Board

The NGMN Alliance is constituted through NGMN Alliance e.V. with its office in Frankfurt/Germany. NGMN is represented and managed by a board of directors (Board). The current Board Members and their Alternates are presented below.

Board Directors

Arash Ashouriha

Arash Ashouriha

SVP Group Technology, Deutsche Telekom, Chairman of the NGMN Board

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Bernard Bureau

VP Network and Architecture Strategy, Chief Technology Office, TELUS

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Andrea Calvi

Head of Technology Evolution & Innovation, TIM

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Anita Döhler

Chief Executive Officer, NGMN Alliance

Ulf Ewaldsson

Ulf Ewaldsson

SVP, Chief Network Officer, T-Mobile US

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Wolfgang Fleischer

Head of Network Virtualization, A1 Group, Telekom Austria

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Joachim Gross

CHIEF NETWORK ARCHITECT, 1&1

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Stephen Howe

Chief Technology and Information Officer, Bell Canada

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Yuhong Huang

General Manager China Mobile Research Institute, China Mobile

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Luke Ibbetson

Head of Group R&D, Vodafone

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Michael S. Irizarry, Ph.D.

Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Engineering and Information Technology, UScellular

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Stefan Jäverbring

Stefan Jäverbring is CTO and Head of Network at Telia Company.

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Laurent Leboucher

Group CTO and Senior Vice President Orange Innovation Networks

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Tay Yeow Lian

Managing Director, Networks (Consumer Singapore), Singtel

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Yogesh Malik

EVP and CTIO, Tele2

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Gediz Sezgin

Chief Network Technologies Officer, Turkcell

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Arvin L. Siena

Vice President & Head – Technology Strategy and Transformation Office, PLDT Inc. & Smart Communications

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Naoki Tani

Executive General Manager of R&D Innovation Division, NTT Docomo Inc.

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Howard Watson

Chief Security & Networks Officer,
BT

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Hey-Chyi Young

VP of Chunghwa Telecom Labs, Chunghwa Telecom

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Takki Yu

Vice President, Ph.D., Head of Infra Tech Office, SK Telecom

Alternate Board Directors

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Christian Breitschwerdt

Senior Program Manager, 1&1

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Jérôme Birot

Vice President of Telephony Services and Wireless Core DevOps, TELUS

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Konstantinos Chalkiotis

Strategy & Technology Innovation, VP 5G Solutions / Access & Home Networks, Deutsche Telekom

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Chiung-Jang Chen

Senior Director of 5G Lab, Chunghwa Telecom

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Si Cheng Choon

Vice President (Digital Platforms / Technology, Strategy & Transformation), Singtel

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Mauro Costa

Director of Networks and IT Infrastructure Architecture & Design, Telia Company

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Javan Erfanian

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, Bell Canada

Antonio Carlos Fernandes

Antonio Carlos Fernandes

VP Lead Partner Manager, Deutsche Telekom

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Kevin Holley

Director of Technology Standards and Ecosystems, BT

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Karri Kuoppamaki

T-Mobile US

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Minsoo Na

Head of 6G Development Team, Director, Tech. Group , SK Telecom

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Takehiro Nakamura

Chief Technology Architect, NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

Valentin Neacsu

Valentin Neacsu

Head of Networks, Tele2 Sweden

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Giovanni Romano

Radio Access Standards Coordinator, Telecom Italia

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Nick Sampson

Director, Wireless Access and Core Network Standardisation, Orange

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Narothum Saxena

Vice President, Technology Strategy & Architecture, UScellular

Joerg Sternagel

Jörg Sternagel

Vodafone

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Mario Tamayo

Chief Technology and Information Advisor (CTIA), Smart Communications

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Lei Wang

Technical Director of China Mobile Research Institute, China Mobile

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Jürgen Wolf-Hofer

Head of Network Evolution, A1 Group

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Gülay Yardim

Head of 5G Research-Development and Radio Network, Turkcell