Wael William Diab – Bio
Wael William Diab is currently Director, Technical Strategy in the Office of the CTO
working on long-term technical strategy for Broadcom’s Enterprise Networking Group.
Previously, he held the role of Director, Marketing in Broadcom’s Networking
Infrastructure Group. Prior to Broadcom, he worked at Cisco for nine years in various
technical, architectural and business leadership roles, focused on next generation
networking products and technologies. Wael is an active member and contributor within
the IEEE standards community. He was Chief Editor for the EFM (802.3ah) standard,
and has been a key contributor on previous and subsequent Ethernet projects. Today,
Wael serves as Secretary of IEEE 802.3 (Ethernet) and is an Officer in Ethernet's
Executive Committee. He is a member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board RevCom
Committee. He is a published author, co-authoring the book "Ethernet in the First Mile:
Access for Everyone" and contributing to several other books. He holds BS and MS
degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, a BA degree in Economics
from Stanford, and an MBA with honors from the Wharton School of Business. He has
developed over thirty five patents in the networking space.