Marc De Leenheer is a Member of Technical Staff at the Open Networking Foundation, an operator-led consortium that is transforming networks into agile platforms for service delivery. Marc leads the teams for packet/optical convergence and Enterprise CORD; the resulting software platforms are finding their way into some of the largest service providers on the planet. He received the PhD degree in computer science from Ghent University, Belgium in 2008, and completed post-doctoral stays at UCDavis and Stanford University.