About
The Speakers:
Barry McGinley
Systems Engineer, EPS Global
Barry's broad knowledge of Open Networking encompasses the Hardware and Software required to optimise your organization's performance. You can preview some of his previous discussions surrounding Open Networking in his monthly blog.
Ben Afshari
VP Sales & Business Development, Exaware
Ben has been working with Communication Service Providers for more than a decade, holding senior Sales and Business Development positions, most recently with Amdocs, where he led the Networking Transformation through NFV Orchestration solutions (ETSI-MANO & ONAP), helping CSPs in EMEA with their cloudification journey to grow their business.
Before joining Amdocs, Ben served as Regional Vice President of Sales at ECI Telecom, where he was instrumental in expanding and growing ECI business in Taiwan, Vietnam, and South Korea.
David Zelig
Chief Technology Officer
David joined the company in 2012 and is the CTO since 2016. He has more than 20 years of experience in the computer and data communication industry. David was a senior system architect at Orckit/Corrigent, developing DSL and Metro systems massively deployed in Japan. He also served as product manager at Oversi Networks and later at PMC-Sierra.
David holds a MBA from Tel-Aviv University and MSc. in communication theory from the Technion Institute, Haifa. He also holds more than 20 patents in various fields in systems and communications.