Bio

- 5 startups with multiple successes - Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of MEF pioneering Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), SDN and NFV for the telecommunication market - Former Principal Program Management at Microsoft - Author and/or co-author of 30+ patents and patents pending - Capacity Magazine 2018 Top 20 Leaders in SDN , Telecom 2018 Top 25 Movers and Shakers in Telecom, Capacity Magazine Power 100 for 2019 and Capacity Magazine 20 SDN Market Leaders - ONF Ping Pan memorial award recipient - Layer 123 World Congress Advisory Board member - Thought leader with execution skills for new and emerging technologies (from inception to product management to go-to-market) - 30+ years of internetworking experience in all kinds of leadership positions (CTO, VP Product Management, Architect, etc) - International technology speaker at many worldwide industry conferences - Inventor and Pioneer of Unified Communications (UC) and Software Defined Networks (SDN) - Advisor to the MEF Board Of Directors (Next Gen SDN, NFV and LSO Telecommunication Forum with over 220 organizations worldwide) - Former Chair of UC SDN Task Group at International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC) - Former Vice-Chair of Open Network Foundation (ONF) NBI Working Group (SDN Forum with over 150 members) - Co-Founder and former Vice-Chair of Wi-Fi Alliance Task Group Mobile Multimedia Over Wi-Fi working group - Former Chair of SIPv6 Task Group at International Multimedia Telecommunication Consortium (IMTC) - Pioneer of MPLS. MPLS Forum appointed Subject Matter Expert - IETF L2VPN design team member and co-inventor of Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) - Pioneer of Metro Ethernet and Co-founder/Board Director for MEF - Multiple leadership and technical innovation awards from (ONF, MEF, IMTC and Microsoft)