TECHNICAL STEERING COMMITTEE

Telecom Italia

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

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

Nokia

Jouni Hamalainen

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.

Deutsche Telekom AG

Nathan Rader

Vodafone

Nikoleta Patroni

Ericsson

Norbert Niebert