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Maria Azada leads the SaaS Portfolio Management and Strategy within Nokia Cloud and Network Services group. With more than 30 years of experience in the telecom industry, Maria seeks to drive Innovation and Transformation in the telecommunication services industry. She holds a master’s degree in computer science and held various positions in portfolio strategy, product management and business development.

Michael has 20+ years of experience leading growth strategy, innovation and transformation in the tech sector and technology-driven businesses, as a consultant, executive and board member. While at EY he leads some of the most complex client transformations with multi-faceted teams, has led the development of the global innovation team and currently is leading the development of the TMT “as a service” solution. Prior to EY, Michael was a co-founder of Bedrock Consultants, which was acquired by EY in 2014. In addition to developing the unique strategy and design approach, he led growth strategy and innovation engagements with software, hardware, telecom and SaaS clients.  Before building Bedrock, Michael served as a partner with Alliance Consulting Group, building the West Region / Silicon Valley regional practice before it’s acquisition by a venture-backed next-gen service provider company.  Michael worked throughout his career with former Harvard Business School professor, Dr. Robert Miles, in advancing the principles of corporate transformation and co-authoring Big Ideas to Big Results with Person Hall in 2008 and 2016.  CV Highlights EY Partner/Principal – Innovation and Transformation  Bedrock Consultants (acquired by EY) – Co-founder Alliance / Emerald – Corporate Strategy Partner  Pacific Telesis Group - Corporate Strategy and Product Management

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Golnar is a principal and business transformation advisor in the Consulting service line. She works with clients to identify, create and scale new offers to drive B2B growth, and develop solution-selling capabilities to win in their services business. She helps clients shape and execute transformative programs to accelerate time to value and increase value realization from new value propositions and offers in emerging and expanding ecosystems. Golnar helps companies capitalize on disruptive technologies to drive productivity and incremental revenue and expand their ecosystem engagements to drive new revenue in existing and new markets. She designed a framework to help companies expand cross-industry ecosystems and has contributed to a book, Selling Through Someone Else: How to use Agile Sales Networks to Sell More. She has an Applied Mathematics and Computer Science degree from the University of California at Berkeley and has an MS and MBA from the London Business School.