Leading Experts in WAN and LAN Equipment Market Experts in Member Programs

Puneet Chopra, BE, MBA is an Independent Consultant, looking after Service Layer Solutions for the Fixed and Wireless market place. These include: Broadband Access Technologies; Mobile Packet Backbone Architectures; RADIUS; WAP Gateway; Intelligent Network Services like Mobile-VPN & Fixed network VPN;...

Subrata De, Ph.D., is the Former Head- Core Network Evolution and Strategy at Vodafone Group, Global Technology, Germany (3/08), the largest global wireless carrier. He was responsible for planning and deployment of GPRS and 3G technology in Europe, Japan and Australia and led the strategy & technical...

Gregory Dugan is a Network Security Consultant at Cadre Computer Resources, a company specializing in security software. He has more than 10 years of experience in consulting on network security for companies within the Enterprise and SMB space. He is experienced in sales of security products from vendors...

Thomas Flynn is the Executive Director of Four Points Technology, providing IT products and Services to the Federal government. Previously, he was the Executive Director - Partners & Programs at Apptis...

Mark Frye is the Vice President of Sales at Venture Technologies, a company providing systems integration services. He is experienced in managing partner relationships with Check Point, Nokia, Packeteer, Websense, Cisco, F5, Dell, HP, IBM, Sun, Cisco, Aruba, VMware, Juniper, Nortel, Computer Associates,...

Michael Gazier is a Senior Director in the Office of the CTO at Ciena, a company specializing in data, voice, cell/4G, video transport, and networking equipment for telecom, MSO, government, and enterprises. He works on business development, network architecture, and M&A activities. He also contributes...

William Gewirtz, Ph.D., is the Lead Partner of Communications and Networking at the Market Strategy Group, a management consultancy. He is also the Principal of WLG Consulting, a company providing consulting services to operating and investment entities in the enterprise networking and the telecom sector.

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Sam Greenholtz is the Co-Founder and Principal of Telecom Pragmatics, Inc., a consulting and market research company specializing in the telecom market. He has expertise inc FTTx, optical networking, VoIP, ethernet and wireless technologies including WiMAX, 3G, CDMA and EV-DO. Prior to joining the consulting...

Gerald Harris is an independent consultant. He is currently a program manager and consultant for the UMTS roll-out for a wireless carrier in the US. He is responsible for site acquisition and development, RF design, construction and core network integration. Previously, Mr. Harris was the Senior Project...

Michael Horsch Fizz is a Senior Advisor at FCI, a company providing system integration and strategy consulting services. Mr. Fizz specializes in monitoring and predicting industry trends coupled with quantitative and qualitative reviews of technology vendors. Vendors include Avaya, Brocade, CA, 3Com,...

Hong Jiang, PhD, is the President and Chief Executive Officer in HJ Solutions, a technology consulting firm. Dr. Jiang has expertise in the Chinese mobile industry. She focuses on Chinese operators’ reorganization efforts, 3G wireless developments including the domestic standard TD SCDMA and wireless...

Jacob Larsen is the Vice President Merger Integration for the Carrier Business Group at Alcatel-Lucent. He oversees the consolidation of Alcatel’s and Lucent’s activities in broadband access, optical networking, carrier routing, wireless networking (CDMA, GSM, 3G UMTS, WiMax, and LTE) and NG networking....

Matthias Machowinski is a Directing Analyst at Infonetics Research, a market research company since 2000. He has expertise in enterprise voice and data technologies and buying trends. He also has expertise in communication networks deployed by SMBs and enterprises at the desktop, wiring closets, and...

Paul Massie is the Senior Director of Information Technology at Genesis Microchip, a fabless semiconductor firm with 1,200 employees. He is responsible for all IT functions at a growing US$ 300MM company based in multiple countries. Previously, Mr. Massie was the Director of IT Infrastructure at Openwave...

Cliff McElroy is the President of Datec, systems integrator and value added reseller providing data center solutions, LAN, WAN and VPN, application optimization, global availability, data center power, backup recovery, IT Cost Visibility, storage, security, convergence and wireless applications. He...

Sheldon Meredith is the Senior Director of National Radio Network Strategy and Development at AT&T Mobility, formerly Cingular Wireless, a company providing mobile voice and data communication services. He has over 23 years experience in mobile communications product R&D; telecom manufacturing, deployment...

Dave Metcalf is the President and Chief Executive Officer of JCN Group, a systems integration firm providing solutions to commercial and federal government clients. He has more than 18 years of experience in the information technology and telecommunications industries. His firm provides solutions from...

David Newman is the President at Network Test, Inc, an engineering services firm specializing in network device benchmarking and network design. The company provides services to equipment manufacturers, service providers, large enterprises, and trade publications...

Dick O'Hara is the Director of Global Strategic Alliances at AVAYA and oversees the identification, creation, and management of relationships with select companies to develop solutions and/or create complementary products/services -- companies like Juniper Networks and Extreme Networks. He is involved...

John Pironti is the Chief Information Risk Strategist for CompuCom. He has designed and implemented enterprise wide electronic business solutions, information security programs, and threat and vulnerability management solutions for key customers in a range of industries, including financial services,...