Alberto Donzelli is a Customer Solution Architect at Cisco focused on Next Generation IP Transport Networks as part of the SP architecture team in EMEAR.
Alberto has 20 years experience in Service Providers market, with the last 15 years spent on the design of converged packet networks. Throughout his career, Alberto has designed large scale Carrier Ethernet, Core and Edge networks for major Service Providers.
Alberto is currently focusing on Segment Routing, WAN orchestration and multi layer integration.
Alberto holds a Masters of Engineering in Computer Science from the University Politecnico di Milano.

12+ yr experience in Telecommunication industry
Andrea joined CISCO in Jan ‘00 through Pirelli Optical System acquisition. He had worked with Pirelli since ‘99 as R&D Engineer. As Cisco HW-Optical designer, he was responsible for developing optical interfaces of 10G Transponders and then designer of ONS15454 FOADM products.
Andrea moved to WDM System Architecture team in ‘06 and participate as technical leader in designing and developing the ONS15454 optical transport platform. He has also been working closely with post sales organizations, leading the Customer Escalation Team for WDM transport platforms.
Andrea has recently (early ‘12) joined BDM team and is now active in the EMEA SP and Enterprise market, promoting the business architecture of converged IP+Optical Transport solutions.
Andrea earned his master degree in opto-electrical engineering from Politecnico of Milano and issued 2 US patents.

Alexander Preusche is a Consulting Systems Engineer at Cisco Systems, working in the EMEAR Service Provider Consulting Team. 

In this role, he focusses on Mobile and Carrier Ethernet SP Architectures, Mobile Security and innovation areas, including SDN/NfV and SON use cases for SP Architectures.
Before joining Cisco, Alexander worked as an IP/Mobile Architect for Vodafone Germany as well as in different Consulting positions at Cisco partner companies. 

Overall, he has more than 15 years of IT industry experience, including 10+ years of Mobile Service Provider experience. Besides his IT engineering education, he holds a B.A. in European Business Administration.

Bart Matthesius has been active in computer networking for 18 years. Over time he has seen various roles in managing SP networks as well as developing and managing tools to support operational and planning departments. During this period he developed his skillset in both Networking and Systems. In March 2012 he joined a company named 'Cariden' which was the turning point towards true software development. Later in the same year Cariden was acquired by Cisco.

Today he is active as a TME in the EMEA region for the WAN Orchestration BU, dedicated to the WAE product line. He is based from the Netherlands.

8 years at Cisco, initially with British Telecom account team, moving into Global Service Provider Business Development specialising in High-End Routing, IP/Optical Integration and e2e Business and Residential services."

Bill Gartner is Vice President of Cisco's Optical Systems and Transceivers Group, which includes Cisco’s portfolio of DWDM and Converged Packet/Optical Networking products as well as Transceiver modules for use across all product segments.   Bill has P&L responsibility for these businesses and is responsible for strategic direction, product development, product positioning and new product introduction.

 Prior to joining Cisco, Bill was Chief Operating Officer of Meriton Networks (acquired by Xtera Networks).   Prior to Meriton, Bill served as President and COO of Mahi Networks and COO of Photuris.

 Before joining Photuris, he was Vice President and General Manager of Lucent's Optical Networking Systems business, responsible for Metro, Access, and Long Haul DWDM Products. 

 His earlier tenure in the industry included roles at AT&T Bell Labs and Paradyne. 

 Bill has served on the boards of OptronX (acquired by JDSU) and CyOptics.

 Bill has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Georgia Tech, a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, and an Executive Master’s in Technology Management from University of Pennsylvania/Wharton.   He is a University of Pennsylvania Moore Fellow, and holds 3 patents.

Buddy Bayer joined Windstream in September 2014 in a strategic role to help shape the Windstream transport network into a more efficient and customer focused asset.  His current leadership role consists of planning and engineering responsibilities within Transport, ISP Facilities, and Network Development.  Buddy’s past endeavors at WorldCom, OnFiber Communications, Qwest and CenturyLink have provided him a broad experience creating and leading highly effective and efficient technical organizations.  Throughout his career, Buddy has led and developed multiple facets of engineering:  Network Architecture, Transport Planning and Engineering, Fiber Planning and Engineering, Construction Engineering, ISP Engineering, Network Development and Customer Solutions Engineering.

