I transform businesses. I build what comes next.

Shocair founded and served as CEO of Boomtel Networks, pioneering the universal numbering prefix “100” as the Internet Telephone Number, intended to work like email addressing, but for voice and video calls. Users could dial 100 followed by an existing telephone number to route communications over the internet, challenging conventional international carrier billing structures.

He addressed the changing economics of broadband and VoIP at major industry events, including CeBIT and Financial Times conference panels. Although the model was attacked by government agencies, incumbent telecommunications operators and the ITU in Geneva, its central prediction proved correct: voice and video communications moved decisively onto the internet, transforming how the world connects.

As CEO of DeTeWe from 2002, Shocair turned around a large, long-loss-making telecommunications corporation and led it toward a successful 2005 buyout by a Toronto Stock Exchange-listed Canadian company.

He later held a senior leadership role at Centile in France and became Global Group CEO of Snom Technology GmbH following a private-equity investment. At Snom, he drove product innovation, international expansion and operational acceleration, describing the transformation as “turning a truck into a rocket.”

From 2010 to 2015, he also served as Publisher and CEO of Silicon Allee and its parent company, Four Sektor, strengthening Berlin’s prominent English-language voice for the startup community while mentoring emerging technology founders.

Shocair has served in governance and advisory positions, including as a member of the Supervisory Board of EasyPark Group, Europe’s largest car-parking and car-sharing platform, and as a hands-on transformation adviser during the restructuring of Austrian automotive and tire retailer Forstinger.

He co-founded Zago Capital I, a KNF-authorized, Polish-regulated €100 million investment fund focused on e-commerce businesses in health, beauty, wellness and supplements across Poland and Central and Eastern Europe.

As creator of the Value Leak Analysis™ system, he leads Bull Gemini, operating from the City of London, New York, Hong Kong and Dubai. He advises private equity firms, family offices, boards and founders on pre-exit preparation, rapid 90-day turnarounds, restructuring and value creation. He also leads new multimillion-dollar initiatives in advanced technology and software platforms, which are open to strategic investment participation by application.

Shocair is developing several software platforms and systems around identified market gaps in automotive; autonomous vehicles and drones; connected systems and technologies; technical-documentation automation; automated video marketing; shopping; and entertainment media, including vertical film and online comics.

As an author, publisher and public speaker behind the publishing brand The20Skills, positioned against the “For Dummies” franchise, he brings decades of expertise directly to readers through practical books, webinars, seminars and workshops designed to help aspiring entrepreneurs. His TEDx Talk, “The 3 Pillars of How to Live Certainly in (Un)certainty,” addresses how people can navigate disruption with clarity and agency.

He has spoken at CeBIT Global Conferences, Financial Times conferences and executive forums, with appearances and coverage across BBC, CNBC, Bloomberg and international print and digital media.

Since 2002, and through Shocair Play, he has placed 840 video-game systems, toward a target of 2,000, at the bedsides of children receiving treatment in pediatric oncology centers, providing distraction, comfort and moments of ordinary childhood. He has also provided several seeing-eye dogs for visually impaired people and supports the creative community in art, fashion and music.

An extensive global traveller, Shocair grew up in an expatriate family in Africa and was schooled in Africa, the UK and the USA. That international upbringing continues to shape his worldview and his approach to leadership.