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Michael Cooper (Chairperson)
Vice President Marketing and Strategy, Convergence Business Group
Alcatel-Lucent
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Mr. Cooper is responsible for marketing the convergence portfolio in the North American region. He also plays a global role in ensuring consistency across the other three regions. During his more than 30-year career with Alcatel-Lucent, Lucent, AT&T, and Bell Labs, he has held a wide range of positions. Mr. Cooper has two patents and holds a B.S. in biomedical engineering and M.S. in computer science from Northwestern University. |
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Session: Network Transformation to IP Core
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Graham Ellis (Chairperson)
Head of Solutions for Emerging Technologies
Nokia Siemens Networks
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Mr. Ellis is responsible for customer solutions in emerging technologies for Nokia Siemens Networks in North America, with a focus on converged TV. He is a 30-year veteran of the telecommunications industry with experience in both wireless and fixed networks in North America and the Asia-Pacific. Mr. Ellis previously worked at Nokia in New Zealand and held marketing and product management positions in broadband access. He holds a Certificate in telecommunications engineering from Waikato Polytechnic and a Certificate in management from Victoria University. |
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Jim Farmer (Chairperson)
Chief Technology Officer
Wave7 Optics
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Mr. Farmer previously held executive positions with ANTEC, ESP, and Scientific-Atlanta. He holds approximately 80 patents related to cable TV systems. His honors include the 1996 NCTA Vanguard Award in Technology, the Society of Cable Television Engineers (SCTE) Hall of Fame in 1997, and Cable Pioneers in 1998. Formerly the president of the IEEE Consumer Electronics Society and current editor of its newsletter, Mr. Farmer also serves on a number of program committees and engineering committees. |
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Session: A Comparison of PON Architectures
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Seamus Hourihan (Chairperson)
Vice President, Marketing and Product Management
Acme Packet
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Mr. Hourihan brings more than 25 years of experience to Acme Packet in executive management, marketing, product management, and business development roles at voice over IP, IP networking, Web infrastructure, and computer companies. He was vice president of marketing for internetworking leader Wellfleet. More recently, Mr. Hourihan was vice president of marketing for Pingtel. He also held management positions at Data General, MASSCOMP, and Bright Tiger and has operated his own consulting company. He holds an A.B. degree from Dartmouth College and an M.B.A. from Babson College. |
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Session: Peering – The Protocol for Success
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Bill Huang (Chairperson)
General Manager, Research Institute
China Mobile
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Prior to China Mobile, Mr. Huang was senior vice president and CTO of UTStarcom, Inc. He has in-depth experience in the areas of next-generation mobile switching systems, IP media streaming, GEPON systems, multi-service softswitches, and operation support systems, as well as value-added services. Mr. Huang has been a new technology advocate for the telecom industry. His knowledge base is built on more than 21 years of experience in the development of key communication technologies. Mr. Huang holds a M.S. in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of Illinois. |
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Angelo Morelli (Chairperson)
Executive Director, Service Delivery Platform
Accenture
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Mr. Morelli has more than a decade of experience helping communications service providers achieve high performance. He is particularly focused on helping both wireless and wireline operators simplify their network architectures and technologies to achieve greater flexibility and cost-efficiency. In the network service line, Mr. Morelli is the global lead for the Accenture Service Delivery Platform Solution, an industry-leading offering that is helping service providers create, deploy, and profit from new value-added services more rapidly and cost-effectively. |
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Dan Parsons (Chairperson)
Director of Marketing
Broadlight
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Mr. Parsons has more than 23 years of experience in telecommunications and was an earlier adopter in the development of C and DWDM transport products in 1992. In 2000 he initiated AFC's (now Tellabs) FTTP efforts and brought to market the industry's first hardened CWDM ROADM. Mr. Parsons has held engineering, marketing, and business development roles throughout his career and has been in the semiconductor industry for the past four years. He received his P.Eng in Ottawa, Canada, and has written numerous industry papers and two patent applications in optical networking. |
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Kim Perdikou (Chairperson)
Executive Vice President and General Manager, Infrastructure Products Group
Juniper Networks
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Ms. Perdikou joined Juniper Networks in August 2000. She is responsible for driving IPG's strategy, innovation, and product development and also serves as general manager of the service provider business team, a cross-functional unit comprising product development, marketing, sales, support, and business operations. This unit is tasked with the development of the business strategy and integrated plans to drive all elements of success for the service provider market segment. |
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Tony Roug (Chairperson)
Principal Engineer, Digital Enterprise Group
Intel
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Mr. Roug is responsible for end-user requirements and platform definition in the Digital Enterprise Group. He is currently leading Intel's IP services strategic planning and architecture. Mr. Roug's current focus is on the video over the Internet, IPTV, and VoIP/IMS usage models. He previously served as the director of advanced network services for Dialogic. Mr. Roug holds an M.S. degree in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a B.S. degree in computer engineering from Iowa State University. |
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Timon Sloane (Chairperson)
Vice President, Marketing
Matisse Networks
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Mr. Sloane has more than 23 years of experience in data networking. He currently runs all product
management and corporate marketing functions and is focused on the design and promotion of optical
burst switching transport technology. Previously, Mr. Sloane was director of product management at
Extreme Networks, VP of marketing at WebStacks, CTO and head of marketing for the Broadband business
unit at Network Equipment Technologies, and director of product marketing at FlowWise Networks.
