Juniper Service Provider Council
Agenda: October 4, 2023 Speaker Topic Duration
October 4, 2023 – Versailles Room – 2nd Floor
7:00-9:00am Breakfast
9:00-9:15am Introductions, Objectives, Rules of Engagement
9:15-9:25am Welcome
9:25-9:55am Juniper PoV: Simplifying Operations and Increasing Efficiencies with Automation
9:55-10:30am
BT PoV: Key Strategic Priorities and Challenges for Accelerating Automated Transformation
Sally Bament, VP, Juniper Networks
Rami Rahim, CEO, Juniper Networks
AE Natarajan, GM, Automated WAN, Juniper Networks
Guest Speaker: Alex Bogdanov, Network Architect, BT
10:45-11:45am Moderated Roundtable: Priorities of Automation in Operational Transformation
11:45-12:00pm Group Photo
Kevin Hutchins, SVP, Strategy & Corp. Development, Juniper Networks 12:00-1:15pm Lunch
1:15-2:45pm Interactive Roundtable Unleashing the Potential of NextGeneration Infrastructure: Sustainability, Future-proofing, Resiliency & Innovations
2:45-3:00pm Break
3:00-4:00pm Moderated Roundtable: Maximizing Future Revenue Streams by Unlocking the Potential of Network Infrastructure
4:00-4:30pm Closing Remarks and Feedback
6:30pm Cocktails & Dinner: Fountainebleau Room – 2nd Floor
AE Natarajan, GM, Automated WAN, Juniper Networks
Guest Speaker: Cayetano Carbajo, Director, Core, Transport & Service Platforms, Telefonica
Neil McRae, Chief Network Strategist, Juniper Networks
10:30-10:45am Break Driven by
Raj Yavatkar, CTO, Juniper Networks
7:00-8:30am Breakfast
8:30-8:40am Introductions, Objectives, Rules of Engagement
Agenda: October 5, 2023
Sally Bament, VP, Juniper Networks
8:40-8:50am Welcome Rami Rahim, CEO, Juniper Networks
8:50-9:10am Juniper PoV: The Role of AIOps in the Success of Managed Services
9:10-10:10am ServiceNow: Best Practices for End-to-End Automation
Break
Sudheer Matta, GVP, Products, Juniper Networks
External Speaker: Chris Holmes, Global AVP Telecommunications & Media, ServiceNow
10:25-11:25am Moderated Roundtable: The Role of AIOps in the Success of Managed Services
11:25-11:35am Group Photo
Sudheer Matta, GVP, Products, Juniper Networks 11:35-1:00pm Lunch
1:00-1:20pm Juniper PoV: Driving Business Outcomes with Adjacent Technologies
1:20-2:00pm Savant: Building an Efficient Dashboard for Managed Services
2:00-3:00pm Moderated Roundtable: Driving Business Outcomes with Adjacent Technologies
3:00-3:10pm Break
3:10-3:25pm Juniper PoV: Maximizing Operational Efficiencies with NaaS
3:25-4:25pm Moderated Roundtable: Maximizing Operational Efficiencies with NaaS
4:25-4:40pm Closing Remarks and Feedback
6:30pm Cocktails & Dinner - Library – 2nd Floor
Sudheer Matta, GVP, Products, Juniper Networks
External Speaker: Aaron Gutin, Product Category Director –Networking & Security, Savant
Kevin Hutchins, SVP, Strategy & Corp. Development, Juniper Networks
Sudheer Matta, GVP, Products, Juniper Networks
Raj Yavatkar, CTO, Juniper Networks
Raj Yavatkar, CTO, Juniper Networks
Alex Bogdanov, Speaker: Automated Infrastructure Session
Distinguished Engineer and Architect, BT
Guest Speaker
Alex Bogdanov serves as a Distinguished Engineer and Architect at BT. Prior to BT, he spent six years at Google. He has also held various roles at Verizon where he was part of a wireless headquarters planning and architecture team responsible for developing the architecture for the Evolved Packet Core (EPC). Previous to Verizon, he held positions at Cable & Wireless Worldwide determining technology solutions required to provide marketleading service to the largest accounts in the business.
Alex holds a bachelor’s in computer engineering and a master’s in communications systems Engineering from the University of Portsmouth (UK).
Cayetano Carbajo, Speaker: Automated Infrastructure Session, Director, Core, Transport and Service Platforms, Telefónica
Cayetano Carbajo is a Telecommunication Engineer degreed by Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 1995, just after university, he joined Telefónica Móviles Spain as a radio engineer. After working in the radio engineering department, Cayetano was appointed manager for international projects for Telefónica Móviles.
In 2000, he moved to Morocco where he was responsible for the network deployment of Medi Telecom. In June 2001, he became radio access director in the Telefónica Móviles Corporate unit.
In January 2003, he joined Telefónica Móviles México as the CTO. In this exciting challenge, he served until May 2006 when he joined Telefónica SA as Technology Director. In October 2014, he was appointed Telefónica Deutschland CTO. In this position he is responsible for deploying the network, implementing the services and assuring that Telefónica Deutschland customers receive excellent service. He faced the most challenging roll out project in the industry with a fast LTE deployment while dealing with the synergies due to the consolidation of Telefónica and Eplus networks.
Since November 2019, Cayetano has served as the Director for Core, Transport and Service Platforms in the Global CTIO unit of Telefónica where he is pushing the transformation of Telefónica networks.
Cayetano Carbajo was born 53 years ago in Cáceres (Spain); he is married and has two children - 18 and 14 years old.
Chris Holmes Speaker: Managed Business Services Session
Global AVP Telecommunications & Media, ServiceNow
Chris has more than 25 years of Telecommunications Industry experience gained from working in, and supporting, many global telecommunications providers. In ServiceNow he leads the Telecommunications Industry globally – working alongside telecommunications customers and strategic partners to maximize the value customers derive from Telecommunication solutions.
Prior to joining ServiceNow, Chris held senior roles in both Vodafone UK B2B and Vodafone Business Group where he was responsible for Service Management of the Multi-National Corporate customer base, and latterly Digital Transformation of the Care and Assurance domain; driving customer satisfaction and efficiency. Prior to Vodafone, Chris was the Global Director for Consulting & Systems Integration in Nokia Siemens Networks, working closely with Communications Providers around the world on Network and Service transformations. Chris started his career at Accenture where he focused on large scale OSS/BSS transformations in the CHT industry group.
Chris has the unique experience of being a ServiceNow customer, leading a large-scale successful transformation using the NOW platform. Chris has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electronic Engineering & Physics from Loughborough University in the UK.
Aaron Gutin Speaker: Managed Business Services Session
Product Category Director, Networking & Security, Savant
Aaron Gutin currently serves as a Product Category Director for Networking & Security at Savant.
He has been a consumer electronics industry executive with a track record of success in the smart home, audio/video, Information Technology, and specialty high-performance audio market segments for over two decades. In addition to designing, programming, and managing the sales and installation of smart home and entertainment systems of all magnitudes, Aaron has also devoted much time to business development, executive management, showroom design, product marketing and branding.
Jhonatan Almaraz, born in Mexico, moved to Cincinnati in December of 2011. He has been at CBTS for over 11 years serving in multiple engineering roles. He currently is the Director of Secure Networking responsible for the architecture/design, implementation, and support of the CBTS NaaS, SD-WAN & SaaS portfolio. He has also had responsibility over the Manage Services organization.
Almaraz served as member of the Patient Family Member Advisory Board at The Christ Hospital – Family Medicine working to improve the overall patient care. He is also involved with the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce and recently graduated from C-Change class 17 leadership program working on a project with Strategies to End Homelessness in Cincinnati. He is currently a member of the Vox Futura group with the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce.
Almaraz achieved a B.S in Electronic and Communications Engineering degree from the Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon.
Luc Boivin Director, Solutions Architect, Verizon BusinessLuc Boivin is Director of Solutions Architecture for Verizon Business Group. He leads a team of technology architects with deep expertise in software-defined networks, secure cloud networks, cybersecurity, collaboration technologies and contact centers. Luc and his team consult broadly with key enterprise clients to help define their infrastructure strategies and transformation roadmaps. Luc has been deeply involved in several outsourcing projects with Verizon customers.
