Sebastian Thalanany advises organizations on the adoption of forward-looking and interoperable capabilities in the evolution of the mobile communications ecosystem. He advocates and influences the direction of ideas, consensus, and the progression of global standardization initiatives in the development of emerging mobile Internet and LTE-Advanced specifications. Mr. Thalanany has chaired mobile technology evolution specification working groups and is engaged in leadership, guidance, strategy formulation, and advisory roles under the auspices of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), and Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) standards organizations. He has been an invited speaker at Informa conferences on a variety of topics in the emerging mobile ecosystem. His experience spans interdependent, interdisciplinary, innovative, and experiential aspects of services, along with an evolutionary landscape of the mobile ecosystem. Mr. Thalanany is an executive scholar in leadership and strategy from the Kellogg School of Management.

He is a senior member with IEEE and has an MS in electrical and computer engineering from Oklahoma State University. He is currently with U.S. Cellular, Chicago, USA.