welcome to Open Planet

Who?
Based on the OPLAN model devised by Malcolm Matson, the OpenPlanet proposition has been developed by Malcolm J. Matson, Jonathan Cape, Rod Mitchell and Claudio Domingues.

Malcolm is a successful entrepreneur in the IT/telecoms sector (including founding COLT Telecom) and has been a pioneer of broadband in the UK since the 1980s. He was the first to develop the concept of open access infrastructure, owned and operated independently of any services, content or applications running over it.

Jonathan has enjoyed a distinguished career in the public sector. He has set up two and led three economic development units and served on the senior management teams of two local authorities, an economic development company and a utility. His last public sector post was with Scottish Water which he left in 2004 in order to promote OpenPlanet.

Rod is an experienced telecoms professional with a wealth of experience gained up and down the supply chain across a number of different companies. As an independent consultant Rod has worked on a number of Broadband related projects over the past 4 years mostly in the Public Sector for Scottish Enterprise and the Local Enterprise Companies. He has been involved from inception in Project Atlas which is a public sector funded initiative designed to build and own new dark fibre infrastructure across a number of Business Parks in Scotland.

Claudio’s professional career has focussed on financing real estate, most recently arranging mezzanine finance for a major investment bank. After several years with a Portuguese real estate bank, the millennium saw him move to the UK to join a global real estate team undertaking feasibility studies for real estate investments all over Europe. Key projects have taken him to France, Italy, Greece, Hungary, Czech Republic, Spain and Portugal, advising major pan-European real estate developers and investors in their ventures.

OpenPlanet is also working in association with leading telecoms and water consultancies, facilities management organisation and with a number of investors sympathetic to the OPLAN model. In addition, OpenPlanet is in dialogue with trunk fibre owners who already have massive capacity in their existing fibre assets to enable any service or content provider to gain global connectivity to and from any OPLAN.