Chris Donley serves as Senior Director, Open Source Ecosystems at Huawei. He is providing open source leadership in several Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network function Virtualization (NfV) initiatives, including ONAP and OPNFV. He previously served as Director, Virtualization and Network Evolution at CableLabs.

Chris has been involved in many standards and open source organizations. He currently serves as Architecture Chair and Huawei’s TSC member for ONAP and Certification and Compliance Chair for OPNFV. He previously served on the OPNFV Board of Directors and Open Daylight Advisory Council. He also chaired the OPEN-O TSC and the OPNFV Strategic Planning Committee and co-chaired the MEF Certification Committee.

Chris received a Bachelor's degree in Engineering from Dartmouth College and a Master's degree in Business Administration from the University of Colorado. He holds Cisco CCIE and (ISC)2 CISSP certifications, and has been granted 21 US patents.