Sandro Mazziotta is director of NFV product management at Red Hat.  He has more than 15 years' experience in the software industry, building products for fortune 2000 enterprise and telco customers. He is passionate about bringing to market new ideas and concepts.  His focus is on IaaS, PaaS and Big Data, with an overarching interest in cloud computing and open source software and a passion for OpenStack and NFV.  He previously held roles at eNovance, Cyan, Inc. before it was acquired by Ciena, and HP Cloud Services.  Sandro holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nice.