Primary Job Title Chief Technology Officer Primary Organization 
Tait Communications
Location Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
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Ross Spearman is the CTO for Tait Communications. He has been with Tait Communications since Jan 2016, and has responsibility for directing the company’s technology investment strategy. Mr Spearman joined Tait after returning to New Zealand from the United States where he was the CTO for Ericsson in Seattle. Mr Spearman has 25 years experience in
the telecom industry, working with radio, switching and transport technologies in fixed and mobile networks. The first half of his career was spent in Research & Development, and the second half with Customer Units, working with leading Telecom Operators.He was with Ericsson in North America since 1999, most recently as CTO for a Tier 1 mobile operator account, where his team had solution responsibility for all technology provided by Ericsson to the Operator, and also consulted on strategic technology/business initiatives - including their nationwide LTE roll-out.Previously Mr Spearman was VP of Technology, driving Strategic Initiatives with IMS, IP/ATM/SONET transport products, and soft-switching in North America. In Europe he ran Product Management within Ericsson’s Access business, and began his career in New Zealand in HW and embedded SW design. Mr Spearman holds Masters and Bachelors’ degrees in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Canterbury.
