Introducing the MEF Enterprise Advisor Council (EAC)

Extending MEF’s collaborative community into the enterprise to accelerate the industry’s digital transformation.

A collaborative council of leading enterprises strengthening MEF’s role as trusted advisor for the industry’s digital transformation.

Interested in joining the council? Contact manager@mef.net

Drive Adoption

MEF 3.0 services for cloud delivery of enterprise SaaS applications.

Explore LSO

Automate on-premise elements of assured MEF 3.0 services.

Advise

the

Service provider & technology supplier communities.

Founding Members

from

Principal Architect
Refinitiv

Head of Network Architecture
DHL

Network Architect
Ubisoft

Director
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Capital Markets

John Downs

Global Telecommunications & Infrastructure Manager
Bloomberg

Chief Architect of Enterprise Infrastructure
Intuit

Director Tech, Global Network Architecture
PWC

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

Network Architect
Ubisoft

Together we will

Remove confusion surrounding disruptive technologies (e.g. SDN/NFV)
Align the enterprises’ digital transformation amidst open source & in-house development
Provide vendor-neutral input & collaboration
Mitigate skill gaps

Our rapidly evolving market is based on disruptive technologies like SDN, SD-WAN, and NFV, making it more essential to strengthen the channels of communication between enterprises, service providers, and vendors in order to rapidly provide information and feedback between them on business requirements and use cases,” said Nan Chen, president at MEF. “The MEF EAC brings representatives of the very important enterprise stakeholder group into direct collaborative and real-time engagement opportunities with MEF’s 120+ service provider community, as well as 60+ vendor community. The council will collaborate with MEF and extend our reach to incorporate this critical element of the ecosystem and establish MEF as the enterprise’s trusted advisor in digital transformation.

Digital transformation is happening at every layer of the network, impacting how services are created, delivered, monetized, and consumed,” said Gert Vanderstraeten, network architect, Microsoft's IT Network Infrastructure Services (CCE). “MEF is creating the framework for how automated networks will interoperate, bringing together the brightest minds from the enterprise, service provider, and vendor communities.