SReXperts speakers

Daniel Schatte

Vice President, Network Operations

Charter Communications

Daniel Schatte is the Vice President of Core & Backbone Operations at Charter Communications. With over 17 years at the company, he is responsible for overseeing the IP Routing , Optical Transport and Automation teams. His leadership has been pivotal in network planning, design, and the management of large-scale core and metro networks. Daniel has held several leadership roles, including Senior Director and Principal Network Engineer, contributing to the growth of Charter’s infrastructure.

Miguel Simoes

Alliance Director – Global Nokia Partnership, Lenovo Infrastructure Solutions Group

Lenovo

With more than 26 years of industry experience, Miguel Simões is a veteran of the telecommunications world, now leading Lenovo’s global alliance with Nokia. As Alliance Director within the Infrastructure Solutions Group, he drives strategic alignment, joint innovation, and business acceleration across enterprise and telco ecosystems worldwide. Miguel’s expertise spans operations, engineering, pre-sales, and business development, with previous leadership roles at Nokia where he led SD-WAN and datacenter transformation initiatives. Known for his customer-centric vision and technical depth, Miguel brings a collaborative spirit and global perspective to the stage. He holds a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering and is a passionate advocate for agile, sustainable infrastructure.

Tom Bresee

Member of Technical Staff - Mobile Transport Design

T-Mobile USA

Tom Bresee is a Member of Technical Staff at T-Mobile USA. Tom has 20+ years of telecommunications experience in network architectures and designs spanning optical, ethernet, IP/MPLS, and mobile transport. He is lead engineer for the mobile backhaul architectures at T-Mobile. He holds a bachelors degree in Applied Physics, and masters degree in Engineering Management, as well as Electrical Engineering (Wireless Systems concentration). He is currently working on a masters in Applied Data Science from the University of Michigan in his free time. He hopes to be the first engineer ever to be sponsored by Jimmy Johns, and is based in Frisco, TX, USA.

Dave Heinz

Principal Engineer

Windstream

Dave Heinz is a Principal Engineer at Uniti, where he leads the management of the Nokia Deepfield DDoS platform and drives network security initiatives across the organization. With a career in networking that began in 1998, Dave brings deep expertise in DDoS mitigation, routing and switching, and network compliance. He plays a key role in developing automated workflows that streamline operations and ensure adherence to industry best practices. His work bridges hands-on engineering and scalable security solutions to keep infrastructure resilient and efficient.

Aaron Werley

Senior Vice President, Engineering

Zayo

Aaron Werley is Zayo’s SVP of Engineering, based out of Boulder, CO.  He oversees the technical organizations developing and supporting Zayo’s network infrastructure and service delivery functions. In this role, he is responsible for the architecture, network planning, engineering, and capacity management across Zayo’s global network. Originally joining Zayo through the acquisition of PPL Telcom, Aaron has helped care for Zayo’s network and systems through 45+ acquisitions over the last 17 years. He has extensive experience engineering and operating service provider networks utilizing Fiber, Ethernet, IP, and WDM technologies and holds multiple related patents. Aaron received his B.S. and M.S. in Computer Science, graduating Magna Cum Laude, from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Erie, CO with his wife and three daughters.

Ahmed Abutaleb

Lead Architect - Data Center solutions

Nokia

"Ahmed Abutaleb is the Lead Architect for Nokia IT’s Data Center solutions, where he has spearheaded the modernization of Nokia’s internal infrastructure over the past two years. He led the migration from legacy, non-Nokia platforms to cutting-edge solutions built on Nokia SR Linux (SRL), Fabric Services System (FSS), and Enterprise Data Center Automation (EDA)—introducing automation-first, intent-based designs along the way. Prior to joining Nokia IT, Ahmed was the Lead Architect for Telco Cloud Networking and IP Backhaul at Nokia Networks. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Networking from the University of Southern California (USC), and he is certified at the highest levels in Nokia’s Routing and Data Center solutions, in addition to holding cloud networking certifications from Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure."

Diego Achaval

Product Line Manager

Nokia

Diego is a networking technology enthusiast with more than 12 years of experience in the realms of the network design/architecture. Currently working as an IP NPI Engineer/Network Architect, he is responsible for the introduction of new technologies and for designing/architecting solutions for our customers across the Americas. He also holds several industry certifications like Nokia SRA and CCIE

Heidi Adams

Head of IP Networks Marketing

Nokia

As the Head of IP Networks marketing at Nokia, Heidi leads a global team focused on promoting Nokia’s network infrastructure solutions. With over 20 years in the telecommunications industry in roles spanning R&D, product management, technical marketing and as an industry analyst, she enjoys casting a spotlight on technology evolution and innovation and making it more accessible and compelling to a broader audience. Heidi has a degree in Electrical Engineering from Queen’s University (Kingston) and an MBA from the University of Ottawa.

Mustapha Aissaoui

Product Line Manager, Service Router Product Group, IP/Optical Networks

NOKIA

Mustapha Aissaoui is a Product Manager in the Service Router Product Group of the IP/Optical Networks at Nokia. He holds an Electrical Engineering Diploma from Polytechnic School of Algiers and a MASc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa. Mustapha Aissaoui has been in the Product Management role since 2004 and is responsible for the MPLS and Segment Routing features in the SR-OS based routers. He is also the lead PLM for the SR-OS based PCEP and other SDN features of the NSP. Mustapha Aissaoui is an active participant of the IETF MPLS, PCE, and SPRING working groups. He is a co-author and a major contributor to many drafts in these working groups.
 

ilker Alici

Principal IP Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

With over 18 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, ilker is a results-driven professional specializing in IP network design & automation, pre-sales, business development, and product management based in Sunnyvale, CA. He brings a unique ability to align complex technical solutions with customer needs and strategic business goals. Known for managing product lifecycles and driving technical strategy, he consistently delivers value while optimizing business margins. Having built trusted relationships with clients across 20+ countries and five continents, ilker excels at bridging the gap between technical innovation and commercial success to ensure long-term customer satisfaction.

Ilker has a Master of Business Administration, Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering degrees.

Steve Aubrey

Global Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Stephen has worked in the telecommunications industry for over 29 years within the area of Network & Service Management and Mobile Data Analytics. 

Currently global Product Manager for the Network Services Platform (NSP) focused on configuration management across network and services. Stephen holds a honors bachelors degree in computer engineering from Cardiff University.

Swamynathan (Swamy) Balasundaram

Principal Product Manager

NOKIA

In this role, Swamy is responsible for Optical Transport - Network Management applications for past 6 years with a focus on Ethernet Management and integration interfaces. Previously Swamy has held multiple roles in R&D team of Network management and Network planning tools in Nokia. Swamy has over 20 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry in DWDM, Ethernet and Wireless technologies. Swamy is a MEF CE2.0 Carrier Ethernet Certified Professional (CECP). Swamy holds a Bachelor of Technology degree from Indian Institute of Technology BHU.

Carlos Barroso

LAT IP Business Center Leader

Nokia

Carlos “Cadu” Barroso leads the Nokia IP Business in LAT. He has more than 20 years of experience in telco networking in pre-sales and business development at Nokia and at various CSP’s as a network engineer and consultant expert while living in Brazil, Mexico and USA. Cadu has been part of Nokia’s IP journey in LAT from its start as a customer and later joining Nokia, and with his team is passionate to live many more new chapters in it.

Philippe Bergeon

Senior Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Philippe Bergeon is a Product Manager in the Service Router Product Group currently responsible for control and management plane security, line card filtering, vulnerability management and LAG/hashing. Philippe has over 15 years of experience in the networking industry. He worked as support engineer at the beginning of his career and then joined the pre-sales engineering team in EMEA doing customer demos and trials for the SR OS routers before to join the Product Management team in Ottawa working on Application Assurance originally.

Hooman Bidgoli

Senior Product Line Manager – IP Routing  

Nokia

Hooman has 22 years of experience in IP/MPLS protocols and network solutions. He started with Newbridge Networks in LAN emulation solutions (VIVID products) and moved to 7670 MPLS solutions. He was one of the first software designers on 7705 SAR and was responsible for IP/MPLS and L2/L3 services on SAR. As PLM, he is responsibility ranges from Anyhaul including Fronthaul and 5G solutions to Multicast solutions and Security on SR-OS products.

Amir Birjandi

Principal Consulting Engineer

Nokia

With over two decades of experience in the telecommunications industry, Amir Birjandi is a seasoned expert and a distinguished leader in the field. Currently serving as a Principal Consulting Engineer, Amir has a proven track record of delivering innovative solutions and strategic insights to advance technology and service delivery. Amir’s career began with a significant tenure at Telcom, where he dedicated 18 years to advancing telecommunications infrastructure and services. His deep understanding of network architecture and service optimization was further honed during a pivotal 5-year role at Nokia, where he contributed to the development and deployment of cutting-edge technologies. In his most recent position, Amir excelled as a Principal Architect for a Tier One Service Provider, shaping high-impact projects and driving architectural excellence for five years. His expertise in designing and implementing large-scale solutions has earned him a reputation as a thought leader in the industry.

Denis Bouffard

Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Denis Bouffard, Product Manager in Network Automation (IP & Optical BU), is lead in supporting the Enterprise market and also responsible for Analytics and the NSP appliance and NSP Server products. Prior to his role at Nokia, Denis spent 13 years in PLM roles at various startups (AcceLight, Inkra and Radisys), and 14 years at Nortel in its switching, optical transport and EMS/NMS/OSS divisions. During this time, Denis held various roles in R&D, product management, and project leadership where his primary focus was management applications in support of the broader Nortel product portfolio. Previous and subsequent to Nortel Denis held various roles covering diverse products including geographic information systems, optical core switching and virtualized security and load balancing. Denis holds a Bachelor degree of Mathematics/Computer Science from the University of Waterloo, and a Master of Business Administration Diploma from the University of Ottawa.

