Previously, Khalilian held the positions of Chief Technologist/Advisor to NTT Business Groups and Senior Director of Technology, Architecture, Applications and Business Development with Time Warner Communications' business groups. While at Time Warner, Khalilian built and managed multiple departments including, telephony, VoIP, broadband cable data network, multimedia and the business telecom group. Other organizations that he has worked with include BellSouth Communications, Harris Government Communications, Siemens, Volo Communications and the FCC.

Khalilian was one of the founding members of the "Packet Multimedia IP Carrier Coalition" and the "International Softswitch Consortium" (ISC) which evolved into the "International Packet Communications Consortium" (IPCC). Now the Chairman and President of the IPCC, he is also an appointed member of the Telecom Executive Council for the United States.

Michael Khalilian has more than 20 years of engineering, operations, applications, business development and management experience in telecommunications, broadband and multimedia. Khalilian has worked with organizations ranging from service providers and equipment manufacturers to government agencies.

Khalilian earned his Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Central Florida and his Master of Business Administration (MBA) from Southern California University.

Khalilian is actively involved in service provider consortiums and industry standards bodies. Wall Street analysts and Venture Capital institutions also call upon Michael's expertise as a technology reference and advisor. He has participated on a distinguished panel of judges of the SUPERQuest Awards at SUPERCOMM for the past three years and is a frequent speaker at national and international trade shows.