Enterprise Advisory Council

Olga L. Aparicio

Senior Principal,
Noblis

Olga has more than 25 years of experience in telecommunications. Her experience expands the entire life cycle of Telecommunications Products. She has supported multiple carriers and Government Agencies on the development of products and services to include conception, acquisition, deployment and on-going operations. Olga’s next phase was devoted to work for a global carrier, Cable & Wireless, in the Network Strategy Group defining the architecture for the C&W global optical network. During her tenure she represented C&W in standards organizations, most prominently at the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) where she served in the Board of Directors in 2003. She contributed into the OIF, IETF and other organizations bringing the carriers’ perspective. For the past 15 years, Olga has worked as a Senior Principal Engineer at Noblis. Her responsibilities have included participation at Inter-Agency Working groups furthering adoption of IPv6, Trusted Internet Connections (TIC) and other government mandates and initiatives. She is responsible to develop network requirements, new architectures and introduction of new technologies in Government Enterprise networks. Currently, she serves as the Principal Investigator of Network Virtualization technologies at Noblis where she has led the building of fully virtualized SDN lab. Her efforts are placed on trying to advance the adoption of SDN. NFV, SD-WAN technologies by the US Government Agencies.

David Asselot

Network Architect,
Ubisoft

I’ve been a network engineer for 10 years, working most of this time as a consultant for multiple international groups, and I joined the Ubisoft adventure a year ago!

Jonathan Beasley

Principal Architect,
Refinitiv

Jon gained his degree in Electronic Computer Systems in 1995. Since then he has worked extensively in the network communications field, working for Service Providers and large Enterprises, clocking up 20 years of experience. In 2012 Jon joined the Finance and Risk business unit of Thomson Reuters, now known as Refinitiv. Before Refinitiv Jon worked as a Design Engineer for Radianz, a global network service provider, and then British Telecom where he helped to design low latency networks for the London finance community. He currently holds the position of Principal Architect at Refinitiv with responsibility for the architecture and strategic direction of the Wide-Area and Client Distribution networks. Jon has also participated in several forums at the network industry level and is currently a member of the Enterprise Advisory Council of the Metro Ethernet Forum. Jon enjoys designing and writing software systems and is constantly looking for ways in which automation and orchestration can be leveraged to increase the agility of networking and connectivity services within the enterprise.

Léa Benayoun

Network Architect,
Ubisoft

Building networks for more than 15 years, I’ve started as a network engineer in Ubisoft 6 years ago.

I’m now mostly taking care of Ubisoft WAN network challenges, present and future! Gaming FTW!

Hugo A. Bonuccelli

Senior Manager,
Noblis

Hugo has more than 35 years of experience in telecommunications. He spent 14 years in international-facing organizations at AT&T/Lucent Bell Laboratories, where his responsibilities included market forecasting, network planning, requirements development, and ultimately product management for a best-in-class carrier grade product deployed in more than 30 countries under his leadership. For the past 21 years, Hugo has served as a Senior Manager at Noblis, helping U.S. Government agencies to architect and acquire telecommunications and networking services, solutions and programs. He currently advises agencies on network modernization and adoption of SD-WAN, and serves as advisor and mentor to Noblis Centers of Excellence (CoEs) in Telecommunications, Acquisition, Systems Engineering and Economic Analysis for Decision Support.

Raj Channa

Director,
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets

Raj Channa has spent over 20 years in the capital markets and banking industry leading and managing various technology roles. He is currently with RBC as head of Technology Strategy and Research within Infrastructure, where he and his team are utilizing emerging technologies to drive business value through innovation. Raj joined RBC in 2011. Prior to joining RBC, Raj spent 15 years at Credit Suisse and over 2 years at Lehman Brothers.

John Downs

Global Telecommunications & Infrastructure Manager,
Bloomberg

Matt Duniam

Network Architect, Strategic Sourcing Department of Customer Service,
NSW Government

Kevin Gallo

Director of the Technical Account Management Division,
GSA

Kevin Gallo is the Director of the Technical Account Management Division in the Office of Enterprise Technology Solutions at the General Services Administration. His activities entail providing solutions engineering advice and assistance to federal agencies, promoting network modernization, facilitating contract transition, and leading strategic planning efforts. His division is the technical and customer lead for the multi-billion-dollar Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) program, the lead for managed networking and cybersecurity, and the program manager for Commercial SATCOM and Enterprise Mobility services. He has many years of experience in managing satellite systems and terrestrial network development and operations.