Michael Bushong

Vice President of Data Center

Nokia

Mike Bushong is Vice President of Data Center at Nokia, where he has remit over strategy and go-to-market. Mike joined Nokia having served separately as the General Manager for Juniper Networks’ Data Center and Software businesses, during which time he led efforts in data center operations, multicloud, and automation, including leading the acquisition of Apstra. Mike has also led Brocade’s Data Center and Software businesses, having driven product and strategy for data center switching, automation, SDN, and NFV. Mike was also a pioneer in the software- defined networking space, responsible for the first carrier-grade implementation of OpenFlow, and having been a part of the executive team at high-flying SDN player Plexxi (later acquired by HPE).

Tom Carter

IP Principal Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Tom Carter is a Consulting Engineer for Nokia’s Network Infrastructure division. In his 15 years as a network engineer, Mr. Carter has built networks from Alaska to Australia to Antarctica and has extensive experience in service provider networks, aerospace and defense, wireless networking, network security, and voice and video communications. Carter is a US Army veteran and served as an M1 Abrams tank crewmember and later as a US Army network engineer. Mr. Carter has a master’s degree in business administration and bachelor’s degree in computer networking.

Jared Cordova

Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

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Steve Cotter

Prinicipal Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

After 6 years in the US Air Force building deploying and maintaining tactical computer and telephony networks, Steve joined Cabletron Systems in 1995 where he worked with exciting technologies like Thick-NET vampire taps, Token Ring, FDDI, IBM hermaphroditic connectors, AppleTalk, SecureFast, Cell Matrix Backplanes and more. When Cabletron divested into four companies, Steve became part of Riverstone Networks focusing on highly scalable IP/MPLS networks for large enterprise, and service provider customers. In 2006 Lucent Technologies acquired Riverstone and later merged with Alcatel to become Alcatel-Lucent. Ten years later Alcatel-Lucent was acquired by Nokia. The primary result of all these mergers and acquisitions is an extensive business card collection spanning 27 years. Steve has an extensive background in design, deployment, and optimization of IP/MPLS networks, VoIP, SD-WAN, and Network Analytics. Steve’s likes include 3AM network redesigns, 2000 question RFP’s and long walks through airport terminals. Holding more different positions than he can count, Steve continues working with customers around the globe, from Teir-1 Telcos and MSO’s to small enterprise customers, destroying multiple laptops and cellphones along the way. Steve holds a degree in Applied Electrical Systems from the Community College of the Air Force. When not on plane to see a customer, Steve is based in the east coast of Massachusetts where he keeps busy collecting after use, every cellphone made by Nokia and Blackberry.

Dragos Cristea

NSP Senior Product Line Manager

NOKIA

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James Cumming

Senior Product Line Manager, SROS and SR Linux Platform, Programmability and Virtualization

NOKIA

James Cumming is the Product Line Manager for the Nokia SR OS and SR Linux router software with a specific focus on Network Programmability (NETCONF/YANG/gRPC/MD-CLI/Python) and Virtualization within Nokia’s Network Infrastructure Division. He has an extensive background in the Internet Service Provider industry over the last 25+ years. He has worked as a lead Network Architect in several global service providers leading the efforts in network architecture, deployment, integration as well as product and service development across all technologies. He has a particular passion for the virtualization and programmability areas as his background combines networking, systems, programming and operations which all collide in this exciting period for the industry.

Zeno Dhaene

Regional NPI Engineer

Nokia

I’m a regional NPI engineer for the BNB region, where I help customers with the design and implementation of their datacenter fabrics and WAN networks. While it’s been only 4 years since I graduated and started working for Nokia, I have touched on a wide range of our portfolio including SR-MPLS, EVPN, and our automation platforms. I have a masters degree in computer science engineering.

Alp Dibirdi

Senior Director, Product Management – IP Routing

Nokia

Alp leads software product management on 7250 Interconnect Router and 7705 Service Aggregation Router product families. Alp has over 21 years of experience in telecom industry and joined Alcatel in 1998. His previous roles include NW Architect and Product Line Product Manager on ATM Products. In addition currently focuses on 5G transport NWs and traffic management. He is recognized as Distinguished Member of Technical Staff (DMTS) in 2010 for his sustained outstanding technical contribution to Alcatel-Lucent by Bell Labs. He is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Roman Dodin

Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Roman is a Product Line Manager at Nokia, where he steers the development of various programmable interfaces featured on Nokia's data center switching gear. Before joining the product management team, Roman has been helping major service providers to embrace model-driven network automation in his consultant engineering role. During his seven years tenure at Nokia, he spanned multiple technology domains, gaining experience in networking, virtualization, network testing, and network automation. Roman heavily gravitates towards software engineering and open source communities. He is a maintainer of a few popular open source projects as well as an avid contributor to various community-renowned ones.

