Speaker Bio
Grant F. Lenahan is a partner and principal analyst with Appledore Research Group, and provides a unique combination of management and technical acumen, combined with 30 years of successful innovation in both technology and business models. Prior to co-founding Appledore Research, Grant served in the office of CTO for Ericsson, and prior to that, Telcordia Technologies. Appledore Research has grown from two specialist analysts to 9 since 2015, and is acknowledged as the leading expertise in the telecom operations/automation with a focus on the emerging “Telco Cloud” and Autonomous operations. Appledore Research has, as clients, many of the world’s leading telecom operators and technology suppliers.
For over 20 years Grant has specialized in transforming telecom software and service businesses in the face of dramatic market and technology shifts, positioning the businesses for survival and growth in new environments. Along the way he has successfully transformed organizations and business lines, commercializing a laboratory business in the 1990s, moving a legacy software player into the global wireless market in the 2000s, and then leading the industry toward advanced, converged real-time charging and service-oriented assurance models. As evidenced by the last example, Grant particularly enjoyed spanning advanced technology and practical finance and operations.
As an active participant in the TM Forum, and prior to that, OMA, Grant has developed deep expertise in virtualization, cloud technology, policy management, charging, catalog-driven operations, and the applications of “Dev-Ops” principals to network and service operations and focuses his research today on these and other areas that promise to transform our industry.
Grant received his B.A. Drew University, where he also studied Mathematics (Computer Science), and a joint master’s degree from the School of Engineering and the Sloan School of Management from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).