PTC'21 Program Participants

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Name:Praveen Agarwal

TitleEtc:Senior Vice President & Business Head - Airtel Business, Bharti Airtel Ltd, India

Name:Esko Aho

TitleEtc:Chairman of the Board, Far North Fiber, Inc., Finland

Name:Gus Anderson

TitleEtc:Senior Director, Business Development, Global Enterprise Solutions, Leonardo DRS, USA

Name:Chris Atherton

TitleEtc:Senior Research Engagement Officer, GÉANT, Netherlands

Name:Jonathan Atkin

TitleEtc:Managing Director, Global Head - Communications Infrastructure, RBC Capital Markets, USA

Name:Najwa Attiga

TitleEtc:General Counsel and Head of Compliance, Emirates Investment Authority, United Arab Emirates

Name:David Bair

TitleEtc:President & CEO, Eutelsat America Corp., USA

Name:Bill Barney

TitleEtc:Chairman, Asian Century Equity, USA

Name:Christopher Baugh

TitleEtc:CEO & Founder, Northern Sky Research (NSR), USA

Name:Andy Bax

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Naaz Bax

TitleEtc:Senior Partner & Chief of Staff, Cambridge Management Consulting, United Kingdom

Name:Nigel Bayliff

TitleEtc:Senior Director, Global Submarine Networks, Google LLC, United Kingdom

Name:Fernando Beltrán

TitleEtc:Associate Professor, Department of Information Systems and Operations Management, University of Auckland, New Zealand

Name:Sean Bergin

TitleEtc:Co-Founder & President, APTelecom, Thailand

Name:Doreen Bogdan-Martin

TitleEtc:Director, Telecommunication Development Bureau, International Telecommunication Union, Switzerland

Name:Gina Bohreer

TitleEtc:Senior VP North America Business Development, BW Digital, USA

Name:Brianna Boudreau

TitleEtc:Senior Research Manager, TeleGeography, USA

Name:Matt Bramson

TitleEtc:Founder & Managing Partner, Cloud Strategy Solutions, USA

Name:Kent Bressie

TitleEtc:Partner & Head of International Practice, HWG LLP, USA

Name:Jeff Brown

TitleEtc:Director, Product & Growth Segment Marketing, Calix Networks, Inc., USA

Name:Mark Buell

TitleEtc:Regional Vice President, North America, Internet Society, USA

Name:Wayne Buente

TitleEtc:Professor, Communication Program, University of Hawaii, USA

Name:Oliver Camplin-Warner

TitleEtc:CEO - Telstra Purple, Telstra, Singapore

Name:Dan Caruso

TitleEtc:Co-Founder, Zayo Group, USA

Name:Eric Cevis

TitleEtc:President, Verizon Partner Solutions, USA

Name:Sureel Choksi

TitleEtc:President & CEO, Vantage Data Centers, USA

Name:Michael Constable

TitleEtc:Singapore

Name:John Cowan

TitleEtc:Co-Founder & CEO, EDJX, USA

Name:Eric Crabtree

TitleEtc:Chief Investment Officer, IFC, USA

Name:Gregg Daffner

TitleEtc:President of APSCC; CEO, GapSat, France

Name:Dan Davis

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Arcadian Infracom, USA

Name:John De Ridder

TitleEtc:Principal, De Ridder Consulting, Australia

Name:Samuel Edeagu

TitleEtc:Lecturer, University of Nigeria, Nigeria

Name:Ben Edmond

TitleEtc:USA

Name:John Eland

TitleEtc:Chief Strategy Officer, NTT Global Data Centers, United Kingdom

Name:Arik Elberse

TitleEtc:Global Director for Connected Transportation and IoT Smart City Solutions, Cisco, Ireland

Name:Benoît Felten

TitleEtc:CEO & Founder, Diffraction Analysis, Hong Kong SAR China

Name:Rob Frieden

TitleEtc:Emeritus Professor of Telecommunications and Law, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Name:Kempei Fukuda

