Authors
Andrew Smith
Senior Marketing Manager, EMEA Marketing, Software-Defined Edge
Stephen Spellicy
Stephen Spellicy is known in the software industry as a subject matter expert with experience in product marketing, technical marketing and product management. As Vice President of Product Marketing and…
Nigel Stephenson
Nigel Stephenson is director of market development, EMEA, within the Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit at VMware.
Anupama Mahabhashyam
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Stephanie Owyoung
Director, Service Provider and Edge Content Strategy and Programs
Stephanie Owyoung leads service provider content strategy and programs for VMware. She brings over twenty years experience in telecommunications marketing to her role through positions at Lumina Networks, HPE, GE…
David Lawrence
David is a Senior Product Marketing Manager in VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit. At VMware, he focuses on 5G, Edge Computing, and Private Mobile Networks. Prior to joining…
Adam Rabin
Adam Rabin is a Product Marketing Manager at VMware with a focus on network automation, orchestration and 5G-related solutions. He received his MBA from UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business.
Rod Gilbert
Sr. Director Global Telco Alliances, Service Provider and Edge
Rod Gilbert is responsible for building a robust ecosystem of strategic partnerships across 4G/5G Core, RAN/ORAN and EDGE to accelerate the adoption of VMware’s Telco Cloud Portfolio and facilitate our…
Cathal Fitzpatrick
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Service Provider and Edge BU, VMware
Cathal Fitzpatrick is a Senior Product Marketing Manager at VMware. He has over 30 years experience in working in the Telecoms Industry for vendors, operators and consultants. He specializes in…
Karina Dahlke
Head of Customer and Partner Marketing, VMware Software-Defined Edge
Karina Dahlke is the Head of Customer and Partner Marketing for VMware Software-Defined Edge division. Her expertise is in helping CSPs and large enterprises in their quest for digital transformation,…
Jambi Ganbar
Director, Product Management, Ecosystems and Data Plane Performance
As the VMware Director of Product Management for performance and ecosystems, understanding technology's impact on end users and elevating that impact to create business value is a passion of mine.…
Yusuke Kanamori
Manager, Product Marketing
Moshe Lavi
Sr. Director SP Product Management, Telco
Senior Director, Product Management - Service Provider & Edge Business Unit at VMware. Moshe is an experienced Product Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled…
Rakesh Misra
Dr. Rakesh Misra is Director, R&D in VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit. Prior to joining VMware, he co-founded Uhana Inc. that commercialized an AI/ML-powered observability and optimization platform…
Diego Lozano de Fournas
Senior Technical Marketing Manager, Telco Solutions
Diego Lozano de Fournas serves as a technical marketing manager in Service Provider and Edge Business Unit in VMware . He has more than 20 years of experience in mobile…
Gabriele Di Piazza
Gabriele Di Piazza is vice president of solutions for VMware Telco Edge Cloud
Madeline Ng
Madeline Ng is leading VMware Telco Cloud solution marketing, including cable cloud, telco and edge cloud use cases such as vCDN, MEC and private mobile networking. She is also responsible…
Nikhil M Kulkarni
Nikhil M Kulkarni is a Technical Marketing Engineer with VMware's Telco Cloud Solutions group who focuses on architecting, validating, and promoting the end-to-end infrastructure solutions for CSPs, particularly encompassing the…
Lakshmi Mandyam
Lakshmi Mandyam serves as the Vice President of Product Management and Partner Ecosystems for the Service Provider and Edge BU where she owns the Telco Cloud offerings being delivered to…
Bhanu Prakash Dixit
Technical Marketing Manager
Bhanu Prakash Dixit leads marketing solutions for the VMware's Service Provider and Edge Business Unit with focus on 5G-Infrastructure solutions.
Jean-Philippe Goyet
Jean-Philippe Goyet is Director of Product Marketing for VMware Edge and Telco Business Unit.
Kaniz Mahdi
Kaniz Mahdi is Vice President of Advanced Technologies at VMware. In this role, Kaniz is responsible for long term vision and architecture direction for VMW Telco Edge Cloud, while shaping…
Shekar Ayyar
Shekar Ayyar joined VMware in June 2007 and serves as executive vice president and general manager of VMware’s Telco and Edge Cloud business unit, which is designed to help communications…
Shlomi Hadad
Technical Product Manager - RAN Orchestration
sofiablancocanet
Telco Edge Cloud, Associate Marketing Manager
Tosin Olopade
Technical Product Line Manager, Telco
Tosin Olopade is a Technical Product Line Manager at VMware with a focus on Telco Cloud Platform for RAN. He received his MBA from Columbia Business School, New York.
