As Vice President Strategic Programs, Daniel is responsible for the development and implementation of a range of strategic MEF programs that are central to MEF's transformation to an agile-process oriented standards development organization. These innovative programs - including the MEF Software Developer Community, MEFnet global implementation platform, and MEF Reference Implementations - enable MEF's 210+ member companies to implement draft and published service orchestration and definitions work in code, and to make available standardized open APIs that accelerate the availability of highly agile, assured and orchestrated services for today's hyper-connected world.   Daniel has been involved in the networking industry for 25 years holding a variety of positions in RAD Data Communications, as well as co-founding Resolute Networks where he held executive positions. Representing Resolute in the MEF, Daniel served for 3 years as MEF Global Marketing Co-Chair and was elected three times to the MEF Board of Directors. Since 2010, Daniel has been a senior member of the MEF staff.

Sharon has 25 years of experience in the telecom industry, in the areas of fixed and mobile broadband networks.  Her career spanned network architecture, innovation incubation and technology collaborations.  In RAD, Sharon is the marketing lead for vCPE solutions.

Kevin Klett serves as the Vice President of Marketing & Product Management at 128 Technology. Kevin has broad experience in the communications and networking industry spanning 25 years in roles including product management, marketing, development, systems/sales engineering and professional services. Kevin joined 128 Technology in 2015.  Prior to 128 Technology, Kevin served for 14 years as Vice President of Product Management at Acme Packet (acquired by Oracle in 2013). At Acme Packet/Oracle, Kevin led the product management team responsible for shepherding the Session Border Control and Session Aware Networking portfolio from introduction to becoming a global market share-leading portfolio.   Prior to Acme Packet, Kevin served as Vice President of Corporate Systems Engineering at Lucent Technologies/OPENet Division (formerly Excel Switching). Kevin holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering-Telecommunications from the University of Connecticut and lives in Boston, MA.

Tushar is a Global technology professional with 20+ years of experience in Telco & Networking industry leading and managing complex product portfolio for global network & IT vendors. Tushar's career spans across Product Management, Engineering and Customer Support and has held various senior product management and engineering positions in the past with Cisco, Ericsson, Tellabs, Nortel and Startups. Tushar is currently serving as Product Management Director for Ciena Packet products portfolio driving Software Virtualization and Management products and features for Ciena with key focus on enterprise, mobility, edge compute, cloud integration, SDN/NFV, 5G, access/aggregation strategy and products. Tushar holds a Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics & Telecommunications) and Post Graduate Diploma in Advanced Software Design and Development. He is an avid reader and also hold other industry certifications including certified scrum master and Stanford project management.

Over a decade is how long Michal Podoski has been active in both IT and Telecommunications market, solving Unified Communications, and System Integration brainteasers. His experience isn't limited to Service Provider Environments and includes significant exposure to other parts of the usual supply chain, in this case, Solution Vendors and System Integrators.   Michal’s focus for the last couple of years was Product Development while working closely with both Engineering and Field Teams during pre-sales project stages. The constantly evolving Comms market segment requires trends awareness and being fluent in underlying technology, which for Michal nowadays revolves around Unified Communications, Networking Security and SD-WAN.   SD-WAN is what driven Michal over the recent years when working with Ribbon Communications and Edgewater Networks, and the very same SD-WAN brought Michal to Infovista to lead the Product Management team.   Finally, what is shaping Michal’s work ethic and attitude, working simultaneously as the ultimate reward one can ask for, is the experience of when things get finally done.

As Head of Virtualization Solution, Marc is responsible for the OneAccess branded virtualization portfolio, including virtual network functions (VNF) product management and strategic partnerships. He also leads the development of the go-to-market model and the set-up of the Ekinops partners ecosystem.  As a virtualization expert, Marc is the Ekinops spokesperson for the company’s software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) activities.

