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Massimo Peselli

Massimo Peselli is Senior Vice President, Group President, Global Enterprise for Verizon Business, where he leads a global team charged with utilizing the latest innovative technologies, such as 5G, mobile-edge-compute (MEC), software-defined networking, cloud-enablement, to deliver solutions that enable enterprise businesses to meet and exceed the demands of today while laying the groundwork for their digital transformation journey. 

Tapping his more than two decades of industry experience, Massimo has the vision and expertise to create individualized strategic plans that help customers achieve their digital transformation goals. Massimo fosters a culture of performance excellence built on Verizon’s core values of integrity, respect and kindness.

Prior to his current role, Massimo served as Senior Vice President of Enterprise Business Development and the International Sales market, where he was responsible for leveraging Verizon Business’s product portfolio to change the way customers do business.

Previously, Massimo was Vice President of Enterprise Sales for 13 states on the US West Coast, which expanded to overseeing the Technology, Media & Entertainments, and Professional Services vertical. His scope continued to expand when in 2015, he was named Group Vice President, Sales Vertical Markets, where he was responsible for five teams covering all vertical markets in the US, which transitioned into an appointment as Sales Group VP Americas and APAC/LATAM and Canada responsible for wireline enterprise sales. 

Massimo joined Verizon in 1997 as Head of Pre-Sales in Italy and continued to serve in sales leadership positions in Italy serving as Sales Director, Italy and Spain, and then working as a Sales Area Vice President, South Region based in Milan. 

Before joining Verizon, he worked for Telecom Italia, in their presales engineering organization, and also worked on a special project to develop the first ICT integration of a Contact Center and back-office data in 1995.

Peselli holds a degree in Telecommunications Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in Italy.

David Everingham

David has been with Ericsson since 2003. He has broad experience in the wireless telecommunications sector, having held senior positions in Radio Network Engineering, Solution Management & Relationship Sales, serving Ericsson’s customers in Australia & North America.

David currently serves as CTO & Head of Strategy for the Verizon Account, with responsibility for technologies, solution management across all lines of business toward Verizon. David holds a Master’s in Engineering Management from the University of Technology, Sydney. 

An Australian native, he presently lives with his wife and two children in South Orange, New Jersey.

David Hickey

Dave Hickey is Vice President of the West Business Markets where he oversees all Mid-Markets business sales. He is responsible for an organization of approximately 850 sales professionals and leaders serving the mid-market space businesses driving over $1.6B in annual revenue.

Dave joined Verizon in 2000 as a Business Account Executive and has held various roles within the organization, including Major Account Manager, Business Sales Manager, Associate Director, and Director of SMB, Retail, Enterprise, and Government.

Throughout his career, Dave has accumulated a broad depth of experience in technology and business development. He has earned a reputation for molding the teams he leads into elite organizations that not only exceed and achieve maximum success but have a sense of positive energy and transparency that pave the way for teamwork and growth.

Corporate and charitable leadership

Dave brings his spirited energy to the team around strategic direction, funnel management, high activity levels, and developing emerging talent.

Dave’s passion is established from a centralized framework in tactful employee culture and customer engagement, creating relationships that serve all sides of the business.

He and his family reside in Southern California, where he is an advisor to EvoNexus, a not-for-profit organization that has a unique incubation program that attracts applications from early-stage technology ventures across the globe seeking to benefit from strategic advisors and capital connections.

Jennifer Artley

Jennifer is the Senior Vice President, 5G Acceleration, Verizon Business. She is an experienced sales leader and general manager with an aptitude for creating diverse teams and fostering global perspectives within the telecommunications industry.

As a leader, Jennifer leans into complex challenges and brings the right team of thinkers to the table who are focused on execution for customers. She embraces the power of building community, orienting toward a common purpose, and finding solutions beyond the obvious ways of getting things done.

Jennifer believes that diversity of thought is what sparks creativity and drives innovation and is deeply committed to forwarding the pursuit of diversity, equity and inclusion. Having a richness of experiences around the table to Jennifer means that people are able to approach challenges and opportunities from a variety of different perspectives and will find the best answers together.

Prior to joining Verizon Jennifer served as the President, BT in the Americas and MD, Technology, Life Sciences and Business Services where she led BT’s entire Americas team in the United States, Canada and Latin America and ran a global sales vertical focused on Technology, Life Sciences and Business Services customers. As the leader of one of three global vertical sales units, Artley built and grew relationships with BT’s top 800 customers in this ~£1.2B sales channel. She brought together the knowledge, resources, and skills of her global team in order to address customers’ complex digital transformation with insight, consistency, and agility.

