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
Narothum Saxena
VP, Technology Strategy & Architecture
UScellular
TREASURER
Stephen Alexander
Senior VP, CTO
Ciena
SECRETARY
Karri Kuoppamaki
Senior VP, Technology Development & Strategy
T-Mobile
PRESIDENT & CEO
Susan M. Miller
President and CEO
ATIS
Board Members
10x People
Lisa Marie Maxson
CEO
Apple
Helene Workman
Senior Patent Counsel
AT&T
Yigal Elbaz
Senior Vice President, Technology & Network Services, Network Chief Technology Officer
Chair
Bell Canada
Stephen Howe
Chief Technology and Information Officer
Brightspeed Connect Holding LLC
Pamela Sherwood
Senior Regulatory, Broadband Infrastructure and Compliance Counsel
C Spire Wireless
Gregg Logan
VP, Engineering
Charter Communications
Jay Gerstner
Vice President, Engineering & Operations
Ciena
Stephen Alexander
Senior VP; CTO
Treasurer
Cisco Systems
Ravi Guntupalli
CTO – Provider Mobility
Comcast
Jason Livingood
Vice President, Technology Policy and Standards
Cox Communications
Steve Watkins
AVP, Strategic Technology Policy
Dell Technologies
Manish Singh
CTO, Telecom Business Unit
Ericsson
Mathias Riback
Head of Standards and Technology
Fujitsu Network Communications
Terry Clouthier
Senior Vice President, Optical
Futurewei Technologies, Inc.
Miguel Dajer
VP, U.S. Wireless Research
GCI
Vacant
Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Andrew Border
Vice President of Product Management
iconectiv
Chris Drake
Senior Vice President – Corporate and Business Development
TOPS Council Chair
Intel Americas, Inc.
Caroline Chan
Vice President, Network and Edge Group & General Manager, Network Business Incubator Division
Intelsat
Bruno Fromont
CTO
InterDigital Communications
Rajesh Pankaj
CTO
Intrado
Vacant
Iridium Communications
Greg Pelton
CTO
JMA Wireless
Todd Landry
Corporate Vice President, Solutions Innovation Strategy
Juniper Networks
Kireeti Kompella
CTO PSD
L3Harris Technologies
Vacant
Lumen Technologies
Jason Thomas
VP, Public Policy & Compliance
Marconi Pacific
Tom Gage
CEO & Managing Director
Mavenir
Bejoy Pankajakshan
EVP – Chief Technology & Strategy Officer
Meta Platforms, Inc.
Vacant
Microsoft Corporation
Russ Penar
Principal Service Engineer
Motorola Mobility
Ravi Kuchibhotla
Director
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 VP, Standards and Mobility Innovation
Sinch
Imad Ajarmeh
Chief Network Officer
T-Mobile USA
Karri Kuoppamaki
VP, Network Technology Development & Strategy
Secretary
TDS
Narothum Saxena
Vice President, Technology, Strategy, and Architecture, UScellular
Second Vice Chair
Telnyx
David Casem
Chief Executive Officer
TELUS
Jerome Birot
VP – Voice & Collaboration Services DevOps
Transaction Network Services Inc.
Joe Dechant
Vice President – Product Transformation
TransUnion
James Garvert
General Manager and Vice President
Twilio
Christer Fahlgren
Lead VoIP Software Architect
Verizon
Nicolas Fetchko
Head of International Government Affairs and Trade Policy