Ari Uskudar
Sr. Product Manager, Telco
Iciar Corral
Telco Solutions Architect
With 20+ years of experience in delivering customized solutions to key clients in Telco Industries worldwide, Iciar has worked on Telco Cloud products and solutions with different carriers around the…
Idan Green
Product Manager, Telco
Idan is a seasoned product manager with more than 16 years of experience in the telecom market. Idan had joined VMware after working as a product line manager at Nokia…
Jason James
Senior Marketing Manager, Service Provider and Edge
Jason James, Systems Architect and technology enthusiast, is long time designer of systems that ensure performance, resilience and reliability. In his position as the Senior Competitive Marketing Manager, he uses…
Joe Thome
VP Bus Operations and Marketing for Airhop
Joe Thome is VP Business Operations and Marketing at AirHop Communications, a pioneer in real-time network intelligence software. Joe leads the development and execution for go-to-market strategy, product roadmap and…
Mariam Sorond
CTO, Service Provider and Edge
Mariam Sorond has led transformational change across mobile, wireless, fixed, and satellite networks for more than 27 years. She has held leadership positions within start-ups and Fortune 500 enterprises, responsible…
Mehul Patel
Product Manager, Telco Service Assurance
Mehul Patel is a Technology Product Management with VMware by Broadcom’s Telco Cloud Service Assurance and VMware Smart Assurance product. I am passionate about learning customer network issues and building…
Belkys Fuentes
Sr. Product Manager, Telco
Belkys is Sr Product Marketing Manager at VMware in charge of driving the business transformation of the Telco unit. Her expertise supports teams to generate value for CSPs that want…
Ben Basler
Sr. Director Product Management – Service Provider and Edge, VMware
Ben Basler is leading Product Management in VMware’s Service Provider & Edge Business Unit. Specifically, VMware’s product portfolio for RAN Intelligent Controllers as O-RAN defines it and the RAN focused…
Carlos Ubeda
Subject Matter Expert at Vodafone
Carlos Ubeda is currently responsible for delivering Vodafone’s radio software roadmap and driving software innovation with special focus on Open RAN architecture, 5G, Massive MIMO and AI. Before joining Vodafone,…
Deepak Ashwath
Deepak Ashwath is a Technical Marketing Manager working for VMware Telco Product Marketing group. Deepak primarily focuses on building & marketing telecom-based customer-centric solutions for VMware Telco Cloud Product portfolio…
Dhruv Tyagi
Product Marketing Engineer
Dhruv Tyagi is a Product Marketing Engineer with VMware by Broadcom’s Software Defined Edge business unit who focuses on architecting, validating, and promoting the end-to-end infrastructure solutions for CSPs, particularly…
Dr. Adrian Kliks
Rimedo Labs
Frank Escaros-Buechsel
Global Telco Architect • Telco Delivery
Frank is working as a Global Telco Architect in the Professional Services Telco Practice assisting major telecommunication providers globally to design, build and manage consolidated IT/ICT platforms, on-board virtual network…
Jean Nehme
Director Global Telco Strategic Partnership, 5G RAN and RIC
Jean Nehme is responsible for developing innovative cloud native telco solutions with strategic partners across 5G RAN, Core and RIC (RAN Intelligent Controller). Since 2015, Jean has been with VMware…
Måns Burman
Head of Partnering and Alliances, Business Area Digital Services, Ericsson
Måns oversees the Strategic Partnerships for the Business Area and the Ericsson Group. He has been leading Partnering at Ericsson since 2015 and has worked more than 22 years in…
Prem Sankar Gopannan
VP Product Architecture and Software Engineering for Cohere Technologies
Vice President of Product Architecture and Software Engineering Prem Sankar Gopannan brings two decades of experience to Cohere. Mr. Gopannan is an Intel Innovator and active evangelist of Microservices and…
Ramesh Tammana
Director of Solution Engineering, Service Provider and Edge
Ramkumar Venketaramani
Senior Director, Solutions, Service Provider & Edge BU
Ravikanth Pasumarthy
Chief Architect and VP of Technology for Capgemini Engineering
RaviKanth has around 25 years of experience in Wireless and Satellite based systems and is currently working as Vice-President (Technology) at Capgemini Engineering. Ravi has experience in successful conceptualization, architecture,…
Robert McIntyre
Sr. Manager, SP Automation & Multi Cloud, Business Development
Russ Markhovsky
President and Founder for Polte
Russ Markhovsky is the President and Founder of Polte, the inventor of Cloud Location over Cellular (C-LoC) technology, as well as the co-author of 70 landmark location patents. Russ has…
Satheesh Kumar Marappan
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Telco Solutions
Shashi Krishnawamy
Senior Product Line Manager
Suresh Babu Nekkalapudi
Suresh Babu Nekkalapudi (Suresh) is a Senior Manager in Solutions Engineering at VMware's Service Provider and Edge Business Unit.
