Aloke, a Telecom veteran with more than 20 years of experience, drives the Cloud business at Spirent. Prior to Spirent, he was the CTO at Netcracker, where he bootstrapped and built a thriving business focused on Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) from the ground up. He was responsible for leading the product definition, sales strategy and customer engagement for the SDN and NFV initiatives of the company. Prior to Netcracker, he has held a variety of senior positions in presales, architecture, strategy and account management roles, serving a global set of customers focused on real-time B/OSS.