Greg 

Background / Bio

Greg Whelan. Principal at Greywale Insights has over 20 years of international telecommunication and cable networks experience.  He’s a thought leader in merging Service Provider business drivers and leading edge technologies. His research focus in virtual access networks, Open Broadband Access, Gigabit Broadband, Community Broadband, and IoT networking.   He’s a pioneer in the broadband telecommunications area and drove the first global DSL standards and was a co-founder, and Vice President of the Broadband Forum.   He has worked in technical marketing roles for large technology firms including Cisco Systems (San Jose, CA) where he lead award winning global marketing campaigns in telecommunications service provider markets and Analog Devices (Norwood, MA) where he created and lead their entrance into the broadband telecommunication.  He’s also spearheaded marketing and products for a number of early stage venture-backed start-ups in the Boston area, three of which were acquired by larger tech companies.  

He has a BS Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and a High Technology MBA, with honors from Northeastern University.  He has also studied Digital Video Networking at the MIT MediaLab.

Areas of expertise

• CORD use cases
• Access Network
• Service Provider Business Drivers
• End-to-end network architectures 

Events 

• Inaugural CORD Summit (July 29, Sunnyvale, CA) 
• INTX and SCTE (speaker) 
• ONS (On-line)  
• TIA (Speaker; Economics of Virtualization) 
• AllSeen Alliance Summit (Speaker; The Role of the SP in IoT; Beyond Best Effort Connectivity)