Joseph Armand

Joseph is founder of Sproutways. A veteran of the high-tech industry, he is a seasoned business leader with a compelling ability to create products and services that fill gaps in the marketplace and drive significant revenue for organizations. He is an accomplished Technology Executive, Investor, Entrepreneur, and a Board Member with more than 20 years of success across cloud computing technologies, SDN/NFV, telecommunications, and enterprise software. Joseph's entrepreneurial experience came from multi generations of family-based vertically integrated herbal medicine company, based in South East Asia, called Sido Muncul. Founded in 1951 by his great grandmother, is one of the largest vertically integrated herbal medicine companies worldwide. It’s world renowned in the highest quality of herbal supplements and hold top industry’s ISO certifications in manufacturing, lab, distribution, and packaging. Joseph was responsible for building a new product line, disruptive marketing strategies, and integrating emerging technologies at various companies that are leaders in the networking and enterprise platform industry. Joseph also led strategic partnership and alliances with top-tier service providers and telecommunications carriers, such as AT&T, Verizon, Deutsche Telekom, and Google, as well as various industry technology leaders. One of ground-breaking solutions was leading the launch of the industry's first open source cloud wireless platform based on 5G framework in alliance with Open Networking Foundation (ONF), top-tier carriers, and a few dozens of leading technology systems integrator.