Dr Paul Brooks Director of Product and Technology Support, VIAVI Solutions
Justine Lullin Project and Engineering manager, SUSS MicroOptics
Carlos Pardo CEO at KDPOF
Mr. Pardo has served as a strategic profile manager in the microelectronics industry and with leading R&D teams. He has extensive
knowledge in the high-tech silicon industry, as well as in both hardware and software development. Previously to founding KDPOF, He worked as a technical director in SIDSA managing R&D departments, development products, production, and customer support. Mr. Pardo also was part of Hewlett Packard SA Spanish as an R&D engineer for a variety of other business functions and DS2 (Design of Systems on Silicon SA).
Joost Verberk Director of Product Management, EFFECT Photonics Joost has made his career in product management, working for ENGIE before
Hesham Taha PhD, CEO, Teramount Ltd.
joining EFFECT Photonics where he leads the cross-functional product management team. He studied Electrical Engineering at the Eindhoven University of Technology and is currently enrolled in an Executive MBA at Kellogg WHU University. With his background and enthusiasm for technology, Joost loves working at pushing the boundaries of cutting- edge innovations, taking it from ideation to volume production.
Chris Pfistner Vice President, Sales & Marketing , Avicena
Vincent Garnier Director General, FTTH Council Europe Vincent Garnier is the Director General of the FTTH Council Europe since July 2020. In this executive
capacity, Vincent manages and shapes the FTTH Council’s agenda and ensures the continuous implementation of its mission to advance ubiquitous full fibre-based connectivity to the whole of Europe. Vincent brings to this position 25 years of experience in the telecommunications industry, in Marketing and Business Development in EMEA and Asia for BtoB companies. Most recently he was Marketing Director responsible for defining the marketing strategies for the broadband solutions at CommScope, a global network infrastructure provider company. Prior to joining CommScope, Mr Garnier worked in international business development at TKH Group N.V. and as a Marketing Manager at Prysmian Group & Exide Technologies. Vincent Garnier has been actively involved in the FTTH Council Europe activities for several years. He became a Member of the Board of Directors and Treasurer in 2019.
Fady Masoud Director, Solutions Marketing, Infinera Fady Masoud is a Director
Dr. Frank Smyth Founder and CTO, Pilot Photonics Ltd, Pilot Photonics Frank Smyth is co-founder and CTO of Pilot Photonics Ltd, a scale-up company
of Solutions Marketing at Infinera. His area of expertise focuses on the architecture and requirements of next- generation optical networking infrastructure. During his 25 years in the telecommunications industry, Fady has held various positions in the optical networking domain at Nortel, Ciena and now Infinera. He started as a hardware test engineer on the first OC-192 (10 Gbps) systems and then as a Systems engineer on optical metropolitan products, all combined with hands-on experience. Fady holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Laval University (Quebec City, Canada) and a master’s degree in systems technology (simulation of optical networks) from the Superior School of Technology (Montreal, Canada). He has written numerous publications, including books, on next- generation optical networking, including 100G, Data Center Interconnect, intelligent network evolution strategies and architecture, and on many other key topics.
developing unique optical comb lasers based on photonic integration. His previous position was as co-founder and Executive Director of the CONNECT Centre for Future Networks at Trinity College Dublin for which he helped secure more than €40m in research funding from Science Foundation Ireland and from Industry. He graduated with a PhD from Dublin City University in 2009 having carried out pioneering research on novel tunable laser sources and optical switching systems. Frank has co-authored more than 95 research publications. He held a scholarship position at Bell Laboratories, Crawford Hill, New Jersey, and a research fellowship at Dublin City University before founding Pilot Photonics in 2011.
Alfonso Domesi EMEA Business development Manager at EXFO Alfonso Domesi started his career in the telecommunications
market in 1991 as a hardware and software development engineer. Over the years, he has tracked the evolution of transmission technologies, from the voice frequency analog modem to the current G.fast and optical fibers interfaces. He currently holds the position of EMEA Business Development Manager, with a dedicated focus on assessing new markets and technologies for EXFO’s Physical Layer product portfolio.
Wilfried Noell Director of research and development, SUSS MicroOptics
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