24+ yr experience in Telecommunication industry
14+ yr experience in Telecom marketing
11 patent issued
David worked for the main Telecom manufacturers, in engineering role for SDH and DWDM equipment design.
David moved to product marketing position in early '99, working with major carriers, to promote, planning and developing the optical transport product line of Pirelli first and Cisco Photonics then. In Cisco David has been an early contributor to the ROADM management technology and the IPoDWDM strategy.
David has been active in the IP+Optical marketing in Cisco Corporate, promoting the business architecture of elastic IP/MPLS+Optical Transport solutions.
David is now acting as Senior Business Development Manager marketing and promoting software defined packet optical network across EMEAR market.

Domenico is a Product Manager with Cisco Network Management Technology Group with particular focus on Optical Transport. He has a solid background in Telecommunication and Network Management having worked in the industry for more than 15 years. In his previous experience he helped designing Sonet and SDH management applications with Siemens icn and Italtel. He worked as a researcher for an Italian research center (CNR) and served in the National Fire Brigade.

Filippo Galimberti carries more than 20 years of experience in Service Providers segment, having matured a solid experience in Networking, with a background on Network Operations and Software.

He joined Cisco Systems in 2000, as Consulting System Engineer, covering Service Providers in EMEA, before taking the responsibility of leading the SDN/NfV Business Development team in EMEA on Service Providers segment

Prior Cisco he covered various roles in Telecom Italia Group, 9 Telecom France and Microsoft.

Filippo is now Senior Marketing Manager in Cisco Corporate, driving go to market, communication and product evolution on SDN/NfV SP business.
He is also collaborating with Cisco’s Engineering Department to develop the next generation of Software products and strategy

Filippo holds a MsC degree in Electric Engineering.

Francesca has been working in Cisco since 2012. She has worked as a compliace test engineer on optical DWDM systems for Safety certification and enviromental testing. Starting since june 2015 she has moved to SP Architectures & Vertical Sales-IT as Technical Marketing Engineer.
Francesca has a degree in Electronic Engineering at University of Naples.

Gianluca has 15 years experience in DWDM Telecommunication Systems as Optical Designer, Hardware Product Validation Team Leader and Technical Marketing Engineer. He is currently Sales Business Development Manager for Packet Optical Solutions in EMEAR Service Provider organisation.
His technical background covers telecommunication transmission protocols and standard - including Sonet, SDH, Ethernet and FiberChannel - 10/40G/100G/400G WDM transmission interfaces, Fixed and Flex Grid ROADM based networks, synchronization network, Packet Timing, xPSK Optical Modulation format and GMPLS Optical Control Plane.

Hardev Singh, is a technical marketing engineer (TME) in the Transceiver Module Group for Cisco, focusing on 40/100/400G optical technologies. Prior to this role, Hardev has worked as a TME for the Catalyst 4500 & 6500 switching platforms and also as a Systems Engineer (SE) in the Enterprise vertical. He has had the opportunity to speak at Cisco Live on High Speed Data Networks, Catalyst Switching Architectures and Virtual Switching System. Hardev graduated with a Master’s of Engineering degree from Cornell University and now lives with his family in San Jose.

Kevin is currently Director of Product Management for the High End Routing and Optical group.  He has been involved with Cisco's Service Provider Routing portfolio for over 16 years in various aspects of Engineering, Technical Marketing and Product Management across the Cisco 7500, 12000, CRS and now NCS product families.  He currently runs the HERO Group portfolio of Core Routing products including the CRS and NCS families and is helping to define the next generation of IP+Optical convergence in Cisco's routing and optical portfolios.  

Lorenzo has over 17 years experience in telecommunications product management, mainly focused on Optical Transport solutions. Working with Cisco since 2000, has been involved with Long Haul and Extended Long Haul products and has been focused on Flexible and Integrated transport networks for the last 12 years.
Currently managing the Product Management and Technical Marketing teams for Optical Systems and Solutions, Lorenzo has been part since the beginning of the core team of people developing Converged Transport functionalities and ROADM solutions for ONS 15454 MSTP, NCS 2000 and NCS 4000 inside Cisco Optical Networking team.
Based in Vimercate, Italy, Lorenzo obtained his Master’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from “Politecnico di Milano” university and joined Pirelli Optical System as Product Line Manager in 1999.
He holds multiple patents in the optical transport field.”

Principal Engineer - Member of Architectural and Technology team of the SP segment optical 

With 19 years experience in equipment development, Luca is today a Cisco principal engineer leading POT’s hardware architecture. 

