SReXperts

Chadie Ghadie

Global Business Development and Advanced Solutions Lead

Lenovo

Chadie leads Lenovo's global business development and advanced solutions team where his primary objective is to work closely with customer and partners to help define and promote next generation Data Center and Edge solutions.  He strives to achieve this by harnessing the latest technologies, delivering efficiencies, and fostering performance gains to drive global transformation in the industry. Chadie adopts an open and collaborative approach, actively engaging with customers, partners, and technology providers.  Throughout his 20+ year career, Chadie has held various leadership, product management, presales, and engineering roles.

Rob Joyce

Head of Customer Strategy and Innovation

NBN

Robert Joyce has been the head of customer strategy and innovation at NBN for over a year.  Prior to this, Robert worked at Nokia for three years as CTO of Nokia’s Oceania region.  Robert has also spent many years working at various Telco organizations around the world including 02 (UK) and Ooredoo (Middle East).  Robert is passionate about technology and innovation, and he is always on the lookout for emerging technologies and trends in the Telecommunication industry.   Generative AI is a and network optimization are particular topics of interest.

Yujin Hwang

Manager, B2B Consulting Team

SK Broadband

Yujin Hwang is serving as a Strategic Consultant for key B2B financial clients at SK Broadband, leading pre-sales activities. She proactively identifies the needs of B2B clients and proposes value-driven solutions, ensuring the delivery of optimal solutions to address business challenges.

Chris Tsigros

General Manager Network Services and Telco Cloud

TPG

Chris Tsigros is a senior executive at TPG Telecom, where he leads strategic initiatives focused on innovation and network transformation. With over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, Chris has held leadership roles in network engineering, operations, and service delivery. His expertise spans large-scale network deployments, digital infrastructure, and customer experience enhancement. A strong advocate for technological innovation, Chris has been instrumental in driving TPG Telecom’s advancements in network automation. Today, Chris is at the forefront of network automation at TPG Telecom and will share his insights on how automation is revolutionizing network efficiency and resilience.

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

Mustapha Aissaoui

Product Line Manager

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.

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.

Andres Belloni

Senior Director PLM Network Automation

Nokia

Andres Belloni leads IP Management and Platform Product Management for Nokia NSP. In this role Andres is responsible for defining and managing the lifecycle of the NSP software foundation and applications that allow service providers to automate the operation of their IP & Optical networks. Mr. Belloni has an extensive career in telecommunications specializing in network and service management for TDM, ATM, IP and Optical networks. He has been responsible for product design, product strategy and product line management of Element, Network and Service Management Systems in Newbridge Networks, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. Mr. Belloni holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University Of Buenos Aires, Argentina and an Executive MBA from Queens University in Canada.

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.

Eric Brestenbach

Learning Services Subject Matter Expert

Nokia

Eric is a  Senior Network Engineer, with over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications industry covering software development, network design, customer support and presales activities. Eric is currently in the IP Networks Learning Services group developing and teaching SR Linux-based courses such as Data Center Fabric fundamentals, programming SR Linux and EVPN with SR linux.  Eric holds a software engineering diploma from Polytech Nice-Sophia in France. He is based in Ottawa, Canada.

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)."  

Peter Busschbach

Senior Director, NSP Product Management

Nokia

Peter Busschbach is Senior Director in Nokia’s IP/Optical Networks BU, where he is leads Product Management of Nokia’s Carrier SDN Controller, NSP.  Before assuming this role, Peter held several senior positions in the corporate CTO office and in product units where he was responsible for strategy, standardization and solution development in a wide range of technologies, including IP/MPLS, LTE, Ethernet, Optical Networking, Policy Management and Network Management. His standardization work included active participation in IETF, MPLS Forum, ITU-T and TM Forum.  Mr Busschbach began his career in telecommunications as a software developer in AT&T. He holds a Master of Science degree in Mathematics of the Eindhoven Technical University, the Netherlands.

Hansen Chan

Product Marketing Manager

Nokia

Hansen Chan has over 25 years experience in the networking industry specializing in network design, consulting, and product management.   Hansen is now a product marketing manager for Nokia’s IP and Optical Networks portfolio with a special focus on industries segment.

