CTO Council Meeting Speakers

Maciej Kranz Vice President Strategic Innovations

Maciej Kranz brings 30 years of networking industry experience and 15 years of Internet of Things experience to his position as Vice President, Corporate Strategic Innovation Group at Cisco. He leads the group focused on incubating new businesses, accelerating internal innovation, and driving co-innovation with customers and startups through a global network of Cisco Innovation Centers.

Prior to this role, Kranz was General Manager of the Connected Industries Group at Cisco, a business unit focused the Internet of Things. He built an IoT business from the ground up and relentlessly evangelized the IoT opportunity across Cisco and the market, making IoT one of Cisco’s major priorities.

Previously, Kranz led efforts across Cisco to define, prioritize, and deliver Borderless Network Architecture and roadmaps. He also drove business and product strategy for the wireless and mobility business and led product management for the stackable Ethernet switching business unit through its expansion from $400M to $6B in revenues.

In his New York Times bestselling book, Building the Internet of Things, Kranz offers practical advice to business decision makers on how and why to implement IoT today.

Adam Drobot Chairman of the Board OpenTechWorks, Inc.

Adam is currently Chairman of the Board of OpenTechWorks, Inc., which develops open source software for large complex applications, and CEO of IoXWorks, Inc. a company whose mission is the acceleration of solutions and adoption of the Internet-of-Things. He is on the board or an advisor to multiple companies and start-ups in Information and Telecommunications Technology. These include: 5 Screens Media, Inc., DataMi, Stealth Software Technologies, Advanced Green Computing Machines, and Berkshire Bridge Capital. He was previously with 2M Capital as a Managing Director and CTO. Prior he was, President of Applied Solutions and CTO of Telcordia Technologies, Inc. At SAIC, now Leidos, he held positions with increasing responsibilities which included: Senior Vice President for Technology and CTO of the Advanced Technology and Services Sector and co-chair of the SAIC Engineering Science and Technology Council.

Adam is on the Board of the Telecommunications Industry Association, where he chairs the Technology Committee and co-chairs the CTO Council. He is also a member of the FCC Technical Advisory Council and currently co-chairs the “Future Game Changing Technologies” Working Group for 2016.

Brenda Boehm Chief Strategy Officer, Executive Vice President, TIA

Brenda Boehm, Chief Strategy Officer, is responsible for the overall strategic direction and provides the technology and product leadership for the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA). Brenda’s deep industry expertise is based upon her successful leadership roles at both the executive and board levels with various innovation-focused technology companies from entrepreneurial start-ups; Starent Networks, Tango Networks, and Cyphre to Fortune 100 leaders; Cisco, Nortel, Alcatel-Lucent and Nokia. This uniquely broad set of experiences and skills have equipped her with the insight to create a market vision that recognizes industry disruption, an ability to harness change for innovation, develop global market reach and ensure the most successful operational best practices.

Most recently Brenda’s focus has been on developing company infrastructure and operational transformation; driving virtualized, dynamic, secure networks that can connect to everything, everywhere. She recognizes that this new architecture and operational transformation will bring further efficiencies, agility and an ability to truly manage the new Internet of Things.

Brenda Boehm holds a Masters of Science (MS) from SMU’s School of Engineering in Telecommunications and a Bachelors (BA) in Computer Information Systems (CIS) from the University of Louisiana. She also attended Stanford’s prestigious Graduate School of Business Executive Program, recently completed the Advanced Computer Security Certification Program.