TitleEtc:Vice President, NTT, Japan

Name:Keri Gilder

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Colt Technology Services, United Kingdom

Name:Tara Giunta

TitleEtc:Partner; Global Co-Chair, ESG & Sustainable Finance, Paul Hastings LLP, USA

Name:Caroline Griffin Pain

TitleEtc:General Counsel, Colt Technology Services Co., United Kingdom

Name:Nico Grove

TitleEtc:Germany

Name:Marc Halbfinger

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Console Connect, USA

Name:Eric Handa

TitleEtc:Co-Founder & CEO, APTelecom, USA

Name:Mehdi Hasan

TitleEtc:Senior Research Fellow (Digital Healthcare), Integrated Development Foundation, USA

Name:Daniel Hays

TitleEtc:Principal, Strategy&, USA

Name:Christina Higa

TitleEtc:Co-Director, Pacific Basin Telehealth Resource Center, SSRI, University of Hawaii, USA

Name:Jonathan Hjembo

TitleEtc:Senior Manager, TeleGeography, USA

Name:Jonathan Hofeller

TitleEtc:Vice President of Starlink & Commercial Sales, SpaceX, USA

Name:Peter Hopper

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Timothy Horan

TitleEtc:Managing Director, Cloud and Communications Research, Oppenheimer & Co. Inc., USA

Name:Heather Hudson

TitleEtc:Professor Emerita; Former Director, University of San Francisco; ISER, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA

Name:Erwin Hudson

TitleEtc:Vice President, Telesat LEO, Canada

Name:Takuo Imagawa

TitleEtc:Vice Minister for Policy Coordination (International Affairs), Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, Japan, Japan

Name:Ivo Ivanov

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, DE-CIX Management GmbH, Germany

Name:Nicole Karlebach

TitleEtc:Global Head, Business & Human Rights, Verizon, USA

Name:Mo Katibeh

TitleEtc:EVP-Chief Product & Platform Officer, AT&T, USA

Name:Gary Kim

TitleEtc:Principal, IP Carrier, USA

Name:Mike King

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Helmut Kohl

TitleEtc:Managing Director, Helmut Kohl Management GmbH, Germany

Name:Nir Kshetri

TitleEtc:Professor, Bryan School of Business and Economics, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, USA

Name:Sarah Kurtz

TitleEtc:Business Development Manager, NJFX, USA

Name:Ray LaChance

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Shalini Lagrutta

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, DXN Limited, Australia

Name:Thomas Langer

TitleEtc:Managing Director, Kawikani GmbH & Co KG, Germany

Name:Vincent Lanticq

TitleEtc:President & CTO, FEBUS OPTICS, France

Name:Mike Last

TitleEtc:Group Chief Marketing Officer, WIOCC, United Kingdom

Name:Phill Lawson-Shanks

TitleEtc:Chief Innovation & Technology Officer, Aligned Data Centers, USA

Name:Lena Lickteig

TitleEtc:Senior Project Manager, Kapena, Germany

Name:Andy Lipman

TitleEtc:Senior Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, USA

Name:Yali Liu

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Mitch Lowe

TitleEtc:Co-Founding Executive; Former CEO; Former President, Netflix; Moviepass; Redbox, Philippines

Name:Burt Lum

TitleEtc:Broadband Strategy Officer, Hawaii Broadband & Digital Equity Office, State of Hawaii, USA

Name:Mark Lutkowitz

TitleEtc:Principal, FibeReality, LLC, USA

Name:Doug Madory

TitleEtc:Director of Internet Analysis, Kentik, USA

Name:Anthony Maeder

TitleEtc:Professor of Digital Health Systems, College of Nursing & Health Sciences, Flinders University, Australia

Name:Ravindran Mahalingam

TitleEtc:SVP - International Business, HGC Global Communications Limited, Hong Kong SAR China