Bastien Claeys

Product Line Manager

Nokia

With a strong background in Software-Defined Networking (SDN) within the telco data center realm, Bastien Claeys is an experienced network engineer who developed his expertise in network design while working in Belgium. Currently, he serves as a Regional Product Line Manager at Nokia in Australia, specializing in data center solutions. A technology enthusiast, Bastien is committed to advancing the future of networking technology through his work.

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.

Alp Dibirdi

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.

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.

John Harrington

Head of NI APAC Sales

Nokia

John Harrington is the head of NI APAC Sales for Nokia, where he manages and oversees Nokia’s Customer Experience organization, business and operations for the region.  John has over 25 years of technical sales, customer relationship management and business development experience in the telecommunications industry across Asia, Europe and North America.  John was previously the Head of Japan for Nokia, leading networks solution sales before moving to North America to join the leadership team as Senior Vice President, US Major Accounts, where he led sales for a diverse set of wireless, wireline, cable and regional customers.  In his career, John took charge of the AT&T Wireless account, one of Nokia’s largest accounts, and one of the most advanced CSPs in the world, in order to support 4G enhancement, IoT deployment, and 5G preparation. John has also held various international leadership roles as part of the acquisition of the Alcatel-Lucent business, which focused on the latest advancements in wireless technology.  John started his career with Motorola as a system engineer for GSM/CDMA deployment. Born in England, John holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering.

Stuart Hendry

Head of Enterprise, NI Business APAC

Nokia

Stuart is the Head of Nokia Enterprise for Asia Pacific and leads all sales and commercial activities in the region.  Before joining Nokia in 2016, Stuart has held various senior positions at Alcatel-Lucent where he was the Vice President for Channels and Alliances, Asia Pacific. He was also the Vice President for South East Asia (East) Regional Unit where he was overseeing the company’s business and operations in Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Indonesia and Hong Kong.  With three decades of leadership experience in general management, sales, services, product management, change management and multi-channel sales and distribution management and having lived and worked in the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, Australia, Indonesia and Singapore, Stuart has a wealth of experience in the global IT industry as well as extensive experience in leading organizations across culturally diverse teams and geographies.  Prior to joining Alcatel-Lucent, Stuart was with Cisco Systems where he launched and led the Asia Pacific Commercial business for more than six years. He also spent over two years in Indonesia as the Country’s Managing Director.  Stuart was also the Managing Director of the Australian operations of Logicalis – a leading systems and network integrator in the Pacific region. In addition, he was the founder of a management consultancy firm advising major global IT services companies in Australia. He was also responsible for various product development, channel, service and sales leadership roles in the United Kingdom and Hong Kong for CASE Communications and Siemens Network Systems.  Stuart is a Singaporean Permanent Resident and has dual Australian/United Kingdom citizenship. He holds a Bachelor of Science Honours Degree from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.

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.

Jun Hu

Product Manager

Nokia

Jeff Jakab

Vice President, Hardware Product Management – Service Routers

Nokia

A 25 year employee of Nokia, Jeff is the Vice President of Hardware Product Management in the IP business unit. Jeff has extensive experience across a number of roles within Nokia ranging from engineering, support, marketing and PLM. Jeff has a focus on strategic responsibilities in the product portfolio as well as ownership of hardware technical marketing. He holds a B.Sc in electrical engineering from the University of Calgary, Canada and an MBA from the University of Ottawa, Canada. He presently works in the heart of Silicon Valley out of the Nokia office in Sunnyvale, California.

Fahmi Jamil

Deepfield Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim

Deepfield Business Development Lead, APJ

Nokia

Ihsan is a Product Lead responsible for Nokia Deepfield portfolio in the APJ market. With over 20 years of engineering and business development experience in architecting & operating large IP networks, he is now focused on enabling Service Providers to gain meaningful insights and to secure their network infrastructure.