20 patents filed (17 issued) on Telecom, transport and networking field.

He has a deep knowledge of network technologies combined with a strong business oriented approach to problem solving.

Exploiting his technologies exposure and leveraging on his innovation attitude, he has been able to influence standard roadmap creating the ideas seeding IEEE 802.3a and OIF FlexE projects. His experience includes from optical transport, carrier ethernet and internetworking ranging beween access, metro and datacenter interconnect applications. Luca graduated in Electronic engineering at Polytechnic of Milan in 1994.

Matteo Pierpaoli has been in the telecom industry for 14 years and works for Cisco since 2000. He has worked as a network design engineer, software development and system test. He currently works as senior technical marketing engineer. His area of competence include Sonet/SDH, DWDM, IP+Optical, Carrier Ethernet and Design Tools. He is involved in customer proof of concepts, field trials support and trainings delivering. He has a master degree in optical networking telecom engineering.

Jay Thontakudi is a Product Manager for the WAN Automation Engine software with focus on Intelligent Automation, Multi-Layer and Segment Routing deployments. Jay has lead product management efforts in software and hardware for Cisco IOS XR, NX-OS, CRS and NCS6000 platforms in the past

Maurizio Gazzola, Mgr. Product Line Manager in OSTG Group, Cisco.
Maurizio has over 17 years experience in telecommunications product management, mainly focused on DWDM and MultiLayer Network Convergence (MPLS, CE, OTN and WDM). Working with Cisco since 2000, has been involved with Long Haul and Extended Long Haul products and has been focused on POTS platfroms and high speed optic applications for the last 6 years.
Currently following Product Management activities for Next Generation Converged Architecture, has been part since the beginning of the core team of people developing DWDM transport functionalities and ROADM solutions for ONS 15454 MSTP inside Cisco Optical Networking team.
Based in Vimercate, Italy, Maurizio obtained his bachelor’s degree in Telecommunication Engineering from “Politecnico di Milano” university and joined Pirelli Optical System as Product Line Manager in 1998.
He holds multiple patents in the optical transport and Control Plane field.

Moustafa Kattan is a Distinguished Systems Engineer with multinational experience with Cisco in North America & MEA and is currently a member of the EMEAR Emerging SP team.

Throughout his career at Cisco, Moustafa has been instrumental in the design of large scale country transformational IP + Optical networks and has designed complex communications solutions for Service Providers as well as Public Sector and Enterprise organizations.

Moustafa is a thought leader in DWDM, Converged IP + Optical solutions, DC & MPLS. He contributed to multiple IETF drafts/standards and has a number of related patents. He is a frequent and sought after speaker at Cisco Live in the US & EMEAR, Cisco Expo events, IEEE and MENOG. Moustafa holds a B.Sc. and MBA both from the US.

Nicola Martino joined Cisco in 2001 as a Test Engineer and started working as Technical Marketing Engineer on the Cisco EMS for the optical ONS ombrella, Prime Optical. In 2006, I've been transitioned to the Prime Network team
Prior to 2000, I was a professional service engineer for Pirelli Optical Systems,
I earned a degree in Computer Technology.

Working in the Technical Marketing team of the Service Provider Routing Group, Nicolas has been with Cisco in France for 11 years. Involved in CRS deployments since the first inception days, he is now supporting all IOS XR routers, based on Custom silicon ASICs, Merchant silicon ASICs and virtualized. CCIE#8966.

Paolo Campoli (50) is the Head of Middle East & Africa Global SP Sales and SP CTO for the EMEA Sales Region at Cisco.
His responsibilities include direct Sales leadership for Global Service Providers accounts in the ME&A region, managing the entire Solution sales lifecycle and developing for the future.

As CTO of the SP Segment in EMEAR, Paolo is engaged in driving the adoption of Software Defined Networking across the industries of Cloud, IP transport, Video and Mobility.

 Paolo is also the spokesperson of Cisco at key Industry events and with Regulatory Bodies.

 He joined Cisco Systems in 1998, as EMEA Consulting Engineer, involved in architecture design of DOCSIS,  Broadband Access and Mobility solutions with major European carriers

 From 2001 as Senior Manager of the Central Marketing organization of Cisco Europe, Paolo led development and packaging of Vertical industry solutions for the Enterprise market as well as triple play and Fiber To The Home solutions for Service Providers.

