Darrell Jordan-Smith

TM Forum is an alliance of over 850 companies that work together to break down technology and cultural barriers between digital service providers, technology suppliers, consultancies, and systems integrators. The non-profit company is based in Morristown, NJ. The company drives collaboration and collective problem-solving to maximize the business success of communication and digital service providers and their ecosystem of suppliers around the world. TM Forum provides a platform for industry change-makers to share groundbreaking innovation, market developments, product launches, and business transformation journeys at their events. The company is the only industry body to count the world's top 10 CSPs and all the key hyperscalers as active, strategic members. The company was founded by Gadi Solotorevsky and Eric Pulier, and the CEO is Nik Willetts.

Sun Microsystems, Inc. provides network computing infrastructure solutions. It offers its solutions under the Java technology platform, Solaris Operating System, MySQL database management system, Sun StorageTek storage solutions, and UltraSPARC processor brands. The company also develops networking computing products and technologies which include servers, storage, open source software, tools, and training. The company provides solutions to the social networking, entertainment, financial services, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, news, energy, and engineering companies. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.