Nandu
Desai
AVP Product Management & Marketing, Pronto
Networks
In his role at Pronto, Nandu Desai is responsible
for defining and maintaining Pronto's product line,
strategic partnerships and marketing channels. Working
closely with sales channels and engineering groups,
Nandu works with customers and partners to determine
specific requirements in the areas of WLAN service
management delivery platforms. He brings 18+ years
of both business and technical experience to his
role.
Previously, Nandu was AVP Business Development for Syndesis, responsible for
developing and maintaining Syndesis' strategic partnerships with telecom equipment
manufacturers and other Operational Support System vendors. Earlier in his
career, Nandu was Director, Market Development for Yurie Systems (acquired
by Lucent in 1998), and held several positions in software development and
product management for data networking and narrowband systems at Alcatel and
NEC America in Dallas.
Nandu holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University,
an MS in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Texas, and a BS in Electrical Engineering from
Baroda, India.
Pronto Networks provides carrier-class Operations Support Systems (OSS) that
enables network operators to deploy and manage large public hot spot networks.
The company's software handles provisioning, configuration, authentication,
access control, security, pre-paid and post-paid billing, and roaming settlement
for large public WLAN networks, in addition to remotely managing and updating
multi-vendor hardware and Wi-Fi switches.
Pronto Networks is funded by BV Capital, Draper
Fisher Jurvetson and the Intel Communications Fund.
In 2003, Pronto Networks received several awards
including Wired Magazine's Top 25 Wi-Fi Companies
to Watch, the AlwaysOn list of Top 100 Private Companies,
and Computerworld's Innovative Technology Awards.
Pronto has its headquarters in Pleasanton, CA and
offices in Bangalore, India and London, UK.;
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