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Blog | Nov 02, 2026

Graphiant Appoints Former Executives and Veterans of the Telecom Industry to its Advisory Board

We’re excited to welcome two leaders who have run networks at global scale to our Advisory Board: Chris Formant, partner at Red Branch and former President of Verizon Enterprise, and Sudhir Ispahani, founder and CEO of Alpha Global Partners and former CTO of Liberty Global.

Enterprise networks weren’t built for what AI demands. AI, quantum risk, and data sovereignty have added new demands, and most organizations have responded by layering on more point products. Chris and Sudhir have seen that problem from the inside at some of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, and they’ll bring that experience to Graphiant as we build networking infrastructure for the AI era.

We’re glad to have Chris and Sudhir with us as we bring Graphiant to more enterprises, carriers, and governments.

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“I know first-hand the cost and complexity of running a large network. Now those networks also have to deal with AI, quantum risk, and data sovereignty, and bolting on more technology has turned them into a Gordian knot. Graphiant rewrites the book on network management, putting enterprises in control of AI and security at the network level. It’s the right product for this moment, and when I saw it, I knew I wanted to be part of it.” - Chris Formant

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“For thirty years, whoever sold the box controlled the network. AI agents end that era. When every agent is both a client and a server, talking peer-to-peer across companies, clouds, and countries, you can’t bolt governance on at the edges. It has to live in the network itself. I had a front-row seat when @Khalid Raza and his team reinvented the enterprise WAN with Viptela. Graphiant is the bigger idea: one private fabric where agents can work at machine speed, and where the enterprise, not the box vendor, holds the keys.”- Sudhir Ispahani