William Garrett
Director  – Mass Market Technology
Corporate Network & Technology
E-mail: wgarrett@verizon.com

Bill Garrett is Director – Mass Market Technology, a position he has held since May 2006.  His group is responsible for working internally and with the external vendor and technology community to define and develop innovative services, ideas and technologies for deployment by Verizon.
Prior to his current position, Garrett spent four years as Director of Broadband Services, where he was responsible for defining service requirements for Verizon’s FTTP deployment and developing and deploying advanced communications, video and data services targeted at Verizon’s DSL and FTTP networks.
Prior to his current position, Garrett was a distinguished member of technical staff in the Verizon Technology Organization where he was partly responsible for architecting Verizon’s Next Generation IP Networks and in developing the network infrastructure needed to support new services deployment.
Prior to that, he was Principal Investigator – Next Generation Application Technologies for GTE Laboratories. Where he was responsible for developing GTE’s first deployed IP-based services with Genuity and for evaluating and recommending new technologies for use in GTE’s network and IT operations.
Garrett received his Masters of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Rochester in 1992.
He lives in Framingham, MA with his wife Mini and their three children Alesia, Ethan and Isobel.

Ravi Jain is currently with Google, Mountain View, California, as a manager for mobile engineering efforts in mobile advertising, location based services, and syndicated mobile search. Previously, from 2002 to 2005, he was Vice President and Director of the Network Services and Security Lab in DoCoMo USA Labs. At DoCoMo he led the US team designing DoCoMo's 4th generation (4G) core network in three key areas: mobility management, QoS and security. From 1992 to 2002 he was in Applied Research, Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore) working on mobile wireless architectures, algorithms, protocols and middleware, as well as open programmable networks.  Prior to that he worked for several years on systems and communications software development, performance modeling, and parallel programming.
Ravi received the Ph. D. in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1992, and has numerous publications and patents in the wireless area. Ravi is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Upsilon Pi Epsilon, ACM, and a Fellow of the IEEE.

Tom Sands has over 15 years of experience in the technology and telecommunications industries including optical transport, broadband access, and switching/routing platforms.  With ECI Telecom, Tom is responsible for leading the team in Pittsburgh in the delivery of advanced switching and routing products. ECI Telecom is an Israel based provided of communications equipment worldwide. Prior to joining ECI, he served as Director, Technology and Collaboration at Ericsson, driving collaborative development and business opportunities throughout the organization. Tom came to Ericsson through the acquisition of Marconi and FORE Systems, where he had various roles including Director, Hardware Engineering.  Prior to FORE Systems, Tom served as VP Engineering for a small startup company, Television Computer.  He holds a Master of Science and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Dennis Smith
First Vice President
The Bank of New York Mellon
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After completing college in 1983 (University of Pittsburgh, MBA with an emphasis in M.I.S.; and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from the University of Dayton), Dennis joined IBM as a systems engineer working in the financial services industry.  In the late 1980s, he was one of the original members of a national telecommunications practice for Ernst & Whiney (later Ernst & Young). Among the major initiatives that he was engaged were integration of the telecommunications facilities of Northwest Orient and Republic Airlines (which became Northwest Airlines) and deployment of the New York State Lottery network. In the early 1990s, Dennis joined the Travelers where his team introduced routers into the infrastructure (one of the first large organizations to route SNA traffic). In 1994, Dennis joined Mellon Financial, and for 12 years led the architecture and design of the Mellon network. In 2006, Dennis assumed the duties of manager of the Advanced Engineering group which was tasked with introducing new infrastructure technology and maintaining the product roadmaps. In 2007, Dennis assumed these same duties for the merged company, The Bank of New York Mellon.
Dennis has been a guest lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University for over 10 years on various technology topics. In the mid 1990s, he conducted a set of classes at the University of Pittsburgh. He has been quoted and/or featured in the past few years in industry publications (e.g., Computer World and Network World).