 In 2004 he moved to Sales as Director of SP Business Development, initially in the Challengers vertical and as of 2007 driving as Senior Director the entire Telco Vertical overlay sales segment for Cisco in the European markets. Paolo was also appointed to lead Service Providers CTO interaction, SP architectures and technical operations.

 In 2010 the Consumer Video vertical unit, resulting from the acquisition of Scientific Atlanta and Kiss, was moved to report to Paolo, to create the Cisco’s first integrated business and technical team linking Network, Devices and Cloud.

 In 2011 responsibilities expanded to cover both Europe and Emerging Markets, as head of the SP Architectural play and regional CTO for the EMEAR Service Provider region.

 In 2013 Paolo’s organization expanded to cover also overlay sales for Unified Datacenter to Strategic Service Providers in EMEAR

 In 2014 Paolo became Global SP Sales leader for Middle East & Africa, leading Product and Services sales as well as joint go-to-market and retaining the role of SP Sales CTO for Cisco EMEAR

 Siemens - Italtel (1991-1998)

From 1992 to 1998 Paolo was at Siemens-Italtel, authoring ETSI technical standards, heading the ATM project office and leading market development for the DVB Cable and Satellite digital Set Top Boxes.

Paolo graduated in 1990 with full marks and honours (100/100 cum laude) as Doctor in Electronics and Telecommunications, at the University “Politecnico of Milan” and obtained a MASTER at the Cefriel institute with the first comprehensive mathematical modeling of ATM network traffic, under mentorship of IEEE fellow Professor Decina.

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Rob is part of the Service Provider Optical team, and specializes in next-generation network modeling and network design tools. He has been involved in fiber-optic communications for thirty years. Prior to Cisco he was VP of Technical Marketing for Qeyton Systems AB and Ericsson's WDM Solutions Expert. He also designed optical fiber sensing systems with Plessey and coherent multi-channel optical transmission systems for GEC-Marconi.

Rob holds a first class honors degree in physics from the University of Exeter.

Ron Johnson Directs a team of Architects to focus on the technologies to converge TDM, Packet and DWDM in a meaningful way. Ron is a part of Cisco's Optical Systems and Transceivers  group and has been focused on Cisco's optical group for more than 13 years. He holds multiple patents related to Cisco's ROADM product offerings. Ron's team is responsible for recent innovation and integration in DWDM, Packet and TDM technologies.
Ron has been in telecom for the last 17 years. Starting out in Pacific Bell/SBC where he obtained a large carrier operational perspective that has found its way into Cisco's optical portfolio.

Russ Esmacher is the Director for Packet-Optical Architectures for Service Providers in the Americas with Cisco Systems.  He is responsible for developing Cisco’s strategy for converging packet and optical transport technologies and managing the sales operation for the Americas.  Previously, he was the Senior Manager of Business Development, Technical Marketing and Product Line Management responsible for product definition and development, marketing, and field implementation of Cisco Systems’ DWDM and SONET/SDH portfolio.

He joined Cisco in 2000 and has more than 20 years of telecommunications experience in DWDM transmission, SONET/SDH, and optical fiber and component design.  Prior to joining Cisco, he was an optical engineer with Fujikura developing new specialty fibers and optical component subsystems.  Prior to joining Fujikura, he was an optical engineer with Corning developing and manufacturing G.652 and G.655 optical fibers.  He holds Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees from Clemson University’s Center for Optical Materials Science and Engineering Technology (COMSET).

Srikanth Thodupunoori has been with  Cisco in the Service Provider organization  for the past 9 years and transitioned from SW development to Product Marketing, Currently working on Optical Products . He is mainly focused on technology evangelization, business development,executive briefing and trade show participation.

He holds an MBA degree and loves to travel.

Stefano Colombo has been in the telecom industry for more than 20 years and works for Cisco since 2000. He has worked as a software engineer, test engineer and product line manager. He currently works as senior technical marketing manager. His area of competence include Optical, DWDM, IP+Optical, Packet Optical, Carrier Ethernet. He works closely to customers delivering demos, CPOCs, EFTs and trainings. He has a master degree in electronic engineering and is CCNP certified.

As product manager, Sushin focuses on Cisco’s Data Center optimized DWDM solutions. He has been with Cisco that last 8 years across various roles in software development and product marketing within the optical group at Cisco.