Title
Senior Expert Auctions & Commercial Mathematics, Vodafone Principal Engineer
Company
Vodafone Group R&D
Bio

Dr Nick Bone has worked for Vodafone for twenty years, and is the company’s leading strategy expert and game theorist for spectrum auctions. He has advised, trained and participated in bid teams in over 60 auctions and 25 countries since 2010. Nick has seen regulators play with almost every conceivable auction design while the cost of spectrum climbed, with a cumulative bill to Vodafone of more than 35 billion US dollars over the decade. This trend is now straining even the strongest and best-advised operators to the limit. Nick obtained his doctorate in Mathematics from Oxford University (1998) and when not advising on auctions, develops new industry solutions and standards for security and advanced cryptography.