Partner and Principal Analyst
Grant has more than 25 years’ experience in the telecommunication infrastructure and software industry. He provides a unique combination of management and technical acumen from a focus on technology and business model innovation.
Grant leads Appledore’s research on Autonomous Networks spanning a range of topics including orchestration and automation, strategy, systems architecture, virtualization, edge, industry 4.0 and the commercial opportunities for telcos that result from greater autonomy. In a set of recent reports, he set out an industry blueprint for achieving autonomous networks.
He previously served in the CTO office at Ericsson and was actively involved in the industry standard bodies, including TM Forum, ZOOM and Open Digital initiatives. His areas of focus include NFV orchestration and management, SDN policy control, service creation and fulfilment, real time charging, digital ecosystems and M2M.
Grant holds a Bachelor of Science from Drew University and an MBA (SM-Management, SM-Engineering) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
