Brian Levy

VP and Chief Technology Officer Communications, Media and Entertainment, HP

Brian Levy has recently joined Hewlett Packard as Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for the Communications, Media and Entertainment (CME) Business. In this role, he provides the technical leadership and strategy for the worldwide organization.

For the past four years Brian has been Group Technology Officer, Service Strategy and Innovation in BT.

He has been instrumental in the BT's 21st Century Network programme, where he developed the SOA architecture for the network and initiated the development of many new transformational services. Brian has been a keynote speaker at many major conferences throughout the world and he has penned my articles. Brian has also played a key role in industry forums such as the IP Sphere Forum and the Home Gateway Initiative. He is a member of the Samsung Advisory Board and is considered by many to be a thought leader in the industry

Brian's career encompasses some thrity six years. He began his career with BT in 1970 with an apprenticeship as an Engineer in Manchester. He received an award from BT to attend Salford University where he obtained an honours degree in Electronic Communication.

He spent nine years with the BBC in radio and TV broadcasting and nine years with AT&T in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) becoming the Director for Network Services for the EMEA region

Brian left AT&T to join Qwest in Europe and ran the operations of EUnet across Europe (a major European ISP backbone together with fifteen in-country ISPs). Later he joined GTS (Ebone) as the VP for IP Service Realisation and also took on additional responsibilities for the IP product-marketing group as the VP for IP Product Marketing. Levy was a co-founder and SVP for Architecture and Operations for a 67M$ "start-up" company Aduronet. Aduronet built an IPsec VPN and content distribution network throughout Europe together with state-of-the-art data centres. Levy joined Storm Telecommunications as the SVP for Product Development responsible for the company's product set. Here he led the marketing, definition, design and deployment of one of the first pan-European Ethernet connectivity services.