Chief Operating Officer, MEF,
MEF19 Executive Director
MEF18 Keynote Speakers & Executive Perspectives
Eric Cevis
President, Verizon Partner Solutions
Nan Chen
President, MEF; CENX Advisor, Ericsson
Andrew Dugan
SVP Technology Planning & Network Architecture, CenturyLink
Erik Ekudden
SVP & CTO, Ericsson
Jean-Claude Geha
Senior Vice President of International Services and Technology, Deutsche Telekom AG
Josh Goodell
Vice President, Edge Solutions, AT&T
Marc Halbfinger
Chief Executive Officer, PCCW Global
Jan Karlsson
SVP & Head of Business Area Digital Services, Ericsson
Brian Lillie
Chief Product Officer, Equinix
Kyle Malady
Chief Network Operations Officer & Acting CTO, Verizon
Bill Martin
CIO, AEG
Luigi Migliaccio
VP Voice, Data & Messaging, International Delivery Unit, Deutsche Telekom
Kevin O'Toole
Senior Vice President Product Management, Comcast Business
Roman Pacewicz
Chief Product Officer, AT&T
Director MEF
Satya Parimi
Group Vice President, Data Products, Spectrum Enterprise
Kevin Sheehan
CTO of the Americas, Ciena
Michael Strople
President Allstream, Managing Director - Canada, Zayo Group;
Chairman, MEF
MEF18 Speakers
Featured Speakers
Rosemary Cochran
Principal & Co-Founder,
Vertical Systems Group
John Dickinson
Vice President of Engineering, Spectrum Enterprise
Kenneth Dilbeck
Vice President of Collaboration and R&D, TM Forum
Manish Gupta
Chief Infrastructure Architect, Intuit
Divesh Gupta
Vice President - Technology and Sales Operations, PCCW Global
John Paul Hemingway
CEO, SES Networks
Jeff Lewis
VP of Product Management, Comcast Business
Daniele Mancuso
Executive VP ICT Engineering, Sparkle
Andy Mayer
Principal Member of Technical Staff, Network Cloud and Infrastructure, AT&T Labs; LSO Committee Co-Chair, MEF
Pascal Menezes
Chief Technology Officer, MEF
Franck Morales
Vice President Marketing Connectivity Services, Orange Business Services
Bart Oskam
Chief Technology Officer, Eurofiber Group
Patrick Ostiguy
President & CEO, Accedian
Yogen Patel
Head of Product and Solutions Marketing, Amdocs
Hayim Porat
CTO, ECI
Jack Pugaczewski
Distinguished Architect, CenturyLink; MEF Distinguished Fellow
Adam Saenger
Vice President Networking Solutions, CenturyLink
Ralph Santitoro
Head of SDN/NFV/SD-WAN Services, Fujitsu Network Communications; MEF Distinguished Fellow, Director, MEF
Jeff Schwartz
Associate Vice President of Managed Network Services and Cloud Enablement, Tata Communications
Robert Shore
Senior Vice President Global Marketing & Sales Enablement, Infinera
Gabriel Sidhom
Vice President Technology Development, Orange Silicon Valley
Raluca Sirbu
Director, Network Infrastructure & Services, AT&T
Sarit Tager
Vice President of Research and Development, ECI
Aloke Tusnial
CTO SDN/NFV, NEC/Netcracker
Gert Vanderstraeten
Network Architect – Microsoft IT Network Infrastructure Services (CSEO)
Steve Vogelsang
Chief Technology Officer, IP & Optical Networks, Nokia
Mirko Voltolini
Global Head of Network on Demand, Colt Technology Services, Director, MEF
Event Speakers
Mythili Arunachalam
Senior Manager, Solutions Architect, Smart Community Solutions, Verizon Wireless
Jeff Babbitt
Principal Solutions Architect, Fujitsu Network Communications
David Ball
Services Committee Co-Chair, MEF; Senior Architect, Cisco
Daniel Bar-Lev