Sven is the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) of Lanner’s Telecom Applications Business Unit. Sven possesses 30 years of experience in telecommunications, network computing, product management and business development.   Prior to assuming this position in Lanner, Sven had taken several managerial positions in global business developments for Noviflow, LEI Technology (a subsidiary of Lanner in Canada) and Kontron, and had greatly contributed in the cloud, media and telecom market segments. He was fundamental in accelerating the adoption for P4 and OpenFlow based packet forwarding technology, virtual CPE/SD-WAN, and Advanced Telecommunication Computing Architecture (ATCA) technology in the service provider market.   Prior to his tenure at Kontron, Sven had held several engineering positions: Network Engineering at Deutsche Telekom, System Architect at Abewa GMBH, Systems Engineering at Nortel and Test Engineering at Sanmina-SCI.

Pierre-Henri Bourdiol holds the position of EMEA Senior Systems Engineer at Versa Networks since 2014 and brings 20+ years of experience in the networking industry across various technology fields.   Prior to Versa, Pierre-Henri spent 7 years at Acme Packet as EMEA Solutions Architect - Director, and 6 years at Juniper Networks as Senior Systems Engineer.

JP Vasseur, PhD is a Cisco Fellow where he has been working on a number of networking technologies such as IP/MPLS, Quality of Service, Traffic Engineering, network recovery, “The Internet of Things” (as the Chief Architect of the Internet of Things), Security, Wireless Networks since he joined Cisco in 1998. From 1992 to 1998, he worked for Service Providers in large multi-protocol environments. He is an active member of the Internet Engineering Task Force (co-author of more than 35 IETF RFCs, funders and co-chair of several Working Groups such as the PCE and ROLL WG), and an active member in several SDOs.   JP has been leading world-class engineering teams of advanced networking and Analytics/Machine Learning (Self Learning Networks, Cloud-based Machine Learning) with key applications such as Security, Wifi networks, Devices classification and SD-WAN to mention a few (network cognitive and predictive analytics). JP is a regular speaker at various international conferences; he is involved in various research projects in the area of IP/IoT/Security/ML and the member of a number of Technical Program Committees. JP Vasseur is also Associate Professor at Telecom Paris.   He is the (co)inventor of more than 500 patents in the area of IP/MPLS, Security, The Internet of Things and Machines Learning / Analytics.   He is the coauthor of “Network Recovery” (Morgan Kaufmann, July 2004), “Definitive MPLS Network Designs” (Cisco Press, March 2005) and "Interconnecting Smart Object with IP: The Next Internet (Morgan Kaufmann, July 2010 - http://www.thenextinternet.org/). JP receives an engineering degree in computer Science (France), a Master of Science in Computer Science (Steven - USA) and PhD in Networking (Mines-Telecom Paris – France).

Mr. Cao Tongqiang serves as the AR Product Director of Huawei's Campus Network Domain. He is responsible for R&D, marketing, and production management of AR products.   With 12 years of experience in the network field, Mr. Cao has gained deep insights into branch gateway products and SD-WAN solution development trends.

Mr.Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering & PLM – Technology in the ION Division at Nokia, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions for Service provider and Enterprise customers around: Cloud Networking (SDN/NFV), Triple Play, Mobile, IOT, etc.  He has over 20 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. He is active in a number of SDO’s like IETF, BBF, openStack, etc.   Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow.

Mick Higgins is responsible for all Product Management at Asavie, bringing a portfolio of network-security, mobile and IoT service and platform to markets across the globe.  Before joining Asavie, Mick was VP of Mobility and IoT Product Management at Tata Communications where he oversaw Tata Communications’ global Mobility and IoT business and was a cofounder of Tata Communications MOVETM.  He was also Managing Director of Alcatel-Lucent for Singapore and Brunei, and has also led Alcatel-Lucent’s Wireless Asia Pacific business.

Nikolai Pitaev is a senior technical marketing engineer (TME) at Cisco Enterprise Networking Business Unit. Nikolai is responsible for Cisco SD-WAN solution based on Viptela technology since the first day of the acquisition in August 2017.   Prior to that Nikolai was TME for Cloud Products based on CSR 1000V and physical ASR 1000 router families. In his fourteen years with Cisco, he has worked as presales systems engineer for a major strategic Service Provider Account in Europe and then as TME.  Prior to Cisco Nikolai spent five years at Deutsche Telekom Headquarters planning and designing the biggest European IP and Access Aggregation network.  Thanks to this business carrier Nikolai had different roles - as Cisco customer, as Cisco Sales engineer and as Cisco Business Unit team member. Nikolai is a well-known speaker who has presented at several conferences including Cisco Live Berlin, Las Vegas and Melbourne, partner events and seminars worldwide including winning Best Research Paper at ICPE 2018 Conference in Berlin and Distinguished Speaker Award at Cisco Live.   He holds a Master of Science (Dipl.-Ing.) in Electrical Engineering from the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany.   In his spare time, Nikolai is a youth ice hockey team manager and hockey dad of two San Jose Jr. Sharks AAA goalies. Nikolai is based out of the Cisco office in San Jose, CA.

