Michael Loomis
President
Nokia Federal Solution
Mike Loomis is the General Manager for Nokia Federal Solutions LLC, leading Nokia’s engagements with and product investments to meet the needs of the US Federal Government. Mike took this role on August 1 st , 2021.
Prior to taking on the GM position at Nokia Federal, Mike was responsible for Nokia’s Webscale segment (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft). This role was targeted at datacenter infrastructure, datacenter interconnect and 5G/public cloud partnerships. Mike has held several executive positions within Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent including leading global sales for large enterprise, an original member of Nuage Networks software defined networking ‘spin-in’ and responsible for technical sales, and CTO of Verizon customer team.
Mike earned an ROTC scholarship at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI) and served as an officer in the United States Army, 82 nd Airborne Division counting Operation Desert Shield/Storm among several deployments. After the Army, Mike began his networking career working for Wellfleet Communications which ultimately landed him in Nortel after a series of mergers and acquisitions. In addition to his bachelor’s degree from RPI, Mike also holds an MBA from the University of New Hampshire. Mike holds US patent 8,787,218 B2 for “Dynamic Establishment of Virtual Circuits using Multi-Segment Pseudowires.”