Sameh Boujelbene is responsible for Dell'Oro Group's Controller & Adapter and SAN market research programs.

Prior to joining Dell'Oro Group, Ms. Boujelbene was a Solution Sales Manager with Nokia Siemens Networks in Tunisia. During her three-year tenure at Nokia Siemens Networks, Ms. Boujelbene focused on broadband access & IP connectivity solutions for mobile and fixed operators. Ms. Boujelbene was also a Network Engineer intern with Tunisie Telecom.

Ms. Boujelbene holds an M.B.A. from San Jose State University, and a Master's Degree in Telecommunication from Higher Engineering School of Communication in Tunisia. Ms. Boujelbene was ranked at the top of her class in her graduate and undergraduate programs.

Tam Dell’Oro is the founder and president of Dell’Oro Group, a research and consulting firm that specializes in business planning and strategic competitive analysis in the networking and telecommunications industry.  She developed Dell’Oro Group’s research methodologies and customer-focused processes to deliver the highest quality data network and telecom research.  Under her leadership, Dell’Oro Group is now considered the “gold standard” of market research in the telecommunications industry.  Ms. Dell’Oro covers the Controller & Adapter and SAN market research program and oversees all of Dell'Oro Group's research programs.

Before launching the firm in April 1995, Ms. Dell’Oro was the industry analyst for Local Area Networks at Dataquest.  She joined Dataquest from SynOptics (which was acquired by Bay Networks and subsequently became part of Nortel), where she spent four years in Business Planning.  At SynOptics, she developed a competitive analysis program to evaluate the strategic performance of key companies in the networking industry.  Prior to SynOptics, Ms. Dell’Oro administered technical contracts at a nuclear generating station with Bechtel Construction Corporation, as well as military aerospace contracts with the General Electric Company.

Ms. Dell’Oro is frequently quoted in vendor press releases and trade and business publications, including Barron’s Online, BusinessWeek, Forbes, InformationWeek, Network World, San Francisco Chronicle and The Wall Street Journal. She speaks frequently at various investor technology conferences and industry forums including Interop, NetEvents and TieCon.

Ms. Dell’Oro received a B.S. degree in International Business from Santa Clara University and an M.B.A. in Strategy and Marketing from the University of Chicago. 

Chris DePuy is responsible for Dell'Oro Group's Carrier IP Telephony market research program.

Mr. DePuy brings to Dell'Oro Group more than 20 years of financial and business analysis, and engineering experience.

Prior to Dell'Oro Group, Mr. DePuy worked with TS Cap, LLC, performing consulting services for clients ranging from investors to technology industry startups. He has been involved with numerous startups, including as a co-founding board member of Wireless Security Corporation, later sold to McAfee.

For ten years, Mr. DePuy worked as a research analyst covering software, communications and Internet sectors with investment companies such as Bowman Capital and Morgan Stanley. He was named the top ranking Equity Research Analyst in the Data Networking sector by Institutional Investor and Greenwich Research Survey.

Previously, Mr. DePuy worked as a consulting engineer at Hill Environmental and Stearns & Wheler.

Mr. DePuy co-authored the book named "The Internet Report", first published by Morgan Stanley in 1995, and later published by Harper Business in 1996.

Mr. DePuy received a Masters in Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, NY and holds a Bachelor in Science in Engineering from Union College, Schenectady, NY.

Steve Nozik is responsible for Dell’Oro Group’s Access market research program.

Mr. Nozik brings to Dell’Oro Group more than 28 years of financial management, business planning, product management, and engineering experience.  He is widely quoted for his insights and expertise regarding industry structure and trends.

Prior to working with Dell’Oro Group, Mr. Nozik was Group Controller for the Service Sales and OEM Software Sales organizations for Sun Microsystems.  In this capacity, he was responsible for structuring sales transactions, financial planning and analysis, sales compensation, order administration, and credit/collections.  Prior to Sun, Mr. Nozik spent more than 12 years working for Amdahl Corporation, where his roles included Product Manager, Finance Manager, Business Planner, and Financial Analyst.  Mr. Nozik also worked for Motorola for three years in various financial analyst roles in the Computer Systems group. 

Graduating magna cum laude from Tufts University, Mr. Nozik earned a B.S. degree in Chemical Engineering.  He received his M.B.A. in Finance from University of California, Berkeley.

Stefan Pongratz is responsible for Dell'Oro Group's Mobility Infrastructure market research program.

Prior to joining Dell'Oro Group, Mr. Pongratz was with Anritsu Company for 10 years, where he was most recently a Senior Product Manager responsible for portable spectrum analyzers and cable and antenna analyzers used to verify base station quality. During his tenure at Anritsu, Mr. Pongratz also held positions in engineering and manufacturing management.

