About Hossein Eslambolchi, Ph.D.



	Executive Profile

Dr. Hossein Eslambolchi Chairman of 2020 Venture partners, is recognized in the scientific community as one of the foremost thought leaders and technological scientists of the high tech age and 21st century and often compared by industry experts for his business and technical accomplishments to leaders such as Jack Welch of GE for his business transformational leadership. A quintessential communications visionary, he champions the creation and delivery of pragmatic state-of-the-art transformational business strategies. As AT&T’s Chief Transformation Officer, he developed and executed in the brief space of three years a comprehensive four stage strategy that included Enterprise Customer Service, Network Transformation, Services Transformation and Cultural Transformation; essentially, the overhaul and remodeling of the company that SBC dubbed the ‘new’ AT&T.

Dr. Eslambolchi is also a profilic Iranian American inventor and engineer, best known for his prominent role in AT&T and his technical and operational technology vision worldwide and his global leadership as AT&T CTO, CIO and President & CEO of ATT Labs and Global Network responsible for architecture, design, development, engineering and operations of ATT data and IP networks.

He joined AT&T Bell Laboratories in 1986, and rose to become, Chief Technology Officer, Chief Information Officer, President and CEO of AT&T Labs and President and CEO of AT&T Global Network Services of the ATT Communications and was 16B officer of the company since 2001, and served as a critical member of AT&T's governing Executive Committee. He left AT&T soon after its merger with SBC in January 2006. Upon his departure, BusinessWeek called him “a critical player in maintaining AT&T’s status as a technology leader” (Dec. 30, 2005) and noted that he is “a bold, but pragmatic, visionary.” and The New York Times said: "Eslambolchi is “the technological strategist behind AT&T's ambitious turnaround plan to become a data transmission company selling an array of software products like network security systems”, 1/22/2005.

Dr. Eslambolchi served as Chief Technology Officer and advised its top leaders on the formulation and implementation of a strategic technology vision from 2001 to 2005. Early on, he predicted that IP would “eat everything” and advocated an architecture that would allow all services to run on IP and work together with connectivity to any device. His recent published book “2020 Vision” has set the foundation of communications industry over the next two decades and he now predicsts Broadband Wirless will eat IP and Micro applications will dominate the industry over the next decade.

Dr. Eslambolchi led the transformation of AT&T’s network, systems and services. He left AT&T soon after its merger with SBC in late 2005. Upon his departure, BusinessWeek called him “a critical player in maintaining AT&T’s status as a technology leader” (Dec. 30, 2005) and noted that he is “a bold, but pragmatic, visionary.”

Dr. Eslambolchi served as Chief Technology Officer and advised AT&T’s top leaders on the formulation and implementation of a strategic technology vision from 2001 to 2005. Early on, he predicted that IP would “eat everything” and advocated an MPLS architecture as Ethernet as being the layer 2 backbone that would allow all services to run on IP and work together with connectivity to any device, any place using Location Based Services. His recently published book, “2020 Vision,” sets the foundation for the communications industry over the next two decades. In addition, significant numbers of Dr. Eslambolchi’s service ideas were implemented to increase company revenue as much as $5B over a short period of time such managed services including routers, Security, Hosting, Cloud Computing, virtualization and collaboration including few of his innovations worldwide. He worked tireless with Sales, Marketing and product management to implement his ideas in support of customer needs in both enterprise and consumers market.

Light Reading said that “[Dr. Eslambolchi’s] evangelizing has underscored the notion of where the entire communications infrastructure is heading” when it named him to the # 1 spot on its list of Top 10 Movers and Shakers in Telecom (Nov. 2003). And The New York Times credited Dr. Eslambolchi as “the technological strategist behind AT&T's ambitious turnaround plan to become a data transmission company selling an array of software products like network security systems” (Jan. 22, 2005).

In addition to serving as CTO of AT&T, Dr. Eslambolchi was also President of AT&T’s Global Networking Technology Services, President and CEO of AT&T Labs and Chief Information Officer, giving him end-to-end responsibility for implementing the company’s technology and operational vision of 21st century. As President and CEO of AT&T Labs, he led a team of some of the world’s best scientists and engineers in developing an architecture that transformed AT&T’s legacy voice and data networks into a converged IP/MPLS network that now reaches all major business centers around the globe.

Dr. Eslambolchi designed a state of art architecture called Service over IP vision in which all legacy services can migrate over new architecture with lowest cost, highest capability and lowest cycle time. He developed several patents for product managers and sales group across enterprise and consumer market to be able enhance revenue stream using state of art MPLS architecture.

As CTO, he also led the company strategy and direction for new innovative services around call center application, e-collaboration, virtualization in both wireline and wireless infrastructures.

Dr. Eslambolchi, in a short period of time helped transformed ATT from being perceived as ports and pipes into a single global wireless company using state of art technologies and recommended to ATT board of directors on which access technologies to invest for future success of the company.

As President of Global Network Services, Dr. Eslambolchi had responsibility for the design, development, engineering, operations and reliability of AT&T's global network, as well as for its Global Network Operations Center (GNOC) – AT&T’s networking nerve center. Dr. Eslambolchi was main architecture; engineer and implementer of this new GNOC built over 18 months. He was responsible for several tens of thousands of employees in both engineering and operations of ATT Corporation.

As Chief Information and Investment Officer, he provided the leadership that reengineered AT&T’s underlying information technology (IT) infrastructures with his unique Concept of One and Concept of Zero business processes. While moving AT&T’s legacy networks onto an IP/MPLS platform, he also directed the convergence of the operating support and customer service systems underlying the network, making AT&T the lowest-cost major carrier. This also improved cycle times and allowed customers unprecedented access to the network that permits them to monitor and control their services. More can be found on his superb innovation at www.2020vp.com. He also managed over $14B in Capex and $20B annually in operating expense for ATT.

