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Management Team
Our Leadership team comprises of Telecommunication & Wireless experts with passion for Innovation and making concepts take shape.

SK Patnaik
Co-Founder
SK Patnaik leads our Management Team and is responsible for the overall Business Strategy.
SK has more than 25 years experience in Business Development, Sales Strategy & Operations, P&L Management, Customer Relationship, new Go-To-Market in IT & IoT/Industry 4.0 Solutions, Products & Services, and in Product Engineering. He has partnered with Business, Product R&D and IT Leaders at leading Fortune 500 companies and led successful management of several multi-country Global/APAC-level programs as well as innovative first-time projects.
SK has delivered on innovative business models. He was entrusted with leading a new growth bet in Infosys and created a sustainable business model with >30x growth in 10years. Earlier in his career at Larsen & Toubro’s Switchgear business, he was chosen to lead a pilot whose success led the Company’s decision to set-up a highly profitable, new business, and it remained an operational model for 20years. In another case, he supported with novel IoT concepts that helped his Global Auto Client launch an exports business and achieve high growth in revenues, profitability.
SK has rich cross-cultural experience having lived in the US, UK, South-East Asia, and India.
Our Leadership team comprises of Telecommunication & Wireless experts from different cultural backgrounds. The team is bound by an overwhelming passion for Innovation and making concepts take shape.
The team aggregates more than 35 granted/in-process US Patent applications. Few examples of Innovations and successes that our team has done in the past are below
• invented Industry’s first real-time analytics platform for mega-scale wireless networks, which is in use today for hundreds of million endpoints
• precise device location in large wireless networks
• synchronization of network elements in wireless networking
The team members have supplemented their PhD, Masters, and MBA qualifications working for Global Companies – Telecommunication Service Providers, Research Labs, Telecom Product Companies, Telecom Software, Telecom Consulting, and in Telecom start-ups – in the US, Europe, South Africa, China and India.
In the past three years, our team has extensive expertise on 5G (architecture, solutioning, deployments), as well as Machine Learning/AI, Cloud & Mobile Edge Computing.