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California, United States

Comprehensive Solutions for Strategic Transformation in Technology, Media, and Telecom.We specialize in providing strategic, technological, and financial solutions to telecom & data providers, and to the investment community.

Hyderabad, Telangana, In

Led corporate strategy, investments and various people development programs/initiatives to expand & develop new lines of businesses while strengthening existing infrastructure of the group. Built new teams across various functions/domains.Drove new technology adaption for datacenters, supporting high performance compute requirements of marketBuilt DC Network/Fabric across national footprint and Driving Edge DC expansion into Tier-2/3 cities across India along with suite of networking & DC products.Led international expansion strategy & partnerships. Opened up Thailand as 1st international DC footprint while exploring many other new markets in APAC & Middle East.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Conceptualized, planned and spearheaded a cross functional global team to monetize network investments to build new lines of business (network-based products, IaaS) in close association with engineering, product & sales teams. This included New Product Launch/Development, Go-to-Market Plans, Pricing and Product roll out strategy.Led digital transformation programs for various strategic telco customers to adopt Google Cloud services leveraging network investments of Google. Lead for many cross functional company-wide strategic programs. As head of various APAC markets & India region, led strategy, planning & commercial agreements from concept to closure for a few submarine cables builds in the APAC region worth (xxx M$ each). Championed a series of complex regulatory, policy, trade compliance and tax issues to develop many mega scale subsea cable builds.Scaled network investments in India and various APAC markets to meet the unprecedented traffic growth including acquisition of multiple subsea assets, adding new edge DC/PoPs in various markets and building numerous terrestrial dedicated Tbps scaled networks across geographies.Google representative at management committees for various consortium systems and managed telco partners/OEM vendors across APAC region.Mentoring & Building talent pipeline for Google. Hired, mentored and developed Strategic Negotiators to drive various markets to meet our robust network growth.

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Head of India and Middle East RegionInvented a creative ‘Managed Optical Fiber Network’ model to build massive scale (multi Tbps) terrestrial networks in partnership with local telco partners and strategic OEM partners. Drove from concept to alignment to execution with all partners/stakeholders to create this win-win model for various stakeholders, breakthrough model is now an industry norm to follow.Owned, managed and drove strategic network/infrastructure builds for India from scratch to build it as one of leading networks in the country.Built PoPs and network connectivity in the Middle East region, addressing a variety of commercial, regulatory and geo-political challenges

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Part of EMEA team, focused on India, Middle East & Africa RegionEstablished Google’s network footprint in Africa starting with establishing Edge PoP & in South Africa and Kenya markets opening Africa market for all Google’s products. Built scalable plans/roadmap for regional growth.Build relationships in ME region to open-up markets for future growth with CXO level relationshipsBuilt roadmaps for India’s network growth.

Issy-Les-Moulineaux, Île-De-France, Fr

As a founder of business in SE Asia & India, set-up & developed FT’s business from scratch to build it as the biggest sales region in APAC. Opened up many new countries for FT’s business including challenging markets like Pakistan & Bangladesh. Developed sales teams & business from scratch to attaining ~40% of APAC business (20 x in 7 years). Played a vital role in leading & signing the very first of its kind business model to sell a new set of products/services for FT.Established as a thought leader (part of core global team) with senior management for developing global strategy for transmission products.Developed many regional markets from scratch to grow Data, IP & Mobile Data products business across carriers/ISPs

Mumbai, Maharashtra, In

Successfully led a newly built carrier wholesale team besides managing product, marketing, strategic investment projects & partnerships.Successfully led corporate strategy & business restructuring /hive-off of businesses to start a new subsidiary company, working closely with global management consultants.Onus of being one of the founders of carrier interconnect regime in India. Built carrier interconnect commercial models & regime among Indian telcos.Led regulatory discussions with regulatory authorities in India achieving success on many strategic agendas.Strategic tie-ups with leading Application Service Providers, New Product Development, Pricing of Services, Business Development, Marketing Plan & Strategies,

Mba, Marketing

Bachelor Of Engineering, Applied Electronics & Instrumentation