Luc spent his career at the forefront of technology. He started in research at M. I. T. and Bell Labs. He held product development and management leadership positions with a successful start-up and at Ciena. He has been consulting with large enterprise clients at Verizon since 2006. He holds several U.S. patents and maintains active professional certifications including CISSP, TOGAF and ITIL.
Darren Bono is an experienced, dependable professional with over twenty years of experience in Service Provider (SP) telecommunications. In his current role, Darren leads a Network Engineering team at Intelsat - a global satellite telecommunications providerresponsible for architecture, design, implementation, automation, and operation of a global network spanning Core, Edge, & Data Center environments across IP Engineering, Media Engineering, and Network Reliability Engineering disciplines.
Facundo Castro is CEO of Cirion Technologies, a leading provider of digital infrastructure and technology. Facundo joined the company in 1998, where he held several key roles in many functions across the LATAM business. At Lumen Latin America, he was CFO for more than 10 years, and was named Regional President, before the company became Cirion Technologies. He also served as Head of Corporate Finance, VP of Planning and Control, and Regional CFO for CenturyLink, Level 3 and Global Crossing in Latin America. He also played a leading role in multiple capital market transactions, including several high yield offerings, as well as Impsat’s IPO in February 2000.
Facundo also led the Human Resources organization between 2007 and 2009 and the organization of Service Delivery between 2019 and 2021.
He also held a variety of management positions in Palmar, a leading brick manufacturer in Argentina, and at ECCO, an emergency medical company in Cordoba. Likewise, he worked as an Analyst at Fundación Mediterránea, an Argentinean Think Tank.
Facundo Castro holds a Certified Public Accountant degree from the National University of Cordoba, Argentina, and an MBA from Columbia Business School where he graduated with honors. He is fluent in English and Spanish.
Larry Dexter leads the Atlanta-based Network & Cox Business (CB) Services and Service Assurance teams and has been in this role since late 2019. His team’s responsibilities include the Sustaining Engineering support for Voice Engineering, Backbone & Metro Engineering, and CB Engineering. He also leads the Service Assurance team which includes the Network Operations Center along with Managed Services support.
Prior to this, Larry was the Field Engineering & Operations VP in the Southeast Region from 2017 to 2019 and in the Central Region (Midwest) starting in 2008 until his move to the SER. He started with Cox in 2002, focusing on the development and management of the Cox national backbone. Prior to Cox, Larry worked at BellSouth and Sprint in various network and capacity management roles. He proudly spent 8 years in the US Navy as a Naval Aviator before embarking on his telecommunications career. Larry has a bachelor’s degree from Florida State University and master’s from Boston University.
Bradley Frye Network Architect, US Signal
With over 25 years of experience in the Service Provider space, across multiple roles, Bradley Frye now serves as a network architect at US Signal in Grand Rapids, MI. In his previous role with Segra Communications, he was a Senior Director of Network Engineering and Planning. Frye was responsible for the company’s network expansion efforts across the Southeast. He is passionate about innovation and technology and always eager to learn new skills. He holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of South Carolina School of Engineering.
Max Gasparroni
VP, Mobile Core & Cloud, Liberty Global
Max is VP in the Mobile Core & Strategic Programme in Liberty Global. In his role he is responsible for driving Liberty Global business in the areas of 5G core, transmission, edge computing, strategic initiatives in mobile infrastructure, development and deployment network monetization initiatives like NaaS – including the technical and commercial enablers – as well as accelerating data/AI adoption in the mobile network areas to improve all the network lifecycle stages.
Previous to LG, Max was at Vodafone for 20 years where he held several roles across mobile and fixed networks as head of networks and CTO covering strategy, planning, deployment and operations, as well as network technology roadmap and supplier selection, 4G standards development, Merging & Acquisition, large technology integration programmes and business development. His last role in Vodafone was Head of Vodafone Business Technology Solutions for 8 European markets covering the deployment and operations of fixed complex business enterprise products such as IP-VPN, SD-WAN/LAN, IoT, cyber security and cloud services to SoHo, SME, and corporate customers.
Prior to Vodafone, he held positions in Motorola and Research/Web consultancy companies.
Vice President, Network Engineering, NTT Global Networks
Mujahid Khan is a seasoned network professional with over 25 years in the networking industry. He has been at NTT Global Networks since 2013 and currently serves as the Vice President of Network Engineering. Prior to NTT, he held various management and engineering roles at Sprint for 18 years. Before Sprint, he was a network engineer at UUNET.
Khan holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from NED University of Engineering and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from George Mason University.
Steve Nocella joined Charter Communications in 2016 and currently holds the position of Senior Vice President Network Operations and Engineering for Spectrum Enterprise. Steve is responsible for the planning, design, implementation, and management of the fiber access network, which provides data, voice, and video services to Enterprise customers. Steve has 30 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, primarily focused in engineering, technology, and operations. He joined Spectrum Enterprise from Cisco Systems, where he served as the Service Delivery Executive/General Manager for the North American Cable sector. Steve holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Rutgers University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Costa Pantazopoulos
Vice President, Product, Bell Canada
Costa Pantazopoulos is the recently appointed Vice President of Product for Bell Business Markets, leading the management and development of Bell’s Enterprise Solutions practice. With Bell since 2008, Costa has held increasingly senior leadership roles across the company. He was most recently Vice President of Field Services, Operational Support, where he supported Bell’s data provisioning and service assurance functions amongst several other accountabilities.
Costa holds a Bachelor of Engineering, Computer Engineering degree from McGill University in Montréal, and an MBA from the University of Vermont.
Costa is based in Montréal where he lives with his family.
Since July 2021, Gerardo Rios has been leading Liberty Latin America as Sr. Transport Director. Gerado joined Liberty Latin America on December 2015, as Head of Transmission and MPLS for the region. Gerardo manages IP cross functional teams of about 100 employees including IP Network design, operations, and implementation.
Gerardo is an experienced telecommunications professional with a bachelor’s degree in Electromechanical Engineering and major in Telecommunications. Gerardo has thorough networking architecture design, implementation, operations management, and support experience. Gerardo also has a solid background in high-speed optical transport networks and project management. He is responsible for network platforms, across the Company’s footprint.
Asit Tandon
Vice President, Network Technology, Rogers CommunicationsAsit is a Telecom professional with over 30 years of experience in the areas of Planning, Engineering, Deployment and Operations of Telecom Networks. He is presently working as the Vice President, Network Technology at Rogers Communications and is responsible for Technology development, Design & Engineering and Operations of Wireline Access and Core Networks. He has been in Rogers for the last 3 and a half years in various roles namely, Head of Network & Service Operations, Head of Network Development and Core Engineering and Head of Wireline Network Engineering.
Before joining Rogers, Asit worked for Hutchison, Indonesia in Jakarta. He was responsible for the entire Network Operations including Technical Operations, Contract Governance, Business Support and Field Services Organization. During his assignment in Hutch, Indonesia, Asit wrote and presented a paper on Intelligent Automation in Network Operations at a User meeting of many operators from Europe and Asia. The paper talked about the use of AI and ML in predictive network operations.
Asit also worked in various capacities in the then largest operator in India, Bharti Airtel Ltd. where he held various Senior Leadership positions in the Network Services Group. Prior to Airtel, Asit worked at Siemens Ltd. for 15 years where he was responsible for providing Technical Services to operators. During his tenure in Siemens, he worked extensively on the Siemens Switching system EWSD, in several overseas assignments.
Adam serves as Granite’s Vice President of Technology, responsible for new product ideation, innovation, automation and service provider network and security architecture. Adam is responsible for Granite’s North American SP network with over 20 unique peering points and multi-region connections to public and private cloud providers.
Creating positive user experiences by blending modern software and flexible hardware capabilities, Adam and team have launched three products in the last two years that are deployed at over 30,000 enterprise customer locations. These products are focused on virtualized network functionality, service chaining, zero trust security and AIOps troubleshooting and service restoration -- including power control. Adam has successfully designed and implemented virtualized edge deployments for many years, including a >12,000 location enterprise network.
In his spare time, he likes to develop personal ML projects and competes in triathlons.
Rami Rahim
Chief Executive Officer, Juniper Networks
Rami Rahim is Chief Executive Officer of Juniper Networks and a member of the company’s Board of Directors. Rami was appointed CEO in November 2014.
Rami began his Juniper career in early 1997, as employee No. 32, and worked as an engineer on Juniper’s first breakthrough product, the M40 core router. Rami has progressed through a series of technical and leadership roles at Juniper, applying his engineering acumen to the design and development of Juniper’s industry-leading product portfolio.
He most recently served as Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Juniper Development and Innovation (JDI) organization, overseeing the company’s entire product and technology portfolio. His responsibilities included driving strategy, development and business growth for routing, switching, security, silicon technology, and the Junos operating system.
Other leadership positions held over the years include: Executive Vice President and General Manager of Platform Systems Division for routing and switching, Senior Vice President of the Edge and Aggregation Business Unit (EABU), and Vice President and General Manager of EABU. Rami earned a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Toronto and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. He completed an intensive six-week executive program at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. Rahim holds 20 U.S. Patents in networking technologies and is a member of IEEE.
Raj Yavatkar Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer, Juniper NetworksRaj Yavatkar is Chief Technology Officer and is responsible for charting Juniper’s technology strategy. He leads and executes the company’s critical innovations and products for intelligent self-driving networks, security, Mobile Edge Cloud, network virtualization, packet-optical integration, and hybrid cloud.
A technology and products pioneer throughout his career, Raj has envisioned how emerging technologies can be applied to creatively solve enterprise and business problems ahead of competitors to help establish new product lines.
Before joining Juniper, Raj was at Google (GCP), where he led a large team of engineers to deliver cloud networking infrastructure solutions for Google Cloud customers. Prior to that at VMware, he ideated a new product concept to address the private/hybrid cloud markets by defining VMware Cloud Foundation—an easy way to deploy and manage virtual clouds—leading a large product team to successfully deliver product to market. He started his career at Intel, rising to the position of Intel Fellow, a position he held for 10 years. During his various leadership roles there, Raj was responsible for driving new product and R&D initiatives in many areas of software.
Raj brings a wealth of experience in emerging technologies. He has been awarded more than 45 patents, published over 60 research papers, authored 5 Internet standards, and co-authored a book on internet quality of service. He is an IEEE Fellow and holds a PhD in Computer Science from Purdue University.
As Juniper’s Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development, Kevin Hutchins is responsible for defining and enabling Juniper’s strategic corporate vision. This includes driving the company’s inorganic growth through strategic partnerships, venture investments and acquisitions/ divestures.
Kevin joined Juniper in 2010 as Vice President, Portfolio Management & Business Operations for Juniper’s Development & Innovation team where he led business planning, portfolio rationalization, new product introduction and execution of strategic programs across Juniper’s portfolio of routing, switching and security products.
Prior to his career at Juniper, Kevin held leadership roles in strategy, corporate development and general management at IBM and Lockheed Martin. Kevin is an adjunct professor at Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business where he teaches courses on mergers, acquisitions and restructuring for MBA and Master of Finance programs. He holds a BSc (Tau Beta Pi) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, a PhD from the University of Colorado and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
AE Natarajan
GM, Automated WAN, Juniper Networks
AE Natarajan is the General Manager of the Automated WAN Business at Juniper Networks. Prior to this, he served as SVP at Juniper, heading the JUNOS/JUNOS EVO, Routing and Advanced Telemetry and Analytics teams. Natarajan was also the engineering leader for the Cloud Business Team and an Executive Sponsor from Juniper for several large Cloud Providers.
Previously, Natarajan was the EVP, Head of Worldwide Engineering at Polycom, responsible for all product development, project management and engineering operations. Prior to Polycom, he served as vice president of engineering at Cisco, where he helped create and grow several billion-dollar product lines. Natarajan has led numerous industry forums and has built and managed teams across multiple geographies.
Natarajan holds a master’s degree in electrical engineering from IIT Madras.
Sudheer Matta
Group Vice President, Products, Juniper Networks
Sudheer Matta is GVP of Products for Juniper’s AI Driven Enterprise Portfolio, responsible for product strategy and roadmap for Wi-Fi and Switching and Branch routing portfolio. In addition, he leads the WAN transformation efforts at Juniper and was instrumental in the recent Juniper acquisition of 128 Technology. He is also responsible for the Systems Engineering teams for Juniper’s AI Driven Enterprise portfolio. Prior to this, Sudheer was VP, Products at Mist Systems, a disruptive startup that brought AI to the Wi-Fi market.
