Aloke Tusnial is the CTO for the SDN/NFV Business Unit at Netcracker where he is responsible for leading the product and sales strategy together with customer engagement, for the software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) initiatives of the company. Prior to this role, he held a variety of presales, architecture, strategy and account management positions serving several customers in North America focused on real time B/OSS.