Chris Papaioanou
Regional Director Oceania at Aviat Networks
Australia
Summary
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SeniorChris Papaioanou is a seasoned sales and business development leader with 13 years of focused experience across telecommunications, IoT, cloud and datacentre infrastructure, currently serving as Regional Director Oceania at Aviat Networks. He combines deep technical knowledge—from microwave and optical transmission to 5G, SDN/NFV and hybrid-cloud architectures—with a proven track record of building and managing high-performing regional teams and channel ecosystems. Chris has repeatedly moved between vendor, carrier and startup environments, driving go-to-market strategies for LoRaWAN IoT, modular datacentres and enterprise voice/data solutions across ANZ and the Pacific. Known for mapping complex business requirements to pragmatic technology solutions, he blends hands-on telecom engineering understanding (Bachelor in Electrical Engineering) with commercial P&L and contract negotiation experience. A practical connector of customers, partners and product teams, he has a distinctive strength in translating legacy carrier needs into modern cloud and edge-enabled offerings.
13 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
English, GreekProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
chrispap/VVRFramework
Aug 2017 - Dec 2023
Contributions:4 PRs, 112 pushes, 11 branches in 6 years 4 months
chrispap/Subtitles
Jan 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:18 commits, 4 pushes in 6 months
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