Nicolas has 10 years experience in networking starting in Orange and then for the last 6 years at Juniper Networks. He has been working primarily on routing and more recently he has been focusing on SDN topics and been deeply involved in key EMEA SDN projects."

A leading expert in WAN/LAN switching and routing, Andy co-founded Talari Networks and served as its first CEO after previously serving in executive roles in both startups and public corporations. He was Vice President of Marketing at RouteScience, a route optimization startup, and before that led marketing at MMC Networks, the pioneering Network Processor developer, through its $4.5B acquisition by Applied Micro Circuits Corporation (AMCC) in 2000. Previously, he spent more than a dozen years at 3Com Corporation, highlighted by his leadership of the Switching Systems business unit through its development and introduction of the CoreBuilder 9000 enterprise switching platform. He also served as 3Com's Vice President of Marketing for Large Enterprise Markets, and held a number of other senior marketing, product management, and engineering roles. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University and a Master of Science degree in computer science from Stanford University.

Mr.Wim Henderickx is Director Network Consulting Engineering & PLM – Technology in the ION Division at Nokia, based in Belgium. Mr. Henderickx provides senior level consulting on advanced IP solutions for Service provider and Enterprise customers around: Cloud Networking (SDN/NFV), Triple Play, Mobile, IOT, etc. He has over 20 years’ experience in the communications and networking industry, and is a regular speaker at technical conferences all over the world. He is active in a number of SDO’s like IETF, BBF, openStack, etc.

Mr. Henderickx holds a Bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering, Data Communications and a Masters degree in Economy and is a Bellabs Fellow.

Cécile Escalier joined Interdata in 2002 as pre-sales engineer and is currently SE manager. She has been working with many service providers and private customers on the design and evolution of their WAN networks. She previously worked at Nortel Networks for two years in the long-haul and transport research department in Canada. There, she focused on ultrahigh-speed optical data transmission. Cécile Escalier holds a Master’s degree in Physics from Centrale Marseille, France.

Escalier’s experience in this market gives her a deep understanding of the SD-WAN landscape and her presentation will be an asset to those in attendance.

Hector Avalos has over 25 years of experience in the computing, networking and telecommunications industries. He currently holds the position of VP EMEA Sales and Business Development at Versa Networks. His current activities are focused on “virtual CPE”, “Software-Defined WAN” and “Software-Defined Security” solutions for Service Providers and Enterprises.

Prior to Versa, Hector worked 4 years at Ericsson as “Head of technology, architectures, solutions and strategy”, and 9 years at Juniper Networks as “Technical Director”.

Hector possesses a BSc. in Computing Science from ‘UDLA’ Mexico.

http://fr.linkedin.com/in/hectoravalos

Mr. Forest is the Vice President of Enterprise Products and Markets at InfoVista where he is responsible for the company’s overall SD WAN product strategy. He has 20 years of experience in the telecommunications/networking industry. Before InfoVista, Mr. Forest has spent time at Hughes Network Systems, Accel Networks, Arbros Networks, and MCI Communications (now owned by Verizon Communications). He has held both technical and business roles throughout his career. He has a B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from the University of Maryland.

Alex Ratcliffe has nearly 24 years of experience in the networking industry specializing in the Internet and WAN networks. At Citrix, Alex is a field expert in the evolution and deployment of the NetScaler SD-WAN offering. Prior to joining Citrix, Alex worked at Talari Networks for 6+ years where he is responsible for sales engineering. Before then, Alex played a significant role in building large networks for major Internet access providers, which include: MSN, AOL, and Ameritech, in both the UK and the USA. Alex also held sales engineering positions with UUNet, SilverPeak, Juniper Networks and Redback Networks. Alex specializes in working closely with customers to identify business challenges and corresponding technology needs. He is heavily involved in planning, designing, documenting, maintaining and developing solutions that stay true to customer's needs and objectives. Alex holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Software Engineering for Real Time Systems from Anglia University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.

For the last 15 years Amir Zmora held various product, technology, marketing and business positions focused mainly on voice and video communications. Amir works part time for AudioCodes as VP Alliances & Partnership. In his other hat, Amir is an independent consultant working with companies in the area of communications and WebRTC on planning and execution of product, marketing, strategy and Go to Market activities. Amir blogs regularly on TheNewDialTone.

Among other positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for Radvision technology business unit, VP Marketing & Products and later VP BD for Surf Communication Solutions, Co-founder of a web based service creation and video communication startup and head of the H.323 R&D and Product Management groups in the early days of VoIP at Radvision.

Daniel is a senior member of the MEF staff responsible for all the programs in the new MEF Office of the CTO, as well as MEF's globally adopted Services, Equipment and Professionals Certification programs.

As part of his Office of the CTO responsibilities, Daniel is driving the rollout of the OpenCS SD-WAN project that is delivering SD-WAN reference implementations to the 130+ service provider community in the MEF. These reference implementation demonstrate how to use a combination of open APIs, open source code and commercial solutions as part of MEF-defined LSO (Lifecycle Service Orchestration) to ensure that SD-WANs can be integrated seamlessly in agile, assured and orchestrated services that span multiple operators.

Daniel has been in the networking industry for over 20 years holding a variety of positions in RAD Data Communications, as well as co-founding Resolute Networks where he held executive positions and which he represented in the MEF, serving for 3 years as Global Marketing Co-Chair and being elected three times to the MEF Board of Directors.

Ganesh Narayan is a seasoned technology architect with Infosys with close to 12 years of experience in conceptualizing solutions and delivering them. He has worked with telecom service providers and OEM vendors across US, UK and Australia. He is working with the SDN/NFV practice at Infosys building world class solutions for Tier-1 Service Providers.