Marc Cohn is Vice President of Network Strategy for The Linux Foundation based in Silicon Valley. He is the Executive Director of the OPEN-O Project, which recently merged into the Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP). Cohn has been a major contributor to the software-defined networking (SDN) community, as the Market Area Director for the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). In 2016, he was appointed the third ONF Fellow. He also served as the sole Silver Member representative for the OpenDaylight Board of Directors, where he was elected Treasurer. Cohn was formerly an advisor to the Chairman of the ETSI Network Functions Virtualisation (NFV) ISG on communications and edits the ETSI NFV leadership Blog, and NFV Insider series on SDxCentral. Prior to joining the Linux Foundation, Cohn was Senior Vice President Marketing at ClearPath Networks, and was the outbound face for Ciena's SDN strategy.