Tejas Networks Augments its Senior Management Team
November 1, 2016; Bangalore, India: Tejas Networks Limited, a leading global provider of next-generation optical and data networking products announced that Sukhvinder Kumar has joined as President-Global Manufacturing Operations and Joydeep Bose as Executive Vice President, Corporate Strategy.
“We are delighted to welcome Sukhvinder and Joydeep to Tejas. With these appointments, we have strengthened our senior management team with accomplished executives having rich international leadership experience”, said Sanjay Nayak CEO and MD. He added, “Their domain expertise and knowledge will play an important role during our next phase of market expansion and growth.”
Sukhvinder Kumar holds a bachelor of engineering degree in electronics from Dr. Ambedkar Marathawala University, Aurangabad and an advanced management program certificate from Indian Institute of Management, Bengaluru. He has several years of experience in the field of electronics. Prior to joining our Company, he was the chief executive officer and managing director of Eolane Electronics India Private Limited. Sukhvinder said- “with best-in-class products, deep R&D expertise, strong in-house IPR portfolio and TL9000 certified manufacturing processes, Tejas has emerged as India’s leading high-technology product company. I am excited to be part of a top-notch team, as we embark on an exciting growth phase.”
Joydeep Bose joined Tejas from Cisco-Asia Pacific & Japan, where he headed strategy and corporate development for over 10 years. At Cisco, Joydeep focused on strategy and new partnerships, minority investments, co-development and M&A for its cloud, IOT and smart cities businesses. Before Cisco, Joydeep spent 7 years at Intel-India where he was actively involved with Intel Capital’s investments in telecom and wireless startups, before taking up a General Manager role in the emerging products division. Joydeep said- “with significant customer successes in India as well as internationally, Tejas is well positioned to capture much larger market-share globally. Tejas has a strong portfolio of software-differentiated, converged packet optical, packet transport, fiber broadband and Ethernet switches that give us a unique edge in defining the next-generation connected platforms. I look forward to creating growth opportunities and new initiatives through co-creation, structured partnerships, M&A and Tejas-led developer forums.”
ABOUT TEJAS NETWORKS
Tejas Networks designs, develops and sells high-performance and cost-competitive networking products to telecommunications service providers, internet service providers, utilities, defense and government entities in over 75 countries. Tejas products utilize programmable, software-defined hardware architecture with a common software code-base that delivers seamless upgrades of new features and technology standards. Tejas Networks is ranked among top-10 suppliers in the global optical aggregation segment and has filed over 349 patents.
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