Dave Ginsburg is VP, Product & Solutions Marketing at Aryaka, as well as a published author and thought leader focusing on the convergence of these different technologies in driving business outcomes.   His background includes leading marketing and product management organizations spanning networking, the cloud, SaaS, security, and SDN, at companies including Teridion, Pluribus, Extreme, Riverstone Networks, Nortel, and Cisco.

Jim Fulton is Forcepoint’s Director of Cloud and Edge Protection solutions. He has been developing and delivering enterprise access and security products for more than 20 years in both Austin and Silicon Valley.   He holds a degree in Computer Science from MIT.

Chairman

Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN.  Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.  Amir is the author of TheNewDialTone and founder of several technology and informational websites around SD-WAN and WebRTC.

Mr.Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering & PLM – Technology in the ION Division at Nokia, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions for Service provider and Enterprise customers around: Cloud Networking (SDN/NFV), Triple Play, Mobile, IOT, etc.  He has over 20 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. He is active in a number of SDO’s like IETF, BBF, openStack, etc.   Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow.

Over 25 Years in Networking/Security Experience working in varied environments, from startups to Fortune 25 companies and industries ranging from Biotech to Finance.   His experience brings business acumen with a technical focus to the design of customer solutions.

Daniel is the head of Amdocs NG OSS/NFV solution architecture for EMEA region. Daniel is an expert in service fulfilment, end to end orchestration NFV and cloud with more than 15 year of experience in the telecoms domain.   In his previous role at Amdocs, Daniel led the product management of Amdocs service fulfilment portfolio. Before joining Amdocs he managed the service fulfillment domain at HOT Telecoms, one of Israel’s leading service providers.

Amit Bareket is the Founder and CEO of Perimeter 81. Amit is a cybersecurity expert with extensive experience in system architecture and software development. He is the author of 8 patents issued by the USPTO for storage, mobile applications and user interface. Prior to Perimeter 81, Amit founded SaferVPN, sold in 2019 to J2 Global, and worked as a Software Engineer for major enterprises including IBM XIV Storage and BigBand Networks.  He served in the Israel Defense Force’s elite cyber intelligence unit (Unit 81) and graduated Cum Laude with a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Economics from Tel Aviv University.

Tom focuses on SDN/NFV technology that support a wide variety of enterprise services--including SD-WAN--and facilitate the evolution to the Adaptive Network TM.   With 20+ years in high-tech, Tom’s sales and marketing experience spans network-centric solutions for both enterprise and service provider markets, and includes tenures at Juniper Networks and Sycamore Networks.

Eyal Webber-Zvik is Cato Networks' Senior Director of Product Marketing and Business Development. Previously, Eyal ran Cato’s product management organization where he helped build the Cato platform.  Eyal brings more than 20 years of experience in security and networking companies.

Nicolas is the product owner and development manager for Keysight’s active monitoring solutions. With 20 years of experience in High Tech industry, he has been one of the lead innovators for network performance monitoring products with Ixia/Keysight for the last 10 years.  Before his focus on performance monitoring solutions, Nicolas has held several positions as solution architect and consultant for voice over IP, cellular networks and IP networking.

Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN.  Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.  Amir is the author of TheNewDialTone and founder of several technology and informational websites around SD-WAN and WebRTC.

After 15 years working in different Service Providers network Departments, Gregory started in 2016 to work on web-scale networks and Infrastructure as Code.   Now at the head of Italtel France Technology department, he works on IT infrastructure solutions integration that can increase Quality of Experience and be more easily managed via CI/CD automation.