Colin Doyle

Principal Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Colin Doyle started his networking journey in 1999, eager for a front-row seat to the pending global collapse promised by the Y2K bug. After overcoming his disappointment when zombies failed to flood the streets, he joined a start-up and spent the next 10+ years flying around, supporting network standards organizations. This lifestyle became incompatible with his interests when he met his wife and started a family, so he moved into a sales engineering role with a systems integrator and never looked back. Colin currently works as a Principal Consulting Engineer at Nokia focused on data center fabrics and AI.

Steve Dyck

Principal Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

Steve Dyck is a Principal Consulting Engineer specializing in WAN and Data Center networking including IP/MPLS, WDM and automation. Steve’s focus is on providing innovative networking solutions for enterprise markets including research and education, state and local government, community broadband, health care, financial services and wireline/wireless service providers serving these market segments. Steve has over 25 years experience in telecom and IT networking with roles ranging from R&D, Systems Engineering, Product Management, Business Development, Solutions Architect and Consulting Engineer. He holds a Bachelor of Applied Science (Computer Engineering) degree with a minor in Business Management from the University of Waterloo, Canada.

Pierre El-Haddad

Senior Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Pierre El-Haddad is a senior product line manager for IP routing hardware. He currently manages several product portfolios aimed at mobile anyhaul, datacenters, wholesale transport, TEPS, and more. Pierre has 23 years of experience in product development, network architecture and product management for IP/Ethernet and legacy technologies. He holds a bachelors degree in electrical engineering and a masters in business administration. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Chris Ennsi

Business Development Manager

NOKIA

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Dennis Fanschaw

Principal Consulting Engineer

Nokia

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Miguel Flores Martinez

Principal IP Consulting Engineer

Nokia

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Footer

PLM / Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Footer has many more years experience in networking than he cares to divulge. To provide some context, he considered 4Mbps Token Ring connected SNA controller to Front End Processors some darn impressive technology. That was of course until he discovered the dipswitch that allowed for 16Mbps Token Ring, on the same card. What speed! What a technology! Everyone could move on, networking was now complete. What else was left. As time progressed and networking evolved, ventures into Ethernet switching, IP Routing protocols, and MPLS and the consumption of large steaks became the focus. The years flew by and about TEN years ago, yes TEN, IP & Ethernet OAM fault and performance management became the cool kid on the block. Footer lept at the opportunity to get involved in something so cool. Looking back to the Token Ring days, it was apparent he had always had an attraction to OAM. It was always fun to see how fast one could find a beaconing Token Ring NIC connected to a non-intelligent MAU using a stethoscope. OAM certainly has progress beyond the stethoscope days. It remains the wickedly cool, complicated and multifaceted technology that everyone wants to be involved with. Footer is currently a Senior PING Product Manager with responsibility for IP & Ethernet OAM strategy and architecture. He regularly attends the IETF quarterly meetings and participates in the IPPM working group, where excitement shines through on so many faces. His efforts in the working group include, “Why you need PING and why PING doesn’t need you.” As well as the most recent consideration, “PING PING PING PING, for the love of PING.” He joined Riverstone Networks in 1999, and through acquisition, merger, and acquisition, has 19 years as part of Nokia. Footer is based in Toronto, Canada and we believe he still has a Token Ring network in his house.

Raphael Goncalves

Senior Director

Nokia

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Trini Grinspan

IP Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Trini Grinspan is a Consulting Engineer for the NAM IP division, specializing in higher education and research and education networks. Trini joined Nokia's Network Infrastructure Future Technology Innovators (NIFTI) program as a college graduate, completing extensive training on Nokia’s solutions and professional skills. With an interest in networking and AI, Trini aspires to not only share her knowledge but also to engage in insightful discussions surrounding the Age of Artificial Intelligence, welcoming diverse perspectives and thoughts on the subject. Trini Grinspan has a degree in Electrical Engineering and a minor in Sales Engineering from the University of Florida.

David Heard

President, Network Infrastructure

Nokia

David Heard is President of the Network Infrastructure (NI) business group at Nokia. Based in Dallas, David was the Nokia NI Chief Strategic Growth Officer and joined Nokia with the acquisition of Infinera in February 2025. He was previously CEO of Infinera and, prior to that, held the role of Infinera’s Chief Operating Officer, responsible for leading the innovation of new optical networking solutions and the overall operational excellence of the company. Before joining Infinera, David held senior positions across various technology companies in the U.S. including JDSU, BigBand Networks, Somera Communications, Lucent and AT&T gaining comprehensive experience of the telecoms industry and demonstrating a strong growth mindset and a commitment to innovation leadership. David holds a B.A. in Production and Operations Management from Ohio State University, an MBA from the University of Dayton and an M.S. in Management from Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was a Sloan Fellow. David serves on the boards of several companies, as well as on the Max M. Fisher College of Business Fisher Alumni Board.

