OJ Winge, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Video and Collaboration, leads Cisco’s TelePresence Technology Group and is responsible for driving the company’s end-to-end TelePresence efforts that are key to our collaboration and video strategy. As co-lead of Cisco’s Collaboration Business Entity, Winge is responsible leading end-to-end strategy and execution across multiple business and functions that comprise this $4B dollar business. To achieve the vision of an integrated collaboration and video portfolio he has been instrumental in driving the foundational architecture, Medianet, across our collaboration and video architectures.
Winge’s understanding of the technology disruptions, competitive dynamics, and customer needs in the collaboration market have been instrumental in Cisco’s integrating and simplification efforts.

His passion for improving user experiences drove the creation of a single collaboration architecture and common user experiences strategy across our collaboration portfolio. The vision of this integrated collaboration portfolio, where telepresence is a key collaboration technology, is what differentiates Cisco from the competitors and was a compelling reason for the Tandberg/Cisco acquisition.

Winge has been instrumental in Cisco’s continued success and market leadership in telepresence, delivering consistent double digit growth and nearly $2B in yearly bookings. The TelePresence Technology Group encompasses TelePresence endpoints, infrastructure and solutions that drive the pervasive deployment of video. Winge joined Cisco from the Tandberg acquisition where he served in various roles including Head of Business Development and Strategy, President EMEA Sales, EVP Products, and was part of the leadership team that grew Tandberg into a billion dollar company.

Prior to joining Tandberg, Winge was with McKinsey & Company, Inc., where he held multiple roles within the Scandinavian, Johannesburg and Boston offices.
Winge holds a Master’s degree in Business and Economics from the Norwegian School of Management.

Brett Shockley is Senior Vice President & General Manager - Avaya Applications and Emerging Technologies for Avaya, a leading global provider of business communications applications, systems and services. Brett is an industry veteran with over 25 years of thought leadership in the telecommunications and contact center markets at Avaya, Cisco and Spanlink Communications.

In his current role, Shockley has responsibility for Avaya's Contact Center and Unified Communications applications portfolios and Avaya's emerging technologies including Avaya Labs Research and Avaya's emerging cloud initiatives.

Prior to this assignment, Brett served as senior vice president of Corporate Development, Strategy and Innovation for Avaya. Brett has been a driving force in defining and articulating the company's strategic direction. He is a tireless customer advocate, traveling the world to engage with them and open doors to new opportunities.

Before joining Avaya, Brett held a number of senior leadership, general management and business development roles including VP/GM, Customer Contact Business Unit at Cisco Systems. As founder and CEO of Spanlink Communications, he partnered with Bell Labs and pioneered some of the industry's leading innovations in speech recognition, computer telephony integration and Internet call centers.

In addition to holding a patent for a telecommunications device, Shockley has an MBA in Marketing from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management and a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Minnesota's Institute of Technology. Shockley was a 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year award winner, University of Minnesota Alumni Lifetime Achievement award winner and 2008 Minnesota High Tech Association Emerging Technology Company award winner.

Farooq Muzaffar is vice president of product development and network integration for Verizon Enterprise Solutions. In this role, Muzaffar oversees the strategic integration of product and network services to deliver best-in-class solutions to Fortune 500 companies around the world.

Muzaffar previously was responsible for the network and communication services practice at Verizon Business. This comprised end-to-end product lifecycle management for the company’s expansive portfolio of networking and communications solutions, including Ethernet, Private IP, VoIP, unified communications and collaborationand contact center services.

Prior roles included vice president of product development and delivery for Verizon Business, with responsibility for developing new products for the enterprise and general business markets. His team led the creation of new innovative products and services required by global enterprises to compete in an IP-enabled world, including cloud infrastructure, VoIP and security.

Muzaffar has also worked as an investment banker in the technology, media and telecom group at Goldman Sachs, where he advised clients on mergers and acquisitions, and finance. His key deals included the Oracle/PeopleSoft merger, PeopleSoft’s acquisition of JD Edwards and convertible debt financing for Micron and RealNetworks.

A former McKinsey Scholar, Muzaffar brings technology, finance and consultancy expertise.

Muzaffar holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and a master’s degree in business administration from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.