Sorell Slaymaker has 30 years of experience designing, building, securing, and operating IP networks and the communication services that run across them. His mission is to help make communication easier, cheaper and more secure since he believes that the more we communicate, the better we are.  Prior to joining TechVision Research, Sorell was an Evangelist for 128 Technology which is a routing and security software company. Prior to that, Sorell was a Gartner analyst covering enterprise networking, security, and communications. Sorell also led architecture teams at Target, Travelers, Cigna and United Health.   Sorell is an IT Architect with a focus on network, security, and communications architecture. He specializes in IT Architecture – Network Architecture, SIP Trunking, Contact Centers, Unified Communications, and Security Architecture.

Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE.  Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.

As Vice President Strategic Programs, Daniel is responsible for the development and implementation of a range of strategic MEF programs that are central to MEF's transformation to an agile-process oriented standards development organization. These innovative programs - including the MEF Software Developer Community, MEFnet global implementation platform, and MEF Reference Implementations - enable MEF's 210+ member companies to implement draft and published service orchestration and definitions work in code, and to make available standardized open APIs that accelerate the availability of highly agile, assured and orchestrated services for today's hyper-connected world.   Daniel has been involved in the networking industry for 25 years holding a variety of positions in RAD Data Communications, as well as co-founding Resolute Networks where he held executive positions. Representing Resolute in the MEF, Daniel served for 3 years as MEF Global Marketing Co-Chair and was elected three times to the MEF Board of Directors. Since 2010, Daniel has been a senior member of the MEF staff.

Roy Chua is Founder and Principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research group. Prior to co-founding SDxCentral and running its research and product teams, Roy was a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting.  As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at technology events in the telco and cloud space and a regular contributor to leading online publications. A graduate of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science program and MIT's Sloan School of Business, Roy has 20+ years of experience in telco and enterprise cloud computing, networking and security, including founding several Silicon Valley startups.

Justin Barney is Vice President of Global Intent-Based Networking (IBN) Sales at Cisco. With over 20 years of executive sales leadership experience with enterprises and service providers, Justin leads a global team responsible for accelerating IBN sales worldwide, driving cross-functional IBN sales initiatives across regions, overseeing plans for business expansion through internal alliances, and maintaining pipeline visibility and forecasting.   Justin joined Cisco in 2020 as Managing Director of the Global Routing and SD-WAN Sales Team. Before Cisco, he was Chief Revenue Officer for Pulse Secure, a leading cybersecurity software company. From 2011 to 2018, Justin was CEO of ScaleArc where he led its go-to-market strategy and operations. Prior to ScaleArc, Justin was Vice President of Software Sales in the Americas at Juniper Networks through the acquisition of Ankeena. He has also held sales leadership positions at Citrix Systems.   He holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and proudly served in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve.

Kumar serves as Senior Vice President of Products for SD-WAN and Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) products. Kumar co-founded CloudGenix (now Prisma SD-WAN) in March 2013 and was its CEO, establishing the category of SD-WAN. Prior to founding CloudGenix (now Prisma SD-WAN), Kumar held leadership roles in Product Management and Marketing for the multi-billion dollar branch routing and WAN optimization businesses at Cisco.   Prior to Cisco, he managed applications and infrastructure for companies such as Citibank and Providian Financial. Kumar holds an MBA from UC Berkeley Haas School of Business and a Master's in Computer Science from the University of Bombay.

Milind Mohile is Vice President of Product Management at Citrix Systems and is responsible for strategy and execution of secure access solutions to enterprise applications, cloud/saas applications and to the internet. He has been with Citrix for over 7 years.  Prior to Citrix he led product management at InnoPath Software and held senior product and engineering management roles at Yahoo, Oracle and Verizon Wireless. Milind holds an MBA from University of Chicago and a graduate degree in Computer Science with a focus on networking.

John Maddison has more than 30 years of executive management experience in the Cybersecurity and Telecommunications Industries. He joined Fortinet in 2012 to lead Cloud/SaaS Security development teams and is now the Chief Marketing Officer and EVP Products.  He previously held executive leadership positions at Trend Micro focused on Advanced Threat Research and Cloud Delivered Security Services. He started his career with Lucent Technologies Mobile Division, Hewlett Packard Software and Cable & Wireless Global Networking. John holds a B.S. degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Plymouth University, United Kingdom.

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Neil Thacker is CISO, EMEA for Netskope. Neil holds over 20 years’ experience in the information security industry with previous roles at Swiss Re, Deutsche Bank and Camelot Group.   Neil is advisory board member to the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA), advisory board member to NeuroCyber, advisor to ENISA (EU agency for Cybersecurity) and co-founder and board member to the Security Advisor Alliance (SAA). Neil is CISSP, CIPP/E and CEH certified and is a frequent speaker and author of cybersecurity, data protection and privacy-related content.

