Please join PTC in congratulating the following members who have been elected to the 2023 PTC Board of Governors (BG) and Advisory Council (AC).

Terms and positions for newly-elected BG members will begin on 14 January 2023 and newly-elected AC members on 15 January 2023, at the first official 2023 BG and AC meetings during PTCโ€™23.

Mahalo to all of the candidates and voting members who participated in this yearโ€™s elections. Your active participation is appreciated and ensures PTCโ€™s continued success.

Newly-elected BG members

BG Oceania for-profit

Paul McCann
Managing Director, McCann Consulting International Pty, Australia

BG Southeast and South Asia for-profit

Paul Abfalter
Head of Global Wholesale, Telstra, Singapore

BG North America For-Profit

Lynn Smullen
Senior Vice President Strategic Clients Group, Oracle, USA

BG global for-profit

Masaaki Sakamaki
Vice Chair, PTC Japan Committee, Japan

BG individual

Heather Hudson
Professor Emerita, University of San Francisco, USA

Newly-elected AC members

AC Oceania for-profit

David Osita Mba
General Manager ICT and Cloud Services, PNG DataCo Limited, Papua New Guinea
Yali Liu
Executive Vice President, Chayora Limited, Hong Kong SAR China

AC East Asia for-profit

Ricky Chau
Chief Strategy Officer, CBC Tech, Hong Kong SAR China
Andrew Tierney
Executive General Manager, Symbio, New Zealand

AC North America for-profit

Robert Crinks
Senior Director Engineering and Ops, Peraton, USA
Mohamed Elagazy
President & CEO, CPS Inc., USA
Gary Kim
Principal, IP Carrier, USA

AC Europe for-profit

Diego Riccardo Teot
Head of International Business Unit, Retelit, Italy

AC Global for-profit

Vivien Paris
Director, Larus Foundation, Hong Kong SAR China

Continuing and outgoing BG and AC members

Continuing BG members:
Bill Barney, Sean Bergin, Laurie Miller, Cengiz Oztelcan, Mike Sauer, Brian Tellam, Tim Logue, Steven Xu Tan

Outgoing BG members:
Hiroshi Asemi, Bruce Drake, Stephen Ho

Continuing AC members:
Brandon Amber, Naaz Bax, Stephan Beckert, Thomas Cooper, Mark Dando, John Garrett, Nico Grove, Stacie Loidolt, Heng Lu, Shannon McMann, Robert Mitchell, Patricia Paoletta, Isabelle Paradis, Francis Pereira, Nakul Rege, Maxie Reynolds, J. S. Solomon, Alex Vaxmonsky, Darren Yong, Joe Zhu

Outgoing AC members:
Masaaki Sakamaki, Gil Santaliz, Muhammad Rashid Shafi, Una Zheng

A warm aloha to outgoing members of the BG and AC for their service to our organization.

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