Rudy Hoebeke

Vice President of Product Management, IP Networks

NOKIA

Rudy Hoebeke is Vice President of Product Management for Nokia’s IP Service Routing portfolio. He has over 15 years of experience in the communications and networking industry, in the areas of engineering, network design, technology & product strategy and product management. Formerly, Rudy was Vice President of Product Management for IP Service Routing and Mobile Packet Core in Alcatel-Lucent’s IP Division. He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from the University of Brussels (VUB) and a Masters in Business Administration from the Vlerick Leuven-Gent Business School.

Andrew Ileleji

Senior IP Routing Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Andrew Ileleji is a Senior IP Routing Consulting Engineer at Nokia, covering various Tier 2/3 CSP networks in the US market. He has over 24 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, with 22+ years spent with Alcatel/Alcatel-Lucent/Nokia. He is certified as a Nokia Service Routing Architect. He holds a bachelors degree in computer science from the University of Ottawa. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.

Jeff Jakab

Vice President Hardware Engineering

NOKIA

Jeff is the Vice President of IP Hardware Engineering at Nokia and currently serves as the acting head of the IP Hardware Product Line Management (PLM) team. A 27-year veteran of the company, he leads end-to-end hardware engineering, overseeing a broad product portfolio that spans both in-house and merchant silicon. His responsibilities include managing global engineering and ASIC teams across multiple sites. Throughout his career at Nokia, Jeff has held a variety of leadership roles in engineering, support, marketing, and product management. He holds a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Calgary and an MBA from the University of Ottawa. Jeff is based in the heart of Silicon Valley, working out of Nokia’s Sunnyvale, California office.

Philippe Jeurissen

Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

Philippe Jeurissen is a Consulting Engineer in the Network Solutions and Consulting Team of the IP and Optics division within Nokia. He focuses on the data center and cloud network design world with the Nuage Networks VSP product line. He is a strong believer of the OpenStack Project for next gen datacenters and application deployments. Based in Antwerp, Philippe has been helping large service providers and enterprises in the EMEA region to move into the brave new world of network virtualization and software defined networking for more than 3 years now.

Alastair Johnson

Deepfield Pre-sales Technical Lead

Nokia

Alastair Johnson (AJ) is the North American lead for Nokia Deepfield pre-sales, based in Sunnyvale, California. AJ’s focus is working directly with customers to introduce, explain, and expand technology based on Deepfield – solving customer problems through new, innovative technologies. AJ has been with Nokia for 15+ years in a variety of roles.

Ron Johnson

Vice President and General Manager, Optical Networks Division

Nokia

Ron Johnson is Vice President and General Manager for the Optical Networks Division at Nokia. Prior to this role, Ron served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Optical Subsystems and Global Engineering organizations at Infinera, acquired by Nokia in February 2025. Before joining Infinera, Mr. Johnson built his exceptionally deep optical and IP networking experience and expertise over 20+ years at Cisco, where he held the position of Head of Product Management for the Optical Transport Business Unit. He began his career in network engineering at SBC Communications, now AT&T. Mr. Johnson studied electrical engineering at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo.

Vach Kompella

President and General Manager, IP Networks Division

NOKIA

President and General Manager, IP Networks Division Nokia vach.kompella@nokia.com patty.bowen@nokia.com Vach is SVP and GM of the IP Networks Division (IPN) in the Network Infrastructure Business Group at Nokia. IPN consists of 6 business units: Service Router, Network Automation, Data Center, Nuage Networks, Packet Core and Deepfield. He started with Timetra Networks in 2001, leading the development of MPLS and related technologies, and arrived at Nokia through a series of M&A activity.

In 2008, he started the Mobile Gateways program in the IP Division, and was Vice President of Engineering for the Mobile Packet Core. Vach has been a speaker at many conferences, and a regular contributor to standards in the IETF. He was co-chair of the l2vpn Working Group at the IETF for five years. Vach was awarded a Bell Labs Fellowship in 2009 for his contributions to MPLS and VPLS. Prior to Nokia, Vach held positions at IBM, working in network security and IP protocols. Vach holds a PhD in CS from the University of California, San Diego, and obtained his BTech in CS from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.

Amit Kumar

Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Amit Kumar is a Datacenter network Solution Specialist and Consulting Engineer in NAM RBC team. He consults on network infra solutions for big and small Data Center in enterprises across different market segments. He is actively working on creating solutions for the fast-evolving world of HPC/AI infrastructure. Amit has about 20 years of experience in the networking domain in various roles. Prior to Consulting, he worked as a development engineer in various L2 and L3 technologies in different companies, including SR Linux Network OS in Nokia. He holds Bachelor of Technology degree in Electronics and Communications from the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati, India.

