Paul Mankiewich is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the Americas. Paul is responsible for all technical solutions and vision for customers in the Americas. His team focuses on technology evolution and standards, network architectures, end to end solutions, product strategies and roadmaps, and Proof of Concept (PoC) demonstrations of new solutions implemented in the PoC labs.

Previously, Paul was CTO and Chief Architect for Lucent Technologies. In this role, Paul was responsible for the technology direction of all Lucent products and solutions including mobile, optical, switching and data networking solutions, IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) and end-user applications. Prior to assuming this role, Paul was the Chief Technical Officer, Mobility Solutions, and also served as Senior Vice President of Networking Research, Bell Laboratories.

Throughout his 24-year career at Lucent, Paul has held a variety of key positions in research and development, having managed Bell Labs’ Networking and Services Research, Wireless Technology Research, Wireless Components and Packaging Research units.