Dr. Stuart Elby is the Vice President of Network Architecture and Enterprise Technology responsible for Verizon’s wireline network architecture, network design and platform development including optical transport, fast packet and ethernet switching, IP/MPLS routing, and emerging voice over IP technologies. Additionally, Stuart is responsible for providing technical support to Verizon’s Enterprise Solutions marketing and sales team for product development and pre- and post-sales support. Previously, Stuart spearheaded efforts to deploy ATM and led several multi-university R&D programs in IP and ATM wide area networking for high performance distributed computing and multi-media education applications.

Prior to joining the phone company in 1993, Dr. Elby was a Research Associate at the National Science Foundation’s Center for Telecommunications Research at Columbia University. There he was responsible for leading research in optoelectronic devices, all-optical network architectures and developing early WDM / ATM network platforms. He was Co-Director of a Multi-University research program on all-optical packet switched networking, and collaborated with Teachers’ College in the development and deployment of NY City’s multi-media educational network for primary and secondary schools.

In 1985, Dr. Elby was the Manager of Technology in a laser surgery start-up where he was responsible for FDA clinical trails, opthalmic and endoscopic laser surgery product development, and brought the first ever disposal plastic fiber-optic delivery system to market. In 1982, he was a Staff Engineer at StorageTek, where he contributed to the development of the first commercial optical disk platform -- predecessor to the CD.

Dr. Elby received a BS degree in Optical Engineering from the University of Rochester, NY, in 1982 and received a MSEE, M.Phil, and Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1989, 1992, and 1994, respectively. He lives in the hills of Connecticut with his wife and three children.