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Brandon Wick is a Senior Director of Marketing at Aarna Networks where he leads the organization on digital media, content and automated marketing, and communications strategy and execution. Prior to Aarna, he worked at the Linux Foundation for seven years building and growing open source projects and communities across the networking, cloud, and energy verticals. Before joining the Linux Foundation, he worked for multiple marketing agencies and an international NGO providing volunteer services around the globe. He holds a master’s degree in international relations and a bachelor’s degree in psychology. He resides in the Hudson Valley of New York with his wife and daughter. 

Amar Kapadia is the CEO and Co-Founder of Aarna Networks, a SaaS solutions provider that offers zero-touch edge and 5G services orchestration and management at scale. Amar has over 20 years of experience in networking, storage, server, and I/O technologies through marketing and engineering leadership positions at Mirantis, Emulex, Philips, and HP. Amar is the author of three books: "ONAP Demystified", "Understanding OPNFV" and "OpenStack Object Storage (Swift) Essentials," and holds an MS EE degree from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in San Jose, California.

Sriram Rupanagunta is a co-founder & SVP Engineering at Aarna Networks, Inc, and heads their engineering team. Prior to Aarna, Sriram was the Head of India Engineering at Data Center Business of Western Digital Corp. Prior to Western Digital, Sriram was with the SSD based startup Virident Systems (which was acquired by Western Digital). Earlier to that, Sriram was also the co-founder of start up Aarohi Communications which was acquired by Emulex Corporation, and was the Vice President, Technology at Emulex. He lives in Bangalore, India with his wife and a daughter.