Verizon CIO: One of Twelve Industry Visionaries to Deliver Keynote at 10th Annual Management World Americas

MORRISTOWN, NJ—September 10, 2009—TM Forum, the world's premier industry group focused on business effectiveness for the communications and media sectors, confirmed today that Fari Ebrahimi, Senior Vice-President & CIO Verizon Services Operations, will be one of twelve leading industry visionaries to deliver a high-profile keynote session at TM Forum’s Management World Americas 2009 conference (8-10 December, Orlando FL).
•   Ebrahimi will be joined by a lineup of eleven other senior-executive keynote speakers from the world’s top service providers, broadcasters, government institutions and media and entertainment companies.
•   These C-level industry leaders will discuss how service providers of all types (communications, entertainment, applications and cloud services) can move from surviving the downturn to thriving in the rapidly growing digital economy of the coming decade, Also look at different perspectives on emerging new business models and their effect on business strategies for the entire value chain and the communications industry as a whole.

Key Facts:
•   Fari Ebrahimi is responsible for all systems and infrastructure for the newly created Verizon Services Operations (VSO) handling Supply Chain Services, Common Financial Services, and Corporate Real Estate, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Corporate Systems and intranet across Verizon, as well as Verizon Information Technologies, LLC.
•   The other confirmed luminary VIP keynotes include;
o   Jonathan Marchbank, COO, Virgin Mobile, USA
o   Neil Cox, Executive vice president, Qwest .
o   Albert Hitchcock, CIO, Vodafone Group
o   Ricardo Santoro, CIO,  Claro Brasil
o   Lucy Hood, CEO, CTM; ex CEO Jamba! and ex-president Fox Mobile Entertainment
o   Robert Nobile, COO, CableVision, Argentina
o   Tom Vari, CIO cable & senior vice president, application delivery, Rogers  Communications
o   Steve Ward, CIO, Frontier Communications
o   Tom Lam, advisor to the Secretary of Defense on NetOps, OASD (NII), CIO
o   Jim Donio, president, NARM
o   Peter Feldman, attorney member, Fletcher, Heald & Hildreth PLC

•   TM Forum has also secured more than 100 other leading executive speakers from across the value-chain to present at the 2-day conference.
•   Conference sessions at Management World Americas 2009 will take many forms, including interviews, presentations, executive round-tables and panel sessions.

Quotes:
•   “Management World Americas 2009 is already shaping up to be another really successful conference and we are delighted to welcome Fari to the keynote stage.” said Nik Willetts, VP Communications, TM Forum, “This year’s top-notch agenda and speaker profile is already attracting a great deal of interest confirming that Management World Americas will be the place to gain insight and collaborate on the most pressing issues facing the industry at this time.”

•   “By providing meaningful insight, strategic vision and identifying winning ways to adapt to the fast-changing environment, each expert-led session will offer a clear view of where the industry is going, the challenges it faces and why collaboration is so essential,” added Willetts.