Home Management Team Projects Contact Meet Our Team Christopher Price Head Of Ericsson Software Technology As Head of Ericsson Software Technology, Chris represents Ericsson’s global interests and engagements in open source technologies across the Ericsson group. Based in Kista, Sweden, he oversees open source activity and development across Ericsson. Having joined Ericsson in 1997, his career focused on research and development before moving to leadership. His global leadership experience from Stockholm to Madrid and Silicon Valley, covers technology areas from optical networking, through IP, to Packet Core and into OSS/BSS. Chris, representing Ericsson on the OpenStack and Linux Foundation board of directors, is a strong believer in open source and collaborative development. Through Ericsson Software Technology, he works toward the further adoption of open source paradigms across the Ericsson group. Frank Kelly General Manager Ericsson Software Technology Ireland Back Title Frank joined Ericsson Software Technology in 2018 as a member of the leadership team. He is currently heading one of the operational units within EST and is also General Manager of one of the subcompanies based in Ireland. Day to day Frank work closely with stakeholders across the wider Ericsson Group to address their requirements of contribution to and adoption of open source automation technologies such as ONAP, ORAN and OpenDaylight. Frank has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry starting his career at Motorola in 1999, working as a lead design engineer in core networking before moving to Ericsson in 2007. Frank has served in a variety of technical leadership positions across a number of technology disciplines including hardware and operating systems, analytics and assurance, machine intelligence and self optimising networks. In previous role Frank has also championed the use of innersource across the Ericsson Group. Phil Robb General Manager Ericsson Software Technology USA Phil is the General Manager of Ericsson Software Technology U.S.A. (EST) and also leads the EST development efforts in cloud, containers, and other NFVI technologies. Prior to EST, Phil was the V.P. of Operations for the Networking Projects at the Linux Foundation including ONAP, CNTT, and ORAN among others. In that role, Phil led a team of technical staff who oversaw community software development based on DevOps and open source best practices. Prior to the Linux Foundation, Phil spent 12 years with Hewlett Packard working on Linux and Open Source starting in 2001. There, Phil formed and led HP’s Open Source Program Office responsible for open source strategy, tools, processes, and investments as HP transitioned from Unix to Linux in the Enterprise Server market. David Donnelly Product Development Leader Back Title David is a Product Development Leader in Ericsson Software Technology Ireland (EST) working in the Network Automation area within the company. The role involves line management of staff in the unit and development of these staff and the company’s capability in the open source paradigm. Prior to that David has extensive management experience in the Network Management space within Ericsson, working as both line and project manager. The role involved technical management of integration and test teams, and more recently looking at the wider software engineering development process’s in Ericsson Network management solutions and how that has adapted over the years as the industry moves to more agile and open systems solutions. Ann Mallmin Operations Manager Ann joined Ericsson Software Technology in August 2018 as the Operations & Business Support Lead. Her role primarily involves assignment administration, employee support and daily operations. Before joining Ericsson Software Technology she worked for 20 years in Ericsson in various roles and business areas where she mostly held a position as Executive Assistant. She has also been involved in numerous projects, mostly in the area of HR and Customer engagements. Paula Mannion Administration Back Title Paula joined Ericsson Software Technology in 2019 in an administrative support role. She has extensive experience in all administration tasks and has previously held positions in supply chain, marketing & program management. She tailors these skills to her current role to assist with meeting the needs of employees, the company and it's clients. Before joining Ericsson Software Technology she worked in the Tech industry for many years in various roles including supply chain management, marketing & program solutions. 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