Chris Sass is a senior commercial and business development leader on Nokia’s Hyperscaler AI and Cloud team, with over 30 years of experience building and scaling global networking businesses. He helps cloud majors, webscale platforms, and data center operators architect AI-ready network and infrastructure solutions that deliver differentiated performance, efficiency, and growth.

Across his career, Chris has led go-to-market, strategic partnerships, and transformation initiatives spanning IP networking, optical transport, and cloud infrastructure, working closely with some of the world’s largest service providers and technology platforms. Based in the Washington, DC area, he is a frequent contributor to industry discussions on AI infrastructure, next-generation data center architectures, and the evolving role of networks in large-scale AI deployments.