Valentin Bondzio
Customer Sustainability Architect, Office of the CTO, VMware
Valentin Bondzio has been at VMware since 2009 where he worked on performance and resource management for the majority of the last decade. Beyond support and sales escalations, he has…
Shogo Kobayashi
Prior to VMware, Shogo was working in communication service provider(CSP) to provide managed services to enterprises, and now in VMware he is working as a solution consultant to help CSPs…
Abhinav Rishi
Senior Member of Technical Staff
Aditya Gudipati
Staff Engineer • Telco and Edge Cloud RAN
Dr. Aditya Gudipati is a lead architect and developer for VMware RAN Intelligent Controllers (RIC). Prior to joining VMware, he co-founded Uhana Inc. that commercialized an AI/ML-powered observability and optimization…
Ajay Simha
Lead/Director of VMware Telco Labs
Ajay Simha has over 25 years of experience in networking with most of these years focused on Telco/Service Provider technologies such as IPNGN, MPLS, BGP, L2/L3 VPNs, Video, Mobile. Ajay…
ajayanthony
Senior product line manager of multi-cloud, in the Service Provider and Edge business unit, Ajay is responsible for helping to make sure VMware customers get the most out of hyperscale…
Ajitesh Gupta
Staff Solution Architect, Service Provider and Edge
Ajitesh is a 5G evangelist with extensive experience in private network, ORAN, and IoT solutions. He has been sharing his point of views with industry around 5G use cases, monetization,…
Alexis Duque, PhD
VP of Engineering, Net AI
Amanda Shoemaker
Sr. Director Global Strategic Partnerships & ISV Ecosystem, VMware
Amanda Shoemaker is responsible for building a robust ecosystem of strategic partnerships to provide modern, multi-cloud solutions and industry offerings for joint customers. Amanda has more than 25 years leading…
Andrey Tsediakov
POC Americas Team Lead/ZTP and RAN Architect
Andrey is the Team Lead Technical Architect at the SEBU office of the CTO, responsible for Telco customers in the AMRS region. He primarily conducts 5G-related PoCs worldwide.
Anton Davidovskiy
RAN Specialist Solution Architect
Anton is Technical Architect in SEBU office of CTO where he mostly does 5G-related PoCs all over the world. Before that he was part of VMware PSO organization and also…
Art King
Director of Product Management and Marketing, Cohere Technologies
Buland Khan
Chief Technologist & DMTS - Principal Member
Buland Khan is a Chief Technologist Lead for Wipro and a Principal Member of the Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Program. As a trusted advisor his charter is to drive…
Carlos Estepa
Senior Product Marketing Manager
Carlos is a senior product marketer for VMware's RAN Intelligent Controller in the Service Provider and Edge Business Unit. He has worked for Ericsson and Nokia over his 13+ years…
Chris Dent
Staff Engineer, Telco and Edge Cloud RAN
Colleen Josephson
Research Scientist in Distributed Edge, Office of the CTO
Colleen Josephson is a Research Scientist in Distributed Edge Team within the Office of the CTO. Her research interests include wireless communication and sensing systems, with a focus on technologies…
Cristina Rodriguez
Vice President in the Network and Edge Group and General Manager of the Wireless Access Network Division, Intel
Vice President Network & Edge Group General Manager Wireless Access Network Division. Cristina Rodriguez is vice president in the Network & Edge Group, general manager of the group's Wireless Access…
Daniel Soares
Head of Product Domain BSS Platform, Ericsson
Daniel Soares is responsible for the strategy, roadmap development, planning and investments related to common assets, platform strategy (IaaS / CaaS) and SWDP for Ericsson’s BSS Portfolio. Daniel has more…
David Nelo
Technical Sales and Solutions Engineer
David Nelo joined Future Connections in 2023 as Technical Sales and Solutions Engineer. He now works with tier-1 CSPs to help them solve their network optimisation and service assurance challenges.…
Debayan Chaudhuri
Vice-President of Engineering, Rebaca
Debayan has more than 25 years’ experience in the software industry, primarily in the areas of Telecom(4G/5G/ORAN), Video(OTT), Cloud(DevOps) and Test Automation. He has a B.Tech(Hons) degree from IIT, Kharagpur…
Dmitriy Andrushko
Specialist Solution Architect
Dmitriy Andrushko is the EMEA architects lead at the CTO team of the Service Provider and Edge BU. He has more than 15 years of hands-on experience in the networking,…
Dr. Erol Hepsaydir
VP of Business Development, P.I. Works
Felipe Payet
Felipe Payet is responsible for building robust strategic partnerships for VMware in the Telco ecosystem, to accelerate the adoption of VMware’s Telco Cloud Portfolio and facilitate our Service Provider customers’…
Gabriel Silva
Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Service Provider and Edge
Gabriel is a business manager with experience in multinational environments, having worked in several industries, with particular emphasis in the technology and education sector; he has been responsible for delivering…
Gabriella Ahlbom
Global Partner Manager within Strategic Partnerships for the Business Area and the Ericsson Group.
