About us

The MAXroam Team

Pat Phelan
Director, Co-Founder and CEO

Tony Duncan
Director, Co-Founder and Director of Calling Card Sales

Don Jeffery
Chairman

Alan Keane
Director, Co-Founder and Director of Marketing

Declan O'Donoghue
Director

Sean O'Mahony
Chief Commercial Officer

Tony Frattaroli
VP MAXroam Sales

Chris Kennedy
Platform Manager

Krisztina Bakondi
Office Manager

MAXroam is a service of Cubic Telecom Limited. With MAXroam our ambition is to create a service with which you can pick up your mobile anywhere in the world and call anyone in the world for as long as you like and not worry about the price.

Group Photo


Board Directors; Declan O'Donoghue, Pat Phelan CEO, Don Jeffery Chairman and Alan Keane Marketing Director



Cubic Telecom

Cubic Telecom is based in Cork, Ireland but we have a very global perspective. Our aim is to offer creative telecommunication products to everyone. Our solutions are not technical. There are no downloads, no special numbers, no headsets. Our aim is to provide high-value, simple services that anyone can understand.

The MAXroam Team

Pat Phelan

Pat Phelan
Pat is our CEO. He has been involved in the telecoms arena for over 9 years and at the forefront of European pre-paid telephony for the last 5 years. With a vast array of experience in Europe and The USA, Pat now sees himself as a telecoms disruptor and a champion of the underdog against the ruling telecom companies.

Pat's Blog


Tony Duncan

Tony Duncan
Tony joined Pat in 2002 to build what has now become Cubic Telecom. Tony led the initial sales effort for Cubic and established the company as a key telecoms player in the Irish market. Tony has been involved in the telecom sector for the past 10 years.

Don Jeffery

Don Jeffery
Don is co-founder of the Luigi Malones restaurant group conceived in London and Munich and now based in Dublin, Cork, and Limerick - Ireland. If you find yourself in one of these places and you are looking for a great meal in a lovely setting then check it out: http://www.luigimalones.com

Don is also a Director of Bridgedoc. Ltd., a web based document storage and retrieval company (if you are looking for storage solutions then check them out at: http://www.bridgedoc.com and co-owner of Leejay Properties -- he says it's a pension thing.

Alan Keane

Alan Keane
Veteran Marketing Consultant Alan Keane is our Group Marketing Director. Alan has been operating his own incentive marketing firm since 1983 specialising in the aviation and financial services industries. Three years ago, he branched out with Pat and Tony to form Cubic Telecom with a view to putting his many years experience into building the Cubic Telecom brand.

Declan O'Donoghue
Cork businessman, Declan O'Donoghue is one of Cubic Telecom’s investors and was appointed to the board in June ’07. He brings a wealth of commercial experience to the team and has extensive interests in property in Ireland and throughout Europe. A keen cyclist, Declan has invested in several star-ups over the last decade.

Sean O'Mahony

Sean O'Mahony
Sean is the Chief Commercial Officer at Cubic Telecom. He is passionate about developing products that work for the consumer, not the company selling them. He comes to Cubic after spending 9 months at Jajah helping them roll out their mobile product. Prior to that he was the CEO of Luxembourg-based Excilan and prior to that he was founder and CEO of Vancouver-based FatPort.

Sean's Blog


Tony Frattaroli

Tony Frattaroli
Tony comes to Cubic Telecom with over 10 years of senior sales and management experience in the technology sector. Prior to joining Cubic Tony headed up CheetahMail in Ireland, an Experian company with responsibility for building and managing the sales channel. In January 2004 Tony was appointed CEO of Narragansett Technologies an email marketing company and also as a member of the board. He joined Narragansett in 2002 as VP Sales and was instrumental in developing their highly successful global partnerships. Prior to Narragansett, Tony was a Sales and Marketing consultant for a major non-profit organization in the US, and ESchool Solutions Inc. based in Orlando Florida. Tony was also co-founder and Sales Director of TTR Ireland Ltd., an international barcode solutions company. Tony brings a wealth of sales experience and vision to Cubic. In his spare time Tony likes to walk his dogs and play the drums.

Chris Kennedy
An enthusiastic, dedicated and professional team player, Mr. Kennedy has previous web engineering experience with Monster Worldwide (North America, now known as Monster Technologies), working on a variety of technologies including .NET, XML, XSL and Javascript. A graduate of Business Information Systems (University College Cork, Ireland), Mr. Kennedy is currently working as Platform Manager for Cubic Telecom, with key responsibilities including web based research and innovation, usability, and online portal management. A team player, Chris has also tutored students from University College Cork in subjects such as Object Oriented Programming, .NET Web Applications, Database Management Systems and Enterprise Resource Planing.

Krisztina Bakondi
Krisztina is going to write something about herself soon!