Presenter

Dr. Cliff Grossner has more than 25 years of telecommunications industry experience encompassing scientific research, market analysis, corporate and product strategy, product management, and marketing. At the Open Compute Project (OCP), Cliff leads its market intelligence function and is responsible for driving new innovation programs, including guiding inventors developing their early-stage company ideas, setting strategic direction, and building awareness of OCP, establishing new alliances, and launching new activities in OCP’s Future Technologies Initiative.

Previously, Cliff was head of the Cloud and Data Center Research Practice at Omdia, responsible for research quality across the practice and his research was focused on cloud services, data center compute and networking, and data center infrastructure. Prior to Omdia, he held senior positions in the information and communications technology industries, including heading strategic marketing for Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise network business and tenures at Bell Labs, Nortel, and several early-stage companies.