Leadership Team

Dr.Lars Pedersen, CEO

Dr. Lars Pedersen is CEO of Commprove, a company on the move with employees excited about empowering mobile network operators to improve their financials and drive more revenue from mobile broadband data.
Prior to joining Commprove, Pedersen was CEO of InnovFocus, a US-based management consulting and M&A firm. Before InnovFocus, he was CEO of RESON Inc., a sonar equipment company as well as Deputy CEO of NetTest A/S. At NetTest A/S, he participated in a successful management buyout, a company turnaround and subsequent sale to Anritsu. At Anritsu, Pedersen was President of the Anritsu Instruments Group and a board member of Anritsu A/S.
Pedersen has over 19 years of experience in the telecommunications industry in various general and senior management positions in the OSS/T&M industry. From his research experience, he holds patents in optical test equipment and in sonar equipment.
Originally from Dybvad in Denmark, Pedersen holds a PhD in Optical Communications and a Master’s of Science in Electrical Engineering both from the Technical University of Denmark.

Enrico Andreini, CTO

Enrico Andreini was one of the original founders of CommProve and remains actively involved on a day-to-day basis directing the company’s technical strategy as Chief Technology officer.
As architect of the Netledge/Quantiqa system, he made the design choices which have given CommProve its technical competitiveness. He has a deep knowledge of radio engineering with 20 years of experience in the field, having started his career in QoS monitoring of TV broadcast signals.

Flemming Bekker, CFO

Flemming Bekker joined CommProve in August 2011 and his responsibilities include finance, HR and legal.Prior to joining CommProve, Bekker was COO of KM Telecom, a mobile network construction site company. Before KM Telecom, he was part of the management team that lead the restructuring and turnaround of telecom test & measurement, and OSS company, NetTest A/S to Anritsu.
Bekker has a degree in Business Administration from Copenhagen Business School and in General Management from CEDEP, Fontainebleau.

Giovanni Perrone, VP Operations

Since 2007, Giovanni Perrone is Vice President Operations at CommProve. Prior to this position within CommProve he was first responsible for the product specialists team. Furthermore he was Technical Account Manager for the LATAM region and Project Manager in Operations where he successfully managed and delivered some of the most complex projects for CommProve and earned the PMP certification from PMI. Giovanni has a background as Electronic Engineer.

Andrea Pieraccini, VP Reserach & Development

Andrea is Vice President of Research & Development at CommProve. With over twelve years experience in mobile telecommunication, he joined CommProve in 2001 as Business Consultant managing the company’s relationships with customers and third party organizations. Prior to CommProve, he worked for Italtel, Siemens Mobile and Marconi Mobile for 5 years in the GSM/GPRS/WCDMA/TD-SCDMA product development. Andrea Pieraccini has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy.

Francesco Pumelli, VP Product Management

Francesco joined CommProve in 2006, where he started as Product Manager and he is now responsible for the strategy definition within product management. Prior to CommProve, Francesco worked for Wind Italy as RF Network Planner and Radio Network Optimization engineer and before he collaborated with Rome University within a European project for automatic detecting and monitoring ocean oil pollution with satellite images. He holds a master degree in Telecommunication Engineering from Rome University.