Bio

Andre Fuetsch joined Crosspoint in 2024 and leads the firm’s early-stage practice. Prior to joining Crosspoint, Fuetsch served as Executive Vice President & CTO of AT&T since 2016 leading their global mobile and fixed network technology direction and launched the world’s first 5G standards-based commercial service in 2018. Fuetsch also served as President of AT&T Labs overseeing AT&T’s storied R&D and Intellectual Property divisions where he championed the company-wide push into open-source software and open standards across the industry since 2012. Prior to that, Fuetsch was CIO of AT&T Business Solutions and previously held various leadership positions in product development, network engineering & operations and corporate development. Fuetsch currently serves on the board of Radcom and formerly served on the boards of the Linux Foundation, Magic Leap and was chairman of the Alliance for Telecommunications Industry Solutions (ATIS), Next G Alliance, Open Network Foundation and co-founder and chair of the Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) Alliance. Fuetsch started his career in 1995 at Pacific Bell developing network software tools and holds six patents in network traffic optimization and database design. Fuetsch holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from UC Berkeley and completed his graduate coursework in Computer Science at Stanford University.