales team. In this role Jacob was extensively exposed to the North African Arab countries and established valuable relationships in this region. In this role he also had to advice and consult to network operators about new 3GPP standards and upcoming planned releases to enable them to make decisions on their network evolution.
In 2010 before the Egypt Spring Revolution he returned to South African to head the Value-Added Reseller program for Nokia in Africa. This role offered Jacob more exposure to East and West Africa in addition. In 2012 he co-founded North Park Telecoms and occupied the role as Managing Director.
In 2015 North Park Telecoms under the leadership of Jacob was selected to be part of Radar & Electronic Warfare Transformative Enterprise Development (REWTED) Program.
REWTED program is part of the drive by the South African Department of Defense (DoD) to transform the domestic defense sector supply chain by creating a diverse base of Small Micro Medium Enterprises (SMME) able to deliver on highly competitive ICT complex military systems or sub-systems for the South African National Defense Force (SANDF) and the international defense market. In 2020 North Park Telecoms successfully built a communications jammer system (ComJam)s demonstrator.
Jacob is currently a board member of South African Aerospace Maritime Defence Industries Association (AMD) since 2019, board member of the Defence Sector Charter Council (DSCC) since 2021 and a committee member of Tshwane University of Technology the Academic Advisory Sub-Committee for Telecommunication Engineering. He is also an active member of the ICT SMME chamber chairing the end to-end network sub-committee.
- Email: jacob.mohlamme@wesaywedo.com
Amadou Thiam Gueye
Teleinformatics EngineerAmadou Thiam Gueye
Teleinformatics EngineerBefore working with We Say-We Do, Amadou was a Developer Engineer at PCCI DAKAR from 2012 to 2016. He was part of the team of Conception and Development of applications for the needs of production and administrative staff; the Automatization of the daily tasks of production; Optimization of the Call Center platform specific to the PCCI group; and the System administration and databases.
During this period, he travelled the sub-region for the coordination and supervision of installations at the remote sites.
He also worked as an expatriate with PCCI GUINEA CONAKRY for a period of 4 years to design the functional architectures of telephony with MTN & ORANGE GUINEA and coordinated the deployment and integration of information systems.
Amadou is a proven expert in:
- Implementation of Telephony & CRM Information Systems.
- Integration of business solutions adapted to needs.
- Efficient management of CALL CENTER projects (needs, costs, deadlines, risks, ...) and their implementation.
- Design and implementation or integration of features with high added value in line with the specific needs of the client.
- Email: Amadou.gueye@wesaywedo.com