Chris Purdy is the Head of Service Assurance Strategy at Spirent.  A strong contributor at MEF, Chris was the editor of MEF 29 and MEF 79 and served for two years as co-chair of the LSO Committee.  Chris spent 9 years as CTO of CENX (acquired by Ericsson in 2018) and 4 years as CTO of Nakina Systems (acquired by Nokia in 2016).  Prior to this, Chris held numerous roles within Nortel ending as Director responsible for Nortel’s Optical Ethernet solution.