Professional Highlights
- 25+ years of in-depth technology and business experience in the wireless and wireline networking, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML), and Industry 4.0. Founded and led multiple $50M+ R&D ventures and product businesses generating over $400M annual revenue.
- Played an instrumental and foundational leadership role to win a billion dollar deal in the North American Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) market by providing expertise in technology, product strategy, business model, and overall complex legal contract negotiations – a historic and market-making win in this space.
- Accredited Angel Investor and Limited Partner in a Silicon Valley Venture Capital firm – invested in multiple pre-seed and seed stage startups in the field of AI and ML based facial recognition technology and manufacturing machine automation to accelerate Industry 4.0 revolution.
- Recognized Industry expert of key IoT verticals – Commercial Telematics, Connected Car, Connected Home, Industry 4.0 (Oil & Gas, Construction, Smart Manufacturing), Smart City (Smart Lighting, Public Transportation, Snow Removal, Waste Mgmt, Video Surveillance), mHealth (RPM, mPERS), Utilities (smart metering and Grid, Fleet Mgmt), and Retail (Wearables, Asset tracking and monitoring, Vending Machines, Digital Signage).
- In-depth and Industry advisory level technology expertise: entire value-chain of IoT from wireless connectivity to Applications, Mobile Edge Computing (MEC), IoT-Analytics, AI, ML, Virtualized Wireless Packet Core, Low Power Wide Area (LPWA) technologies, Radio Access Network (RAN), Optical/Photonic Switching and Transport, Voice over IP, and 5G wireless end-to-end Architecture (mMTC, URLLC, eMBB).
- Granted patents in the field of Machine to Machine (M2M) and IoT Communications, and ASTN optical networks based on G-MPLS. Filed multiple patents in the areas of IMS and peer-to-peer (P2P) multi-media networking. Led and provided hands-on technology guidance to multi-layer teams of highly accomplished and industry-distinguished technologists with numerous filed/granted patents, research papers, and industry publications.
- Conceived, Designed, and Implemented unique IoT Reference Architecture for multiple top tier mobile operators in North America. Working closely with their technical and business Executive Leadership Team, led cross-business unit technical and product strategy, including technical diligence of >$700M acquisitions of multiple targets in the Commercial Fleet and auto-OEM Telematics verticals of IoT.
- Published numerous industry research papers and articles on: IoT/M2M, LTE, VoIP, Femto/Small Cell, Smartphone Architecture, Fixed-Mobile Convergence, Rich Communication Services etc.
- Founded two startups in consumer applications and wireless networking space. Strong relationship with tier-one Venture Capital firms and their general partners in Greater Boston, New York, and Silicon Valley areas.
- Innovative technology concepts and architectures in the field of “boundary-less” IoT Services, social networking via “hyper-communities” and content delivery from “any-source to any-device”.
- Conceived a patent-pending distributed-IMS architecture designed for multi-media applications; and a new class of “Interactive Applications” in a unique crossover architecture.
- Founded and led a Nortel-funded startup to launch industry-first application – Storage over Agile Optical Networks – by forging strategic partnership of Nortel with Storage leader EMC. This team had filed and was granted numerous patents in the field of photonic and optical switching.
- Sound business acumen in Corporate Finance and Marketing areas – P&L; M&A; complex product positioning and messaging; cash-based business case and ROI models for OEM vendors and operators.
- Complete product life-cycle management, network planning, network engineering, and portfolio business strategy via direct customer interaction at all levels in the global Service Provider markets.
- Active contribution and presentations at industry forums with original trend-setting concepts and frameworks. As CTO of a public company, addressed multiple industry analysts’ and investors’ conferences. Quoted in numerous industry articles, papers and research reports.
Patents and Research Publications
- Granted a patent entitled “Boundary-less M2M Service Layer”- to enable X-application device and data sharing. https://www.google.ch/patents/US9307040
- Granted a patent entitled “System, device, and method for managing Service Level Agreement in an Optical Communication System”; as a leader of the start-up, actively contributed and chaired a patent committee to file >10 patents during 2000-2001. http://www.google.com/patents/US7437449
- Filed three patents for distributed architectural solution that enables multi-media applications in both Peer-to-Peer (P2P) and Network-based sessions in an IMS or non-IMS domain with USPTO in 2006-2008. http://www.faqs.org/patents/app/20080235778
- Published paper in WTS 2007 conference on unified protocol stack architecture for 4G mobile devices based on Generic Radio Access Abstraction Layer (GRAAL), supporting multiple radio and IP access technologies (including P2P) for device-initiated seamless handover.
- Published paper on Femto Cell Architecture and Solution entitled “Personal Base Station – concepts and challenges” in multiple IEEE conferences (iiWAS2007, MoMM2007 and AICCSA-08).
- Published IEEE paper (2007) entitled “Improving Throughput and Delay on ARQ Connections in Broadband Wireless Networks” (LTE and WiMax based networks).
- Participated on a panel discussion on the topic of “Service Delivery Framework and Architecture for Open-source Application Servers” in multiple VON shows.
- Delivered Light Reading Webinar on the topic of “The Future of VoIP” to more than 600 attendees from service providers and telecom vendors, hosted by Infonetics Research Inc.
- Chaired a panel discussion and presented paper entitled “Converged Services for Existing and Next Generation Networks” at 2002 IN-IP world conference held in Orlando, USA.
- Published paper entitled “Converged Services: Deployment Challenges in Existing and Next Generation Networks” in the IP Applications and Services 2003– Comprehensive Report of prestigious IEC publication.
- Presented at 2002 VASA conference on SIP network architecture and services held in Torino, Italy.