Paresh Khatri

CTO, IP Networks Business Division for Asia-Pacific

Nokia

Paresh Khatri is the CTO for the IP Networks Business Division for Nokia Corporation in APAC.  In this role, Paresh is responsible for formulating platform and architecture strategies to meet the varied demands of operators in the Asia-Pacific region.  He has been responsible for architectural design for the largest IP transformation projects in the region and is now working closely with service providers as they address the growing demand for scale and new services that will be enabled by the evolution to 5G.  Paresh’s areas of expertise include the entire range of IP/MPLS technologies and applications, from the network core to the access network. His current areas of interest include 5G transport, network virtualisation and SDNs.  Paresh has more than 25 years of experience with both service providers and vendors in building carrier-grade IP/MPLS networks, including the largest IP NGN transformation project ever undertaken in Australia.  Paresh is a regular speaker at industry conferences in the APAC region and also actively participates in a number of telecommunications industry standards bodies.  Paresh holds a Bachelors of Electronic Systems Engineering (First Class Honours) and a Bachelor of Information Technology from the Queensland University of Technology.

Vach Kompella

Senior Vice President and General Manager, IP Networks Division

Nokia

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.

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.

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.

Byung Ki Lee

Head of IP Data Center Business Development APAC

Nokia

Byung Ki has dedicated over 20 years to the field of networking, specializing in business development, product management, and consulting engineering. His contributions have played a pivotal role in several significant projects aimed at fortifying internet and enterprise network infrastructures across the Asia Pacific region. With a comprehensive understanding of both hardware and software aspects, Byung Ki continues to demonstrate his passion for the evolving landscape of DC Fabric Networking and Automation.

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.

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).

Krystof Miziewicz

Senior Product Line Manager

Nokia

Krystof Miziewicz is a Senior Product Line Manager at Nokia APAC IP Product Management and Consulting Engineering group. Krystof studied Electrical Engineering at Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland where he earned a M.Eng. degree in 1990. He also studied at Western Sydney University, Australia while working as a teaching fellow (1993-1996). In 1996 he joined Alcatel Australia and held various technical roles. He participated in different projects for fixed voice networks and mobile data prior to joining the IP Product group as a system engineer in 2005. In the new role he was involved in various IP/MPLS projects in Australia and New Zealand. In 2008 Krystof moved to the APAC Consulting Engineering group where he provided pre-sales engineering support across the APAC region with primary focus on residential/consumer broadband networks and services. In 2016 Krzysztof joined the APAC rPLM team as a product manager responsible for the residential IP edge functionality (for fixed and fixed-wireless access) on the 7750 Multi-Access Gateway (MAG) and MAG- Controller.

Ahsanuddin Mohammed

Network Infrastructure Transformation Services 

Nokia

Ahsanuddin Mohammed is a strategic and collaborative transformations leader responsble for creating the capability build frameworks to excute large scale complex multi vendor global transformation programs. He has been directly involved in migrations of over 50+ customers using on prem & native cloud-based infrastructures. He promotes Customer first attitude across all organizations, translates the voice of clients to drive technology innovation & cultural transformations in alignment with industry trends and best practices. Ahsanuddin is a trusted technology advisor for global clients to provide innovative solutions and possess a business development and consultative mindset.

Wisely Ng

Senior Product Manager/Consulting Engineer

Nokia

Wisely is the Senior Regional Product Line Manager and Consultant Engineer of IP Network Infrastructure division of Nokia in APAC.  He is responsible for product line management and solutions consulting, focusing on Mobile Anyhaul, Network Time Synchronization and Network Security.  Wisely has more than 25 years of experience in telecommunication industry covering network solutions including IP/MPLS, Metro-Ethernet, and Mobile Anyhaul solutions.  Wisely is a Bachelor of Science with Honours Degree in Computer Studies from City University of Hong Kong in 1996. He is based in Hong Kong, China.

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.

Perry Poehlmann

Head of APAC Field Marketing

Nokia

Perry has been leading the Field Marketing team in APJ for the last 2.5  years, driving campaigns, roadshows, brand awareness, media releases and supporting cross Business Group activities.  Perry is a long time Nokia employee with tenure nearly 35 years. Perry managed the MN pre-sales team across APJ,  involved with radio business nearly 12 years bringing in OI over a billion AUD. In addition to radio, prior to that he was Sales director for Fixed Networks in Oceania has long time sales experience in optical covering diverse geographies including Europe and Middle East in addition to APJ.

