Peter Laurin has been with Ericsson since 2001. He has held the position as VP of Multimedia, System Integration and Hosting for North America since November, 2006. Prior to this assignment in the US, Peter Laurin, was globally P&L responsible for Managed Services Hosting, based with Business Unit Global Services in Stockholm.

Peter began his career as strategy consultant working for the management consultancy firm Arthur D. Little focusing on the Telecom industry. He then co-founded a start-up company, Mediatude Ltd, with focus on Mobile Internet that was acquired by Ericsson in 2001 and brought into Ericsson Business Innovation.

Joseph Berthold is currently Vice President, Network Architecture at Ciena Corporation, where he has worked since early 1997. He contributes to the understanding of future network architecture directions, network service concepts, the definition of Ciena's networking products, and is responsible for the coordination of Ciena's work in industry standards.