Wael William Diab is currently a Senior Technical Director in the Office of the CTO working on technical strategy for the Infrastructure & Networking Group (ING). Prior to this role, Mr. Diab was a Director of Marketing in Broadcom’s ING looking at next generation products.

Mr. Diab was awarded Broadcom’s 2009 CEO and President’s Award for his work on energy-efficient Ethernet technologies and green networking.

Prior to Broadcom, Mr. Diab worked at Cisco for nine years in various technical, architectural and business leadership roles, focused on next generation networking products and technologies. He was also a key member of the team at Cisco that delivered the first Gigabit Ethernet, Ethernet in the First Mile (EFM) and Power over Ethernet (PoE) products to the industry.

Wael is a Senior Member of the IEEE and was unanimously elected and reelected as the Vice-Chair of the IEEE 802.3 Ethernet Working Group, serving in that position since 2008. Prior to his role as Vice-Chair he served as Secretary for the IEEE 802.3 Working Group and Editor-in-Chief for IEEE Std. 802.3ah™-2004. He is currently the chair of the IEEE 802.3 Working Group’s standing Maintenance Task Force and has served as editor and chair of multiple IEEE 802.3 Task Force projects.

Wael is a member of the IEEE-SA Standards Board’s RevCom and AudCom Committees. He is also a member of the IEEE Standards Education Committee (SEC) and recently elected to the IEEE-SA Corporate Advisory Group (CAG).

In addition to IEEE, Wael has served as Director and Secretary of the Board for EFM Alliance (EFMA), Vice-Chair of the MSAD group in the FTTH (fiber to the home) Council and was involved in the launch of the FTTH Council in Europe.

Wael is a published author, co-authoring "Ethernet in the First Mile: Access for Everyone", a book published by the IEEE and was a contributing author to “Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks”. In addition, Mr. Diab has published several notable white papers on Ethernet related topics including 10G Ethernet, EFM and energy-efficient Ethernet networking.

Mr. Diab has been a featured speaker at a number of industry conventions, universities, seminars and panels, often serving as a keynote speaker, panel leader or panel member.

At Cisco, Wael served as a Technology Research Director and was a member of Cisco's University Research Board championing multiple grants. Mr. Diab also served on Cisco's Patent Committee and currently sits on Broadcom's patent review committee.

Wael 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 200 patents and patents-pending in the networking space.

Wael is a published author, co-authoring "Ethernet in the First Mile: Access for Everyone", a book published by the IEEE and was a contributing author to “Broadband Services: Business Models and Technologies for Community Networks”. In addition, Mr. Diab has published several notable white papers on Ethernet related topics including 10G Ethernet, EFM and energy-efficient Ethernet networking.

Mr. Diab has been a featured speaker at a number of industry conventions, universities, seminars and panels, often serving as a keynote speaker, panel leader or panel member.

At Cisco, Wael served as a Technology Research Director and was a member of Cisco's University Research Board championing multiple grants. Mr. Diab also served on Cisco's Patent Committee and currently sits on Broadcom's patent review committee.

Wael 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 140 patents and patents-pending in the networking space.