Duncan Ellis
Director, EMEA
Wave2Wave
Duncan Ellis is Wave 2 Wave’s Director of Sales for Europe, Middle East and Africa and is responsible for the EMEA Sales organisation in addition to
regional Marketing and Communications. Mr Ellis brings over 30 years experience in engineering, optical systems and data centre technologies and has held leadership positions in Sales and Systems Engineering, Global Alliance & Channel Management and Marketing. Prior to joining Wave 2 Wave he held roles at Ciena, Auspex, Bytes Technology Group and Data General as well as serving his country as an Engineering Officer in the Royal Navy for 14 years including Lecturing at the Royal Naval Engineering College on Under- and Post-Graduate courses. Mr Ellis has successfully delivered Optical Solutions to major Financial Institutes, designed National R&E Networks, architected BC/DR networks in addition to International networks for some of the world’s top 25 Carriers working as far afield as Russia, Pakistan, South Africa as well as most European countries. With considerable experience in Data Centre connectivity he has been involved in all networking aspects from DC structured cabling and LAN connectivity through to WAN solutions with particular focus on delivering Synchronous Replication networks. Mr Ellis holds an MSc in Microwaves & Opto-Electronics from University College London, a BEng(Hons) in Weapons Systems from the Royal Naval Engineering College, Manadon and is a Member of the City & Guilds Institute.