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.

Jorge 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.

Tim Raphael

IP Network Automation Regional Product Line Manager

Nokia

Tim has more than a decade's experience in designing, building and operating service provider networks. He's worked for MSPs, ISPs and multi-national cloud providers, helping them scale and automate their networks. He now works for Nokia as the Regional Product Line Manager (rPLM) for IP Automation in APAC. His remit includes all automation product lines for data centre and wide area networks, including automation process, practise, and tooling.

Naz Sabih

Senior Solution Business Development Manager

Nokia

Nazih is an accomplished engineer with over twenty-five years’ experience in the IT and telecommunications sector. Throughout his career, he has worked across various countries and has extensive experience in the Asia Pacific market; with a focus on Webscale, Datacentre and large enterprises. As the Senior Solution Business Development Manager at Nokia, he is responsible for the technical solutioning aspects of Nokia’s Oceania Datacentre and Webscale solution practice. Nazih holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Telecommunications from the University of Technology, Sydney and is based out of the Nokia Sydney office.

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.

Piotr Stpiczynski

Senior Product Line Manager, Professional Services

Nokia

Piotr Stpiczynski is a Senior Product Line Manager with almost 20 years of expertise in network transformation and software development. Throughout his career, he has played a pivotal role in assisting numerous companies in successfully executing large-scale transformation programs to meet their strategic objectives. Piotr possesses extensive experience in managing product portfolios, overseeing complex programs, and leading high-performing delivery teams. Furthermore, his skill set extends to business development and consulting, making him a well-rounded professional capable of driving innovation and growth in the enterprise market.

Leonard Tan

NPI Architect

Nokia

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.

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. 

Dominique Verhulst

Director IP Business, Vertical Markets

Nokia

Dominique Verhulst currently heads up the business development activities for Nokia’s IP Division in EMEA (Europe, Middle East & Africa), specifically addressing Transportation, Energy & Public Sector markets.  In this position he is helping companies to evolve their critical telecoms infrastructure to modern and future proof infrastructures enabling improved operational efficiency and cost reductions.  He has over 30 years of experience in the telecommunications networking industry, holding senior sales and marketing positions at Nokia, Alcatel-Lucent, Newbridge Networks, Ungermann-Bass and Motorola.

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 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.

Brian Walsh

Head of IP rPLM & Consulting Engineering

Nokia

Brian Walsh is the IP Core Solution Architect for the APAC Region. Brian has been part of the IP Division for the past 9 years and has held the roles of 7x50 EMEA Regional PLM, EMEA Business Services Solution Manager, Business Development Manager (Australia & New Zealand) and Systems Engineer during his time. Brian’s focus areas include: IP Core, IP/MPLS network design, router hardware architecture, IP-Optical architectures and SDN architectural evolution. Brian holds a Bachelor of Computer Engineer from Sydney University with first-class honours.

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.

Kent Wong

Vice President, Head of IP Networks Asia Pacific Region, NI APAC RBC

Nokia

Drawing on 25 years of experience in the field of telecommunications and data networking, Kent Wong currently leads the Nokia IP Business in the Asia Pacific region, overseeing the business development, solution and product management, go-to-market and commercial strategies for the Asia Pacific and Japan, India and Greater China IP markets.  Kent joined Nokia through the acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent, where he has led the IP and Optical business for the Asia Pacific since 2013.  Before that, Kent also served in several leader’s roles for IP business and solutions within Alcatel-Lucent Asia Pacific region, including the head of IP Competence Center, IP business development for North Asia, and senior IP product manager for the Asia Pacific.  Before Alcatel-Lucent, Kent worked in Research & Development (R&D) department for the IP Service Router in TiMetra Networks, which Alcatel acquired in 2003. Kent also worked in various R&D roles for IP products at Nortel Networks before he joined TiMetra Networks.  Kent has extensive knowledge and rich experience in business and technology in IP Routing, Optical Networking, 5G transport network transformation, network automation, analytics and security, SDN, and Cloud. Kent holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.