Nabil Bitar holds BS, MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is the CTO—Head of Network Architecture at Bloomberg LP working on WAN, enterprise, private and public cloud networking.
Prior to his current position, he was the CTO for the Large Enterprise & Webscale Segment at Nokia and a fellow and director of Services and Network Architecture at Verizon. Nabil was also a principal engineer and architect at Ascend Communication (acquired by Lucent) working on routing and routing system control and data plane architecture, and a principal member of technical staff at GTE Laboratories working on IP, QoS, VoIP and wireless data and AIN.
Nabil has been a frequent contributor to IETF in the areas of MPLS and Layer2 and Layer3 VPNs (21 FFCs, including EVPN) and a frequent contributor to the Broadband Forum. He held working group positions in the IETF, ONUG and OFC, and has been a frequent speaker at various fora.
He has several refereed publications and conference presentations, and holds 30 patents in the various areas he worked on.