Board of directors

Todd Shimizu, Chairman

Todd Shimizu is currently Director, Technology Office at Juniper Networks.  During his ten-plus years in the IP networking industry, Todd has served in a number of marketing, sales engineering, and technical roles.  Since joining Juniper in 2001, Todd has lead the development and launch of several key product and solutions marketing initiatives, including security, IPv6, access and preliminary work on IPsphere.  Todd also spent over three years with Bay/Nortel Networks as a systems engineer and manager of routing switch marketing.  Todd has served as Vice chair of the IPsphere Forum Marketing Committee since inception, helping to lead the Forum’s branding and communications efforts.

Monique Jeanne Morrow, Vice-Chair

Monique Morrow is currently Distinguished Consulting Engineer at Cisco Systems, Inc. She has over 20 years experience in IP internetworking that includes design, implementation of complex customer projects and service development for service providers. Monique has been involved in developing managed Network Services like Remote Access and LAN Switching in a Service Provider environment.  Monique has worked for both enterprise and service provider companies in the United States and in Europe. Monique led the Engineering Project team for one of the first European MPLS-VPN deployments in 1999 for a European service provider. Monique is participates actively in standards bodies such  as the ITU-T and the IETF with a focus on OAM. Monique is a frequent speaker in conferences and has published several books with a focus on service development, MPLS and MPLS security. Monique is currently exploring use of GriD technology and Next Generation virtualization mechanisms for Service Providers and enterprise customers.

Omar Elloumi, Treasurer

Since 1999, Dr. Omar Elloumi has held several positions with Alcatel-Lucent including: research, network strategy, system architecture and standards management at different locations in Belgium, USA and France. Omar has previously served on the ATM Forum Board of Directors as Secretary and was deeply involved with negotiating a merger that led to the creation of the MFA Forum.

Nick Sampson, Secretary

Nick began his career in the mobile industry with Vodafone. He joined Orange PCS in March 1996, where he was initially responsible for the design of the Orange signalling network and standardised services. He was responsible for the design and implementation of several major cross-functional projects and services, and represented Orange in standards and industry organisations. Nick became increasingly involved in standardisation, taking overall responsibility for standards in Orange PCS’s before moving to the Orange corporate-level standardisation team in 2003, following the purchase of Orange by France Telecom. In 2006, this role was extended to cover all France Telecom Group, and he is now responsible for France Telecom Group and Orange’s SA’s standardisation and industry activities on mobile and wireless access and core network. Nick has been participating in standards and industry organisations since in 1996. Since then he has represented Orange/France Telecom in ETSI , 3GPP, the GSMA Association and several other industry organisations, serving on the steering committees and Board of some of these organisations.

Keith Dickerson, Board Member

Keith Dickerson has worked in the ICT industry for over 25 years and is currently Head of Standards for the BT Group as part of the Office of the Chief Architect. He provides direction to BT’s standards activities working closely with BT CTO Matt Bross and Chief Architect Milan Gupta to identify the key technologies to BT and the standards required to support BT programmes such as the 21st Century Network. Keith directs a team of professional engineers participating in standards in all areas related to telecommunications and IT. He is responsible for developing strategies for BT’s participation in many standards bodies and fora including ETSI, ITU, 3GPP, ATIS, CEN, IETF, TMF, W3C and OMA. He was responsible for hosting the IETF in London in 2001 and is a member of the Internet Society (ISOC). Keith has been a member of the ETSI Board since 2002 and leads on Strategy for ETSI. 

Kevin Dillon, Board Member

Kevin Dillon is the Chairman of the IPsphere Forum. He is also the President and CTO of Truebaseline Corp, based in USA and Australia. TrueBaseline believes that the common goal of service revenue must be achieved through a strategy that integrates rather than separates Web and Telco perspectives. Before joining Truebaseline in July of 2007, Mr. Dillon was a VP in the CTO Office at Juniper Networks. Prior to joining Juniper in 2000, Mr. Dillon was the Director of Asia Pacific Marketing for the IP Services business unit of Nortel Networks.

