TECHNICAL SPEAKER

Mr. Rakesh Vij

"Aricent"

Profile

Career Highlights
- 23 years of global business experience in technology industry across Communications and Hi-Tech Software industry. 10 years of experience as P&L leader managing over 150M of P&L.
- Held various management positions - Business Unit Head with complete P&L responsibility, Innovation Head, Delivery Head across multiple key accounts and Regions
- Entrepreneurial leader, general manager and technologist with strong problem solving skills
- Extensive experience in building and managing high-growth organizations, Track record of setting up and scaling business operations, managing P&L, defining strategic road maps for new lines of business capitalizing on industry trends
- Built and led cross cultural teams with high goal alignment and value creation
- Helped open multiple large clients leading to large annuity business Extensive experience of working with US, European Japanese and Indian customers
- Member of Executive Leadership at Aricent
Background Summary
Telecom and IT professional with highly successful international and domestic experience in IT industry, driving revenue and margin growth, launching new service lines and products. In-depth business understanding and technical competence of Telecom, Communications industry and Hi Tech industry across semiconductors and Embedded Systems..Initiated and grew LTE which is one of the most successful offerings in Aricent leading to 200M of additional business. Proven ability to understand customer requirements and industry trends and transform them into desired solutions. Built strategy for Aricent, leading to diversification into Semiconductors/Embedded and Cloud segments. A computer science graduate with MBA from reputed schools in India and Fulbright Scholar from Teppers school of business, Carnegie Mellon University, USA. An active sportsman with keen interest in cutting edge technologies. Recognized as a business leader and team player with excellent customer handling skills.