Roy Chua is Founder and Principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research group. Prior to co-founding SDxCentral and running its research and product teams, Roy was a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting.  As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at technology events in the telco and cloud space and a regular contributor to leading online publications. A graduate of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science program and MIT's Sloan School of Business, Roy has 20+ years of experience in telco and enterprise cloud computing, networking and security, including founding several Silicon Valley startups.

Mauricio Sanchez joined Dell’Oro Group in 2020, and is responsible for Network Security & Data Center Appliance market research program, as well as Security Access and Service Edge (SASE) Advanced Research Report.  He brings over 20 years of experience as an executive manager in networking and security technologies, products, and solutions spanning data center, campus, and mobile architectures. Mr. Sanchez helps shape the coverage of next-generation networking architectures and services models.  Mr. Sanchez’s research and analysis has been widely cited in leading trade and business publications. Mr. Sanchez is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events.

Roy Chua is Founder and Principal at AvidThink, an independent research and advisory service formed in 2018 out of SDxCentral's research group. Prior to co-founding SDxCentral and running its research and product teams, Roy was a management consultant working with both Fortune 500 and startup technology companies on go-to-market and product consulting.  As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at technology events in the telco and cloud space and a regular contributor to leading online publications. A graduate of UC Berkeley's electrical engineering and computer science program and MIT's Sloan School of Business, Roy has 20+ years of experience in telco and enterprise cloud computing, networking and security, including founding several Silicon Valley startups.

Mauricio Sanchez joined Dell’Oro Group in 2020, and is responsible for Network Security & Data Center Appliance market research program, as well as Security Access and Service Edge (SASE) Advanced Research Report.  He brings over 20 years of experience as an executive manager in networking and security technologies, products, and solutions spanning data center, campus, and mobile architectures. Mr. Sanchez helps shape the coverage of next-generation networking architectures and services models.  Mr. Sanchez’s research and analysis has been widely cited in leading trade and business publications. Mr. Sanchez is a frequent speaker at industry conferences and events.

Nirav Shah is Vice President of Products at Fortinet. He has more than 15 years of experience working in the enterprise networking and security industry. Nirav serves as the products and solutions lead for Fortinet’s Security-Driven Networking portfolio with a focus on Secure SD-WAN, SASE, network firewall, IPS and management/analytics.   Prior positions include senior software developer and senior product manager for enterprise networking and security solutions at Cisco.

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.

Amir Zmora is CEO & Co-founder of flexiWAN, the world’s first Open Source SD-WAN & SASE.  Before starting flexiWAN, Amir was CEO & Co-founder of SwitchRTC, a Real-time, interactive WebRTC based video CDN and B2B/B2C collaboration solution acquired by YouNow. Among his previous positions, Amir was VP Products & Marketing for the Technology Business Unit of RADVISION, an Avaya company.

Ross Asquith is a senior member of Netskope’s sales engineering team and fluent with all aspects of the Netskope cloud security platform.   Ross focuses on helping organisations to transform their security architectures to support today’s mobile and cloud-first world.

Saurabh Sandhir Saurabh Sandhir leads the Product Management team at Nuage Networks. Saurabh brings over 16 years of experience leading cross-functional engineering, product management and marketing teams focused on networking software products. Most recently, Saurabh was Head of Technology Strategy, CTO office at Ericsson. Prior to his role at Ericsson, Saurabh held a variety of leadership roles during his 13 year tenure at Juniper Networks. He was the head of the NFV platform product line for both engineering and product management functions. Saurabh also headed the Network Programmability (Junos SDK) product line at Juniper and the development of the industry’s first network API toolkit for developers. This group was also instrumental in defining the marketing blueprint for the introduction of software products in a thus so far hardware centric industry.  Saurabh played key roles in building Juniper’s SDN partner and channel programs and defining the SDN architecture/strategy leading to the acquisition of Contrail Systems. Saurabh has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, a Masters in Computer Science from Purdue University and an MBA from University of California, Berkeley.

Mike Spanbauer is a security expert for Juniper Networks security organization. Mike’s work and expertise in network and security advisory, consulting, and product strategy over the last 25 years provides a breadth of perspective across network and security execution, as well as approaches to solve for operational and governance needs that organizations face.  Throughout his career, Mike has possessed a passion to help guide organizations to make well-informed decisions that ensure delivery on their intended technical outcomes. He brings this passion to Juniper’s customers, partners, and prospects, listening to their needs and challenges.