N. Ganapathy Subramaniam has been a part of Tata Consultancy Services Limited (TCS) and the Indian IT Industry for over 40 years. He stepped down from TCS in May 2024 as the Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director of TCS. He has played a strategic role in several landmark initiatives undertaken by TCS across banking, telecom, and public services globally. He has in-depth knowledge of technology, operations, product development, business transformation, and change management for organizations across the industry spectrum. As a thought leader, he has spoken at global conferences and actively engages in shaping opinions across the industry and government. Currently, he is part of a team at TCS and Tejas Networks designing and developing the indigenous telecom Stack for 5G/6G.

P R Ramesh has over 40 years of experience serving clients in manufacturing, banking and financial services, technology, media, telecommunications, energy and resources and consumer business sectors. Prior to his association with Tejas Networks, he was the Chairman of Deloitte India and served as a member of the Deloitte Global Board and Deloitte Asia Pacific Board.

P R Ramesh has been associated with Regulatory bodies such as SEBI Committee on Disclosures and Accounting Standards; Committee for Reforming the Regulatory Environment for doing Business in India, set up by Government of India; Technical Committee to review the form and presentation of the Balance Sheet of the Reserve Bank of India; Insurance Regulatory and Development Authority Standing Committee on Accounting Issues and Invitee to the Committee set up by the Reserve Bank of India (‘RBI’) to assist in convergence to IFRS by banks and National Advisory Committee on Accounting Standards. He has also been a member of the Accounting Standards Board of ICAI, the Vision and Restructuring Committee and the Auditing Practices Committee of ICAI as well as the Secretarial Standards Boards of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India. Ramesh graduated in Commerce from Osmania University, Hyderabad and is a Fellow Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI).

Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi heads the Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology, located at the IIT-Madras Research Park, which is focused on emerging wireless standards and technologies. He is a holder of several patents related to 4G and 5G technologies and was the national coordinator for the project to build an end-to-end 5G Test Bed. He has served as the Chairperson of TSDSI. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and INAE and an Hon. Fellow of RWTH Aachen, Germany. He served as Director, IIT Madras from 2011-21. Bhaskar Ramamurthi graduated with a B.Tech in Electronics from IIT Madras (1980). He secured his M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in Electrical Engineering from the University of California at Santa Barbara. After working at AT&T Bell Laboratories for a couple of years, he joined the faculty of his alma mater in 1986. His areas of specialization are Communications and Signal Processing. His body of research is in Wireless Networks, Modulation, Wireless Data, and Audio and Video Compression.

Mrs. Alice G Vaidyan, former Chairman and Managing Director of General Insurance Corporation of India and the first lady CMD in the Indian insurance industry has over 40 years of experience. She is considered among the foremost experts in the insurance and reinsurance industry in India and across the globe. She has won several national and international awards. She was the only Indian on Fortune’s Global List (2018) of 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. In April 2019, Mrs. Vaidyan was honored with the Freedom of City of London, in recognition of her work to promote insurance ties between India and London.

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.

Sanjay Malik has over three decades of global experience in the ICT sector in driving growth, spearheading transformative initiatives, and building high-performance organizations. Before joining Tejas, he was a Senior Vice-President and India Country Head of Nokia Networks and held the position of Managing Director, Nokia India Board (Governance, Audit, Compliance). He was earlier associated with organizations such as Cap Gemini, HP, and Tata Unisys in various positions. He holds an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management (Mumbai) and a BE from the National Institute of Technology (NIT), Kurukshetra.

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 the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta) & BE (Computer Science) from the Delhi Institute of Technology.

Kumar is the Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Tejas Networks. He is a Fellow of the Indian National Academy of Engineering and the Indian National Science Academy 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.

Anantha Murthy N is a qualified Company Secretary and Law Graduate.  He has more than two decades of rich experience in handling Company Secretarial / Legal matters with expertise in Corporate Law, Corporate Governance, Compliance, Board / Shareholders Management, Corporate Restructuring, and Regulatory Matters. Before joining Tejas Networks, he worked as the Head – Legal and Company Secretary of Tata Coffee Limited. Before that, he had worked with renowned corporates viz., BPL Group, ABB, Landmark Group (Lifestyle) and AstraZeneca.

Asha Ranjan Mathews is an industry veteran with close to three decades of rich industry experience. Prior to Tejas, she was associated with Tata Consultancy Services where she was the Business HR head of the Cybersecurity Business Unit. She holds an MBA from Mount Carmel College, Bengaluru & bachelor’s degree from St. Joseph’s College of Arts and Science, Bengaluru.