Bio

Soma is the General Manager of Telecoms & 5G vertical. He is responsible to drive adoption of AI and Accelerated computing into this vertical. Soma is a successful serial Intraprenuer and product leader with more than 25 years in software and high-tech industry. He has incubated and launched multiple software products globally for large corporations. He is also mentor to early stage start-ups and Stanford incubation program (iFarm). Soma is an original thinker with the full product-lifecycle experience from product strategy to R&D. He has worked with customers across Americas, Asia and Europe, traveled to more than 40 countries and speaks 4 languages, giving him a truly global perspective. Soma is swift in deciphering complex technologies and customer business needs to set a compelling product vision. Through collaborative engagements, he is able to rally internal and external stake holders towards the product strategy and passionately drive roadmaps. He has spearheaded and launched multiple successful products globally, including a few that has received 5 global industry awards. He is focused on becoming market leader and savvy to create distinct competitive advantage through, smart commercial strategies, customer engagements and continuous innovation. His achievements in recent years include; 1. Establish ''lean'' like Customer led innovation programs 2. Incubated and launched new global portfolios for Nokia 3. Led scalability and hyper-growth of Nokia’s Network Analytics portfolio 4. 5 global awards, 24 patent submissions in BigData & Analytics and cloud 5. First in Nokia to introduce BigData, Opensource, Cloud and SaaS 6. Transformed network centered products to software centric solutions Soma has a B.E. in Electrical Engineering (Telecommunications), Diploma in Psychology and Executive education from Thunderbird University. Avid promoter of gender and cultural diversity at workplace.