Michael Lerer, Board Member

Mike Lerer is a consultant in the office of the CTO of Soapstone Networks. He is currently a member of the board of directors of IPsphere and Vice Chair of the IPsphere Work Program Committee. Mike is an internationally recognized leader in communications/networking standards, having held leadership positions in the Optical Internetworking Forum, and the Network Processing Forum. In addition, Mike has been an active participant in IEEE 802.3ae, 802.3ap, RapidIO, and PICMG. Previously Mike has been an independent consultant, has held the position of Technology Facilitator in the architecture group of Avici Systems, and has been a founder of and executive with two start-up companies Pixelworks Inc, and Small System Design Inc. Mike holds degrees from MIT in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Brian Levy, Board Member

Brian Levy has recently joined HP, having been Group Technology Officer, Service Strategy and Innovation, at BT for the past four years. He was instrumental in BT's 21st Century Network program, where he developed the SOA architecture for the network and initiated the development of many new transformational services. He spent nine years with AT&T in Europe, becoming the Director for Network Services for EMEA. Brian left AT&T to join Qwest in Europe and ran the operations of EUnet across Europe. Later he joined GTS (Ebone) as the VP for IP Service Realisation and VP for IP Product Marketing. He was a co-founder and SVP for Architecture and Operations for Aduronet, a $67 million startup. Aduronet built an IPSec VPN and content distribution network throughout Europe together with state-of-the-art data centers. He joined Storm Telecommunications as the SVP for Product Development responsible for the company's product set. Here he led the marketing, definition, design, and deployment of one of the first pan-European Ethernet connectivity services. Brian has been a keynote speaker at many major conferences throughout the world and he has penned many articles. He has also played a key role in industry forums such as the IP Sphere Forum and the Home Gateway Initiative. He is a member of the Samsung Advisory Board and is considered by many to be a thought leader in the industry.

Andy Malis, Board Member

Andrew G. Malis holds the position of Director, Packet Network Architecture at Verizon Communications. He has been active in wide-area data networking and telecommunications for over 30 years, beginning with the ARPANET, the foundation of today's Internet. He has also held senior engineering positions at Bolt, Beranek, and Newman; Ascom Nexion; Cascade Communications; Ascend Communications; Lucent Technologies; Vivace Networks; and Tellabs. His current responsibilities include Verizon's packet network architecture and evolution, standards participation, and vendor consultation.  He is also President and Chairman of the Board of the MFA Forum (www.mfaforum.org)

Sten Nordell, Board Member

Sten Nordell is a VP of Networks and Platforms Strategy Telenor Group. Previously a Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Utfors AB, Sten is now responsible at Telenor ASA for Networks and Platforms Strategy for the Group. With an MBA at the University of Stockholm and a degree in Natural Science and Computer Technology, Sten has more than 20 years experience in Networking including Routers, Network Operating Systems, Network Protocols, Switches, Broadband Networks and Mobile Network design. 

David Olisar, Board Member

Dave Olisar is Sr. Manager of Portfolio Strategy at Tellabs.  In this role, his responsibilities include corporate strategy development for data, wireless, and access markets.  Olisar has more than 20 years of telecommunications industry experience.  In addition to previous product planning and product management posts at Tellabs, Olisar has held a variety of leadership positions in software engineering, product management, business development and marketing at Rockwell International and SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation).  He holds a Bachelors of Science degree in electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and a Masters of Science in electrical engineering also from Carnegie Mellon University.

Helmut Schink, Board Member

Dr. Helmut Schink is Vice President Systems Engineering, at Siemens Com, Common Development. He is responsible for standardization, funded research management and innovation management. His expertise includes strategic standardization, strategic product planning, corporate consulting and business development as well as semiconductor physics and device development. He holds a doctors degree in physics. Previous occupations include semiconductor process technology and business development. He is heavily engaged in the standards-setting arena with ITU, TMF, ISOC, ETSI and ICANN and has held several board positions; member of the Board of the Telemanagement Forum, ITU-T SG 13 vice-chair, Member of the board of directors of ICANN (until June 2003), chair of ETSI project TIPHON on IP Telephony (until 2001)

Roger Wenner, Board Member

Roger Wenner has worked in various departments at Deutsche Telekom including the Research and Technology Center in Darmstadt, Data Networks with a special focus on Quality of Service in ATM networks, and the IP Transport Network Strategies department. Today, he is in charge of the architecture team designing the new IP broadband access network, and leads a Deutsche Telekom internal competence center for developing group wide architectures in the area of IP/MPLS.

Yi Zhao, Board Member

Dr. Zhao has more than twenty years experience in telecommunications and IT industries. He currently acts as Vice President of Huawei Technologies (USA).  During his career in Huawei (USA), Dr. Zhao has been in charge of company’s operation, research and development, sales and marketing, as well as the company’s public and industry relations. Currently Dr. Zhao is in charge of company’s industry standards.