John Hendry brings almost 30 years of experience in Wireless Technology. A native to South Africa, John received his education from Pretoria Technikon and soon became a key contributor to the original Engineering team for the South African based Operator, MTN. He was afforded the unique opportunity and experience to be engaged in building MTN’s Wireless network at its inception – a network that today supports over 200 million subscribers. During his time at MTN he lead the development and deployment of SMSCB in MTN’s network, which ultimately became part of the Dynamic Tariffing System.

John left MTN and South Africa for the United Kingdom to lead an Engineering team for BT Cellnet (O2), which resulted in a leadership position with Ericsson in Indonesia for Telkomsel working with their Optimization and Network Planning group. In 2001, his skills were recognized by U.S. Operator T-Mobile, which brought him to Atlanta Georgia. During his tenure with T-Mobile John pioneered various aspects of network performance and management automation before accepting an offer to lead AIRCOM International’s U.S. Engineering Services Group. At AIRCOM he led the engineering group to record revenues.

In 2009 John founded Optimos International, LLC. John currently resides in Johns Creek, Georgia with his wife and 4 children, coaching hockey (or whatever else their boys play) and “braaing” the occasional “boerie”.