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Guavus

As Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at [Guavus](/org/guavus), Chris Neisinger is responsible for defining and driving the company’s technology roadmap and customer engagement strategy.

He leads internal development, external partnerships and multi-vendor solutions to leverage the power of distributed data analytics.

Prior to [Guavus](/org/guavus), he was Executive Director of Services Architecture at [Verizon](/org/verizon-communications), where he leveraged emerging technologies and network intelligence to build architectures that enable new business opportunities and created new sources of revenue.

Chris Neisinger

Alex has been working in the IT, Telecom and IoT industries for over 20 years. He joined [Guavus](/org/guavus) in Nov 2019 from Thales Digital Identity and Security (ex-Gemalto), where he had been in charge of various commercial and technical teams around the world for the past 15 years, with a great track record of commercial success and innovation. His recent assignment in Gemalto was SVP Sales Telecom, based in London, UK.

Alex holds BSc and MSc degrees in applied math and physics from [Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology](/org/moscow-institute-of-physics-and-technology-state-university-mipt-phystech), and has accomplished the General Management Program from Cambridge University, Judge Business School in the UK.

Alexander Shevchenko

Damian was CEO and Founder of SQLstream, a company recently acquired by Thales to strengthen [Guavus](/org/guavus)’s streaming analytics and real-time intelligence capabilities. SQLstream is an acknowledged leader in the streaming analytics world, with customers including [Walmart](/org/walmart) and Amazon AWS, and is the pioneer in transforming SQL into a real-time parallel-processing language for stream data management.

Immediately before that, he ran Global Business Development and the US Operations for a Sequoia-funded company Followap, leader in mobile instant messaging and presence, now [Neustar](/org/neustar). Damian has a long career that started in AI research at Hewlett-Packard’s European research laboratories and ended up running the 64-bit program for HP worldwide including business and customer transition.

Damian holds 14 patents and studied at the UK’s oldest and leading Computer Science school, the University of Manchester, where he was the prize winner for Top Computer Science and Engineering graduate (Valedictorian).

Damian Black

Jack Jones

Dr. Silvia Veronese is responsible for the analytics research and successful adoption of Guavus technologies – focusing on information analytics based on large-scale machine learning and advancing the use of data mining to help businesses strengthen IT operations, engineer new products, optimize marketing and deliver real-time personalized content – driving innovation and transformation in the largest big data environments in the world.  Silvia has extensive experience in big data, analytics, algorithmic modeling, security, information management and governance in both enterprise and service provider markets.

Prior to Guavus, Silvia held various executive positions at Hewlett Packard and HPE. She was also a co-founder in several startups in data analytics, traffic monitoring and high frequency trading. And at IBM, she worked on the team that designed the first parallel computer.

Silvia spent the first half of her career in academia as professor of mathematics at the [University of Utah](/org/university-of-utah) doing research in high-performance computing and non-linear dynamical systems. She has published several articles in the area of mathematical modeling, biomedical engineering, network and traffic flow analysis. She holds a doctorate in mathematics from the [University of Pavia](/org/university-of-pavia), Italy, an MBA in Management of Technologies from the [University of Utah](/org/university-of-utah) and has completed her post graduate studies at M.I.T.

Silvia Veronese

Ben Parker is responsible for [Guavus](/org/guavus)’ strategy & expansion into new markets, including Internet of Things (IoT) industry verticals. Prior to his tenure at [Guavus](/org/guavus) he was the Director of Network Planning with [Verizon](/org/verizon-communications), where he led a team responsible for long-term network planning for the [Verizon](/org/verizon-communications) Wireless network. His major projects include the development of Network Analytics, Elastic Cloud Networking, next-generation routing and switching architectures, and NAT solutions to address IPv4 completion. Mr. Parker and his team were also responsible for developing the designs for the Content Management and Distribution System, Fiber to the Cell Site, Ethernet Backhaul, Wireless IPv6, and transitioning the TDM MSCs and peering points to VoIP. In 1997, Benjamin joined Sprint and began his career as a Network Systems Specialist. He quickly earned promotions to more visible positions, which include Test Engineer, Principal Network Design Engineer, Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, and Sr. Manager of Technical Staff. Following his tenure at Sprint he held the position of Vice President of Engineering at Oakley Networks. In addition to Mr. Parker’s extensive professional experience, he holds a Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Nevada at Reno and a Masters Degree in Business Administration from [Benedictine College](/org/benedictine-college). His post-graduate training includes Electrical Engineering and Telecommunications from [UC Berkeley](/org/uc-berkeley), and Project Management from [George Washington University](/org/gwu). Additionally he has authored or contributed to 75 patents all in the area of telecommunications.

