Khurram Qayam has joined NEC in 2021 and has been working on numerous Open RAN projects as a part of the Global Open RAN CoE team based in London, UK. Khurram has been working in telecoms industry for the past 20 years. Prior to joining NEC, he has worked for Telefonica O2 in Germany (2002-2005), Alcatel Lucent (now Nokia) in UK (2005-2013), D-Link Europe (2014-2015), and most recently with Huawei Technologies UK Ltd (2015-2021). Khurram hold a master’s degree in telecommunication system engineering from University of Applied Sciences Darmstadt, Germany (2002) and an Executive MBA from Imperial College Business School, London UK (2012).