Kiritkumar P. Lathia He is Vice President – Strategy & Positioning with Siemens ICN SpA, Italy. He is responsible at corporate level for coordinating all strategic business activities related with technical standards and regulation. Mr. Lathia has more than 25 years of management experience in telecommunications industry at all stages of life cycle – from synthesizing customer requirements to on-site testing and handover to customer. Within standardization, Mr. Lathia is active in strategic committees of ETSI to ensure that ETSI standards play an important role in global marketplace. He is Vice Chairman of ITU-T SSG and European ICT Standards Board. Mr. Lathia graduated from University of Wales, UK with Magna cum Laude in Electrical Engineering. He is a Charted Engineer and Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers.