Board of Directors
The ATIS Board of Directors brings together C-level executives from the leading ICT companies to set the organization’s strategic, technical and operational direction. This leadership ensures alignment on the priorities that are defining the industry’s future while addressing members’ business objectives. Action on these priorities takes place through our board-driven Innovation Agenda.
Board Officers
CHAIR
Yigal Elbaz
Network Chief Technology Officer
AT&T
FIRST VICE CHAIR
Nicolas Fetchko
VP for Technology and Trade Policy
Verizon
TREASURER
Joe Hanley
Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development
TDS
SECRETARY
Jerome Birot
Vice President, Voice & Collaboration Services, DevOps
TELUS
PRESIDENT & CEO
Susan M. Miller
President and CEO
ATIS
Board Members
10x People
Lisa Marie Maxson
CEO
1Finity
Terry Clouthier
Senior Vice President, Optical – 1Finity
Apple
Kirk Burroughs
Senior Telecommunications Engineer
AT&T
Yigal Elbaz
Senior Vice President, Technology & Network Services; Network Chief Technology Officer
Chair
Brightspeed Connect Holding LLC
Pamela Sherwood
Senior Regulatory, Broadband Infrastructure and Compliance Counsel
C Spire Wireless
Alan Jones
Chief Network Officer
Charter Communications
Jay Gerstner
Vice President, Engineering & Operations
Ciena
Open
Cisco Systems
Ravi Guntupalli
CTO – Provider Mobility
Cohere Technologies
Anton Monk
Senior Vice President, Strategy
Comcast
Jason Livingood
Vice President, Technology Policy and Standards
Cox Communications
Lewis Roberts
Assistant Vice President Product Management
Dell Technologies
Manish Singh
CTO, Telecom Systems Business
Ericsson
Mathias Riback
Vice President & Head of Advanced Technology, US
Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
Miguel Dajer
Vice President, US Wireless Research
GCI
Open
Google
Open
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Andrew Border
Vice President of Product Management
Intel Americas, Inc.
Cristina Rodriguez
VP and GM of Comms Solutions Group
InterDigital Communications
Rajesh Pankaj
Chief Technology Officer
Intrado
Christian Militeau
Vice President, Product Management
Iridium Communications
Greg Pelton
Chief Technology Officer
L3Harris Technologies
Open
Lumen Technologies
Jason Thomas
VP of Public Policy & Compliance
Marconi Pacific
Tom Gage
CEO & Managing Director
Membership Committee Chair
Mavenir
Bejoy Pankajakshan
EVP – Chief Technology & Strategy Officer
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Open
Microsoft Corporation
Russ Penar
Principal Service Engineer
Motorola Mobility
Ravi Kuchibhotla
Director
NEBScore
Ernie Gallo
Principal Outside Plant and Electrical Code Consultant
Nokia
Rob Backhouse
Head of Technology for North America for Mobile Networks
Numeracle
Rebekah Johnson
Founder & CEO
NVIDIA
Kuntal Chowdhury
AI-RAN and 6G Developer Relations
Qualcomm
Juan Montojo
Vice President, Technical Standards; Head of Cellular Standards and Industry Organizations
Samsung Research America
Jianzhong (Charlie) Zhang
Senior Vice President, Standards and Mobility Innovation
SES
Carmel Ortiz
Senior VP for Technology and Innovation
Sinch
Imad Ajarmeh
Chief Network Officer
Somos
Sridhar Ramachandran
Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Technology and Operations Council Chair
T-Mobile USA
Karri Kuoppamaki
Senior Vice President, Network Technology Development & Strategy
TDS
Joe Hanley
Senior Vice President of Strategy and Corporate Development
Treasurer
Telnyx
David Casem
CEO
TELUS
Jerome Birot
Vice President, Voice & Collaboration Services, DevOps
Secretary
Transaction Network Services Inc.
Joe Dechant
Vice President – Product Transformation
TransUnion
James Garvert
General Manager and Vice President
Verizon
Nicolas Fetchko
VP for Technology and Trade Policy
First Vice Chair