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Keith Southard
Keith Southard runs Allied Telesis, the San Jose-headquartered networking company building switches, routers and software-defined infrastructure used everywhere from US military bases overseas to smart-city deployments. He took over as CEO of Allied Telesis Capital Corporation in 2008 and has stayed at the controls ever since, quietly steering a 1,900-person company through the awkward transition from hardware vendor to network-automation outfit.
Mathieu Planche
Mathieu Planche is the CEO and Director of R&D at Witbe, a Paris-founded, publicly traded company (Euronext Growth) that builds AI-powered robots and platforms for video Quality of Experience monitoring and automated testing. Since taking the helm in 2019, he has steered Witbe through a rapid AI transformation - from hardware testing appliances to the industry's first agent-native video QA platform - serving 300+ broadcasters, OTT providers, and telecom operators across 120+ countries. A dual-degree engineer from CentraleSupélec and Georgia Tech, Planche rose through every rung of the Witbe ladder: consultant, UI designer, Americas ops manager, Chief Experience Officer, and Chief Product Officer before becoming CEO.
Mauro Bonomi
Mauro Bonomi is the Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Minerva Networks, a San Jose-based company he built from the ground up into a global IPTV and OTT software platform serving over 300 operators across 6 continents. A Stanford-trained electrical engineer with deep roots in digital video compression, Bonomi spent decades at the intersection of television and the internet before that intersection became a cliche. His platform powers pay-TV services from linear broadcast to AI-driven content discovery, helping carriers modernize without tearing everything down.