Howarth would be helping the company expand its services and product portfolio. As CTO, Howarth will focus on bringing structure, process and conformity to the engineering departments, driving revenue through services, as well as managing the resourcing and usage of research and development.

He has 25 years of industry experience in the core and edge IP communications space. Prior to joining the Kenton Group, he held strategic positions at organisations like Case Communications, Ericsson, Siemens, OneAccess and Juniper.