Gabriella Ahlbom is Global Partner Manager within Strategic Partnerships for the Business Area and the Ericsson Group. She has been working with partnerships and sales, managing and leading business opportunities…
Gary Day
Gary Day is currently working as a Technical Product Manager in the VMware Service Provide / Edge Business using focusing on the VMware Telco Cloud Platforms (TCP-5G and TCP-RAN). Gary…
Harpreet Geekee
Founder and CTO, Shabodi
Founder and CTO, Shabodi
Helen Zeng
Staff Consulting Solutions Architect, Telco
Isaac Mazur
VMware Premier Support for Telco Senior Staff Solution Architect
Isaac Mazur is a Senior Staff Solution Architect for VMware Telco Solution Support. With a wealth of experience in the technology and telecommunications industries, Isaac has established himself as a…
Iwan Hoogendoorn
Iwan Hoogendoorn MSc is currently working as a Staff Solution Architect for VMware where he teaches VCN-related topics for Livefire. Iwan is certified on multiple VMware products, including NSX, and…
Janco Terblanche
Business Development Manager - Open vRAN & Private Connectivity
Jessie Stoks
Jessie Stoks is a Product Line Marketing Manager for VMware End-User Computing (EUC).
Joseph Chung
Strategic Partner Marketing Specialist, VMware Software-Defined Edge Division, Broadcom
Juergen Barthel
Director, Partner Development
Juergen serves as Director, Partner Development for VMware. In this role Juergen works across VMware functional units to enable VMware and its partners to build, sell and deliver solutions built…
Justin Hunt
VMware Premier Support for Telco Senior Staff Solution Architect
Justin Hunt serves as a Senior Staff Solution Architect for VMware Telco Solution Support. With an extensive background in telecommunications and information technology, Justin is known for his ability to…
Ken Gawelek
Business Development Director, Mobile RAN
Khursheed Khan
Telco Cloud Transformation Specialist - RAN, MEC
Kishore Patnam
Senior Product Line Manager, Telco
Liz Mrowinski
Director, Partner Alliance, RIC Platform
Liz Mrowinski is the Director of Global Partner Alliances, RIC Platform at VMware. She has over 30 years of experience in working in the Telecoms Industry with operators and partners.…
Mahesh Seshadri
Product Manager, Telco Professional Services, VMware
Mahesh Seshadri is a Principal Architect at VMware where he serves as the Product Manager for the Telco Professional Services Team. In this role, he leads the services strategy and…
Marcin DryJanski
CEO, RIMEDO
Marcin serves as CEO and principal consultant at Rimedo Labs. He received his Ph.D. from the Poznan University of Technology in September 2019. Over the past 15 years, Marcin served…
Matt Trifiro
CMO at Vapor.io
Matt Trifiro is the CMO of grid infrastructure company Vapor IO. He is also the founding co-chair of The Linux Foundation's State of the Edge project and the host of…
Meir Petler
Technical Enablement Director • SP Biz Dev and Sales Readiness
Michael McGroarty
Business Development Manager- Open vRAN & Private Connectivity
michaelhöpler
Product Manager
Michaela Lindsay
Manager, Product Marketing & Strategy, VMware Marketplace
Michelle Ploof
Senior Technical Program Manager
Michelle Ploof is a Senior Technical Program Manager for VMware's Service Provider & Edge Business Unit. She has years of experience working for and with network operators.
