John Zannos

Partner

2020 - Current

At Digital Ubiquity Capital (DUC), we are devoted to solving the digital divide in the USA and Canada by developing Broadband Digital Equity projects.

Co-Founder / CEO

2020

Vaxa Networks Inc is focused on delivering an open and secure network infrastructure that is designed to provide “Data and Connectivity” as the 5th utility to underserved rural smart communities, cities, industries and buildings. The network is designed to allow multiple Service Providers to use a common network fiber infrastructure that can be owned and operated by the community, utility or service provider.

President

2019

2AJ LLC is focused on and invests in technology that has the potential to positively impact society and broaden economic opportunity. We are committed to enabling the thesis of innovate and collaborate globally - build and produce locally.

Advisor / LP

2024

Venture Partner

2019 - 2023

Inflection Venture Capital invests into transformative networks that broaden access to economic opportunity and enhance information sovereignty. Inflection is a thesis driven venture capital firm. Inflection invests into transformative networks that broaden access to economic opportunity and enhance information sovereignty.

Chief Revenue Officer (CRO)

2018 - 2020

Global responsibility for Strategy, Product Management, Sales and Marketing, M&A, Field Engineering and Customer Success. Kontron Communications supplies hardware infrastructure for demanding applications. We focus on data-intensive industries and technologies like edge, 5G, artificial intelligence/machine learning, data analytics, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, and media (i.e., video transcoding) where the hardware form-factor and configuration is equally as essential as the software.

Board Member, LF networking

2018 - 2019

The LF Networking Fund (LFN) increases collaboration and operational excellence across networking projects to promote Open Networking in the enterprise and service providers. LFN integrates the governance of participating projects in order to improve operational excellence and simplify engagement. Each technical project retains its technical independence and project roadmaps. The founding projects within LFN are FD.io, OpenDaylight, ONAP, OPNFV, PNDA, and SNAS.

Founding Silver Member, ONAP - Open Network Automation Platform

2017 - 2019

Alignment of the two projects creates a harmonized and comprehensive framework for real-time, policy-driven software automation of virtual network functions that will enable software, network, IT and cloud providers and developers to rapidly create new services. www.onap.org

Board Director, OPEN-Orchestrator (OPEN-O)

2016 - 2017

OPEN-Orchestrator Project (OPEN-O) is a collaborative effort will bring the industry together to develop the first open source software framework and orchestrator to enable agile software-defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) operations. (www.open-o.org)

Chief Executive Officer

2017 - 2019

Global responsibility for Inocybe business. CEO / CRO of Inocybe now GM of Inocybe as part of Kontron - As part of the leadership team that has been an integral part of Inocybe’s growth, transformation and acquisition, I look forward to building the open software on open hardware business as Inocybe and Kontron. Cloud, IoT and 5G are changing how modern networks are operated and deployed at scale. Inocybe’s Open Networking Platform is the first to enable enterprises and service providers to deploy software defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) solutions across an integrated and consumable environment. Inocybe Technologies is the leading Open Networking technology provider from the data center to the network edge. Inocybe’s Open Networking Platform enables customers to deploy networks based on the leading, emerging and innovative open networking software. The Inocybe Open Networking Platform accelerates the adoption of automated and intelligent networking for enterprises and service providers based on OpenDaylight, FD.io, PNDA and ONAP.

Strategic Advisor

2016 - 2018

Board Director

2015 - 2017

Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) is a new open source project focused on accelerating the evolution of Network Functions Virtualization (NFV). OPNFV will establish a carrier-grade, integrated, open source reference platform that industry peers will build together to advance the evolution of NFV and to ensure consistency, performance and interoperability among multiple open source components.