Sanil Nambiar is currently program director, portfolio strategy for IBM’s software networking business. He is
responsible for establishing consistent and repeatable strategy for telco and enterprise management solution patterns,
evaluate ecosystem partnerships and M&A, bring deep technical and market insights about the enterprise and
telecom network management space, and work with product management to bring differentiated products to the
market. He has over 20 years of industry experience working with tier 1 telcos and large enterprises worldwide in
the areas of Network automation, Telecom OSS, Analytics & AI /ML in Telco, and software defined networks. He is
currently spearheading initiatives involving AI and declarative automation leading to autonomous network goals.
Sanil joined IBM in 2006 via the acquisition of Micromuse, the Netcool company.