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Todd Spraggins

Nortel

Todd Spraggins is President and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Todd is currently a Strategic Architect for Nortel's Carrier Networks business. He has 15 years of Operations, R&D, Product Management and Portfolio Strategy experience in the telecommunications industry. Todd was part of the founding team for Nortel's COTS based platform and has since been a champion for the COTS ecosystem via participation in CP-TA, PICMG, SAF and other industry standard bodies. His prior roles at Nortel have been centered around circuit to packet transformation and the development of wireless VoIP.

Todd received a Masters of Science in Telecommunications from Southern Methodist University and a Bachelors of Science and Engineering from Tulane University with a major in Computer Engineering and a minor in Mathematics.

Sven Freudenfeld

Kontron

Sven Freudenfeld is Vice President of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Sven is responsible for North American Business Development for the Kontron AG line of AdvancedTCA, AdvancedMC, MicroTCA, and Pre-Integrated Solutions. Sven has more than 15 years of experience with voice, data, and wireless communications, having worked extensively with Nortel Networks in systems engineering, Sanmina-SCI in test engineering, and Deutsche Telekom in network engineering. Sven earned his electrical engineering degree in Germany, and is Chair of the CP-TA marketing workgroup focusing on the interoperability of COTS standard building blocks.

Stuart Jamieson

Emerson

Stuart Jamieson is Secretary and Treasurer of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Stuart Jamieson is the Director of Industry Relations/Architect with Emerson Network Power, Embedded Computing. Within this role he currently represents Emerson on a number of PICMG committees, CP-TA, and the SCOPE organisation. He brings over 19 years of experience in hardware, protocols, embedded software, and specification development to these groups. Within Emerson, he played a key role in the development of the technology central to Emerson’s bundled networking solutions. Stuart’s positions within Emerson have included Director of Business Development, and Director of Advanced Technology and Architect. He previously served as the Draft Editor for the PICMG MicroTCA Specification and is currently the author of the introduction section for the new PICMG Ruggedised MicroTCA specification.

Stuart graduated from the Heriot-Watt University in 1989 with a 1st Class Honors degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering and again in 1992 with an IBM-sponsored Master of Philosophy.

Brian Wood

Continuous Computing

Brian Wood is a Director of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Mr. Wood was named vice president of marketing in June 2006, formerly serving as Continuous Computing's director of marketing since April 2004. He leads all global marketing including public relations, web/online awareness, industry events, partner and product marketing, advertising, and sales tools. Previously Mr. Wood was director of marketing at Sorrento Networks, an optical networking systems vendor. He also held a variety of operational and business development roles at Rhythms, a nationwide DSL service provider, and NextWave Telecom, a nationwide wireless carrier. Mr. Wood has an M.S. degree in engineering management from Stanford University, a B.S. degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University, and served as an F-14 Tomcat Radar Intercept Officer in the U.S. Navy.

Joe McDevitt

Diversified Technology

Joe McDevitt is a Director of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Joe McDevitt is Diversified Technology Inc.’s Vice President of Technical Development, and his focus is on defining cutting-edge products that utilize new technologies, like ATCA and uTCA. Joe started his career with Diversified Technology in 1995 as a hardware engineer and was a lead engineer on the development of several symmetric multiprocessor NEBS servers that were specifically designed for telecommunications.

Joe served as DTI’s Hardware Engineering Manager for five years, overseeing the development of many of DTI’s processor products. With the advent of the ATCA specification, Joe designed DTI’s first ATCA node and has had a guiding hand in DTI’s continued ATCA developments. He served many years as DTI’s ATCA Program Manager before assuming his current role within DTI.

Joe currently serves on PICMG's Executive Board and various sub-committees within PICMG. He is also DTI’s representative to the SCOPE Alliance.

Joe has dual Bachelor degrees in Electrical Engineering and Aerospace Engineering from Mississippi State University.

Jim Lawrence

ENEA

Jim Lawrence is a Director of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Jim has been a leader in the communications industry for over 25 years. During those years he has pioneered many telecom technologies and solutions for Motorola, Intel, and OpenClovis. Currently Jim is serving Enea as Chief Software Standards Officer where he is applying 10 years of standards experience to driving next generation standards based software platforms. Jim is a member of the Service Availability Forum where he serves as Member Relations Officer. In addition, Jim is currently co chair of the Middleware Work Group within the SCOPE-Alliance, and contributing to the Manageability Task Force within the Communications Platform Trade Alliance. He has a Masters in Program Management from George Washington University and a BSEE from University of Maryland.

Marwan Khoury

Intel

Marwan is currently Director of Technology and Platform Enabling for the Embedded and Communications Group. In his role, he oversees his team’s involvement in specification, enabling and interoperability of complementary commercial off-the-shelf building blocks that will increase platform revenue, value/retain margin, and promote early adoption of Intel-preferred technologies. Marwan currently serves PICMG as the Intel representative on the Executive Board.

Marwan joined Intel Corporation in 1994. During his13 years, he has held various responsibilities representing Intel in industry initiatives and standards organizations (PCI-E, ASI, DOCSIS, and PICMG). He served Intel in different Technical Marketing, Applications Engineering and Post Silicon Validation positions as a Team Lead and Engineering Manager in the area of IA Silicon and Platform, Multimedia Silicon, Communications and Networking Silicon and Platforms. He holds 5 patents. Marwan has a BSEE from the California Polytechnic State University and an MSEE from San Jose State University.

Anthony Ambrose

RadiSys

Anthony Ambrose is a Director of the Communications Platforms Trade Association.

Anthony Ambrose is the Vice President and General Manager of Communications Networks at RadiSys. Anthony joined RadiSys in 2007, where he leads the communications and networking business at Radisys. Anthony is responsible for the Radisys initiative in standard modular platforms, including ATCA, where Radisys has established a leading position in the industry with the Promentum platform. Before joining RadiSys, Anthony was Intel Corporation's General Manager of the Modular Communications Platform Division (MCPD) in the Communications Infrastructure Group (CIG) where he led Intel’s efforts in telecommunications and platform products and the creation of the ATCA initiative.

In addition to being an industry advocate and spokesperson for standards based platforms, Anthony has a track record of developing products and building businesses worldwide.

Anthony holds a Bachelors of Science in Engineering from Princeton University, graduating Magna cum Laude.