Mr. Tadanobu OKADA has been an Executive Director of NTT Information Sharing Laboratory Group since July 2005. The Information Sharing Laboratory Group is conducting R&D on the basic network technology for building RENA (REsonant communication Network Architecture) - next-generation network architecture - and on platform technology that will support the diverse services that will utilize RENA. It also develops various systems to incorporate those network and platform technologies. The Group is also promoting R&D focused on environmental information technology that will help foster an information-sharing society friendly to the earth's environment.

Mr. Okada joined NTT Laboratories in 1976. He was active as a regular and core member of Japanese delegate to CCITT (currently ITU-T) Study Group XVIII for six years. He was also involved in national standardization of PHS (a Japanese personal handy phone system) interface, NS8000 digital switching systems development, among others. Before taking the current position he had been a director of NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories for four years.

Mr. Johnson Agogbua is a leading Internet technologist and entrepreneur. He has co-founded and has served as an executive for several leading technology companies, including Movaz Networks, Broadband Office, and Zephion Networks (now part of Masergy).

Prior to his entrepreneurial endeavors, he served as head of Global Network Engineering and Architecture at UUNET Technologies (now part of MCI), where he was in charge of the world's largest Internet network. There he led the engineering effort that expanded UUNET's network into the largest commercial Internet backbone that supported almost half of the world's Internet traffic in the late 1990s and implemented various innovations in Internet network architecture that helped spur the advancement of MPLS. Prior to UUNET, he served as Vice President of Advanced Network Engineering and Technology in the Business Technology Organization at Salomon, Inc. Previously, he was a member of the technical staff at AT&T involved in AT&T's Global IP network. Mr. Agogbua serves on the Board of several companies and is a member of the US Federal Communications Commission's Technological Advisory Council.