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)

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.