 John D’Ambrosia
IEEE P802.3dj Task Force Chair I Futurewei
John D’Ambrosia is a Distinguished Engineer with the Datacom Standards Research team at Futurewei Technologies, a U.S. subsidiary of Huawei. John has over 25 years of supporting standards development. John is currently the chair of the IEEE P802.3dj 200 Gb/s, 400 Gb/s , 800 Gb/s and 1.6 Tb/s Task Force. Previously, John chaired the IEEE 802.3 Task Forces that developed 40 GbE and 100 GbE, 200 & 400 GbE, and 800 GbE. Additionally, he chaired other IEEE 802.3 task forces, as well as the IEEE 802.3 New Ethernet Applications Ad hoc. John is also a member of the IEEE 802 LAN / MAN Standards Committee and is an IEEE Senior Member. In addition to his multiple roles in IEEE 802, John is one of the founders of the Ethernet Alliance, served as Chairman from 2011 to 2019, and is currently an advisor to the Board. John served as an advisor to the European Photonics Industry Consortium from 2019 to 2022c. His previous work experience includes Dell, Force10 Networks, and Tyco Electronics.
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Frank Effenberger
ITU-T Q2/15 Rapporteur I Futurewei
Dr. Frank Effenberger, Fellow, Futurewei Technologies, has worked in the optical access field for over 30 years at Bellcore, Quantum Bridge Communications (Motorola), and Futurewei Technologies, where he is now the Fellow for fixed access network technology. His team works on forward-looking fiber access technologies and has played a foundational role in the development of all the major PON systems in use today. Frank is the rapporteur for ITU-T Q2/15, is a Fellow of the OSA and the IEEE, and holds 140 US patents.
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 János Farkas
IEEE 802.1 TSN Task Group Chair I Ericsson
János Farkas, Ericsson, IEEE 802.1 TSN TG Chair. Dr. János Farkas is a principal researcher in the area of deterministic networking at Ericsson Research Hungary. He is active in standardization of deterministic networking technologies in packet networks, for which he received the IEEE Standards Association Medallion. He serves as the Chair of the IEEE 802.1 Time-Sensitive Networking Task Group, and as a Co-Chair of the IETF Deterministic Networking Working Group. He holds Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in telecommunications engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary.
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 Don Fedyk
Distinguished Engineer, LabN Consulting L.L.C
Don Fedyk is a Distinguished Engineer at LabN Consulting L.L.C since 2019. He has over 38 years of experience in communication systems focusing on Routing/Bridging Protocols and Traffic Engineering for both IP and Ethernet. He is an active contributor to the IEEE and IETF standards bodies for the last 25 years. He was editor for amendments to IEEE 802.1Q and 802.1AE. He has authored/co-authored over 20 IETF RFCs. Over his career, he has been an inventor on over 35 Patents. Don has also contributed to several IEEE Communications magazine and other industry publications. Don is currently a MANET working Group co-chair. He has a B.S. and M.S in Electrical Engineering from the University of Waterloo. Don currently resides outside of Boston Massachusetts with this family where he enjoys golf in the summer and alpine skiing in the winter.
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Vince Ferretti
Senior Standards Manager, Global Technical & Industry Standards, Corning
Vince Ferretti, Senior Standards Manager, Global Technical & Industry Standards, is responsible for the development, coordination and communication of Corning’s standards strategy across Corning’s optical fiber, cabling, connectivity and wireless systems and products. Vince joined Corning in 1993 and has extensive experience in product management, engineering, sales, marketing, market development and strategy, while working in a diverse and global environment. His roles within Corning have spanned Corning’s Japan, OEM, carrier and enterprise market segments, the majority spent in FTTH, Wireless and LAN applications. He joined Corning’s Standards team in 2018. Vince currently serves as Promotion and Coordination Vice-Chair and Associate Rapporteur of Q5 for ITU-T Study Group 15. He actively participates in the following ITU-T Questions (Q2, Q5, Q6, Q7, Q8). He manages Corning participation in IEEE 802.3 study groups/task forces (Optical Access and Ethernet Transport Systems). Vince also represents Corning and the United States in IEC SC86A (Fiber and Cable), IEC SC46 JW8 (Hybrid Cables) and IEC TC 108 (Distributed power systems for communications devices). He is the liaison officer between IEEE 802.3 and IEC SC86A. Vince oversees Corning participation in the Optical Internetworking Forum (Optical transport and Co-packaged optics), ORAN Alliance (X-Haul for 5G), ATIS STEP (Fault Managed Power and Underwriters Laboratories Projects (Fault Managed Power Systems and Hybrid Cable Electrical Safety). Prior to joining Corning, Vince was an US Naval officer and nuclear engineer serving in the US submarine force.
