Presenter

Cliff has more than 25 years of telecommunications industry experience encompassing scientific research, market analysis, corporate and product strategy, product management and marketing. At the OCP, Dr. Grossner leads its market intelligence function and is responsible for driving new innovation programs including guiding inventors developing their early-stage company ideas, setting strategic direction and building awareness of OCP, establishing new alliances, and launching new activities in OCP’s Future Technologies Initiative.
Previously, Dr. Grossner was head of the Cloud and Data Center Research Practice at Omdia, responsible for research quality across the practice and his research was focused on cloud services, data center compute and networking, and data center infrastructure. Prior to Omdia, he held senior positions in the information and communications technology industries, including heading strategic marketing for Alcatel-Lucent's enterprise network business, tenures at Bell Labs, Nortel and several early-stage companies.
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy at McGill University, and his Master of Science in Computer Science at Concordia University, both in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, having been awarded national scholarships to support his graduate work. He holds more than 10 patents in computer networking, networking embedded security and telecommunications applications.