Leadership & Committees

Hector Moreno, EXFO

Héctor Moreno has more than 22 years of experience in the Test & Measurement Industry for Telecommunications, and over this period of time he had the opportunity to play different roles from technical support, sales engineer, sales manager while being in close contact with Telecom technologies. He is currently Sales Director at EXFO, responsible for the Latin American and Caribbean market. Prior to EXFO he held the Sales Manager position at Wandel & Goltermann de Mexico. Héctor Moreno has a bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from ITESM “Instituto Tecnológico de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, México” and Master in Business Administration from IPADE “Instituto Panamericano de Alta Dirección de Empresas, México”.

LATAM Committees:

LATAM Marketing Committee

Director: Liza Poe, Corning Optical Communications

Liza Poe graduated in Business Administration from the 'Universidade Estadual de Londrina', Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In 2000, she joined Corning Optical Communications, where she worked in several departments in the commercial area for the CALA market. For the last four years she has been working in the area of Marketing. Currently, Liza Poe is the Business Operations Manager for the Latin America market.

In recognition to her engagement, dedication and contribution to the Fiber Broadband Association, in 2013, Liza received the Fotón Award.

LATAM Public Relations Commitee

Director: Nelson Saito, Furukawa

Nelson Saito holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Paraná in 1985. He holds Specialization Courses in New Product Innovation from Stanford University - CA, USA; Product Development - Berkeley University, CA, USA. Innovation Consulting at Unindus / Technological University of Compiègne (UTC) France. He worked at Furukawa from 1984 to 2002 in several areas of business. After returning to Furukawa in 2006, he worked from 2014 to 2017 as general manager of Product and application of Optical Cables, Structured Cabling, FTTH Connectivity Solutions and Optical Equipment. In 2018 he was appointed General Manager for New Business Development focused on developing Hyperscale Data Center solutions, Fiber Sensors, Telecom Infra Project (TIP), IoT and Cloud. He is an adviser of the company in the subjects of Information Technology. Mr. Saito created the company Syts Consultoria in 2002 working as financial advisor to SEBRAE and several size banks in the elaboration of business plan to obtain funding; specialist in risk analysis and marketing advice for the introduction of new products in the market. At FTTH Council Americas, now Fiber Broadband Association, he participated in the creation of the LATAM Chapter in 2008. He was the first Chairman from 2009 to 2010, and was elected president from 2015 to 2016.

LATAM Technology Committee

Director: Gustavo Candolo, Prysmian Draka Brasil SA

LATAM Regulatory Committee

Director: Nicanor Ruiz, Senko Advanced Components

Nicanor Ruiz achieved a Communications and Electronic Engineer Degree from IPN ESIME, Mexico and has 28 years of experience in Telecommunications and Data Communications Sectors. Currently he works for SENKO Advanced Components in the Fiber Optic connectivity related all Telecom and Data segments Mexico and Caribbean. His collaboration in main industries include CORE and Access Networks, Cloud Computing, New Services Applications, Development of new services for Vertical, Enterprise and Government Sectors, Network Intelligence, Convergence Networks, Transport Network and Access Network (xDSL), among others.

LATAM Operations Committee

Ex Officio Director: Federico Lang, Anixter

Federico Lang has vast experience in networking infrastructure and security technology solutions for both the enterprise and telecommunications service providers markets at a global scale. Over the past decade he has been implementing solutions in field, supporting sales teams, leading engineering teams and designing solutions while engaging customers and leading complex opportunities, interacting with consultants, contractors, integrators, manufacturers and vendors, among others. Currently Federico holds a position as Business Development Manager with ANIXTER. Among others, his role includes acting adviser to regional managing director on new technologies and trends that could potentially align to customer base needs and their future challenges, advise on marketing strategies and initiatives to produce the required tools to hit our targets and identify and develop potential opportunities and possible related projects to support sales team and understand customer changing needs.