Francesca Serravalle

Francesca is a Telecom exec with 15 years of experience with roles spanning solution strategy, technical and strategic marketing, and business development.

She is currently working at Colt Technology Services as Emerging Technology Directorwith key responsability in transforming tech trends in innovative solution and incunating them into markets.

Prior to joining Colt Technology Services, she has worked shortly for Ofcom as Technology Consultant with key focus on 5G security and resilience and previously she has worked for ICT vendor NEC for 15 years holding various senior roles across diverse technologies: AI, IoT, smart city/data platform, LTE, 5G, NFV/SDN.

In her latest role in NEC, Francesca has led the business incubation activity of digital transformation solutions. Key responsibilities included developing synergies across business units, technology partners and emerging technologies to enable the realization of the digital agenda of city authorities across Europe as well as the definition of network transformation roadmap for service providers.

At NEC she has been responsible of strategy, business incubation and GTM activities of both customer experience and innovative small cell solutions.

Francesca is driven by passion for technology and innovation and has been a key contributor in the standardization of LTE technology holding a number of patents on important functionalities including Self Organizing Network, Ran Sharing Enhancement, and 4G security.