Rakesh Vij Email and Phone Number

As Chief Business Officer I am responsible for 400M $ of P&L for Communications business at Aricent. This involves working with leading equipment providers and service providers.

Professional ExperienceAricent Position: Vice President, Head of Innovation• Initiated the innovation function within Aricent moving from technology driven to offerings based on market requirements• Responsible for formulating Aricent strategy across the four market segments in which Aricent operates• P&L responsibility for Aricent enabling software and nurturing two business units requiring executive support. Responsible for over 150M of P&L• Reporting to CEO, Aricent and part of Executive Leadership Team

• Business Head for North America responsible for 110M USD worth of business, one of the most profitable business units in Aricent• Introduced LTE practice, one of the most successful practices with 150M business in last 3 years• Interfaced with multiple client in USA, Europe and Japan. These include Oracle, Texas Instrument, IPAccess, Cisco, Genband. Qualcomm, Vodafone, Panasonic, Tellabs, Intel, Aeroflex, NEC, VNL (India), NTT• Initiated new revenue models like Revenue Share, Royalties for enabling software leading to dramatic increase in business and margins• Involved in Pre sales and Program management of key accounts• Involved in creation of multiple Aricent assets/enabling software in wireless and wireline business which contributed to significant growth in Product Engineering Services business in licensing and services• Active Contribution in marketing activities and tradeshows• Prior to above position was responsible for Wireless and Convergence and Datacom Business Unit• Responsible for global PES business apart from 6 named accounts within AricentKey Accomplishments:• Created one of the most successful offerings at Aricent – LTE• Initiated engagement and grew business with key clients like Vodafone, Texas Instruments, Oracle, Genband, Qualcomm and Panasonic• Speaking engagements across tradeshows like MWC, CES, CTIA Wireless, 4G World and others• Responsible for Testing Business practice. Clocked Revenue in excess of 10M USD in less than a year• Awarded the “Presidential Award” the highest award for excellence in Business Development • Awarded the “Best Live Wire” award in Business Development Category during Annual Sales Meet

Engineering development responsibility for RNC protocol stacks and 3G technology proof to Taiwan Government.Project Manager for SS7 development. Key Accomplishments:• Engineering development responsibility for RNC protocol stacks and 3G technology proof to Taiwan Government.• Project Manager for SS7 development. SS7 stack is the most successful product line of HSS with over 200 deployments• Delivery responsibility for multiple clients• Delivery responsibility, Pre Sales activities and enhancing the stacks to include multiple new features. Aricent SS7 stack based products would be deployed in all leading service providers across the globeHughes Software Systems, Delhi 1998 – 2001Project Manager/Technical Manager• Project Manager for development of Intelligent Peripheral (IP) for NEC, Japan • Project Manager for OMC for Thuraya network. Thuraya is a satellite based system deployed in Middle EastKey Accomplishments:• First Product developed by Hughes Software Systems. Responsible for complete design, implementation and deployment in NEC’s network in Thailand and Latin AmericaHughes Software Systems, Delhi 1994 - 1998Position: Senior Software Engineer• Involved in development of WLL based system deployed in Ratelindo Indonesia• Involved in development of Cellular Digital Packet Data (CDPD). CDPD is an overlay network responsible for data transmission.

• Involved in device driver development in Unixware for Novell