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Biographies
Marco Carugi, ITU Expert, Senior Advisor - Nortel,
Carrier Networks
• Marco began his career as telecommunication system engineer in Solvay, an
international chemical group, and then worked for 8 years in France Telecom
R&D as Research Engineer in Broadband Data Services and Network
Technologies, participating in international FT projects as technical expert
in IP/MPLS and VPNs.
• He joined Nortel in 2002 as Senior Advisor inside the CTO organization and
his current focus within Nortel Carrier Networks division is on Next
Generation Networks and emerging telecommunication enabled services and
applications, promoting Nortel strategic interests in international SDOs.
• Involved in standardization since 1996, he has actively participated in
ITU-T NGN related efforts since their beginning and also in the NGN related
ETSI TISPAN technical body.
• At WTSA 2008 he has been appointed SG13 vice-chairman for 2009-2012 study
period and he is currently acting as Rapporteur for Question 3/13
(Requirements and implementation scenarios for emerging services and
capabilities in an evolving NGN) and Working Party 2 co-chair within SG13.
• Among his past management positions in standardization, he co-chaired the
Services and Requirements group in the ITU-T NGN Focus Group, served on the
Optical Internetworking Forum Board of Directors, chaired the IETF Provider
Provisioned VPN Working Group and acted as, respectively, Q.11/13 Rapporteur
during 2001-2004 and Q.2/13 Rapporteur during 2005-2008.
• Marco has authored a number of papers, IETF drafts and RFCs, ITU-T
Recommendations and other contributions to SDOs.
• He holds Electronic Engineering degree in Telecommunications from Pisa
University (Pisa, Italy), M.S. in Engineering and Management of
Telecommunication Networks from National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry,
France), Master in International Business Development from ESSEC Business
School (Paris).
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 Thomas Lee, (IEEE NGSON)
Li Li received his Bachelor’s degree of radio technologies from Xi’an
Jiaotong University, and his Master of Business Administrations from Tsing
Hua University. He has worked at Huawei for 12 years, with experiences on
Wireless product Development, R&D information system and document center
management, business re-engineering of R&D processes, standardization and
corporate strategy. For the past 9 years, Mr. Li has distinguished himself
as the standard policy-maker and a technology strategist inside the company.
He created the Industry Standards Dept. as one of the original founders, and
has cultivated some core members of the standard teams. He was a leader on
Huawei’s overall standard strategy and standard policies on IMT-2000, WiMAX,
service network and IMT-Advanced. As a core member of corporate strategy
circle, He has taken part in corporate-level technology strategies in recent
years.
As the Vice Director of the Industry Standards Department, Mr. Li is
responsible for policies on 3GPP, IEEE, WiMAX Forum, ITU-R WP5D (past as
WP8F), NGMN and 3GPP2. He is also responsible for standard strategies of
major projects including WiMAX, LTE/SAE/IMS, IMT-Advanced and NGSON. Besides
these areas, his management scope also covers IPTV, MPEG, ITU-T SG16 & SG12.
He is a member of WiMAX Forum Board of Directors from 2009, a member of
IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CaG) in 2007-2009, as well as a member of
IEEE-SA BoG International Ad Hoc in 2009.
Address: Huawei Industrial Base, Bantian Longgang, Shenzhen 518129,
P.R.China
Tel: +86-755-28788186
Fax: +86-755-28788329
Mobile: +86-13501558490
E-mail: thomaslee@huawei.com
Company website: www.huawei.com |
Olivier Le Grand (WP3 Chair,
ITU-T SG 13)
Olivier Le Grand has been involved in the telecommunications industry for
nearly 20 years. In 1990 he joined R&D arm of France Telecom known as CNET
and now part of Orange Labs, the France Telecom worldwide innovation
network. Involved in standardization since 1992, he has been very active in
ITU-T SG11 and ETSI in the area of ATM related signalling standardization
and now in NGN and IPTV related standardization activities of ITU-T SG13. At
WTSA 2008 he has been reappointed as SG13 vice-chairman for the 2009-2012
study period. He is currently acting within SG13 as chair of Working Party 3
("Frameworks and functional architectures") and also as co-editor of edition
2 of Recommendation ITU-T Y.2012 ("Functional requirements and architecture
of the NGN").
Olivier is graduated from the National Institute of Telecommunications (Evry,
France), also known as TELECOM SudParis. |
 Rick Townsend, (NGSON Chair, IEEE NGSON)
For the past 18 years, Rick has been active in the area of standardization
in the field of telecommunications. He is currently chairing the IEEE NGSON
Working Group and attending the ATIS Service Oriented Networks Forum.
Recently he has been Chair of ATIS NIPP (formerly T1E1) and a member of the
IEEE-Standards Association Board. With the emergence of IPTV, Rick was
active in ATIS IIF, the ITU-T FG IPTV, and the DSL Forum. In the past he has
had leadership positions in a number of the standards bodies in which he has
participated including Chair of T1E1.2 (now ATIS NIPP-NAI) on broadband
access; a member of the Board of Directors, Board President, Technical
Committee Chair, and PHY Working Group Chair in the ATM Forum; and
Rapporteur for Q.4 on ATM in ITU-T Study Group 13.
Rick has retired from Alcatel-Lucent where he managed, organized, and
coordinated internal and external standards activities, the latest subject
area being IPTV. He is now Senior Consultant for Huawei Technologies (USA)
focusing in service networks. He received his Bachelors and Masters degrees
from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. from Stanford
University, all in electrical engineering. |
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