Craig Labovitz

Deepfield CTO

NOKIA

Craig Labovitz is Nokia CTO for the Deepfield business line. Previously, Labovitz was Co-Founder and CEO of Deepfield. Labovitz has developed the core technology, key patents, architecture and commercial strategy behind more than $1 billion in sales of large enterprise and telecom security products. His technology is deployed in more than 700 Internet Service Providers, cable operators, content providers, and mission-critical networks around the globe. Dr. Labovitz is an expert on Internet infrastructure and cloud evolution. In the 1990s, his seminal Internet research developed the foundation for Arbor Networks technology and served as a catalyst for significant changes in commercial Internet routing software implementations throughout the world. His work was recently recognized with the prestigious ACM SIGCOMM Test of Time Award in 2008. In addition to his extensive commercial product and research background, Dr. Labovitz has over a decade of operational network engineering experience, including NSFNet backbone engineering, Sprint's first Internet email infrastructure, design of the Department of Defense research network, and the first commercial aviation Internet service. Dr. Labovitz is an active participant in the global network engineering community, including service on the program committee and as the Chair of North American Network Operators Group (NANOG). Labovitz is the author of more than a dozen peer-reviewed networking research papers, journal articles and patents. His is a frequent guest on national television and radio news programs and his research is widely cited in national media articles and academic publications. Dr. Labovitz received his PhD and MSE from the University of Michigan.

Reda Laichi

Consulting Engineer and Regional Product Manager

Nokia

Reda Laichi is a principal consulting engineer on the Nokia IP Consulting Engineering team. With over 20 years of experience in the industry, Reda has contributed to the design and development of SDN and Network Management products and numerous IP network & DC implementations and integrations for service providers and large enterprise customers worldwide.

Peter Landon

Director Product Line Management

NOKIA

Peter Landon is a Director of Product Line Management for the Nokia Network Services Platform, with a focus on Enterprise and multi-layer SDN solutions. Peter has over 25 years of experience in Product Management and system design including senior roles at Juniper Networks, Lucent Technologies/Bell Labs, and while at BTI Systems, leading the architecture and design of the BTI/Juniper 7800 Series Intelligent Cloud Connect platform. Peter earned his BSc in Engineering from Queen’s University with post graduate work at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario.

Karyn Lennon

NI Learning Services Leader

Nokia

Karyn Lennon leads the Learning Services function for Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks Business Group.  In her role, Karyn is responsible for setting the strategic direction and development of Nokia’s Optical educational services which includes the Nokia Optical Networks Certification Program.  In addition to the Optical program, Karyn directs both Nokia’s flagship IP/MPLS certification program, the Service Routing Certification (SRC) Program which has over 14,000 individuals participating globally and the Nuage Networks Virtuoso Certification Program (NN-VCP). Prior to her role in Learning Services, Karyn held various PLM and Marketing positions at Newbridge Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Karyn received her Bachelor of Commerce from  McGill University and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Ottawa.

Dmitri Litvine

Principal Consultant

Nokia

Dmitri Litvine is a Principal Consultant for the IPRT, providing consulting support for solutions and architectures based on classic 7750/7705/7210 products as well as SDN solutions such as Nuage VSP and VNS. Dmitri has almost 18 years of experience in various facets of data networking including network design engineering, network transformations, solutions and architecture consulting in different technology areas such as IP/MPLS, Carrier Ethernet, Carrier Broadband, EPC/MPC, SP WiFi, SDN/NFV etc. The last 5 years Dmitri is focusing on architecture consulting helping customers to leverage and benefit innovative solutions. Dmitri holds active CCIE, NRS-I and VCP5-DCV certifications, he is based in Calgary, Canada.

Victor Lopez

Product Line Manager

Nokia

Victor is a telecommunications industry professional with a profound passion for transforming ideas into tangible products. With a Ph.D. background and over 20 years of experience, I currently hold the role of central Product Manager in the Network Services Platform (NSP).

Bill MacLeod

Senior Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Bill MacLeod is a Senior Consulting Engineer with Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks division. Currently pre-sales support and design for Mobile Backhaul Solutions is his main responsibility. Bill has assisted mobile and fixed operators around the world with the evolution and optimization of their transport networks, initially for the introduction and growth of 3G, then for IP Transformation for all-IP 3G and LTE, and most recently with the evolution towards 5G and software defined networking. He has over 17 years experience in the telecom industry with roles ranging from System Test, Product Management, Business Development and Solutions Architect.

Guilherme Marino

Service Owner - FW & Proxy / Hosting Ne

Nokia

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Cesar Marquez

NPI & Trials IP Engineer

Nokia

Sasa Nijemcevic

Vice President and General Manager, Network Automation

Nokia

Sasa Nijemcevic is Vice President and General Manager of the Network Automation Business Unit at Nokia. He leads the company’s Carrier SDN portfolio and Network and Service Automation efforts for the ION BG. Sasa’s passion is building great software products. He started early writing computer games as a kid and continued into adulthood building network management and control applications. Whether it’s AI/ML or network automation, Sasa cares about the application of new technologies in solving real problems in the industry.

Alfred Nothaft

Senior Director, SR Product Management

NOKIA

Alfred is the Senior Director of Product Management for the Service Router product group, focusing on IP routing, MPLS and Layer 2 and Layer 3 VPN services. Alfred has been involved the with 7x50 product lines since 2000, when he originally joined TiMetra Networks. Prior to that, Alfred was the Director of Network Architecture at BroadbandNow! and before that he held various management and engineering positions at Bay Networks and NASA.

