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Chris Wendt

Chris Wendt is Vice President, Systems Engineering at Somos. He is co-author of many of the relevant specifications related to STIR/SHAKEN in both IETF and the ATIS/SIP Forum IPNNI Joint Task Force. As a member and co-chair of the STI-GA Technical Committee he helped to establish the trust anchor for the US STI-GA the authority for signing telephone calls in the US telephone eco-system. Chris is a leader in the real-time communications space including leading the architecture of Comcast’s IMS-based voice infrastructure supporting 25+M subscribers, an expert in VoIP/SIP protocols and technologies and led the development and deployment of a cloud-based CPaaS/UCaaS solution utilizing webrtc based voice/video communications and messaging technologies. Chris is currently a co-chair of the ATIS/SIP Forum IP-NNI Joint Task Force, co-chair of the STI-GA Technical Committee and active in many telecom standards bodies. He holds a BS in Music, and a BSEE, and MSEE from Drexel University in Philadelphia.