MEF Committees

Sean Chen

Director, Wholesale Technology and Operations,
Rogers Wholesale Solutions

Sean Chen is the Director of Wholesale Technology and Operations at Rogers, responsible for leading the Solution Architect, Account Consultant and Automation team.

Sean has over 20+ years in telecommunication industry with experience spanning from Sales, Product management, Solution design and Operations.

His focus on customer first philosophy and passion for improving efficiency on customer life cycle management has led him to initiate the development of LSO Sonata API for inter-carrier sales with the goal to reduce quote turn around time and increase serviceability accuracy.

Sean is an avid martial art practitioner and holds a purple belt in Brazilian Jujitsu.

Mohit Manral

Group Product Manager,
Colt

Mohit is a product leader with 12+ years of product management experience in creating and managing digital, telecom and cloud product offering. Currently, he is leading and influencing product ideation, incubation, scale-up, go to market strategy, launch and success roadmap for products in IP portfolio (IP-VPN, SD-WAN, IP Access, uCPE, Edge Cloud, NFV Infrastructure, Multi-cloud etc) for Colt.

Mohit has been actively working and shaping how telco industry leads the digital transformation for the enterprise networking. He has been working with Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) since the on-set of the technology. He has also helped opinion formation in various Industry forums, analyst groups and other standardization bodies like ETSI for NFV specifications. He has been contributing to MEF Internet Access Services incubation group by defining requirements and sharing business expertise on changing landscape of Internet services & standardization.

Laurent Sevette

Senior Director Architecture and Engineering,
Lumen

Laurent Sevette is the Senior Director of Network Architecture in EMEA, responsible for leading the network technology team spanning Optical, Ethernet, IP and Voice technology domains. In addition, he is responsible for the full technology lifecycle from selection through to in-life management, optimisation and rationalisation.

Laurent has a wealth of industry knowledge, having spent over 20 years in the telecoms sector. He has a long-standing relationship with MEF and is co-chair of the LSO committee which allows him to be at the forefront of industry developments and how they will shape the future of network orchestration and automation for enterprise customers. He is passionate about the standardisation of enterprise IT architecture adopting MEF 3.0 LSO APIs, that speed up innovation of MEF certified assured and automated services.

Michał Łączyński

Solution Architect,
Amartus

Jeremy Villalobos

Chief Operating Officer,
Orchest Technologies

Jeremy Villalobos is the Chief Operating Officer and Board Member of Orchest Technologies. He was recently recognized in the Top 100 must influential people in the Wholesale and ICT community by Capacity Media. He led the creation of the LatamConnect platform and the feasibility analysis algorithm. He has served in several key capacities for various telco organizations building and succeeding new business units, including construction of top tier Data Centers, deployment of multiple Cloud Computing platforms and expansion of new strategic Network Infrastructure throughout Latin America. Today, he also serves in the Board of Advisor of Stetson University in the Graduate Disruptive Leadership Program and was recently appointed Co-Chair for the MEF LSO (Lifecycle Services Orchestration) Committee to develop LSO API standards.

Karthik Sethuraman

Advisory Co-Chair,
MEF

Karthik Sethuraman was a Principal Software Architect at NEC/Netcracker and a member of the 5G/6G technology strategy team in Service Provider Solutions Division, primarily involved in setting direction for Service Management and Orchestration (SMO) and SDN Control systems. He has extensive experience in architecting, designing and hands-on coding of control and management software systems, and in applying software development lifecycle processes and best-practices as the team transitioned from traditional waterfall development process to a sprint-based agile workflow. As an advisory co-chair of the MEF LSO (Lifecycle Services Orchestration) Committee, he is actively involved in LSO APIs standards development and a technical contributor. Karthik also leads the ONF Transport API (TAPI) project, is a TST member of ONF Open Transport Configuration & Control (OTCC) and Open Information Model & Tools (OIMT) projects. Karthik has a degree in Computer Science and spent his early career in AI systems research.