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Pascal Menezes
Pascal Menezes
As CTO of Mplify, Pascal is a proven technology thought leader, sales evangelist, product manager and seasoned IP architect with decades of experience in internetworking, next-generation information systems and communication architectures.
At Mplify, Pascal leads the advancement of cutting-edge automation, security and networking technologies, focusing on Network-as-a-Service (NaaS), AI-driven networking, Mplify’s Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO), SASE (Secure Access Service Edge), SD-WAN, cloud-scale architectures, edge computing, service assurance and API-driven interoperability. His work is driving industry alignment around standardization and certification for automation in global communications services.
Pascal is a former Principal at Microsoft, where he spent nearly a decade working on real-time media and network technologies. He has contributed to five startups with multiple successes, received numerous industry thought leadership awards and presented extensively at global events. Pascal holds over 30 patents and patents pending and has co-authored standards in the IETF, Mplify and Broadband Forum (MPLS).