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Dom Stasi (Chairperson)
Chief Technology Officer
TVN Entertainment
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Mr. Stasi leads an engineering and operations team responsible for distributing more than 3,500 hours of VoD content each month to systems across North America. During his tenure, TVN has introduced several technological innovations such as platform independent VoD and its 2008 Emmy-nominated ADONISS systems. A new media veteran, Mr. Stasi served as director of engineering for HBO during that network's pioneering era of satellite television and was the first vice president and general manager of network operations and design engineering for MTV. |
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Jonas Storakers (Chairperson)
Director of Commercial Product Management, Business Area Broadband Services
TeliaSonera
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Mr. Storakers is a seasoned telecommunications industry professional specializing in marketing and commercial management. He is currently responsible for commercial product management within Telia's broadband services division. His 10 years of experience with TeliaSonera has included periods as head of product management at Telia Mobile, head of mobile wholesale and third-party content businesses at Telia Mobile, and head of sales and distribution at TeliaSonera HQ. |
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Session: IPTV – Operator Case Studies
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Kevin Suitor (Chairperson)
Vice President, Marketing and Business Development
Redline Communications
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Mr. Suitor is widely recognized for his expertise in the telecommunications industry. He is also Redline's delegate for WiMAX and sits on the Marketing Working Group for WiMAX. Mr. Suitor has been actively involved over the years in the ATM Forum and Wireless Communications Association. He has written numerous articles in several industry publications and is a regular speaker on topics such as broadband fixed wireless, 802.16, WiMAX, softswitches, VoIP, ATM, gigabit Ethernet, and virtual private networks. |
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Floyd Wagoner (Chairperson)
Senior Manager, Global Marketing and Marketing Communications
Access Networks Solutions, Motorola
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Prior to this, Mr. Wagoner served as director of business development and customer education for Motorola Next Level Communications (NLC). He has been with Motorola since 2001, serving in various management, product marketing, and field marketing roles surrounding Motorola's ultra-broadband IPTV and RF video entertainment and access solutions portfolios. Mr. Wagoner currently chairs the European FTTH Council Market Intelligence Committee. |
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Karl Weaver (Chairperson)
Vice President, Business Development, Greater China/India
Newport Technologies
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Mr. Weaver is a Washington-based, globally trained, international wireless industry executive with Mandarin Chinese language and Asian cross-cultural business expertise. As a specialist on Asia-Pacific, Greater Chinese, and Indian wireless and mobile device markets, he has spent more than 20 years selling and marketing convergent PC-telecom-wireless communications products into Asia-Pacific, Greater Chinese, and Indian sub-continent markets in the emerging "Pacific century." |
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Session: The Global Mobile WiMAX Revolution
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Steve Zimba (Chairperson)
Managing Director, Global Telecom Business
Microsoft
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Mr. Zimba is responsible for driving Microsoft's strategy for the telecommunications market. He is focused on developing, marketing, and delivering robust, end-to-end software solutions to network service providers and network equipment providers across the wireline, wireless, and cable industry segments. Previously, Mr. Zimba was a director of strategy and business development with BellSouth, where he developed the company's next-generation, IP-based communications and entertainment services. |
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Session: An SDP for the Telco 2.0 World
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