David Novosel

Product Line Manager

Nokia

David Novosel is a Product Line Manager focused on the SR Linux platform. Based out of Ottawa, Canada, he has spent over a decade working at Nokia across a range of Network Infrastructure products and solutions including Service Router, Nuage Networks, and SR Linux. Previous roles in support, technical sales, and solution architecture have enabled David to build a strong skillset across the networking and virtualization fields with experience in Data Center, SD-WAN, and IP/MPLS routing deployments.

Roberto Oya Luengo

Deepfield Business Development Leader

NOKIA

Deepfield Business Development Leader, in charge of hardware and networking features for overlay and underlay.  Consulting Engineer in NA based in Mountain View (CA) since 2012, previously in EMEA (based in Madrid) since December 2006, including two years in Mexico (2008 and 2009, whole CALA support). Great experience in IP/MPLS solutions for the main European and Latin American Service Providers and a regular speaker at Alcatel-Lucent and industry conferences.  Systems Engineer in Riverstone Networks and Lucent Technologies in South Europe, focused in IP/MPLS/VPLS, in 2005 and 2006.  Data Presales Engineer for Iberia (mainly Telefonica) for Nortel Networks during 2000-2004.  System Engineer/Project Manager in Telefónica Sistemas and TSIP between 1998-2000, based in LATAM for more than two years in several countries (mainly in Venezuela and Puerto Rico).  Telecommunication Engineer in Alcala University in Madrid (final thesis done in Linkoping University, Sweden, between 1997 and 1998), and Marketing in UAM University (Madrid).  Preferred hobbies: Mountain and road bike, running, mountaineering and hiking, triathlon, kite surfing and love traveling (with a good book!)

Pushpendra Pandey

Head of Global Network Services

Nokia

Craig Patten

Deepfield Principal Consulting Engineer

NOKIA

Craig Patten, holds a Masters in Data Sciences and is a Principal Consulting Engineer for Nokia. Prior to joining Nokia in 2020, Craig has worked for Internet Service Providers in Network Engineering and Architecture roles, as well as network equipment vendors ViaSat and Terayon. Throughout his 25+ years in Telecommunications he has shown a passion for Data analytics and turning data into information.

Dennis Porteous

Product Line Manager

Nokia

Dennis is a Senior Hardware Product Line Manager for the 7750 SR & Packet Core platforms, with over 24 years of experience in networking and data communications. Dennis has been involved with the 7x50 product lines since 2003, joined the hardware PLM team in 2008. Based in Ottawa Canada.

Jorege Rabadan

Senior Product Line Manager

Nokia

Jorge Rabadan is a product line manager responsible for the development of EVPN and Data Center Gateway technologies in Nokia’s SROS. Jorge has more than 20 years in the telecom industry (working for different networking vendors), being part of Nokia’s IP Division for more than 12 years and is an active member in the IETF community, contributing and authoring more than 30 drafts and RFCs. When he is not working he enjoys traveling, reading a good book or working out.

Saju Salahudeen

Principal Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Saju is a Principal Consulting Engineer for Webscale solutions within the North American Regional Business Center. In this role, he works on 7750 SR, 7250 IXR, 7220 IXR, NSP with SROS and SR Linux Operating systems. He has 12 years of experience in IP routing and Multi-vendor Network Automation across a diverse range of roles including Deployment, Tech Support, Technical PM, Solution Architect and Systems/Sales Engineer. Saju is based in Toronto, Canada.

Leonardo Serodio

Principal Consulting Engineer - Deepfield

NOKIA

Leonardo Serodio is a Consulting Engineer in the Deepfield division of Nokia, where he is responsible for designing and testing traffic analytics and DDoS security solutions for Service Providers and large Enterprises using the Deepfield product line. Leonardo has extensive experience in the ISP and Carrier space, having worked for over 20 years with large Operators in the Americas and Europe. Prior to Deepfield, he worked in Nokia/ALU as a Consulting Engineer for the SR router product line. Prior to joining Nokia/ALU, Leonardo worked at Arbor Networks as a Corporate Systems Engineer for the Peakflow product line.

Rob Shore

Head of Optical Networks Marketing

Nokia

Rob has more than 30 years of telecommunications experience leading marketing efforts, providing networking consultation, promoting networking solutions and optical innovations, and directly supporting network operators across the world in more than 65 countries. Rob has held roles in engineering, system testing, technical support, market management, account management, technical sales, and marketing. Rob graduated from the University of Illinois with a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering.

Adam Simpson

Senior Product Line Manager

Nokia

Adam is a senior product line manager with Nokia. He is responsible for the IP routing & service features in the SR OS operating system software. He is the lead PLM for BGP routing and the route policy infrastructure. He owns the strategy for these areas and works closely with software and test engineers on architecture and design. He has been in this PLM role since 2009. Before that he held PLM and network engineering roles at Nortel. Adam is based in Ottawa, Canada but the scope of his work with engineering teams and customers is global. He has been a routine speaker at SReXperts events since 2010.

