Sridhar Ramachandran Email & Phone Number

Rockville, Md, Us

London, Gb

The IMC is the largest and fastest-growing trade organization in the IoT/M2M sector, with over 25,000 OEMs, enterprise users, and apps developers as members, and an average of 300 new members joining weekly. The IMC brings a new approach – it will increase deployments of IoT/M2M solutions by proving the business case of the technology to those that would adopter it. It will stand for connectivity as its own global industry, and will not see IoT/M2M technology through the narrow lens of technical standards or a single vertical industry. The IMC will support industry efforts to increase deployment volumes by offering members services that connect Solutions Providers with Adopters of IoT/M2M technology and meeting their evolving needs.

East Brunswick, Nj, Us

Sri is responsible for overseeing Somos’ technology strategy and long-term vision.Somos is a leading data solutions company for numbering and identity management resulting in trusted connections between consumers, enterprises and communities.Somos is currently the administrator for the North American Numbering Plan and the North American Toll Free Number Registry.

Rockville, Md, Us

- Managing Principal, Zeniyer.Zeniyer is an Internet of Things (IoT) business and technology consulting company, with its primary mission to help businesses, service providers and governments bridge their connected business needs with ‘fit-for-function’ technology that enable them to both scale and operate efficiently. Zeniyer’s practice areas cover all aspects of the Internet of Things market– Device selection/validation, Mobile network connectivity, Cloud platform infrastructure, app and management dashboards development and Analytics. We help with the discovery of requirements, ideation, solution strategy, implementation, go-to-market support and maintenance of existing deployments.

Washington, Dc, Us

ATIS delivers standards and solutions to advance ICT industry transformation. The 2021 ATIS Overview tells of our most recent initiatives — and the results they are delivering our industry:From vision to launch, our Next G Alliance is a key 2021 ATIS focus. An unprecedented activity for our organization, it is uniting the leading companies in our industry together in a shared commitment to advance 5G technology, look ahead to the 6G future and put North America at the fore of technology leadership for the next decade and beyond.In the 5G area, as the North American Organizational Partner for 3GPP, our work is making great strides in understanding how North American priorities can be built into future 5G-related releases. It is helping to understand future 5G operational and regulatory requirements. It is delivering an assessment of 5G vertical enablement platforms. It addresses 5G network security by applying Supply Chain Risk Management principles to secure the supply chain for trusted 5G networks and services in both the public and private sectors.ATIS is doing some of the industry’s forefront work to harness the potential of distributed ledger technology and set it into action to address network issues. Having developed a solid technical foundation for mitigating illegal robocalling, ATIS’ Secure Telephone Identity Governance Authority is moving fast forward to ensure that this framework is ready for the expected growth in service provider participation in 2021 — and beyond.

Munich, Bavaria, De

- Vice President and Americas Head of IoT & Mobility Solutions, managed $40M P&L and an organization across the Americas region for business development, partnerships, solution architecture and customer success functions. - Integral member of the IoT strategy team supporting product management with new product concepts, market insights and customer feedback.- Developed a product concept for IoT Security, leveraged interest from AT&T and Amazon Web Services, worked across a global product/R&D organization to build and deliver to AT&T as launch customer.- Launched key partnerships with Amazon Web Services (Advanced Technology tier) and Microsoft Azure for IoT device onboarding.

Richmond, British Columbia, Ca

Numerex Corp., (Acquired by Sierra Wireless) - Chief Technology Officer, managing an innovation organization of over 75 engineers, responsible for technology/product strategy, development and delivery of a portfolio of IoT managed services in Connected Home, Fleet & Asset Tracking, Tank Monitoring, Offender Monitoring, Personal Emergency Response, and Business Process Automation, including hardware design and development, platform/application development and deployment in private cloud.- Integrated multiple engineering groups and unified development programs using Agile process, resulting in periodic and consistent software deliveries.- Supplemented engineering team with outsourced sustaining teams in India. Setup governance and review structures for consistent performance of offshore teams. - Architected and executed on LTE strategy for Numerex devices, as well as unification strategy for multiple IoT platforms.

Providence, Ri, Us

- Served as Chief Technology Officer, managing an innovation organization, and responsible for Internet of Things (IoT) technology/product strategy, development, delivery and customer support of a smart grid energy efficiency solution globally.- Architect of the business transformation of the company from an industrial hardware company into a IoT software business in 12 months. The IoT software system was compliant with North American Electric Reliability Corporation – Critical Infrastructure Protection (NERC-CIP) standards, to be deployment ready in the US power grid.- Built software team, collaborated with key customers such as American Electric Power and Pacific Gas & Electric, and delivered new innovative and scalable software platform in 12 months, enabling 80% gross margins.- Formed alliance with strategic partner in South Korea, and launched Joint Venture for sales/marketing channel into South Korea, and explored market entry into China.

Bridgewater, New Jersey, Us

- Served as Chief Technologist of Interconnection Solutions division, which is a solution and managed services provider for interconnecting mobile operators, content providers and IP communications providers for unified communications services.- Served as General Manager responsible for development, management and P&L for Message Hub, a global messaging (SMS/MMS) service for mobile operators and content providers. Added multifactor authentication capabilities to the service, and signed Google as a customer. Built the business from concept to over $10M in revenue in fewer than 4 years.- Designed infrastructure and supported rollout of Mobile Number Portability (MNP) clearinghouse managed service in India for 14 mobile operators and over 800 million subscribers.- Developed strategic relationships with marquee customers such as Google and Bharti Airtel Ltd, India’s largest mobile operator

Plano, Texas, Us

(fka NextPoint Networks/NexTone Communications)- Co-Founded NexTone Communications in February 1998, serving as its Chief Technology Officer and Visionary.- Identified Session Border Controller (SBC) market in VoIP and educated/evangelized the marketplace about the problem and its solution. VON Magazine acknowledged this effort by naming Sridhar a “VON Pioneer and SBC Father” in October 2006.- As CTO, made strategic decisions about product and technology. NexTone differentiated itself as being the only software based SBC running on commercial off-the-shelf hardware. This was an industry-pioneering move, and independent third party testing proved that NexTone’s SBC technology was more scalable than competitors’ purpose-built hardware solutions. - Worked actively in standards bodies such as GSM Association (GSMA) and Multi Service Forum (MSF) promoting standardization and usage of SBC and IPX.- Guided technology direction, product strategy, product roadmaps and product marketing especially in emerging technology and market spaces.- Managed and maintained NexTone’s active patent portfolio of over 25 patent applications, including 15 on which I was an inventor.- Provided effective marketing with over 60 speaking engagements to promote SBCs and NexTone. Contributed numerous articles, white papers to leading publications.- Lead technical member of strategic sales team, selling to Tier-1 service providers, such as Verizon, BT, Telefonica, Telecom Italia, NTT, Softbank, Singtel etc.

Boston, Ma, Us

Germantown, Md, Us

Mclean, Va, Us

B Tech, Electrical And Electronics Engineering

Ms, Computer Engineering