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 Geoffrey M. Garner
Analog Devices Inc., P802.1ASdm Editor
Geoffrey M. Garner is a consultant specializing in network synchronization and related standards development. He has most recently consulted for Analog Devices, Futurewei Technologies, and Huawei Technologies, and before that Samsung, Broadcom, Marvell, Hirschmann, Siemens, and Internet Photonics. Prior to consulting, he was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories and a Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Lucent Technologies. He has been the editor of IEEE 802.1AS since 2006 and has contributed to the development of the IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and the IEC/IEEE 60802 TSN Profile for Industrial Automation. He has also contributed to the development of ITU-T Recommendations for PTP Telecom Profiles, OTN, and SDH. He is a member of the IEEE Registration Authority Committee (RAC) as well as a Senior Member of IEEE. His standardization work includes the modeling and simulation of time error performance in networks based on PTP and timing performance of OTN and, before that, SDH networks. In addition, he received the IEEE SA Standards Medallion in 2021. He received his Bachelor of Science, Master of Science, and Ph.D. degrees from M.I.T. in 1976, 1978, and 1985, respectively.
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 James P. K. Gilb
Chair, IEEE 802
Dr. James P. K. Gilb has over 30 years experience in a variety of areas including: RFIC design, RF system architecture, MAC protocols, and radar absorbing materials. He joined General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. in 2016 as a Principal RF Systems Engineer. Dr. Gilb has been a contributor to a variety of international communication standards for over 26 years. He has held a variety of positions in IEEE 802 LAN/MAN Standards Committee and its Working Groups. He is currently the Chair of IEEE 802. Dr. Gilb has nine issued patents, been the technical editor of eleven standards and specifications, written three books, and has many papers in refereed journals and at symposia. |
Steve Gorshe
ITU-T Q11/15 Rapporteur I Microchip
Steve Gorshe, Ph.D. (Fellow, IEEE) has worked since 1982 in research and development of telecommunications systems and ICs at companies including GTE, Siemens, NEC, PMC-Sierra. He is currently an Associate Fellow at Microchip Technology. Since 2017 he has been Rapporteur for Q11 of ITU-T SG15, which is responsible for optical transport network standards. He also chaired the IEEE P802.3cx Task Force on accurate timestamping over Ethernet. He has been actively involved in telecom and data communications standards since 1983 and has been author/co-author on over 800 standards contributions across multiple standards organizations. He has 52 patents issued or pending, is author/co-author on multiple telecommunications textbooks and technical papers. Steve received his Ph.D. and MSEE from Oregon State University and BSEE from the University of Idaho.
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 John Johnson
Director of Component R&D, Optical Systems Division, Broadcom
John Johnson holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently Director of Component R&D at Broadcom’s Optical Systems Division, a business descended from AT&T Bell Laboratories which he joined in 1993. His research has included a wide range of optical components including DFB lasers, electroabsorption modulated lasers, tunable lasers and coherent receivers. He is an active participant in multiple global standards development organizations and MSAs.
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 Stephan Kehrer
Senior Technology Architect, Belden
Stephan Kehrer joined Belden in 2007 and is working as Senior Technology Architect in the Technology Function at Belden Inc. Stephan’s work focuses on new technologies, standardization, and research projects in the area of industrial communication. He is actively involved in the specification of Time-Sensitive Networking in the IEEE 802.1 WG, where he served as editor of several projects, and is likewise active in the IEC. He is the IEEE 802.1 Executive Secretary and IEEE 802 YANGsters Vice Chair and Secretary. Stephan completed his studies in information technology at Eberhard Karls University Tübingen.
