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ISG NFV Leadership Team

NFV Plenary


 Diego R. Lopez, Telefonica S.A.
NFV Chairman		 Bruno Chatras, Orange

NFV Vice Chairman
  Cristina Badulescu, Ericsson

NFV Vice Chairman		   Yoshihiro Nakajima, DOCOMO Communications Labs Europe

NFV Vice Chairman

Technical Steering Committee (TSC)


 Joan Triay, DOCOMO Euro-Labs

Technical Manager

Peter Wörndle, Ericsson AB

Assistant Technical Manager

Network Operator Council (NoC)

Markus Brunner, Swisscom

NoC Chairman
 Klaus Martiny, Deutsche Telecom

NoC Vice Chairman




Dr. Diego López

Network Functions Virtualisation | Telefónica I+D
Chair | ETSI NFV ISG

Diego López joined Telefonica I+D in 2011 as a Senior Technology Expert on network middleware and services. He is currently in charge of the Technology Exploration activities within the GCTO Unit of Telefónica I+D. Before joining Telefónica he spent some years in the academic sector, dedicated to research on network service abstractions and the development of APIs based on them. During this period he was appointed as member of the High Level Expert Group on Scientific Data Infrastructures by the European Commission.

Diego is currently focused on identifying and evaluating new opportunities in technologies applicable to network infrastructures, and the co-ordination of national and international collaboration activities. His current interests are related to network infrastructural services, new network architectures, and network programmability and virtualization. Apart from his participation ETSI NFV ISG, Diego is an active participant to the ONF, and the IETF WGs connected to these activities.

When not struggling with these issues, Diego dedicates his time to his girls, seeking and enjoying comics, wines, and cheeses, and long peripatetic discussions.

Mr. Bruno Chatras

Senior Standardisation Manager | ORANGE
Vice Chairman | ETSI NFV ISG
Bruno Chatras is Senior Standardisation Manager at Orange Labs.

Bruno has over 30 years experience of the telecoms industry. At Orange (formerly France Telecom) Bruno's roles have included Head of Intelligent Networks R&D Unit and Deputy-Head of the Network Architecture and Control laboratory. He is a member of the Orange expert's community on Future Networks with special focus on network functions virtualisation and real-time communications.

Bruno is also Chairman of the ETSI Technial Committee on Network technologies (NTECH) and a contributor to both IETF and 3GPP activities.

Cristina Badulescu

Head of NFV delegation | ERICSSON
Vice Chairman | ETSI NFV ISG

Cristina has 24 years of telecom experience working on both vendor and operator sides, covering areas including standardization, technology & architecture, pre-sales, innovations management, product system & solution architecture, software product realization and network & radio frequencies planning.

Currently the ETSI NFV standardization coordinator and Head of Ericsson NFV delegation, Cristina is responsible for identifying the direction and strategy for NFV, as well as the coordination of the overall standardization activities of the Ericsson team involved in the activities under the NFV ISG.
  Dr. Yoshihiro Nakajima

Head of  NFV standardisation | DOCOMO Euro-Labs
Vice Chairman | ETSI NFV ISG

Yoshihiro joined NTT DOCOMO in 2017 as a manager within the Network Management and Orchestration Group, Core Network Development department.
Yoshihiro has led the development for commercial NFV infrastructure and MANO system for mobile core network system.
Before joining NTT DOCOMO, Yoshihiro worked for several years in the research and academic sector in NTT Network Innovation Laboratories.
  Dr. Joan Triay

Research and Standardization Engineer | DOCOMO Euro-Labs
Technical Manager | ETSI NFV ISG

Joan joined DOCOMO Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany, in 2012 as a researcher and standardization engineer. He is currently in charge at DOCOMO Euro-Labs of the standardization activities related to Network Functions Virtualization (NFV), and focused on leveraging virtualization technologies to evolve and enhance telecom networks, and mobile networks in particular. In the past, Joan held various positions in research, some in academia, mostly dedicated to research on optical networking and convergence with mobile networks. 

Joan holds an MEng in Telecommunications Engineering, as well as a MSc and a PhD in Telematics Engineering (Computer Networks), all from Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, BarcelonaTech (UPC). He has lived and worked in four countries, including the USA sponsored by a Fulbright Fellowship.
  Mr. Peter Wörndle

Expert Network Function Virtualization | Ericsson
Assistant Technical Manager | ETSI NFV ISG

Peter is working at Ericsson as a Technology Expert both in Aachen, Germany and Stockholm, Sweden. As a Technology Expert in the area of Network Function Virtualization he is responsible for technology evolution, technology strategy and architecture for NFV in Ericsson.

Peter has held different positions in R&D and IT within Ericsson working mainly with Cloud and Virtualization in R&D, IT operations and standardization.

Peter has a Master’s Degree (Diplom Ingenieur) in Electrical Engineering and Communication from RWTH (Technical University) Aachen, Germany.
Mr. Markus Brunner

Head of Standardisation, Eco-System Development & Chief Researcher | Swisscom
Chair, Network Operator Council | ETSI NFV ISG

Markus has been active in research, development, and standardization for over 25 years with experience in programmability of networks and services, cloud technology for IT and network service providers (NfV), and automation of network and IT including autonomic communication.
He is involved in various international organizations on software-defined networking and the future telecommunication technologies like Network Function Virtualization and 5G networking (ETSI, 3GPP and Linux Foundation Networking).
Don Clarke Mr. Klaus Martiny

Senior Program Manager | Deutsche Telekom
Vice Chair, Network Operator Council | ETSI NFV ISG

Klaus has been part of the  international key projects team at Deutsche Telekom since 2008 focusing on the NGMN Alliance, TM Forum and ETSI NFV ISG. Klaus  is responsible for steering standardization operations (automation), strategic programs focused on OSS Evolution, Network and service management projects and the setup and Optimization of the European Operations Organization.

Prior to DT, Klaus was Vice President of Continuous Improvement of Operations for T-Mobile International.