Mr. Pongratz graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of California Irvine. He also holds a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Santa Clara University, and an M.B.A. from University of California, Davis.

Casey Quillin joined Dell'Oro Group in 2011 and is responsible for the Storage Area Network market research program.

Mr. Quillin brings over 18 years of experience as an executive manager and entrepreneur in the technology sector. Prior to joining Dell'Oro Group, Mr. Quillin held positions with a number of startups including Vice President of Engineering at Snapfish, the world's largest online photo-sharing site, later acquired by HP. He was also CTO of Oasys Networks an application service provider in the financial services market; Co-founder and CEO of Logic by Design an interactive media agency; and Managing Partner of Cornice Networks, a network integration and IT consulting firm in San Francisco.

Mr. Quillin has a B.A. in Government from California State University, Sacramento. He also earned a M.S. in Finance from the Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University and an M.B.A. from St. Mary's College.

Shin Umeda covers the Carrier Ethernet, Mobile Backhaul, and Routers market research programs. 

Mr. Umeda joined Dell’Oro Group in 2000, bringing extensive experience in financial and operations planning and analysis. Prior to joining Dell’Oro Group, Mr. Umeda worked at Nortel for eight years, where he was the Management Reporting Manager for the Bay Networks Line of Business.  He joined Nortel through the acquisition of Bay Networks, where he held financial management positions in Corporate Management Reporting, Hub and Switch Product Business Unit Finance, and Business Operations and Planning.  Mr. Umeda also worked for SynOptics Communications, prior to its merger with Wellfleet Communications to form Bay Networks.

Earlier in his career at Amdahl Corporation, Mr. Umeda held financial analyst positions in the manufacturing organization, the Peripheral Products Division, and the Communications Products Division.

Mr. Umeda’s research and analysis has been widely cited in leading trade and business publications including Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Network World, The Economist, The New York Times, TheStreet.com and The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared as an invited speaker at industry conferences, investor conferences, customer seminars, and sales meetings around the world.

Mr. Umeda has a B.A. degree in Business from San Jose State University and an M.B.A. in Finance from Golden Gate University.

Alan Weckel is a Senior Director at Dell'Oro Group. He joined Dell'Oro Group in early 2006 and is responsible for the Data Center Appliance, Enterprise Telephony, and Ethernet Switch market research programs. While at Dell'Oro Group, Alan has significantly expanded the Ethernet Switch research and created the firm's WAN Optimization Appliance coverage.

Prior to joining Dell'Oro Group, Mr. Weckel spent five years at Raytheon, where he worked as a Systems Engineer in the Network Centric Division on a variety of projects ranging from product development to integration and test. Prior to Raytheon, Mr. Weckel held positions in software development and manufacturing at General Electric Power Systems and Cisco Systems, Inc.

Mr. Weckel has written articles on the evolution of Enterprise Telephony published in No Jitter, and is frequently quoted in various publications including Bloomberg, BusinessWeek, Converge! Network Digest, Forbes, InfoWorld, TelecomTV, and The Wall Street Journal.  He has also given presentations at various industry events, with audiences ranging from 25 to 200.

Mr. Weckel received a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and a M.S. degree in Management from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Jimmy Yu re-joined Dell’Oro Group in 2008 and is responsible for the Microwave Transmission, Mobile Backhaul, and Optical Transport market research programs.

Mr. Yu originally joined Dell’Oro Group in 2001, and spent over four years as the primary analyst for Dell’Oro Group’s Optical Transport program and built our coverage of the PON market.  In 2006, Mr. Yu joined Spansion, a leader in flash memory solutions, where he was a Strategic Product Marketing Manager for Spansion’s server memory subsystem product line.

Prior to joining Dell’Oro Group in 2001, Mr. Yu worked for Deloitte Consulting in the strategy and operations group as a Management Consultant with a focus in the high-tech industry. Mr. Yu began his career in Northrop Grumman’s space technology group, where he was a lead mechanical engineer developing satellite communication subsystems and components, such as transceivers. While at Northrop Grumman, he also developed advanced packaging approaches for millimeter wave RF semiconductors, circuit boards, fiber optics, and photonics.

He is a recognized authority in the Optical Transport Market and has written articles in various industry magazines such as Lightwave. He is frequently quoted in publications such as BusinessWeek, Converge! Network Digest, Dallas Business Journal, Network World and Xchange.

Mr. Yu received a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from University of California Davis and an M.B.A. in General Management with an emphasis in Corporate Strategy and Finance from the University of Michigan.