Chris Purdy is the head of Service Assurance strategy at Spirent. A strong contributor at MEF, Chris was the editor of MEF 29 and MEF 79, served two years as co-chair of the LSO Committee and is currently service as Co-chair of the Digital Services Committee. Chris spent 9 years as CTO of CENX (acquired by Ericsson in 2018) and 4 years as CTO of Nakina Systems (acquired by Nokia in 2016). Prior to this, Chris held numerous roles within Nortel ending as Director responsible for Nortel’s Optical Ethernet solution.