Prakash Bajpai
Founder, MD & CEOPrakash Bajpai has a rich 32 years of experience in IT and Telecom Industry. He has been instrumental in building and leading organizations and business with revenue of more than $ 2 billion.
An engineering graduate from Delhi University, Prakash started his career with IBM as an electronics engineer. He then moved to Phillips, where he was involved in the launch of color TV transmission in India. He was one of the first few employees of Tata Telecom. His experience cuts across geographies as he worked with AT&T Network Systems in the US. Post returning to India, he spearheaded the Marketing, Sales & Network Planning activities at Tata Lucent Technologies. He then joined Hughes Telecom as President & CEO where he pioneered India's first Integrated Broadband Network in Maharashtra & Goa. He also led Hughes Telecom to launch India's first IPO (US$ 225 m) in the telecom sector. Prior to launching Tikona, Prakash was the President and CEO at Reliance Communications, where he was responsible for the Broadband, Enterprise, Data Center, PCO and DTH businesses of the company.
Prakash has also attained graduation from a number of in-house Management Programs conducted by the AT&T School of Business Management including mini-MBA in Financial Management
Tarun Kumar
Chief Technology OfficerTarun has over 20 years of industry experience spanning in IT, broadband and digital broadcast technologies. He has successfully deployed and managed operations of many technology intensive projects including enterprise and retail broadband BSS, cutting edge Interactive IPTV over metro Ethernet network, service delivery platforms for New-age products and broadband radio access networks.
Tarun is an electronics and communication engineer with M Tech (Integrated Electronics) from Indian Institute of Technology (1990 batch).
Heramb Ranade
Chief Marketing OfficerHeramb has nearly 22 years of experience in the telecommunications industry spanning enterprise, carrier infrastructure, telecom operator and broadband service provider segments.
Prior to joining TDN, Heramb was leading the product innovation and lifecycle management function for the enterprise and broadband businesses of two Pan-India telecom operators. He has a diverse functional experience covering sales, biz development, marketing, product management, innovation, service creation and customer experience processes.
He has held senior leadership positions in his previous assignments at Reliance Communications, Hughes Telecom (now Tata Teleservices), Tata Lucent Technologies (now Alcatel Lucent) and Tata Telecom (now Avaya) and has made significant contributions in building new capabilities and business units from scratch in most of his past assignments. He has a wide exposure to a number of technologies connected with Broadband and application services space. Heramb has a Bachelors degree in Electronics Engineering.
Rakesh Khurmi
Chief Financial OfficerRakesh holds a Masters Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Punjab University and Cost Accountant from Institute of Cost & Works Accountants of India (ICWAI). He has 18 years of experience of which 15 years have been in the telecom industry. He has worked with various organizations - Bharti Airtel Ltd, Reliance Communications Ltd, Spice Communications, Hutchison Max Telecom and Nestle India Ltd.
Rakesh has exposure of working in various telecom verticals - Mobile, Fixed Line, Paging, ISP Broadband, and Long distance businesses, in the areas of Financial reporting, Business Planning, Project Finance, Revenue Assurance and Risk and Compliance management.
Yugal Sharma
Chief Operating OfficerYugal has 17 years of experience in Consumer Technology businesses during which he handled products such as Mobile Phones, VoIP CPEs, Wi-Fi, DECT, Bluetooth, Video endpoints and enterprise solutions such as Unified Communications (UC), Video-Collaboration (VC) & Tele-Presence.
Prior to joining Tikona Digital Networks, Yugal was instrumental in setting up of Polycom Inc's India subsidiary as a Regional Director, India & South Asia.
Yugal commenced his career in 1993 as a Sales Engineer with TATA Telecom Ltd., (which was a TATA & Lucent Technologies JV, and now AVAYA) and had several prestigious assignments including setting-up & building distribution structure for North India and Nepal. He has held several leadership roles in his assignments at PARSEC Technologies, SIEMENS India and LG Electronics.
Yugal holds a Masters degree in International Marketing Management from the Indian Institute of Foreign Trade, New Delhi.