Jerome is Distinguished Engineer working in the Cisco Security Business Group (SBG) with a specific focus on high performance cloud networking & security. He has extensive experience of computer systems, clouds and network architectures, and strong technical expertise gained from more than 20 years designing and implementing networking solutions. He holds multiple patents. Before joining Cisco, Jerome was the founder & CTO of Qosmos. He has been participating and contributing to the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), ETSI Industry Specification Group on NFV, IETF Service Function Chaining (SFC) Working Group and various open source initiatives including FD.io, OpenStack, Calico and OVS. Jerome is a frequent speaker at international conferences.