Behzad Nadji

Dr. Behzad Nadji has enjoyed a career spanning over twenty-five years in Networks Design and Architecture, Operations & Business Support Systems, and Mobile Application Development fields. He started from co-founding and building startups to managing large multinational teams in various areas of software Systems Design and Development, Telecom, Services development, IT Consolidation, Data Center Architecture and Consolidation, and Internal/Hybrid Cloud and Self Servicing portals. As the senior VP of AT&T and a corporate officer, he led the prestigious AT&T Lab (formerly Bell Labs) Research organization involved in Network, Software, and Speech technologies research. He also created and managed the Enterprise Architecture organization, which defined the overall AT&T Operations Support Systems (OSS/BSS), Network and IT architecture blueprints. After the merger with SBC, Dr. Nadji was in charge of Network Architecture, Design, Development and Certification for the entire AT&T/SBC Network. He also headed new technology introduction into AT&T network and software systems and managed the AT&T Strategic Venture Investment Fund. Dr. Nadji also served as Senior VP and VP at Excite@Home and BlackBerry for many years managing large multinational software development teams. At BlackBerry, he consolidated and managed the internal and customer-facing Business and Corporate systems (CIO Functions), including Mobile application development, Financials, and HR systems, Sales and Marketing systems, Care and Sales Portals, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Information Management/ Reporting systems, Customer Care Systems, Ticketing Systems, Network Management, Monitoring and Metering Systems, and various proprietary internal systems. Throughout his career, Dr. Nadji has served on a number of advisory boards and board of directors, including the IBM Autonomic computing Advisory Board, HP Technical Advisory Board, and University of Southern California EE technical Advisory Board, and the TeleManagement Forum Board of Directors. He is the recipient of AT&T’s prestigious “Science and Technology Medal”, as well as over 20 other awards in the area of business innovation, architecture, and software development excellence. A senior member of IEEE, he holds over 10 issued technical patents and several others that are in progress. He is currently the founder of the Global Business and Technology Consulting firm which is involved in.