Phil Edholm is the Chief Technologist and Vice President of Network Architecture for Nortel Enterprise Solutions. Prior to Nortel, Phil had 9 years with Sytek/Hughes LAN Systems and 4 years with Silicon Valley start-ups. Phil was a member of the IEEE 802.3 standards committee during the definition of broadband Ethernet and 10BaseT, developed the first multi-protocol network interfaces, and was a founder of the Frame Relay Forum. He's been a featured speaker at many international conferences and is recognized as a visionary and leader of the convergence transformation. Phil has been in the VoiceCon Great Debate three times and is recognized by the IEEE as the originator of Edholm's Law of Bandwidth as published in July 2003 IEEE Spectrum magazine. [Edholm, Phil [SC100:4154:EXCH]] He has been recognized by Frost and Sullivan for Lifetime Achievement in Growth and Innovations in the Telecommunications Industry. Phil has 9 patents with 15 patent applications pending. Less   View all posts

Zeus Kerravala, senior vice president, leads Yankee Group's Mobilizing and Capitalizing on the Anywhere Network research group. Kerravala's team analyzes the impact of connectivity transformation on the Anywhere Consumer and the Anywhere Enterprise, and probes the changes to behaviors, motivations and technologies that result. Before Yankee Group, Kerravala was a senior engineer and technical project manager for Greenwich Technology Partners, a leading infrastructure consulting firm. Earlier, he was the vice president of IT for Ferris, Baker Watts, a mid-Atlantic brokerage firm, deploying corporate-wide technical solutions to support the firm's business units. Kerravala was also an engineer and technical project manager for Alex. Brown & Sons, where he was responsible for the technology related to the equity trading desks. Less   View all posts