Name:Brandon Maka'awa'awa

TitleEtc:Deputy Head of State, Pu'uhonua O Waimanalo, Nation of Hawaii, USA

Name:Phillip Marangella

TitleEtc:Chief Marketing Officer, EdgeConneX, USA

Name:Raul Martynek

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Databank Ltd, USA

Name:Tabata Materan

TitleEtc:Strategic Negotiator, Google, USA

Name:Russ Matulich

TitleEtc:Group Chief Executive Officer, RTI Cables, USA

Name:Jon Mauck

TitleEtc:Managing Director & Head of Data Centers Investments, Digital Colony, USA

Name:Alan Mauldin

TitleEtc:Research Director, TeleGeography, USA

Name:David McCall

TitleEtc:Vice President of Innovation, QTS, USA

Name:Nick McKeown

TitleEtc:Professor of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Stanford University, USA

Name:Rob McMahon

TitleEtc:Associate Professor, University of Alberta, Canada

Name:Amar Huzaimi Md Deris

TitleEtc:Malaysia

Name:Ahmed Mekky

TitleEtc:Chairman & CEO, BENYA, Egypt

Name:Regina Sá Menezes

TitleEtc:Partner, Graminho Technologies, Brazil

Name:Kumiko Miyazaki

TitleEtc:Professor, Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, Japan

Name:Gavin Moran

TitleEtc:Sales Operations Director, EllaLink, Ireland

Name:Tony Mosley

TitleEtc:Director of Business Development, Ocean Specialists, Inc., USA

Name:William Norton

TitleEtc:Co-Founder & Chief Technical Liaison, Syntropy, USA

Name:Kristin O'Connor Leung

TitleEtc:Managing Director, GIC Real Estate, USA

Name:Bruce Owen

TitleEtc:VP Employee & Community Impact, Equinix, USA

Name:Nicola Palmer

TitleEtc:Chief Product Development Officer, Verizon Partner Solutions, USA

Name:Patricia Paoletta

TitleEtc:Partner, HWG LLP, USA

Name:Isabelle Paradis

TitleEtc:President & Founder, HOT TELECOM, Canada

Name:Anne Pasek

TitleEtc:Assistant Professor, Trent University, Canada

Name:Manoj Paul

TitleEtc:Managing Director, GPX India Pvt Ltd, India

Name:Milica Pejanovic-Djurišic

TitleEtc:Ambassador of Montenegro To UN, Government of Montenegro, USA

Name:Robert Pepper

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Francis Pereira

TitleEtc:Associate Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA

Name:Yves Pitsch

TitleEtc:Principal Program Manager, Azure Networking, Microsoft, USA

Name:Matthew Prince

TitleEtc:Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare, USA

Name:Bill Radford

TitleEtc:Chief Information Officer, EdgePresence, USA

Name:Emmanuel Rochas

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Orange, France

Name:Elisabetta Romano

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Telecom Italia Sparkle, Italy