Ben Parker

Stephen is a 20 year veteran in the Information Technology industry with domain expertise in enterprise software, networking, storage and virtualization technologies. He has held a host of senior and executive level positions in product management, marketing, business strategy & planning. Most recently, Stephen led [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](/org/hewlett-packard-enterprise)’s product management organization for the information management and governance business, delivering market-leading data protection, archiving, big data analytics & compliance software products to 40,000+ customers worldwide. Stephen has also held senior leadership roles at EMC, Lucent Technologies, EqualLogic (Dell), Njini, Inc., and Virtensys, Ltd.  Stephen holds a Bachelor of Arts from Berklee College in Boston, MA.

Stephen Spellicy

Vijay is a 20 year veteran in the Information Technology industry and has a wide range of experience in enterprise software, big data applications, SaaS and cloud native applications. A seasoned engineering executive, he provided leadership to globally distributed and high performing teams that thrived in delivering incremental innovation to customers. Most recently, Vijay led [Hewlett Packard Enterprise](/org/hewlett-packard-enterprise)’s engineering organization through the information governance business, delivering market-leading compliance archiving, content management, content analytics and e-discovery, and big data analytics software products to 2,000+ customers worldwide. Vijay has also held senior leadership roles at PeopleAdmin, Callidus Cloud, and Oracle Corporation. Vijay holds a Master of Computer Applications from Nagarjuna University, India.

Vijay Pendyala

Ken is responsible for product management and global business development efforts at [Guavus](/org/guavus). In this role he defines and leads execution of the [Guavus](/org/guavus) product portfolio as well as manages relationships with strategic alliance and channel partners.

Prior to [Guavus](/org/guavus) Ken lead BroadSoft’s (acquired by [Cisco](/org/cisco)) SaaS efforts to evolve their core business from software to cloud-based services. Previous to that he managed BroadSoft’s international sales and global alliance organizations.

Ken holds a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from the [University of Maryland](/org/university-of-maryland).

Ken Rokoff

Anis is a global sales leader and a technology enthusiast with around 20 years of international experience across different markets with some of the world leading companies in the IT / Telecommunication and Digital Security space.

Anis joined [Guavus](/org/guavus) in October 2020 coming from Thales Digital Identity and Security where he held several sales management positions in both the Telco and Banking domains. Anis has successfully led the digital transformation of some of the key regional Telco customers while securing a consistent and healthy revenue growth for Thales in the very competitive region of the Middle East & Africa. His most recent assignment with Thales was VP Sales for Mobile Connectivity Solutions based in Dubai, UAE.

Anis holds an MSc degree in Computer Science Engineering from the ENSI.

Anis Chemli

Kevin leads the Customer Success organization and is responsible for ensuring [Guavus](/org/guavus) customers obtain the greatest value from [Guavus](/org/guavus) solutions. The Customer Success team is dedicated to the success of our customers from delivery to maintenance and throughout the customer journey. At every step, the [Guavus](/org/guavus) Customer Success team is partnering with our customers to deliver complex analytics solutions and reveal the value within their data.

Kevin has over 20 years of telecom industry experience having worked for Sprint and [Ericsson](/org/ericsson) prior to joining [Guavus](/org/guavus) in 2013.

Kevin holds a Bachelor’s in Psychology and Classics from William Jewell College, Liberty, Missouri.

Kevin Keschinger

As SVP Engineering at Guavus, Padam leads the overall Engineering & Applied Analytics organisation. He leads the development of Big Data Applications, Analytics Solutions and Products, Streaming Data ingestion technology and oversees all chapters like UI, QA, DevOps, Program Management.

Prior to Guavus, Padam was a Technology co-founder having engineered diverse set of products around Billing, Rating, Charging, Compliance, Lawful Interception, IPv4/IPv6 stacks for network products like CGNAT, Firewall, DPI, MPLS Routers, Wi-Fi APs and more that handled millions of PPS. All these products were deployed at massive scale, redundancy and reliability. He has also lead other organizations at CTO/advisor level for NLU/NLP based solutions for Telco, Employee engagement, and Banks.

He holds a degree in Mathematics and Computer science from University of Delhi and still loves to code in his free time. He is passionate about high performance, high compute, large data volume applications that solve key industry problems.

Padam Jeet Singh

Anukool founded [Guavus](/org/guavus) with a vision to provide solutions for dynamic, data-driven decision-making. He brings two decades of thought leadership in large-scale data analytics and has published more than a dozen papers on the subject. His Ph.D. dissertation put forth the theory and algorithms for streaming analytics on high-dimensional data, which forms the basis for the technology at [Guavus](/org/guavus). Prior to [Guavus](/org/guavus), Anukool was at Intel Research and Sprint Labs. He holds a B.S., M.S. and a Ph.D. in Computer Science from [Boston University](/org/boston-university).

Anukool Lakhina

Thomas de Chezelles is Finance Director at [Guavus](/org/guavus). Thomas joined [Guavus](/org/guavus) from Thales. He used to work across the globe (France, Singapore, United Stated and Canada) and in various domains (Bank, Transportation, Security, Aviation and Software businesses). He holds a master of management from Paris Dauphine University.

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