Michelle Ploof
Senior Technical Program Manager
Muneyb Minhazuddin
VP, Edge Computing
Muneyb has overall responsibility for product, go to market, growth and profitability of VMware Edge Compute Solutions spanning across Enterprise and Telco segments. He has been with VMware for 9…
Neil Moore
Senior Director, Field Engineering
Odded Solomon
Director of Technical Product Management
Paul Patras
Co-founder and the CEO of Net AI
Paul is an Associate Professor/Reader in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I am also a Co-founder and the CEO of Net AI, a university spin-out whose…
Peter Carson
Senior Director Solutions marketing at Marvell Technology
Philippe Glynn
Technology Director, Aspire Technology
Technology Director, Aspire Technology
Pramod Zachariah
Senior Partner Manager, Telco and Edge Cloud APJ
Prasad Kalpurakkal
Prasad Kalpurakkal is an accomplished Senior Solution Architect at VMware, where he leverages his extensive expertise to drive successful outcomes for the company's strategic partners across the 5G RAN, Core,…
Praveen Batta
Sr. Consultant
Praveen Batta is a senior consultant and CTO-Ambassador in VMware. Serving the Telco Industry, focusing on Kubernetes, cloud technologies and VMware solutions. He has 16 years of experience in multiple…
Rachel Nissley
Product Marketing Manager
Rachel Nissley is a Product Marketing Manager for VMware’s Customer Experience and Success organization. She has over five years’ experience in compliance for electronics and cybersecurity. Rachel holds a Masters…
Rafal Sanecki
Head of Marketing, IS-Wireless
Rafal Sanecki is in charge of the marketing activities of IS-Wireless and IS-Wireless Academy. Over 15 years of experience in companies like Orange, Onet, ASPIRE – association of business process…
Ravi Emani
Practice Head Connectivity (Product Engineering, Network Engineering)
Overall, 26 years of experience in network product engineering, network engineering covering complete product life cycle. Currently responsible for Connectivity Practice (Product Engineering, Network Engineering Portfolios) at Wipro Engineering, have…
Regis Malgras
Cloud Solution Product Manager
Regis Malgras is Broadpeak’s Cloud Solution Product Manager responsible for consolidating cloud activities, and developing and supporting cloud initiatives within the company. Prior to joining Broadpeak, Regis worked for more…
Robert Forsberg
Business Development Manager Dell Technologies OEM Solutions
Global Sales and business development professional with 20+ years of experience working for leading IT and telecom infrastructure vendors. Past years have been focused on close collaboration with Ericsson product…
Roland Håkansson
Marketing Manager for Ericsson
Sandesh Dhagle
Business Development Manager – APJ, Open vRAN & Private Connectivity, Service provider & Edge Business Unit
Sandesh has two decades of experience in the Telco Industry - having started out as a RAN Planning Engineer before moving on to senior roles within key RAN vendor across…
Sanjay Uppal
VP and GM, Software-Defined Edge, VMware by Broadcom
Sanjay is the VP and General Manager of the Software-Defined Edge division at VMware by Broadcom. SEBU is focused on modernizing the network and accelerating the monetization of services for…
Saravanan V
Consultant
Saravanan V is a consultant in VMware, serving the Telco Industry, focusing on Kubernetes and VMware solutions. He has 11 years of experience in multiple technologies, including: NFV, Virtualization/Cloud, and…
Saurabh Malge
Solutions Consultant
Saurabh oversees solutions and consultancy of HeadSpin’s products for customers and potential HeadSpin customers across the world. Saurabh joined HeadSpin from KPIT Technologies Ltd, an automotive software MNC with HQ…
Sherif Sedkey
Telco Cloud Specialist - RAN
Sidd Chenumolu
VP of Technology Development, Dish Wireless
As Vice President of Technology Development, Sidd Chenumolu leads DISH’s wireless technology and architecture team and supervises the design and architecture of the company’s end-to-end 5G network. In his current…
Simone Catenacci
Managing Director - Network Consulting, Accenture
Sven van der Meer
Sven van der Meer is a lecturer, scientist, researcher, software engineer, and consultant with a Dipl.-Inform. (M.Sc., 1996) and a Dr.-Ing. (PhD, 2002) from the Berlin Institute of Technology (TUB).…
Vernon Apperson
Vernon is content lead for the Software-Defined Edge division of Broadcom.
Ximena Perez
Business Development Manager - Open vRAN & Private Connectivity
Yang Yang
Senior Technical Manager- RAN Intelligence • Telco and Edge Cloud RAN
Yang Yang brings 20+ years of telecommunication system design and engineering to her role at VMware as Senior Technical Manager of RAN Intelligence. With an intimate knowledge on wireless product…
yuvalzukerman
Senior Manager, Partner Marketing for Service Provider and Edge BU
Yuval Zukerman is a Senior Manager, Partner Marketing at VMware’s Service Provider and Edge Business Unit, working with our ecosystem on informing the telco industry on what can be achieved…