Mikaël Schachne joined the international division of Belgacom in 2001 which was then spun-off and merged with Swisscom International and MTN International. After having successfully led the product development and management of new international mobile data services such as signalling, GPRS Roaming eXchange (GRX), SMS hubbing, MMS hubbing, instant roaming and open connectivity roaming hubbing, he is now in charge of the mobile data business at BICS. The portfolio, which has been built across the last 10 years, is now supporting international mobile communications needs for more than 400 mobile operators and MVNOs across the world.

Mikaël Schachne previously worked for Winstar Europe and Mobistar where he gained extensive expertise in the implementation of telecom networks in the fields of GSM, GPRS, wireless local loop, IP and SS7. He graduated from the Brussels University Applied Science Faculty (Belgium) as a civil electrical engineer specializing in electronics and telecom and holds a Masters in Business-to-Business Marketing from the Vlerick Management School in Leuven, Belgium.