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Vlad Shmunis founded RingCentral in 1999 and launched RingCentral's cloud business phone service in 2003. He developed the service based on the need he saw among businesses for an alternative to inflexible and expensive hardware-based phone systems. Since founding RingCentral, Shmunis has led the company in reimagining business communications. Today, the company empowers hundreds of thousands of businesses and their employees to work with unparalleled freedom and in imaginative new ways, via a wide variety of mobile and fixed line devices in traditional as well as dispersed work environments. Shmunis has more than 25 years of industry and management experience. Prior to launching RingCentral, he founded and served as the CEO of Ring Zero Systems, a desktop software communications company. After shipping more than 25 million copies of its Windows software through partnerships with leading PC manufacturers, Ring Zero Systems was acquired by Motorola. Shmunis was named the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2011 Northern California Award finalist. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science from San Francisco State University, and is a named inventor in a number of U.S. patents.

Served as CEO & President of Equinix from 2007 - 2018. Led the transformation of a $400 million dollar data center company into the clear industry leader in the Internet Infrastructure Sector and the largest global data center platform in the world with a firm value of approximately $46 billion dollars. Platform Equinix extended operations across 5 continents, 26 countries and 52 metropolitan areas with more than 10,000 of the most critical service providers and enterprises in the world.Previously I was with HP, where I served as Senior Vice President of HP Services and oversaw the organization's Consulting and Integration, Managed Services, and Technology Deployment and Support business groups. My tenure with HP came after spending more than 16 years with Electronic Data Systems Corporation in roles that spanned sales, business development, operations, acquisition-driven integration, and the management of international growth.

Stephen A. Garofalo is a CEO at ABOVENET INC.

As the Chief Commercial Officer at Sprint, Dow drives the commercial strategy by leading the sales and marketing for both the postpaid and prepaid segments. This includes overseeing two major brands as the acting CEO of Virgin Mobile USA and President of Boost Mobile. Dow is a veteran of telecommunications and formerly lead the Sprint Prepaid Group before adding the postpaid segment to his responsibilities in November 2017. From these roles, Dow knows how to drive dramatic performance gains, lead corporate turnarounds and establish profitability improvement for aspiring organizations. He also knows how to build engaging company cultures and put the right people, systems and products in place to generate sustained business growth. Additionally, he delivers demonstrated results in P&L responsibility, EBIDTA performance, M&A due diligence, operations management and team leadership. Prior to these dual roles, Dow served as president of the Sprint Wholesale and Prepaid Services division. Before joining Sprint, he served in senior-level executive positions at Clearwire, Alltel Wireless, Western Wireless and McKinsey & Company. While at McKinsey, Dow developed strategy and marketing engagements for various industries, including telecommunications, software, automotive and commercial aviation. Dow graduated from the University of Colorado (Boulder) and earned his MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill).

Tofane Global is a Paris-based company, in global communication services for Telecom and “Over The Top” operators. I founded it in 2017 after I left Orange International Carriers. With the closings of 2 acquisitions signed the same week in March 2018 - ... an unbelievable coincidence ! - our revenues have jumped to ~$1bn. Our strategy is to carve-out the international mobile & carrier services of telecom operators and combine them with our own Tier-1 platforms and teams. We invest or partner in innovative platforms to accelerate the digitization of international services. The acquisition of iBasis, a Royal KPN's subsidiary with a unique innovation track record and the International Wholesale of Altice Group is a perfect start for its execution. With $2.1 Bn sales, I led the transformation of Orange International Carriers, incumbent's wholesaler, into a business-minded leader, #1 for international communications, with new countries (eg Burma) and new clients such as Skype,Google. Before, designed and launched the \'Cash Flow Generation\' plan in the aftermath of the Orange 2005’s warnings. The expectations were outperformed by 20% - From 2001 to 2004, been to Rabat as Managing Director and CFO of incumbent Maroc Telecom - 14,000 emp. to lead the company modernization, and insure its IPO on Paris stock exchange, deploy mobile network and gain 5 million customers, grow by 20% p.a., facing the competition - Prior, worked with Vincent Bollore in executive positions in BtoB specialized services (transport& logistics, real estate, clinics, battery) to successfully implement value-oriented strategies. - Prior worked in Manhattan, NYC for 3 years with Nu-Swift Services

Dr. Bami Bastani is Senior Vice President and General Manager, Mobile & Wireless Infrastructure Strategic Business Unit Bastani has more than 35 years of industry experience in the semiconductor industry, including component to system-level RF technologies. Prior to joining GF, he was president, CEO and board member of Meru Networks, a global enterprise-grade Wi-Fi networks solution provider. During his time with the company, Bastani transformed Meru Networks from a hardware company to a solution provider, delivering a portfolio of software, software-defined networks (2015 SDN Excellence Award) and subscription cloud offerings (WaaS). Dr. Bastani has also held positions of president, CEO and board member in the mobility, consumer and broadband markets, including president and CEO of Trident Microsystems, Inc. and ANADIGICS, Inc. In addition, he has served in executive positions at Fujitsu Microelectronics, National Semiconductor and Intel Corporation. Dr. Bastani holds a Ph.D. & MSEE in Microelectronics from Ohio State University.