The MSF Senior Fellowship Program is a Board of Directors program aimed at individuals who have made an outstanding impact on the direction of the MSF at committee or working group level, over a period of several years.

Fellows are recognized individually with the title “Senior Fellow of the MSF” bestowed by the Board of Directors.

Senior Fellows Program Guidelines (PDF)

Roger Ward

Roger Ward has been a mainstay of the MSF since its inception in 1998. He has held numerous leadership positions in the MSF, including the positions of TC Vice Chair, Marketing Chair and most importantly President of the MSF, a position Roger held for nine years. As President, Roger was a tireless spokesperson, promoting the MSF around the world. He was the "face" of the MSF at meetings, trade shows and industry events. He was instrumental in creating the Global MSF Interoperability (GMI) test events and in securing BT's support as a host of the first four events.

The GMI events have become what the MSF is most well known for. By getting BT to support the GMI events both publicly and financially, Roger became a key contributor to the success of the GMI events. Because of the MSF's industry events, other fora now include testing as part of their activities. Roger's work in the areas of PR and one-on-one recruiting have also helped sustain the MSF. He has been a major asset to the Forum and an major contributor to its success for many years.

Jim McEachern

Jim McEachern has been a major contributor to the work of the MSF Leadership team for many years, both as Vice-President and Board member. He has helped greatly in sharpening the focus on activities that are of real practical benefit to the industry. He has a broad range of experience across many standards bodies, including ATIS, ITU and the IETF, and he has a deep penetrative technical understanding that has been useful in leadership discussions.

Jim was instrumental in the delivery of a unique MSF/ATIS partnership for GMI2008. He is a strong and active MSF ambassador,speaking at many trade shows and conferences on behalf of the MSF. Jim has contributed to numerous White Papers, presentations and MSF Education Events. He has been a great fighter on behalf of the MSF

Wayne Cutler

In his lengthy tenure with the MSF, Wayne has contributed to the organization at many levels including: Contributions to H.248 and SIP specifications or all GMI events. His first contribution was on the earliest IAs, a BICC IA and to date he has authored 77 IAs. His SIP expertise was invaluable in supporting GMI events and he produced the core SIP IAs that much of the testing was based. He was actively involved in the testing in GMI2002, GMI2004 and GMI2006, including analyzing and interpreting problematic test results.

As well as his technical expertise, Wayne has also contributed to leadership positions in the MSF. Initially as the Protocol and Control working group Vice Chair and later, TC Chair, a time consuming job that he has performed exceptionally, despite having a number of other commitments on his time.

Avri Doria

Avri is unique; despite massive changes in her personal employment status over the years she has hung in with the MSF through thick and thin, and always made a positive impact.

Avri has always provided inspired technical leadership, with an energy and creative tension that has driven others to contribute their best to the work of the MSF.

Brian Down

Brian has tirelessly worked to help the MSF in a number of areas from strengthening its general Business Proposition to the technical detail necessary to get an otherwise defunct working group (Management Advisory) off the ground.

Brian has above all helped the MSF build the key relationships across the industry necessary to achieve business acceptability (e.g. in GMI) and in areas that we ourselves did not have critical mass (e.g. TMF).

Chris Gallon

Chris has been one of the key contributors to the forum since the very beginning, both as a leader and as a contributor. Without his continuous contributions, the MSF would not have had meaningful IA's on which to base its GMI events.

Chris has been a key contributor to the MSF's technical architecture. He was one of those who helped us make the critical move to physical architecture and has done a lot since then to make sure that this architecture has grown in response to industry's needs.

Stuart Walker

Stuart started off in the MSF with the relatively minor problem of consigning the R1 architecture to history which he did by documenting the emerging R2 architecture, giving us for the first time a concise overview of the practical reality of an MSF network.

He has put a significant quantity of work into service aspects of the MSF architecture, including the service broker and the ISC interface and has wrote a significant number of GMI 2004 test cases.
He was instrumental in getting the MSF to focus on IMS, helping to shape GMI2006 by identifying relevant network architectures and behaviors. He played a key part in the IMS focus group.

He wrote a number of the GMI2006 test plans and (with Ian Jenkins), produced the technically excellent critique of IMS roaming and QoS.
He is currently Architecture WG Chair and has previously held the post of Architecture vice-chair.