Senior executives from Blue Planet, Cisco, Fortinet, Netcracker Technology, Salesforce, ServiceNow, Spirent, Versa Networks, and VMware tapped to bring critical technology insights to MEF
MEF, a global association of network, cloud, and technology industry providers that accelerate enterprise digital transformation, today at its quarterly meeting of its members in Paris, France, announced the launch of a Technology Advisory Board (TAB). Composed of senior executives from leading global technology companies, TAB leverages the leadership and expertise of MEF’s world-class board of directors and brings important technology provider insights to MEF’s strategic work.
MEF established TAB to incorporate input from all key stakeholder communities — cloud, network and technology providers — with the goal of helping the ecosystem grow faster and bring in market -leading services and solutions. TAB members will serve a one-year term and be selected for their broad industry leadership in MEF’s strategic areas — cybersecurity, business automation, SD-WAN, underlay connectivity, and edge computing. TAB will initially focus on increasing efficiency and opportunities within the member ecosystem and supply chain to generate revenue more quickly.
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The Technology Advisory Board consists of ten industry luminaries:
- Kelly Ahuja, Chief Executive Officer, Versa Networks
- Kailem Anderson, Vice President of Portfolio and Engineering, Blue Planet
- Ari Banerjee, Senior Vice President Strategy, Netcracker Technology
- Rohit Batra, Vice President and Head of Product, Telecommunications, Media and Technology, ServiceNow
- Craig Connors, Vice President and General Manager, SASE Business, VMware
- David Fan, Vice President and General Manager, Communications Industry, Salesforce
- Sunil Khandekar, Former Founder and CEO of Nuage Networks, Independent
- Dave Larson, Chief Technology Officer and General Manager, Cloud & IP, Spirent Communications plc
- John Maddison, Executive Vice President of Products and Chief Marketing Officer, Fortinet
- JL Valente, Vice President, Product Management, Enterprise Routing and SD-WAN, Cisco
“We are excited to welcome this inspiring group of executives with invaluable leadership and knowledge to MEF’s new Technology Advisory Board,” said Nan Chen, President, MEF. “For more than 20 years, the MEF has been successful because of the extensive collaboration of its members and board leadership to help solve business challenges. Bringing TAB’s technology perspective further strengthens the industry partnership that drives enterprise digital transformation through a better integrated ecosystem of service providers, cloud, and technology. ”
“The development and launch of TAB is an important step in meeting the needs of the entire digital services ecosystem,” said Pascal Menezes, Chief Technology Officer, MEF. “Enhancing the MEF strategy with guidance from the vendor community on how to enable technologies in services and products to be delivered and managed will allow us to advance fully automated innovation offerings with the goal of help our members earn revenue faster. “
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