Stephen Spellicy is known in the software industry as a subject matter expert with experience in product marketing, technical marketing and product management. As vice president of service provider marketing, enablement and business development, he is responsible for building awareness, influence and driving customer demand in the market for VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform, which is designed for communication service providers (CSP) who seek to virtualize their network functions to increase agility and scale.

Previously, Stephen led both the product management and marketing functions for Guavus, a Thales company, within the Mobile Connectivity Services business unit and has also held senior marketing leadership roles at HPE, Dell/EMC, Lucent Technologies, EqualLogic, Njini, Inc., and Virtensys, Ltd.  He currently sits on multiple boards including 5G Open Innovation Lab, Cohere Technologies, ASOCS and is the Marketing Chair for the Open Grid Alliance (OGA).

Stephen is based in Bedford, New Hampshire, married for 25 years with 3 children, and enjoys listening to and playing jazz.  He is a graduate of Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, with a concentration of study in film scoring and 20^th century music composition.