Jennifer earned her Bachelor of Arts at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, her Master of Business Administration from University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School of Business, and her Master of Arts from The Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania. She is fluent in Spanish and proficient in Russian. Jennifer was also a founding member and later an Advisory Board member of Minds Matter of Denver, a non-profit focused on mentoring and supporting unique educational opportunities for high achieving high school students from low income neighborhoods. Jennifer currently resides in Denver, Colorado with her husband and two daughters.

Arvin Singh

Arvin Singh is the Head of Global 5G Innovation for Verizon Business Group. He is leading a team of architects, engineers and thought leaders working to accelerate the adoption of emerging product/solutions such as private 4G/5G networks, public & private edge capabilities and managed solutions. Arvin's team is responsible for delivering Verizon's technology strategy and vision to CIO/CTO/CISOs; leading innovation workshops, driving business outcomes and solutions design leveraging Verizon’s broad portfolio of capabilities.

Arvin brings over 20 years of wireless technology experience having served in various functions in Enterprise Technical Pre-Sales, Public Sector Strategy, Global Product Management, Technology, Operations and IoT Business Development. His time was spent working closely with small business, large enterprise, elected officials, law enforcement, CIO/CTO/CISOs across Public and Private sectors.

Arvin holds an executive certificate for The Innovative Technology Leader from Stanford University (GSB) and an Executive MBA in Global Business Administration & Management from Pepperdine University.

Amir Rao

Amir Rao is Director of Outbound Product Management for EC2 Edge Services at AWS. Prior to his current role, he was GM of solutions portfolio at AWS for telecommunications vertical. His global team focuses on adoption of AWS EC2 Edge services by customers across multiple industry verticals with a key focus on Telco. From a telco solutions perspective, his team focused on 5G network transformation and monetization leading to Digital Transformation. This includes 1/ driving engineering relationships with strategic customers and key ISVs to drive 5G Edge Cloud adoption/build, and 2/ leveraging AWS services such as outposts, local zones, and wavelength zones for network cloudification across the topology of the network and the value chain of Telco business. Amir possesses 20+ yrs of global work experience with tier 1 technology providers such as AWS, Motorola Solutions, Huawei, Nokia, and Microsoft. Throughout his career he has been involved in new technology introduction in global markets, such as CDMA in 2005, WIMAX in 2006, LTE in 2012, 5G MEC (Wavelength Zones) in 2019, AWS Outposts as NFVi in 2019, and very recently 5G Network on AWS cloud with Dish in 2021. Amir is well versed with the technology landscape of Telecom/ Cloud infrastructure and associated business models. He is a Stanford GSB and London Business School alumni, and has worked across APAC, EMEA, and North America regions.

Sahil Sharma

Sahil is Coco’s chief operating officer and in this role he oversees Coco’s operations, as well as service and support functions. He also leads Coco’s Vehicle engineering team and is responsible for scaling Coco’s highly reliable and sustainable delivery service.

Sahil brings more than 15 years of experience to Coco. Prior to Coco, Sahil held various operations and leadership roles at Snap, Google, Motorola, Amazon, and Apple. Sahil holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from National Institute of Technology, Rourkela and an MBA from Arizona State University.

Danny Johnson

Danny Johnson, a 20+ year veteran in the technology industry, is a seasoned executive possessing experience in software development, engineering, sales, consulting, product development, and marketing.  Danny has started and launched innovative products and solutions into multi-billion dollar markets and is currently Director of product marketing for Verizon Business Group where his responsibilities include:  portfolio positioning and messaging, competitive differentiation, and new channel activation for Verizon Business Group’s 5G, MEC, IoT, and SDN portfolios.

Aaron Grosky

Aaron guides Dreamscape’s long-term strategic direction, creative vision, and operational execution across all aspects of the company’s businesses. Under his leadership, Dreamscape has grown from a concept to a multi-category business with interests in education, government and enterprise services, and location-based entertainment with an international brand across the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East.

Aaron has spent his career at the forefront of technology and innovation, introducing new generations of integrated platforms that change the way we connect and redefine experience. Driven by a passion to create meaningful experiences and new forms of engagement, he has been a champion of future-forward thinking and helped pave the way for many industries to embrace new forms of distribution and access, resulting in deeper relationships and greater outcomes with all forms of audience.

Blaze Vincent

Blaze is a leading technology development at Ericsson’s CTO office, working on developing innovative solutions and new use cases for 5G, IoT and edge cloud. He has been one of the primary drivers of industrializing Ericsson’s enterprise private network solutions in North America and currently works on expanding these solutions for public safety, utilities, and other critical infrastructure industry verticals. Blaze is passionate about applying the power and potential of digital technology to critical problems in the society and achieving sustainable results. 

He has a Master of Science (MS) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado, Boulder and around 15 years of experience in ICT industry.