Goli Ameri
Founder & president
eTinium

Goli Ameri is the founder and president of eTinium, a telecom consulting and market research firm specializing in the telecommunications market. eTinium's client list ranges from established international telecom vendors, service providers, securities firms, and independent leasing companies to startup suppliers and emerging carriers. Ms. Ameri is the author of over 30 market studies, the latest of which is the upcoming study titled "Wireless LANs: The Greatest Challenge to 3G." She is quoted regularly in such publications as RCR Wireless News, Wireless Week, Internet Week, EE Times, national Business Journals, city newspapers such as the San Jose Mercury News, Seattle Times, Oregonian among others as well as Multex Investor, Internet Telephony, and the X-Change magazine. Ms. Ameri is invited regularly as a speaker to industry conferences worldwide including CTIA, SuperNet, Metro Optical Conference, National Wireless Engineering Conference, 802.11b and SMI Conferences in Europe. In August of 2001, she was invited to the first Telecommunications Conference to be held in Iran in the past twenty-three years and subsequently to the Ministry of Telecommunications to discuss the topic of deregulation in the Asian telecom market.
Ms. Ameri also writes a bi-monthly analysis column for Telephony magazine, and is a member of the Council of Communications Advisors, an association of leading telecommunications engineers, information scientists, and IT professionals whose purpose is to promote business innovation and continuing education by facilitating the flow of relevant scientific and technical knowledge to institutional investors.
Prior to founding eTinium, Ms. Ameri spent 10 years leading market evaluation and planning for US Leasing (A Ford Motor Company unit), a capital equipment leasing firm focused on communications and IT equipment. Her role included directing the overall strategic planning and product planning and diversification for both the domestic and international operations.
Ms. Ameri has a Master and Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Stanford University, and has studied at the Sorbonne in Paris. Ms. Ameri is fluent in French and has a working knowledge of Spanish.