The metrics surrounding Dr. Eslambolchi’s ATT transformation of converged wireline and wireless businesses are profound:

He contributed over $2 billion in expense reduction by cutting the number of systems by 80 percent over three years
He led and helped increased billing accuracy by 98 percent by reducing the number of data bases from 1,800 to 20 over three years, thus contributing to over $3.2B in annual savings of contra revenue for ATT Company.
He transformed Days Sales Outstanding from 72 days to 31 days in less than 2 years.
He reduced defects by over 90 percent while increasing service on time performance from 90 percent to 99.99 percent in less than three years
He helped increase AT&T’s share of revenue from IP services to 75 percent, by increasing reliability of ATT IP network from one 9 nines of reliability to 6 nines of reliability. John Chambers and Cisco systems awarded him innovator of the year in 2003 for industry E-Initiatives throughout the industry and his strong leadership in the industry worldwide.
He helped increase revenue per employee by 50 percent and EBITDA per employee by 60 percent, the highest and best results in the telecommunications industry over 43 years and being Best in Class across all categories and was awarded numerous awards by CIO magazine and one of the top 5 innovators of 21st century.
He helped lower CAPEX, driving same efficiency and productivity and increase free cash flow by over $12 billion over three years.
Dr. Eslambolchi recovered nearly $10B worth of stranded asset and was able to avoid un-necessary capital expenditure, thus reducing ATT debt from 37B in 2002 down to less than $4B by end of 2005.
He designed and implemented an E-Bonding system connecting customers to heart of ATT network which Yankee group gave Dr. Eslambolchi highest ranking in over a decade. Over 90 percent of service orders were automated and cycle time for both physical and logical provisioning were reduced over 95 percent over 3 years.
Dr. Eslambolchi helped reduced service on-time performance from 65% to over 99.9% over 3 years resulting in over $3B of incremental revenue for ATT Corporation.
He led and developed state of art strategies for ATT corporation using his Concept of One, Concept of Zero and Concept of None to create state of art 21st century process. More can be found on www.2020vp.com
He worked very closely with HR and Financial to reduce management layers from 14 to 7, resulting in over $500M savings over 12 months for corporation. Significant amount of collaboration was involved in help driving an initiative to help the company to become very productive.
Dr. Eslambolchi defined a strategy to eliminate 24 legacy networks into single IP-MPLS network and designed state of art of processes around highly digitized network architecture and model it is being copied by several service providers in US and worldwide.

Dr. Eslambolchi has won numerous Awards including notable AT&T Science and Technology Medal and became AT&T Fellow and received the most prestigious technical award in 2002 given to any individual in history of AT&T Communications.

Dr. Eslambolchi holds over 800 worldwide patents – Issued, Pending and in preparation - and was named as one of the most prolific innovator and visionary in communications industry and was named “Inventor of the Year” by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2001 --- Famed achieved only by Albert Einstein and Thomas Alva Edison.

Dr. Eslambolchi received his BS, MS and PH.D degree from University of California, San Diego with highest honor. He currently resides in Silicon Valley and gives keynote speeches worldwide. He is scheduled to appear on http://www.tmforum.org/ManagementWorldOrlando/5578/home.html later this month and as one of the main luminaries discussing the current and future of technologies challenges and how they can transfer in 21 century. More on Dr. Eslambolchi illustrious career can be found on www.yahoo.com and www.google.com.

Dr. Eslambolchi has won numerous Awards including notable AT&T Science and Technology Medal and became AT&T Fellow as the most prestigious technical award in 1999. He has also received AT&T significant patent award in 1997 for innovation of a technology called FASTAR (FAST AUTOMATED RESTORATION). Dr. Eslambolchi was also nominated for President Science and Technology Medal in 2005.

He is well-known in the scientific community for his expertise in IP network design and reliability, security, IP Services, IP applications and setting an industry vision for * the "Concept of One" (do it once, do it right, use it everywhere), and * the "Concept of Zero" (zero defects, zero cycle time and automate where possible), which have been used to streamline production across the company. and his principles:

"Flattery doesn't cost anything and it yields huge dividends. "
"We need to create a place with the force of a gigantic magnet that would draw employees to work in the morning and release them in the evening. A place where the atmosphere is electromagnetic."

As an AT&T lead Transformation officer, CTO, CIO and President and CEO of AT&T Labs and Global Network Officer, he has spoken at many conferences over the past years, highlighting in 2005 the needs for intelligent networks and for good security. A recent catchphrase of his is "IP will eat everything," meaning that all devices will communicate with one another over IP networks. His vision is included in a recently published book called "2020 Vision" will bring true technology vision for CXOs across the world. He also predicted that we will be moving toward an intelligent network and smart devices almost a decade ago and all of his predictions is becoming true and reality in the world of IP.

Awards and patents

Appointed an AT&T Fellow, AT&T’s highest technical honor, in 1999. Won AT&T science and technology medal and ATT significant Patent award in 1997.
Named "Inventor of the Year" by the New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame in 2002. Only Thomas Alva Edison and Albert Einstein were so honored.
“Top 25 Most Influential CTOs of 2005” (InfoWorld); honored by Cisco IQ Magazine as “One of its 10 Internet Business Leaders (2003); “One of the Premier 100 IT Leaders for 2004 (Computerworld Magazine); “Number 1 ‘mover and shaker’ in telecommunications, (2003) (Light Reading). Dr. Eslambolchi is also nominated in President's science and technology award.
In his recently published book, 2020 Vision, and ‘Keynote’ presentations to business, scientific and technology focused audiences, Dr. Eslambolchi advances a 21st Century agenda that has become the transformational imprimatur for global communications technology.
Holds (as of September 2008) over 1000 (issued and pending).

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