The Verizon Business veteran joins Telesmart to support global expansion and help carriers and CPaaS providers simplify operations, accelerate service delivery and unlock new revenue from numbers.
London, UK – 12 May 2026 – Telesmart, a telecom number governance platform, has appointed Carl Roberts as Chairman of its Board. Roberts joins as the company accelerates growth, expands its global footprint and scales its platform to support Tier 1 carriers, emerging and digital service providers and CPaaS providers worldwide.
Roberts joins Telesmart’s Board to provide strategic oversight and support the company’s growth and global go-to-market expansion. He brings more than 30 years’ experience in international wholesale and has held senior executive and board roles at leading technology companies. He was previously Group Vice President at Verizon Business and most recently Chief Commercial Officer at Epsilon.
“Telesmart has proven it can serve the demands of Tier 1 carriers through to agile challengers and CPaaS providers,” said Roberts. “Demand for programmable communications is growing rapidly, but number operations remain fragmented and operationally complex. Telesmart gives customers a single place to govern and control their number estate, making it easier to scale services, meet compliance requirements and unlock value from those assets.”
Telesmart provides a system of record for telecom numbers and communication identifiers. It acts as the central point of governance and control across number inventory, lifecycle, ownership, routing and compliance, giving carriers, CPaaS providers and service providers operational control across multiple markets, operators and suppliers. By centralising visibility, automating provisioning and validating numbers before execution, Telesmart enables customers to scale services, reduce operational risk, maintain compliance and manage number operations with consistency.
“Carl understands both the operational reality of telecom and the direction the industry is heading,” said Neil Kitcher, CEO and founder of Telesmart. “As services become more software-driven, the way numbers are managed has to change. Bringing Carl on as Chairman strengthens our strategic direction as we scale the platform, support our customers and accelerate growth in key markets.”
With Roberts as Chairman, the company will continue to invest in its platform and execute on its growth strategy, expanding its reach across the global communications ecosystem and helping providers simplify operations and build more scalable, well-governed services.
About Telesmart
Telesmart is a telecom number governance platform that provides a system of record for managing and validating communication identifiers across operators, suppliers and platforms. It enables carriers, CPaaS providers and service providers to govern number inventory, enforce compliance and ensure services enter execution in a known and authorised state.
The platform centralises number lifecycle, supports regulatory workflows and provides operational control across multi-market deployments. Telesmart helps telecom businesses scale services, enter new markets and manage number assets with certainty.
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