Director, Office of the CTO, MEF
Jonathan Beasley
Principal Architect, Refinitiv
Oleg Berzin
Senior Director of Technology Innovation, Equinix
Greg Bryan
Senior Manager, TeleGeography
Nav Chander
Sr. Director, Service Provider Marketing, Silver Peak
Tim Doiron
Principal Analyst, Practice Lead, Intelligent Networking, ACG Research
Erin Dunne
Director of Research Services, Vertical Systems Group
Reinhard Florin
VP of Sales and General Manager of North America, Telco Systems
Elie Francis
Director of New Technology and Advanced Development, AT&T Labs
Mark Gibson
Director of Product Management, Amdocs OSS; Applications Committee Co-Chair, MEF
Brendan Gunn
Director of Product Marketing, Verizon Partner Solutions
Roopa Honnachari
Industry Director, Business Communication Services & Cloud Services, ICT Practice, Frost & Sullivan
Stan Hubbard
Director of Communications & Research, MEF, MEF18 Program Director
David Hughes
Vice President of Engineering, PCCW Global
John Isch
Director of Network and Voice NAM, Orange Business Services
Aman Kapoor
Director of Product Management, Juniper Networks
Ahmad Khalil
Associate Director – Advanced Technology LAB, TATA Communications
Andrew Krueger
Directory of Solution Architecture, Amdocs
Bob Mandeville
President, Iometrix
Steve Marsh
CTO for North America, Intraway
David Martin
Senior Systems Engineer, IP/Optical Networking Business Group, Nokia
Michael Martin
Senior Enterprise Architect for Networking and Security Infrastructure, McKinsey & Company
Reuben Massey
Senior Enterprise Solution Architect, Infovista
Isabelle Morency
Head of Engineering & Standards, Iometrix
Sterling Perrin
Principal Analyst – Optical Networking & SDN, Heavy Reading
Gunnar Peters
Senior Director, Emerging Networks, Spectrum Enterprise
Dan Pitt
SVP, MEF
Val Plotnichenko
Senior Sales Engineer, NEC/Netcracker
Darren Pralle
Senior Manager of Business Development and Marketing, Lifecycle Service Assurance, Spirent
Chris Purdy
LSO Committe Co-chair, MEF
Sandeep Raina
Product Marketing Director, Infovista
Ian Redpath
Principal Analyst, Ovum
Charlie Reed
Partner, ATLANTIC-ACM
Joe Ruffles
Global Standards Architect for Strategy and Innovation, Riverbed
Fahim Sabir
Dir. Architecture & Dev., Colt Technology Svcs.
Robert Schult
Research Director, TeleGeography
Eitan Schwartz
Vice President, Service Provider Line of Business, North America, RAD Data Communications, Inc.
Karthik Sethuraman
Sr. Software/SDN Architect, Optical IP Development, NEC/Netcracker
Greg Spear
Solution Manager, Accedian
Dave Stehlin
General Manager, Lifecycle Service Assurance, Spirent
Shahar Steiff
AVP, New Technology, PCCW Global
Jay Stewart
Principal Product Manager for Service Assurance, Spirent
Anssi Tauriainen
Director, Data Science, EXFO
Kevin Vachon
Chief Operating Officer, MEF,
MEF19 Executive Director
Brian Washburn
Practice Leader, Network Transformation & Cloud, Ovum
Carol Wilson
Editor-at-Large, Light Reading
George Xilouris
Research Fellow, NCSR Demokrito
Rami Yaron
Senior Director SDN/NFV Solutions, NEC/Netcracker, Director, MEF
Speakers
Director of Communications & Research, MEF, MEF18 Program Director
Head of Engineering & Standards, Iometrix
Senior Director SDN/NFV Solutions, NEC/Netcracker, Director, MEF
Practice Leader, Network Transformation & Cloud, Ovum