Name:Alexis Romero

TitleEtc:Marketing Manager, Serverfarm, USA

Name:Anthony Rossabi

TitleEtc:Founder & Managing Member, OCOLO, USA

Name:Andrew Ruszkowski

TitleEtc:VP, O3b MPOWER Commercial Lead, SES, USA

Name:Jorge Salomão Pereira

TitleEtc:Founder, Graminho Tech, Brazil

Name:Gil Santaliz

TitleEtc:Founder & Chief Executive Officer, NJFX, USA

Name:Eric Schwartz

TitleEtc:Chief Strategy & Development Officer, Equinix, USA

Name:Felix Seda

TitleEtc:General Manager, NJFX, USA

Name:Sobee Shinohara

TitleEtc:Senior Analyst, KDDI / TELEHOUSE, Japan

Name:Braham Singh

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Bevan Slattery

TitleEtc:Founder, SUB.CO/Cloudscene/Megaport/NEXTDC, Australia

Name:Sherrese Smith

TitleEtc:Managing Partner, Paul Hastings LLP, USA

Name:Lynn Smullen

TitleEtc:SVP, NACI Comms, IT & Media, Oracle, USA

Name:Liliana Sousa

TitleEtc:Doctoral Student, University of Aveiro, Portugal

Name:Elaine Stafford

TitleEtc:Managing Partner, DRG Undersea Consulting, USA

Name:Nicole Starosielski

TitleEtc:Professor of Film and Media, University of California, Berkeley, USA

Name:William Stein

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, Digital Realty, USA

Name:Anjali Sugadev

TitleEtc:Law and Policy Lead, Sustainable Subsea Networks, Canada

Name:Han Sun

TitleEtc:Infinera Fellow, Infinera Corporation, Canada

Name:Carol Tate

TitleEtc:Associate General Counsel & Director of Ethics and Legal Compliance, Intel Corporation, USA

Name:Richard Taylor

TitleEtc:Palmer Chair & Professor, Telecommunications Studies Emeritus, The Pennsylvania State University, USA

Name:Diego Riccardo Teot

TitleEtc:Head of International BU, Retelit, Italy

Name:Mark Thiele

TitleEtc:CEO & Founder, Edgevana, USA

Name:Lynsey Thomas

TitleEtc:United Kingdom

Name:Peter Van Burgel

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, AMS-IX, Netherlands

Name:Hunter Vaughan

TitleEtc:Senior Research Associate, Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy, University of Cambridge, USA

Name:Alex Vaxmonsky

TitleEtc:Chief Executive Officer, EdgeComms, USA

Name:John Veizades

TitleEtc:USA

Name:Jefferson Wang

TitleEtc:Global 5G Strategy Lead, Accenture, USA

Name:Joe Weinman

TitleEtc:Founder & Principal, XFORMA LLC, USA

Name:Nathan White

TitleEtc:VP & GM, Peraton Communications, Peraton, USA

Name:Atsushi Yamanaka

TitleEtc:Professor & Chief Advisor, JICA Rwanda ICT Innovation Ecosystem Strengthening Project, USA

Name:Yang Yang

TitleEtc:Director & Professor, SHIFT, School of Information Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Peoples Republic of China

Name:Catherine Yang

TitleEtc:Group Head of Corporate Communications, PLDT, Inc., Philippines

Name:Nami Yonetani

TitleEtc:Chief Researcher, Foundation for Multimedia Communications, Japan

Name:Garret Yoshimi

TitleEtc:Vice President for IT & CIO, University of Hawaii, USA

Name:Fei Yuan

TitleEtc:Assistant Professor, College of Economics and Management, Beijing University of Technology, Peoples Republic of China

Name:Moinul Zaber

TitleEtc:Professor and Senior Academic Fellow, University of Dhaka and United Nations University, Portugal

Name:Wen Zheng

TitleEtc:Assistant Professor, School of Entrepreneurship & Management, ShanghaiTech University, Peoples Republic of China

Region	Member Details
Southeast and South Asia For-Profit	William “Bill” Barney, Chairman, Asian Century Equity, Hong Kong SAR China
East Asia For-Profit	Sean Bergin, Co-Founder & President, APTelecom, Thailand
Oceania For-Profit	Laurie Miller, President & CEO, Southern Cross Cable Network, Bermuda
Middle East and Africa For-Profit	Cengiz Oztelcan, Chief Executive Officer, Gulf Bridge International (GBI), Qatar
Europe For-Profit	Mike Sauer, Vice President Americas, Aqua Comms, Ireland

Region	Member Details
Southeast and South Asia For-Profit	Paul Abfalter, Chief Strategy & Revenue Officer, Global Cloud Xchange, Hong Kong SAR China
Individual	Heather Hudson, Professor Emerita; Former Director University of San Francisco; ISER, University of Alaska Anchorage, USA
Oceania For-Profit	Paul McCann, Managing Director, McCann Consulting International, Australia
Global Non-Profit	Masaaki Sakamaki, Vice Chair, PTC Japan, Japan
North America For-Profit	Lynn Smullen, SVP, NACI Communications, IT & Media, Oracle, USA