Previously, Sudheer held various roles in Engineering, Product Management, and Sales at Cisco, Juniper, and other startups, including running the $2.2B wireless controller product management at Cisco. He has spent 10 years in the IEEE and Wi-Fi alliance and has 6 patents in the wireless domain.
Manfred Opificius
Senior Vice President, Sales –Global Head of Service Provider Sales, Juniper Networks
Manfred Opificius is the Global Head of Service Provider Sales and is responsible for the Service Provider Segment in the AMER (USA & Canada), EMEA and the CALA regions. This includes sales development, training and enablement, strategic planning, customer engagement and revenue growth strategies. Manfred joined Juniper Networks in 2011 as Senior Director Sales with the area of responsibility for Juniper Networks Global Key Account Deutsche Telekom.
Manfred has more than 30 years of experience in Sales Leadership and General Management roles in the telecommunication industry. He has a proven track record in building sustained strategic growth in service providers and the enterprise sector in several markets in Europe and overseas. His sales experience includes numerous key vertical sectors, including retail, hospitality, logistics, financial services, service providers, public sector, petro-chemicals, pharmaceuticals, transport and manufacturing.
Other executive positions he has held include Regional Sales Manager Enterprise for Nortel Dasa, VP Service Provider Sales Germany at Nortel Networks, General Manager DACH and BeNeLux Service Provider and Enterprise for NEC, General Manager Germany and Nordics for Starent Networks and Regional Sales Manager for Cisco Networks.
Neil, named after Neil Armstrong, is a thirty-year technology veteran, currently, Chief Network Strategist at Juniper Networks, driving Juniper’s automation strategy and technology sustainability strategy and supporting Juniper’s GTM on Service Provider, Cloud and Enterprise business units. Before Juniper, Neil spent twelve years leading BT’s Technology, Network and Digital strategy. Neil drove a significant transformation at BT, including leading the technology due diligence and subsequent integration workstream of BT’s £12B acquisition of EE and was the first to launch 5G in the UK together with driving a £3B IT and digital transformation leveraging AI and cloud and created BT’s £15B FTTP strategy.
Neil is a recognized leader in network, cloud, broadcast and digital infrastructure and technology and, in 2022, received the ITP’s Outstanding Contribution to the Telecommunications Industry award. Over his career, Neil has advised many telecommunication companies, technology vendors, investment funds and government agencies.
Before BT, Neil held senior technology positions at Cable & Wireless/Vodafone, COLT, and Easynet. In 1992, he was a founding member of Demon Internet, the first consumer ISP in the UK. Neil has also worked with the London Internet Exchange as an elected director for over twenty years.
Neil is a fundraiser for autism charities. Neil has a diploma in Leadership and Management from MIT/Sloan School of Management. In his spare time, Neil competes at E-Gaming and Pinball tournaments worldwide.
Raghavendra Mallya Senior Vice President, Engineering, Juniper NetworksRaghavendra “Raghu” Mallya is SVP, Engineering for the Automated WAN (AWAN) business unit at Juniper Networks. In this role, he leads the AWAN engineering team, developing products for the cloud, enterprise and service provider verticals which include the ACX, MX and PTX product families and the Juniper Paragon Automation network automation product. His other main focus area is to ensure Juniper’s long-term technology leadership through research and innovation programs, with the primary goal of positively impacting and shaping the future of Juniper, its ecosystem, and its customers. Since joining Juniper Networks in 2005, Raghu has held various technical leadership positions, most recently as a Juniper Fellow where he was responsible for system architecture of Juniper’s routing, switching and security products. Raghu has consistently delivered successful products to market for Juniper customers, including J-Series, Junos Security Software, Branch SRX, MX, PTX, ACX, QFX, EX and NFX products, and has been instrumental in creating key customer relationships around the globe.
In her role as Vice President of Marketing, Cloud and Service Providers for Juniper Networks, Sally leads the global marketing initiatives for the company’s routing, switching, telco cloud and automation, security and software portfolios. She brings more than twentyfive years of experience in marketing, product management, business development and M&A in the networking, telecommunications and cloud industries.
