GOVERNING BOARD

Telecom Italia
TSC Co-Chair

Carlo Cavazzoni

Carlo currently works in the Transport and Access Innovation department of TIM. He has more than 25 years of experience on transport, IP and SDN control and, for the last five years, he has been coordinating the design and experimental evaluation of Telco Cloud Infrastructures supporting the virtualization of network functions. He participated since the beginning to the definition and implementation of the Project Sylva and he is coordinating the group of TIM contributors to Sylva.

TSC Co-Chair Representative

Orange
TSC Co-Chair

Guillaume Nevicato

Guillaume Nevicato, a cloud native enthusiast since 2015, has been deeply involved in the PaaS and CaaS domains. As the Product Manager of Orange Telco Cloud, he oversees the deployment of this service to host many different Network Functions across 18 Orange Affiliates in Europe and the Middle East & Africa (MEA). In addition, Guillaume is actively engaged in the Telco & Open source Ecosystem. He serves as the Co-Chair of Sylva and Advisory Board position with the Linux Foundation Europe contributing to collaborative efforts in the field.

TSC Co-Chair Representative

Red Hat
General Member Representative

Hanen Garcia

As a Global Telco Solutions Manager at Red Hat, I bring over two decades of diverse international telecom industry experience, fortified by a Master of Engineering degree in Innovation Management and multiple certifications in product management and cloud computing. My career embodies a commitment to pioneering cloud-native architectures, enabling telecom operators and vendors to deliver cutting-edge, scalable services. My expertise spans access networks, mobile core networks, edge services and more, fostering innovation in telecommunications. Through strategic analysis and strong interpersonal skills, I’ve effectively collaborated with diverse stakeholders, driving customer success and contributing significantly to the open source vision for the telco industry. I’m eager to leverage this wealth of experience and my passion for innovation to drive Project Sylva’s objectives, forging new pathways in telco and edge computing.

General Member Representative

Deutsche Telekom AG

Kai Steuernagel

Kai is the Chapter+ Lead Cloud Technology – Group Technology at Deutsche Telekom AG. Kai is a technology enthusiast and fan of open source projects, responsible at DT in Group Technology for the NT cloud strategy. He is yet the face of DT within Sylva.

Telefónica Group

Luis Velarde Tazón

With more than 15 years of experience in the Telecommunications industry as enterprise and solutions architect in IT and communication networks, Luis is currently acting as head of Cloud & Infrastructure within the Global technology team in Telefónica Group, in charge of defining the infrastructure hosting IT and network workloads for Telefonica Group worldwide, making use of virtualization technology in the most efficient way.

Luis holds a Master´s degree in Telecommunications and a Bachelor of Business Administration and Economics.

Orange

Nicolas Homo

TIM

Roberto Procopio

Roberto heads the Technology innovation activities in TIM (Telecom Italia Mobile) addressing the new technologies adoption to improve efficiency and productivity. With over 25 years of experience in telecommunications, Roberto led projects to enhance fixed and mobile technologies.  In the recent years he focused on enabling a seamless cooperation among Telco, Cloud and AI/ML technologies and he’s coordinating the activities in the TIM’s IPCEI CIS project.

SUSE

Tim Irnich

Tim manages SUSE’s Telco Edge product. He has been participating in the Sylva project from the very beginning, focusing on the stack development and sustainability work in working groups 1 and 4. He is also a member of the Board of the Sylva Project’s Directed Fund at LF Europe. Tim has been active in telco related open source communities such as LF Networking, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, OpenInfra for over a decade and held positions on several committees including the LFN TAC, TSC and Board of Directors in OPNFV and OpenDaylight. Before joining SUSE in 2018, Tim worked at Ericsson, where he ran the open source and ecosystem program for Ericsson’s cloud business unit and helped found Ericsson’s open source development arm that is today known as Ericsson Software Technologies.