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 Kam Lam
Senior Director, CICT
Dr. Kam LAM has been active in many standards development organizations, including ITU-T, ONF, TM Forum, ATIS, and IETF. He is the editor and co-editors of many standards specifications in the areas of network management architecture, functions, and information models. He served in 1997 – 2023 as the Rapporteur of ITU-T Study Group 15 Question 14, which is responsible for transport resource management and control standardization. He was also the co-chair of the Open Information Modeling & Tooling (OIMT) group of the ONF in 2014 – 2024. Kam is a Senior Director at China Information Communication Technologies Group (CICT). Previously he had been a CMTS at Nokia、Alcatel-Lucent、Lucent, and Principal Engineer at Bellcore. He has a Ph.D. degree in Statistics and was a tenured faculty member from 1978 – 1986. |
 Yuanqiu Luo
IEEE P802.3dk Chair I Director of Optical Access Standards, Futurewei Technologies, USA
Yuanqiu Luo received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. She is currently a Director of Optical Access Standards in Futurewei Technologies, USA. She is the Chair of IEEE 802.3dk Task Force. She was the chief editor of IEEE Standards 802.3cp and a clause editor of IEEE standards 802.1AS. She is an editor of ITU Recommendations G.987.3, G.9807.1, G.989.2, G.9802, G.9803, G.Sup66, G.9804.2, and G.988. Dr. Luo is a Senior Member of IEEE. She is a member of the IEEE ComSoc Educational Services Board (ESB), a member of the IEEE ComSoc Industry Outreach Board (IOB), and a technical editor of IEEE Wireless Communications. She serves as an IEEE ComSoc Distinguished Lecturer (term 2022-2023) and an ICC 2024 Workshops Co-Chair. She received the Best Paper Award from IEEE & OSA Journal of Lightwave Technology. She was a two-time recipient of the IEEE Standards Award (both 2011 and 2021). Dr. Luo was selected to the 2021 N²Women: Stars in Computer Networking and Communications. |
Eric Maniloff
Systems Architect, Ciena
Systems Architect designing coherent solutions for applications including Data Center through Long Haul. During his 20+ years in the telecommunications industry Eric has been involved in projects including the first DSP enabled dispersion compensating optical transport equipment, the first coherent optical product, and advanced coherent pluggable modules. In addition to work on line-side optical products Eric has been involved in client side optical modules, in many industry MSA developments, and currently represents Ciena in IEEE Standards. Eric received a Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Union College, and Master’s and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Colorado. Prior to joining Ciena, Eric held positions at ETH in Zurich, as well as Los Alamos National Labs.
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 Scott Mansfield
IEEE 802 YANGsters Chair I ITU-T Q14/15 Rapporteur I Principal Researcher, Ericsson
Scott Mansfield is a Principal Researcher at Ericsson with a focus on wireline network standardization. Scott is Vice-Chairman of ITU-T Study Group 13 (Future Networks and Emerging Technologies) leading coordination on new work item development and project initiation. Scott is the Chairman of the Joint Coordination Activity on IMT-2020 (ITU-T JCA-IMT2020) which fosters cross-industry coordination of technologies related to the networks that enable mobile systems. Also, in the ITU-T, Scott is the Rapporteur of Question 14 (Transport Network Management) in Study Group 15 (Transport, Access, and Home) and the editor of the protocol neutral network management modeling recommendations for Ethernet, MPLS-TP, and OTN. Scott is active in IETF serving as an editor of the microwave topology work and as the IETF - ITU-T liaison coordinator. In the IEEE 802.1 Working Group, Scott serves as the chair of the YANGsters group which coordinates the modeling work used for network management. Scott is a MEF Forum Distinguished Fellow, a Broadband Forum Circle of Excellence winner, and an IEEE 802.1 Standards Association Voting member.
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David Martin
Nokia
In ITU-T, David Martin is currently participating in the beyond 1T work, prior to that beyond 400G, and is co-editor for G.709.5 FlexO short-reach interfaces. In MEF, he has contributed to many projects, most recently cross-connect service attributes and network slice as a service. Previously, he was the project leader and editor for Layer 1/wavelength services, resulting in the MEF 63 and MEF 64 standards. While at Nortel and Ciena, David held system advisor and architect roles for optical transport and Carrier Ethernet platforms, working with development teams on new product definition. This included many related strategic standards efforts in ANSI T1, IEEE 802, ITU-T and MEF, encompassing Carrier Ethernet equipment and services, as well as the evolution of OTN to 100G. Previously he led an exploratory group in Bell-Northern Research, investigating methods for carrying data services over transport and control plane restoration solutions. Prior to this David worked on the system design of three generations of optical platforms. He began his career in microwave field engineering with a company now part of Zayo. David received his Bachelor of Applied Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Toronto, is an IEEE Senior Member and currently holds 32 patents.