Prior to joining Juniper, Sally held executive roles at a number of the networking industry’s most notable start-ups, including internetworking pioneer Wellfleet/Bay Networks, as well as senior roles at Nortel Networks and Motorola Codex. Sally began her career as a software engineer in British Petroleum’s networking division. Sally holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from the University of York, England.
Jeff Aaron Vice President, Enterprise Marketing, Juniper Networks
Jeff Aaron serves as Juniper’s Vice President of Enterprise Marketing, where he is responsible for strategy, product marketing, messaging and positioning for Juniper’s entire enterprise portfolio, which includes wired/wireless access, SD-WAN, data center, and security. Jeff came to Juniper via the acquisition of Mist systems, where he was VP of marketing and led all strategy, messaging, demand generation, and branding for the industry’s premier AI-driven wireless platform.
Jeff has over 25 years of experience marketing in the high-tech space, having worked at various software, networking and telecommunications companies including PernixData, a leading storage acceleration and analytics company (acquired by Nutanix), Silver Peak Systems, Airespace (acquired by Cisco), Turnstone Systems, and Newbridge Networks (acquired by Alcatel). He began his career as a senior consultant at Ernst and Young where he counseled Fortune 100 companies with IT design and planning. Jeff earned his BA from Duke University with majors in Computer Science and Economics.
Sunil Sadani
Vice President, Product Management, Juniper Networks
With over 30 years of network industry experience, Sunil Sadani joined Juniper Networks in 2019 and currently serves as Vice President of Product Management. He is responsible for Juniper’s billion-dollar SP and Enterprise WAN product portfolio.
Previous to Juniper, he spent 20 years at Cisco in various product management roles. He has expertise in designing, building and selling large scale SP Networks, as well as in 5G, cloud, IP, optical, enterprise, data center network buildouts.
Pavan Kurapati
Vice President, Chief Architect for Global Service Providers, Juniper Networks
Pavan is Vice President, Chief Architect for Global Service Providers at Juniper Networks. In his current role, he leads a team of Architects in the SP GTM team with a focus on emerging technologies such as 5G, AIOps, Telco Cloud, distributed network architectures etc. Pavan has ~23 years of experience in the telecom sector. Pavan has been with Juniper since 2009 and has worked with large service providers in deploying access, metro, core, and telco cloud solutions. Pavan has a master’s degree in information and data science from UC Berkeley.
In his role as Senior Marketing Director heading the Strategic & Sustainability Marketing initiatives at Juniper Networks, Jai is focused on exploring and promoting next generation technologies and innovations through which Juniper can deliver experience-first networking. He is also responsible for driving Juniper’s Sustainability narrative around how we are enabling our customers to progress towards their sustainability goals. He heads marketing for Juniper’s innovation initiative ‘Juniper Beyond Labs’ which is a channel for us to drive innovation and thought leadership in collaboration with our partners and customers. He has over 20 years of experience in telecommunications and has been at the forefront of marketing and driving 5G, Open RAN and cloud technologies since its inception. He also has a strong pedigree in strategic consulting transforming the go-tomarket strategies and operations of many Service Providers.
Prior to Juniper, he was driving some of the key marketing initiatives in Nokia around 5G and heading Nokia Technologies Marketing. He holds an engineering degree from Calicut University, India and an MBA in Strategy and Marketing from Alliance Manchester Business School in Manchester, UK.
Julius Francis Senior Director, Marketing, Juniper Networks
As the Senior Director of Product Marketing at Juniper Networks, Julius leads the product marketing efforts for the Automated WAN Business division. With more than two decades in the industry, he has an extensive background in Product Marketing, Product Management, Business Development, and Engineering. Before assuming his current position, Julius was a Director of Product Management at Juniper, responsible for the Cloud Service Platform portfolio. Before this, he steered the NFV-SDN strategy and execution at BTI Systems in a similar directorial position. His professional journey also includes significant tenures at Nortel and Ellacoya Networks, holding key engineering, marketing, and product management roles. Armed with an Entrepreneurship MBA, Julius offers a deep understanding of the Service Provider, Cloud Provider, and Enterprise markets, emphasizing technology strategy and marketing.
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