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Anand Athreya
CEO & Managing Director
Anand Athreya is an industry veteran with more than 25 years of global experience in telecom equipment, networking and software industries. He has served in technical and managerial capacities. Prior to joining Tejas, he was the Executive Vice President and Chief Development Officer at Juniper Networks, where he served for over 18 years and built several industry-leading products. Before Juniper, Anand worked in diverse management roles in Procket Networks, Malibu Networks, Tiara Networks, and also held senior engineering positions at Novell.
Kumar N. Sivarajan
CTO
Kumar is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tejas Networks. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and has nearly three decades of experience in the field of telecommunications. In 2000, he received the Swarnajayanti Fellowship from the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, which is awarded to outstanding young scientists to pursue basic research in frontier areas of science and technology.. Kumar has co-authored the bestselling book titled “Optical Networks: A Practical Perspective” which is currently in its third edition. He also received the prestigious IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize Paper Award in 1997, which is presented for the most outstanding paper reporting original work in the transactions, journals, and magazines of the Societies or in the proceedings of the IEEE. In November 2021, he was elevated to IEEE Fellow status for his extraordinary and continued contributions to the field of optical networking. He was the recipient of the ‘CTO of the Year’ award from ET Telecom in 2022.
Arnob Roy
Executive Director & COO
Arnob Roy is the Co-founder, Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer of Tejas Networks. He has over 30 years of experience in research & development, operations and sales in the high-tech industry. Prior to Tejas, he held senior management positions at Synopsys Inc. and Cadence Design Systems.
Arnob Roy holds a Master’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA and a Bachelor’s Degree in Technology in Electronics and Communication Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur.
Sumit Dhingra
CFO
Sumit Dhingra is the Chief Financial Officer of Tejas Networks. He has over 16 years of experience in corporate finance, performance management, business planning, acquisitions, fundraising, strategic analysis, and project management across a spectrum of industries. Prior to Tejas, Sumit was Assistant Vice President in the Group CFO’s Office at Tata Sons Private Limited where he worked on several strategic, financial and transformational projects for the Tata Group. Before that, he worked in diverse corporate finance roles at Everstone Capital and Kotak Investment Bank. Sumit holds an MBA from Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) & BE (Computer Science) from Delhi Institute of Technology.
N R Ravikrishnan
General Counsel, Chief Compliance Officer and Company Secretary
N R Ravikrishnan is a graduate in Commerce and Law from the University of Madras and a Chartered Secretary. Before joining Tejas Networks, he worked as the Head Compliance, Audit and Facilities at Infosys BPO Limited. He was also the Company Secretary at Infosys BPO Limited and Infosys Limited. His rich experience of over 30 years includes working at conglomerates like TVS, TATA and Infosys in various functions such as Secretarial, Legal, HR, Finance, Audit, Taxation etc. He was also a former Member of the Expert Committee on Taxation and Company Law in the Madras Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
