Timon Sloane

Open Networking Foundation
Timon Sloane ONF

Timon Sloane is the general manager of the Open Networking Foundation (ONF).  He leads the organizationโ€™s efforts building an open source ecosystem, thus helping to enable broad transformation of the networking industry through the adoption open source business practices.

As part of driving ecosystem change, Timon is responsible for ONFโ€™s marketing, membership, standards, certification programs.

Prior to the ONF, Timon provided product and management consulting services to numerous technology firms, most recently with Ericsson where he was driving product strategy for the networking product lines. He has also help numerous executive roles in product management, marketing and engineering for firms such as Matisse Networks, Extreme Networks, NET, FlowWise and SCO.

Timon received a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

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