Region	Member Details
Central & South America For-Profit	Tito Costa, Chief Revenue Officer, Elea Digital São Paulo, Brazil
Europe For-Profit	Isabelle Paradis, Co-Founder & President, HOT TELECOM, Canada
North America For-Profit	Robert Pepper, Head of Global Connectivity Policy and Planning, Meta, USA
Oceania For-Profit	Brian Tellam, Partner, Cornerstone Capital Partners, Australia

Region	Member Details
East Asia For-Profit	Brandon Amber, Managing Director, Palladium Partners, Hong Kong SAR China
Individual Member	Thomas “Tom” Cooper, USA [Retired Professor, Visual & Media Arts, Emerson College]
Oceania For-Profit	Mark Dando, Chief Executive Officer, Rabbit and Lion Pty Ltd, Australia
Southeast and South Asia For-Profit	John Garrett, EVP Sales, South Asia, Xenith IG Singapore Pte Ltd., Singapore
Europe For-Profit	Nico Grove, Managing Director & Co-Founder, Kawikani GmbH & Co KG, Germany
East Asia For-Profit	Heng Lu, Chief Executive Officer, LARUS Limited, Hong Kong SAR China
North America For-Profit	Patricia “Tricia” Paoletta, Partner, HWG LLP, USA
Global Non-Profit	Francis Pereira, Associate Professor, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California, USA
North America For-Profit	Nakul Rege, Chief Growth Officer, Bankai Group, USA
Appointed (15 December 2020)	Alex Vaxmonsky, Chief Executive Officer EdgeComms, USA
East Asia For-Profit	Joe Zhu, Founder & CEO, Zenlayer, USA

Region	Member Details
Appointed (25 August 2022)	Naaz Bax, Senior Partner & Chief of Staff, Cambridge Management Consulting Ltd, United Kingdom
Appointed (18 May 2023)	Linda Cham, Vice President, Roaming and Mobility, Console Connect, Hong Kong SAR China
East Asia For-Profit	Ricky Chau, Chief Strategy & Customer Officer, CBC Tech, Hong Kong SAR China
North America For-Profit	Robert Crinks, President, 89Degree Networks, LLC, USA
North America For-Profit	Mohammed Elagazy, President & CEO, CPS Services, Inc. USA
Appointed (6 September 2023)	Faye Henris, Executive Vice President, Business Analytics, TEOCO Corporation, USA
North America For-Profit	Gary Kim, Principal, IP Carrier, USA
Appointed (20 January 2024)	Tim Logue, Principal, TJLNova Consulting, USA
East Asia For-Profit	Yali Liu, USA
Appointed (22 March 2022)	Stacie Loidolt, Vice President of Product Management, Aqua Comms, USA
Appointed (18 May 2023)	Genevieve Maltais-Boisvert, Managing Director, DigitalBridge Group, USA
Oceania For-Profit	David Osita Mba, General Manager ICT, Cloud & Data Centre Business, PNG DataCo Limited, Papua New Guinea
Appointed (18 January 2023)	Michael McHale, President, Quintillion, USA
Appointed (21 June 2022)	Shannon McMann, USA
Appointed (29 June 2021)	Robert Mitchell, Global Director – Network Master Planning, Microsoft, USA
Appointed (18 January 2023)	Emily Newman, Marketing & PR Manager, NJFX, USA
Global Non-Profit	Vivien Paris, Director, Larus Foundation, Hong Kong SAR China
Appointed (25 August 2022)	J. S. Solomon, Director of Financial Markets, EXA Infrastructure, USA
Europe For-Profit	Diego Ricardo Teot, Head of International BU, Retelit, Italy
Oceania For-Profit	Andrew Tierney, International Key Account Director, Odine, United Kingdom

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