Before coming to GSA, he was a senior communications engineer and project manager with SRC, Northrop Grumman, and TRW, where he engineered systems for the National Reconnaissance Office, the Defense Information Systems Agency, and other government agencies. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy, piloting the H-53 helicopter. He received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California, and an M.B.A. degree from the University of Maryland.

Manish Gupta

Chief Architect of Enterprise Infrastructure,
Intuit

Manish K Gupta is Chief Infrastructure Architect with Intuit Inc. In his current role, Manish manages enterprise architectures, responsible for defining its roadmaps, strategies for future investments in technologies and growing Intuit’s enterprise Infrastructure to Industry standards. His key focus areas are SDN (Software Defined Networking), multi-tiered Cloud, Data Center, NFV, and Operational excellence via DevOps Before joining Cisco, Manish held various technical leadership positions within Fortune 500 companies such as Cisco, Qualcomm, Ericsson & Fujitsu.

Bill Martin

Chief Information Officer,
AEG

Strategic leader responsible for overall digital strategy that connects the many businesses in the AEG Worldwide portfolio. The many businesses include sports and entertainment venues (such as the Staples Center in Los Angeles and the Barclays Center in New York), professional sports teams across many leagues, as well as live entertainment productions for television, concert tours, music festivals and more. The digital strategy includes responsibility for centers of excellence for venue and event technology, business intelligence, data governance, and data security across all businesses, as well as corporate technology support.

Patrick Pyles

Head of Telecoms Engineering & Architecture,
DHL

Patrick has 23 years in Networking, UCC and Security. Engineering and Architecture background – both as an engineer and in various leadership roles. Before coming to DHL, spent 13 years in specialty retail – Ascena and Abercombie & Fitch.

Currently Head of Telecoms Architecture & Engineering which includes the following global teams:

• Network and Security Architecture
• Network Engineering
• Secure Access Engineering
• PKI Services
• Married with 2 young boys – 3 and 8 months
• Residing in Sunbury, Ohio

Shafeeq Shaikh

Director Tech, Global Network Architecture,
PWC

Shafeeq Shaikh has over 20 years of experience in the IT industry with a focus on Network Strategy, Roadmaps, Architecture and designs with Fortune 100 companies including Enterprises and Service Providers. He is focused on leading and driving teams to develop scalable network architectures to support business requirements. In his previous role at GE, Shafeeq has been developing and driving Internet-First/Off-Net strategy, SDWAN designs, Open SD-DC with integration to Cloud Networks for intent-based programmable outcomes, IoT Network integration, along with SDN and Network Automation & Orchestration vision. He conducted and participated in multiple ONUG sessions in 2017 related to these topics. Currently, Shafeeq continues to focus on digital transformation in the industry through the best use of these technologies.

Gert Vanderstraeten

Network Architect,
Microsoft's IT Network Infrastructure Services (CCE)

Gert is a Network Architect in Microsoft’s IT Network Infrastructure Services (CCE). His main responsibility is development of strategy for improving the interaction between the network infrastructure and real-time services that are relying on it. He focuses on providing the right user-experience while increasing efficiency and agility by exploring technologies like SDN and NFV, keeping cloud and mobility as a strategic direction in mind.

Prior to Microsoft Gert worked 16 years at Cisco as a Technical Leader and member of technical staff. He has 20 years of experience with troubleshooting, implementing, designing and architecting collaboration solutions while guiding the largest global enterprise customers from legacy communication systems towards full IP environments.

Gert received a Master’s degree in Engineering from the U-Hasselt University, Belgium and a Master in Management from the KU Leuven University, Belgium. He holds an active CCIE in the Collaboration track, obtained VMware certification (VCP-DCV) and is a Master ASE (Accredited Systems Engineer) – Network Infrastructure from HP.

Mohammed O. Zaatari

Senior Principal,
Noblis

Mohammed is a telecommunications professional with strong system engineering experience with more than 30 years in development and operations of complex wireline and wireless telecommunications networks, and environmental satellite systems ground systems. Demonstrated talent for taking a concept from the idea stage to operational deployment. Integrates well across functional lines and from the top to the bottom of the hierarchy. Successfully designed and implemented solutions for domestic and global satellite missions and broadband networks. Most recently, he served as the network architect for the Noblis SDN Lab.