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About us

We aim at democratizing Private Networks so that they can benefit all enterprises, whatever their size.

We believe open source is the way forward in telecom and we thrive at helping the whole industry reduce the complexity and the cost of private network deployments.

Claude Seyrat

- CEO
PhD

Claude is an experienced entrepreneur with a demonstrated history of creating and running businesses. Building on 20 years of experience in telecommunications and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence, he founded 4 companies and raised over 25 M€ in funds. The world’s largest telecom operators have called up on Claude’s expertise to tailor telecom solutions for them, including AT&T, Verizon in the US, NTT Docomo in Japan, Reliance in India, or Samsung and LG in Korea.

Olivier Dhotel

- CGO
MBA

Olivier is a resilient entrepreneur and intrapreneur with 20+ years of experience in Telecom. He has co-founded three startups, 2 of which focusing on 4G and 5G technologies. Olivier managed and developed several telecom services at Europe-based Telecom Operator Orange such as OCS, League 1, VOD. His expertise centers around Business Development, Product development, Innovation, and start-up acceleration. Olivier holds an MBA from ESCP Business School.

Sandrine Legrand

- CSO
MBA

Sandrine is a high tech executive with 20+ years of experience boosting business growth at telecom companies. She held numerous senior positions in Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia in France, Australia and China. She notably launched and developed the Private Mobile Network business of Nokia worldwide. Sandrine holds an MSc in Telecommunications from Supelec and an MBA in General Management.

Bartolo Scanavino

- CPO
PhD

Bartolo is a telecom expert with 20 years of experience in Radio Access and Core Networking. He was introducing new telecom technologies on the field at Motorola, the american multinational telecommunications company. He was also the Telecom Market Director at Enensys and Expway. Bartolo has a Ph.D in Wireless Telecommunications from Polytechnic of Turin.

Ulla Saari

- CBO
MBA

Ulla is a seasoned digital executive, with 20+ years of experience in sales and business development. Ulla's expertise extends to all facets of management as well, namely advertising, online media, telecom, digital television and mobile broadcast fields. Ulla holds an MBA from Hanken school of Economics.

Cedric Thienot

- CTO
PhD

Cedric Thienot is an IT professional with 20+ years of experience in the telecommunications industry. He is Skilled in Streaming Media, Mobile Communications, DVB, Interactive TV, and VOD. Cedric has filed 25 telecom patents in his career and is an active contributor of 4G and 5G specifications at 3GPP. Cedric holds a PhD in AI from Pierre and Marie Curie University.

Solid Technical Leaders

Gérard

11 years of experience
Former CTO at Huawei Technologies. Managed a team of 70+ engineers working on projects from 2G/3G, LTE, and OSS. As well as wireless, radio, transmission, and datacom fields built in several countries.
Anurag

Anurag

8 years of experience
Design & Team leader of 15+ on 5G gNB and UE / 5G NR terrestrial & non-terrestrial

Christophe

23 years of experience
Worked as DevOps engineer focusing on industrialization & integration - expertise in various coding languages like Python, Yaml, Apache, jboss, jahia, springboot, postgreSql, etc
Vijay

Vijay

17 years of experience
Design & Team leader of 7+ engineers on 5G gNB
FR2, beam forming, L1/L2
Virtualization of Networking Functions