Vikas Sharma

Parichay is a social welfare organization established to create livelihood opportunities for rural/tribal artisans in India. Its a movement which aims to cover all rural/tribal artisans in the country and provide sustainable and non - migratory livelihood to artisans. Parichay will an artisan's governed organization to provide a wide platform to market traditional craft based products across the world. Currently about 15 artisans are directly working with Parichay and 100's are indirectly connected to the organization. The organization manufactures craft based utility products at its Design and Learning centers and markets the same through the online platform htttp://www.parichay.co.in and also through the network of professionals promoting the organization.

Account Manager for Bharti - Airtel, Aircel, Videocon and MTS account for product line including IPTV, GEPON, MSAN, Transport network, NGN and other value added services platforms.

Directi (http://www.directi.com) is a 300+ million dollars group of Businesses, that develop innovative mass-market Web Products serving millions of Customers worldwide. Directi businesses rank amongst the fastest growing businesses worldwide in their corresponding industry segments. The combined Product Portfolio of various Directi businesses includes - Communication and Collaboration apps, Social Networking software, Instant messaging software, Context Analysis Engines, Antispam and Antivirus Solutions, Large scale Billing and Provisioning platforms, Traffic Monetization Solutions, Online Advertising Solutions, DNS Management Products, Linux and Windows Server Management Software, Web Hosting Control Panels and much more. Responsibilities: To develop and identify strategic partnerships for Directi in the industry and specifically in the telecom sector to cross-sell/up-sell a wide array of web based products. Developing business propositions, implementation and product launch plans Strategy formulation for strategic partner base expansion Relationship building and management with the C level executives

XLRI is among the top 5 B schools in India. - Specialization: Finance & Marketing - Represented India at 2 international level competitions in Business Planning and Implementation at United States of America. - Implemented academic learning to create comprehensive financial forecasts, strategy, growth plan, organizational structure and overall planning of manufacturing and roll out operations. Sports: - Captain of the XLRI Badminton team - Vice captain table tennis team. Extra Curricular and Leadership positions: - Executive member of the CRESCENT committee - a committee for research, strategy, consulting and entrepreneurship

Managed the NGN Core product (mSwitch) business development and its various application for Fixed Mobile Convergence. VoIP, video calling, etc in the South Asia Market. Actively worked with operators like BSNL, Bharti, Rail Tel, VSNL, Goa Swan project, MTNL-Aksh, Sri Lanka Telecom, Nepal Telecom, BTTB, etc across the entire South Asia Region. Worked extensively with TEC for the GR up-dation and formulation of new GR's. Successfully achieved the TEC Interface Approval for mSwitch from TEC.