Moataz Soliman

Product Line Manager

Nokia

Product Line Manager on the Network Service Platform (NSP) at Nokia in Ottawa. In my current role, I’m responsible for NSP APIs and integration interfaces. I’m also managing NSP Connected Partner Program for certification and interoperability between NSP and the various partner OSS applications. 

Before joining the PLM team, I led product development of NSP Analytics, which is a big data and reporting solution, from initial concept to release. I hold a Bachelor degree in Software Engineering from Carleton University and a Masters of Engineering Management degree from University of Ottawa.

Yves Thibeault

Senior Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Yves Thibeault is a Senior Product Line Manager on the Network Services Platform (NSP) of Nokia in Ottawa and is specifically responsible for Network and Service Assurance applications. Before joining Nokia & Alcatel-Lucent, Yves was a senior R&D manager at Nakina Systems for 8 years responsible for a multi-vendor network management system and various OSS applications. Yves has over 28 years of multi-disciplinary telecommunication experience in Software Research and Development and Product Management in various network domains including voice switching, ATM, Frame Relay, Optical/SONET/SDH transport and carrier Ethernet at Nortel Networks, AcceLight Networks, JDS Uniphase, Nakina Systems and now Alcatel-Lucent.

Mike Thompson

Global Network Automation Practice Leader

Nokia

Mike Thompson leads Nokia’s global network automation practice focusing on Nokia’s Network Services Platform (NSP) and SDN to help service providers and large enterprise customers improve operational efficiency, productivity, lower MTTR, reduce churn, and accelerate revenue streams. Prior to Nokia, Mike was a leader at Charter Communications in Operations and Engineering. He has held leadership positions at Nokia, Charter, Cisco, BearingPoint, and Verizon. Mike has extensive experience in large scale software, network automation, routing, and optical. Mike has held leadership roles in Engineering, Software Development, Operations, Architecture, Sales, Consulting, and Product Management teams and as a Business Unit General Manager. He has a Master of Science in Information Management and a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Bharath Udayshankar

Hardware Product Line Manager

NOKIA

Bharath Udayshankar is a hardware product line manager for Nokia’s IXR 7220 portfolio. Bharath has 14+ years of experience in network automation and design, solutions engineering and product development for IP/Ethernet and wireless technologies. He has previously held engineering and management roles in several companies focusing on product and service offerings for the enterprise, hospitality and education verticals. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University at Buffalo, NY and Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Communications Engineering from Anna University, India. He is based in Sunnyvale, CA.

Jeffrey Valley

Vice President, CSP Segment – IP Network

NOKIA

Jeffrey Valley leads the CSP Segment for Nokia’s IP Networks, where he is passionate about ensuring Nokia’s IP portfolio remains the top choice for forward-looking service providers worldwide. Jeffrey has been with the business unit for over 15 years in various network architecture and business roles. His areas of interest include evolving business and residential IP services, network security, converged subscriber management, data center & telco fabrics, IP/Optical convergence, and networking for AI.

Sanjay Wadhwa

Senior Director, Product Management

Nokia

Sanjay has over 20 years of experience in data communications and IP networking industry. He currently heads product management for Broadband Edge in Nokia’s IP division, driving products and roadmap for fixed and fixed-wireless (4G/5G) broadband gateway, network functions and fixed-mobile convergence. Sanjay came to Nokia via Alcatel-Lucent acquisition. Prior to Nokia, Sanjay held executive roles in Engineering and Product Management at Fore Systems, Unisphere Networks, Juniper Networks and Alcatel-Lucent. Sanjay holds several patents in IP networking and is an active contributor in IETF and BBF. He has a Masters in Computer Science & Electrical Engineering from University of Kentucky, and has completed an executive program in management from MIT, Sloan school of management. He is based in Sunnyvale, California.

Bruce Wallis

Senior Director Product Line Manager

Nokia

Bruce Wallis leads SR Linux and Fabric Services System product management within Network Infrastructure division. Originally from New Zealand, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he cut his networking teeth on supporting Internet Service Providers in New Zealand and in the wider APAC region. Before taking the leap into product management, his role within the NI Consulting and Solutions Engineering team supporting PoC and demos on yet-unreleased NI products allowed him to build an extensive skill set in virtualization, all things Linux, and general system and solution design. Starting in the industry in 2008 at the age of 17, he now has 14 years’ experience across a wide array of roles.

Sven Wisotzky

Senior Network Management and Automation Consultant

NOKIA

Sven Wisotzky is a senior network management and automation consultant working for more than 20 years in the communications and networking industry. He joined Alcatel’s IP Division in 2004, working in the areas of product support, training, integration, technical sales, network and solution design and consultancy. Since 2017 he is part of the NSP platform product management team, driving model-driven, multi-vendor nodal mediation using NETCONF/YANG and gRPC, automation frameworks and telemetry. He is based in the metropolitan area of Frankfurt/Main, Germany.