Imtiaz Shaikh

Senior Director [R&D Global Standards]

Charter Communications

Imtiaz is Senior Director at Charter Communications, where he leads the company’s standards engagement across 3GPP, IEEE, WFA, WBA, and GSMA.  He works directly in these bodies and guides Charter’s technical positions.  Imtiaz brings 25+ years of telecom experience across mobile operators and network vendors, in senior architecture and technology-strategy roles. 

He has led multi-vendor technical teams whose contributions were adopted in 3GPP, influencing standards outcomes.  He has also shaped 4G and 5G network architecture and interface design for commercial deployment, along with cloud-native and edge platforms and private 5G and engages the industry on end-to-end network orchestration.  He holds 60+ granted patents and a Master of Science degree in Telecommunication and Management.