Dr. Raghu Ranganathan has been with Ciena since 1998. He has worked extensively on Product Development, Strategy and Standards related to Connectivity Services, Edge Computing, IoT, Network/Service Architecture and Multi-domain Service Orchestration. He has been active in MEF since 2003 and, during 2011-2017, was member of Board of Directors in MEF as well as Co-Chair of Committee developing MEF Specifications. In addition, he has been Editor of multiple MEF Specifications. He is also active in multiple industry activities including ONAP and TIP. Dr. Ranganathan is a Senior Member of IEEE.