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 James E Matthews III
Director, Technical Standards & Standards Policy, Corning Incorporated
Jim’s role is the Director of Technical Standards & Standards Policy for Corning’s global products and markets. He has represented Corning in participant and leadership roles for national, regional & global standards groups. Jim joined Corning at the debut of Optical Fiber technology. His roles have included product & customer engineering, metrology, and network architecture for fiber optics, followed by optical amplifiers, and optical components, including optical components developed at Corning’s European Research Center (France). Throughout his career at Corning, Jim has represented Corning business areas in global standards, starting with IEEE networking standards in IEEE 802, followed by a broad range of standardization projects. Jim is currently the President of the IEEE Standards Association and a member of the IEEE Board of Directors. Previously, Jim was Vice-President of the IEC, and Chair of the IEC Standardization Management Board (SMB). Jim was a member of the ANSI Board of Directors from 2001 – 2020. He also served as an ITU-T Rapporteur for over 10 years in Study Group 15 on Optical Transport. Jim is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology (B.E.E./M.S.E.E.) and was a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Tau Beta Pi. Jim has received several industry and Corning awards and recognition for standardization leadership including: Corning Incorporated Distinguished Associate, Corning Incorporated Division People Development Award, ANSI Howard Coonley Medal, ANSI Elihu Thomson Electrotechnology Medal, Society For Standards Professionals (SES) Leo B. Moore award, ANSI Astin-Polk International Standards Medal.
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 David McCall
Senior Director, Industrial Standards, Intel Corporation
David McCall is a Senior Director of Industrial Standards at Intel Corporation. He brings over 25 years’ experience in both technical and business aspects of the high-tech industry, with a focus on unlicensed wireless, communications software and standardisation. He is currently Vice Chair of the IEEE 802.1TSN Task Group, chaired the IEC/IEEE 60802 Ad Hoc group on Time Synchronization, and made over 30 contributions on the latter topic. He also holds several leadership positions in various groups that are important to Industrial Automation including: the Open Group's Open Process Automation Forum; UniversalAutomation.org; and the OPC Foundation's FLC Steering Committee. David also manages Intel’s strategy for participation in many other organisations. He joined Intel in 2011 following roles in a couple of startups including Vice President of the PC Business Unit at Bluetooth-leader CSR. David hails from Northern Ireland and holds a Masters degree in Electronics from the University of Edinburgh. He has called the USA home for the last 24 years.
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 Martin Mittelberger
System Architect, Siemens AG
Martin Mittelberger is a System Architect at Siemens AG, specializes in industrial communication. He serves as the editor of the IEEE 802.1Qdy draft standard titled ‘YANG for the Multiple Spanning Tree Protocol’. Martin actively contributes to the configuration aspects of the IEC/IEEE 60802 Industrial Profile for TSN. His career, spanning several decades, includes roles as a Systems Engineer, where he actively supported customers during the integration of PROFIBUS fieldbus ASICs into their devices. Later, he transitioned to roles such as Product Manager and System Manager for industrial automation components. Martin holds a graduate engineer (FH) degree from Coburg University of Applied Sciences, which he earned in 1989.
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 Earl Parsons
Director, Data Center Architecture Evolution, CommScope
Dr. Earl Parsons is the Director of Data Center Architecture Evolution at CommScope. He joined CommScope in 2014 as a Principal Optical Engineer. Prior to joining CommScope, Earl received an MS and PhD in optical sciences from the University of Arizona and was a Senior Member of Technical Staff at TE SubCom, formerly known as Tyco Telecommunications. Dr. Parsons also served as an editor of the IEEE 802.3db-2022 standard. His interests include multimode and single mode fiber optic systems to enable artificial intelligence data centers.
