Deepak is Founder Analyst at B&M NXT, and Executive Editor at BitStream Mediaworks Pvt. Ltd. His focus areas include strategic business consulting & advisory, strategic communications, sales enablement and capacity building. He carries around 25 years of experience, of which 18 years have been pertaining to the ICT domain. He is also columnist at Governance Now, India’s leading magazine on public policy and governance matters.He is widely quoted in business, news and trade media. Among the leading publications where he has been quoted include Economic Times, Times of India, Business Standard, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, CIO, Voice&Data, ITNext, Business World and Light Reading. He has also appeared on CNBC’s show Storyboard. His columns have regularly appeared in Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age in the past. His analyst commentaries appear in Economic Times/ETTelecom and Light Reading.He was earlier Research Director at IDC India, where he spearheaded research and advisory programs across segments such as telecom, mobile devices, and LAN and WLAN networking, among various other things. In earlier roles, he also headed IDC’s India Client Computing, Peripherals, Channel research practices. He also provided advisory services to service providers on contemporary topics such as Cloud, Managed Services and Data Centers.He has been speaker at various events and seminars, including IDC's flagship events Directions and Predictions and Bicsi’s annual events, among other industry events. Prior to IDC India, he worked with Reuters, Voice&Data and Dataquest in editorial, analysis and other associated fields.Specialties: strategic business consulting & advisory, strategic communications, sales enablement, capacity building, green tech & sustainability and public speaking.