ISG MEC Leaders and Support Team
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Dario Sabella, xFlow Research
ISG MEC Chair
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Walter Featherstone, Apple
ISG MEC Vice-Chair, WG DECODE Chair
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Hongmei Zhu, China Telecommunications
ISG MEC Vice-Chair,
WG DECODE Vice-Chair
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Jane Shen, Mavenir
ISG MEC Technical Expert, with specific duties on Open Source engagements and API exposure
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Robert (Bob) Gazda, InterDigital
ISG MEC Technical Expert and Lead of Edge Developer Communities
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Nurit Sprecher, Nokia
ISG MEC Lead of Industry Outreach and Vertical Ecosystems Engagement
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Chantal Bonardi, ETSI
Technical Officer
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MEC PoC Support Team
MEC Support Team Leader: Diego Lopez, Telefonica
MEC Support Team Members:
•Bob Gazda (InterDigital)
•Alice Li (Huawei)
•Laurent Velez (ETSI)
MEC LS officers for the Vertical Industries
•Mourad Khanfouci (Mitsubishi) – 5GAA on automotive - https://5gaa.org/
•Shuang Zhang (Huawei) – 5G-ACIA on industrial automation - https://5g-acia.org/
•Tushar Gohad (Intel) – SVTA on videostreaming and CDN - www.svta.org
Short Bios of the MEC Leaders
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Dario Sabella
Vice President, Technology and Standards | xFlow Research Inc.
Chair | ETSI ISG MEC
DARIO SABELLA works with xFlow Research Inc. as Vice President, Technology and Standards, leading the team’s involvement in ETSI, both on standardization and open-source activities, and guiding the strategy to expand in other areas, also for features evolution and prioritization in the company. Since 2025, he is also Managing Director and R&D Head of the Italian company called NEXT G CLOUD, focused on Cloud Managed Services and Edge Cybersecurity.
Serving since 2021 as Chairman of the ETSI MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing), an international stand body with 180+ members and participants from industry, research and government agencies. In his career, Dario was previously with Intel Corporation for about 8 years as Senior Manager Standards and Research, driving new technologies and edge cloud innovation, and earlier he worked for 16+ years in TIM (Telecom Italia group), as responsible in various research, experimental and operational activities on cellular technologies. IEEE senior member, prolific author of several publications (80+) and patents (50+) in the field of communications, energy efficiency and edge computing. Member of the European Task Forces on Cybersecurity and 6G. Member of the Editorial Board of MIT Technology Review Italia.
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Dr. Walter Featherstone
Senior Engineer Technology Standardization | Apple
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC
Chair | ETSI ISG MEC WG DECODE
WALTER FEATHERSTONE is a Senior Standards Engineer at Apple, with over 20 years’ experience in the mobile telecommunications industry during which standardization and research have been a central theme. In 2021 he was elected as Vice-Chair of ETSI ISG MEC, whilst already holding the position of Deployment and Ecosystem Development Chair having been elected in 2019. He has been an active contributor to the ISG since 2016, leading the group’s OpenAPI work as rapporteur and appointed as Technical Manager with a focus on architecting for open source in 2017. Prior to joining Apple, he worked for Samsung R&D Institute UK and before that VIAVI Solutions. He also previously worked at Motorola Mobility during Google’s ownership, Nokia Networks and Motorola Solutions. He gained his PhD in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Leeds, specializing in Super Resolution Direction Finding. Walter is a chartered member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET) and is the IET Swindon Local Network Chair.
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Ms. Hongmei Zhu
Senior Engineer Technology Standardization | China Telecommunications
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC
Vice-Chair | ETSI ISG MEC WG DECODE
HONGMEI ZHU is a Senior Engineer at China Telecom, with over 20 years’ experience in the mobile telecommunications industry. She led the testing and experimentation of 3G/WCDMA, followed up on 4G/5G solutions, and promoted the commercialization of the product in the early several years. Later she was active in SA1 and EC in SA2 as an standard representative. Currently she has been focusing on ETSI MEC and she was a rapporteur and contributor to several major WIs, including requirements and scenarios, MECinPark , MEC application slice, UE identity.and actively promoting distributed network WIs. Now she is pushing the 6G pre research based MEC ISG.
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Ms. Jane Shen
VP of Technology Strategy | Mavenir
Technical Expert | ETSI ISG MEC
JANE SHEN works in Mavenir responsible for Telco public cloud readiness and MEC technology strategy, driving new technology adoption and product innovation. She has been working in opensource communities for years holding various positions such as LF Edge board member alternative, LF edge Marketing group representative, Akraino API subcommittee co-chair and CNCF KubeEdge MEC SIG initiator. Since 2019 she started to engage in ETSI MEC activities. She held various leadership positions in engineering and technical planning in Mavenir and Futurewei. She is an experienced architect in 4G/5G NFV core network, MEC, OSS/BSS, and automation. She has been fully engaged in Telco Network Cloud Native movement and applying Data analytics and AI in the telco space.
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Mr Robert (Bob) Gazda
Senior Director I InterDigital
Technical Expert | ETSI ISG MEC
ROBERT (BOB) GAZDA is a Senior Director in InterDigital’s Wireless Networking Lab. Bob is an accomplished technologist and engineering professional with over 20 years of experience in wireless telecommunications, distributed systems, networking, and embedded systems. Currently, Bob is working on research, innovation, and standardization focused on 5G and 6G Distributed and Converged Edge Computing and Communications Systems. Bob has served as an ETSI ISG MEC delegate since 2017, helping to engage developers with focused activities such as: OpenAPI specifications, pioneering the ETSI MEC Sandbox, MEC Hackathons, etc. Bob holds a Master, Software Engineering (MSE) degree from Carnegie Mellon University, a MS in Computer Engineering degree from Villanova University, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Drexel University.
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Ms. Chantal Bonardi
Technical Officer | ETSI
Technical Officer | ETSI ISG MEC
CHANTAL BONARDI is a Technical Officer within the ETSI Secretariat and has 30 years of experience in International standardization. She has provided support to more than a dozen ETSI TBs or ISGs and has gained considerable experience on the world stage. She is mainly renowned for her knowledge in the standardization aspects of public safety/emergency communications and multimedia delivery/broadcasting. Since 2017, Chantal has broadened her scope by providing support to ISG MEC. She has also been actively involved in the Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) as Convenor of a Task Force and in promoting the results of the ETSI work at International Conferences.
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Ms Nurit Sprecher
Head of standards network and service automation I Nokia
ETSI Fellow
NURIT SPRECHER initiated and drove the industry effort to set up the ETSI ISG MEC (Multi-access Edge Computing) and successfully chaired the ISG during its first two-year term. She played an instrumental role in the creation of the ETSI ISG ZSM (Zero-touch network and Service Management) and serves as the vice chair of the group. Nurit has spent many years working as an expert system architect and technologist, defining the carrier-grade network and service architecture evolution and system design. She has contributed to many projects carried out in ETSI, O-RAN ALLIANCE, GSMA, IETF, ITU-T, IEEE and BBF and has participated in core discussions on the Next Generation Network with Tier-1 carriers and a number of governments. She is a contributing author to numerous publications.
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