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Glenn Parsons
Chair, ITU-T SG15
Glenn Parsons is an internationally known expert in mobile transport and Ethernet technology. He is a principal standards advisor with Ericsson Canada, where he coordinates standards strategy and policy for Ericsson, including network architecture for 5G radio transport networks. Previously, he has held positions in development, product management and standards architecture in the ICT industry. Over the past number of years, he has held several management and editor positions in various standards activities including IETF, IEEE, and ITU-T. He is currently involved with 5G transport standardization in IEEE and ITU-T and is the chair if ITU-T SG15 as well as the working group chair of IEEE 802.1. In addition, he is a member of the IEEE Standards Association Entity Collaborative Activities Governance Board, and the chair of External Relations for IEEE Canada. He graduated in 1992 with a B.Eng. degree in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland.
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 Silvana Rodrigues
Huawei, ITU-T Q13/15 Associate Rapporteur, P802.1AS-2020-REV, P802.1ASdr, P802.1ASds Editor
Silvana Rodrigues holds an Electronic and Electrical Engineering degree from University of Campinas, Brazil. She has been working on network synchronization and actively contributing to synchronization standards development for more than 15 years. She is a senior principal engineer at Huawei. She has been the secretary of IEEE 1588 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) Working Group since the beginning of the work of IEEE 1588 version 2. She is the editor of IEEE 801.1ASds And IEEE 802.1AS-2020-Rev and participates and contributes to several IEEE 802.1 TSN working groups. She is the associate rapporteur and editor of several recommendations at ITU-T SG15 Q13 (the synchronization experts group). |
 Stefano Ruffini
Strategic Technology Manager, Calnex Solutions, ITU-T Q13/15 Rapporteur
Stefano graduated in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Rome ” La Sapienza” (Italy) and has been working on synchronization aspects for more than 30 years. After a long experience at Ericsson, he is currently working as Strategic Technology Manager at Calnex Solution. Stefano is currently contributing to ITU-T SG15 Q13 (serving as Rapporteur), IEEE1588, and other relevant synchronization standardization bodies and forums. He has published several international journal papers and delivered talks at various conferences. He is member of the steering group of the International Timing and Sync Forum and a member of the Executive Committee of the Workshop on Synchronization in Telecommunication Systems.
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Robert Stacey
Intel, IEEE 802.11 Chair
Robert Stacey is the chair of IEEE 802.11, the working group within IEEE 802 that produces the technical standard for Wi-Fi. Robert has been an active participant in the standardization effort and various industry consortia starting with the development of the 802.11n amendment around 2002. For most of that time Robert has been employed by Intel and has worked internally on their Wi-Fi product.
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 Tony Zeng
Huawei, ITU-T Q3/15 Rapporteur
Tony Zeng Q3 Associate Rapporteur, WP1 EWM coordinator, F5G liaison Rapporteur in ITU-T | Standard Director, Optical Business Product Line, Huawei France. Tony is now the standard director of EU in Huawei Optical Business Product Line, leading optical standard group for ITU-T SG15, IEEE 802.11, ETSI ISG F5G, BBF, CCSA TC6, etc. He actively participates in various standard areas of optical network, e.g. access & in-premises networking technologies, Wi-Fi, network management, IoT protocols. In ITU-T SG15 Q3, Tony focus on fibre based in-premises technologies, including Fibre-to-The-Room (G.fin), Unified wire-line communication standard series (G.hn), light communication standard (G.vlc). He is now the Associate Rapporteur of ITU-T Q3/SG15. |
 George Zimmerman
President, CME Consulting, IEEE P802.3dg Task Force Chair
Dr. George Zimmerman is President of CME Consulting, specializing in physical layer communications and powering, active in standardization and development of Ethernet in emerging applications. George recently chaired the IEEE 802.3cg 10 Mb/s single pair Ethernet Task force, standardizing single-pair Ethernet transmission and powering for industrial & building automation, as well as intrasystem and automotive applications. George currently chairs the follow-on project, IEEE P802.3dg, at 100 Mb/s, and is editor for a related in-building standard for 10 Mb/s on shared media, IEEE P802.3da. He has served on the IEEE-SA Board of Governors, on the IEEE 802 Standards Committee, and is currently the 2nd Vice Chair for IEEE 802. He has been at the forefront in the development and standardization of wired technologies, starting with line-powered DSL in the 1990s, to BASE-T and single-pair Ethernet, including PoE. He holds more than 20 patents, a Ph.D. from Caltech, and a BSEE from Stanford, and is a member of BICSI, TIA TR42, the Ethernet Alliance and a principal member of NEC codemaking Panel 3, representing the Ethernet Alliance, where he chairs the Technical Committee.
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