Sarath Kumar

Chief Technology Officer at ACT FIBERNET

Sarath Kumar has over 27 years of experience in the telecommunications industry. Sarath is currently serving as the Chief Technology Officer at ACT FIBERNET since February 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Tejas Networks for 14 years, starting as the Vice President of Product Management & Engineering and later becoming the Senior Vice President of Product Management. Before that, Sarath worked at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies as a Member of Technical Staff, where they contributed to the performance analysis of wireless data networks and systems.

Sarath Kumar's education history begins with their high school education at Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning, where they completed their +2 degree from 1982 to 1984. Sarath then pursued their Bachelor of Technology (BTech) in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, from 1984 to 1988. Following this, they enrolled at the Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, and completed their Master of Technology (MTech) in Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering from 1988 to 1990. Lastly, they obtained their Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, where they studied from 1990 to 1993.

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Bengaluru, India

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ACT FIBERNET

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ACT (Atria Convergence Technologies Ltd.) was born out of a vision to become the most admired in-home entertainment, education, and interactive services provider in India, back in 2000. Today, we are closer than ever to realising it. Based in Bangalore, we serve a number of cities and towns in Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Tamil Nadu and Delhi. The leadership team of ACT comprises 35+ professionals hailing from diverse industries like FMCG, Apparel, Entertainment, Information & Technology, Telecom, and Retail. We are one of the country’s most renowned Triple Play Service providers, bringing state-of the art services to nearly 1.5 million happy homes: Fibernet (Internet over Fiber Optics) Digital TV HDTV We offer broadband on optic fiber and our Fiber-To-The-Home technology can carry a vast amount of information at speeds up to 1 Gbps. We’re currently the 3rd largest ISP In the wired broadband category, and the largest non-telco ISP in the country. Our founder, Mr. Sunder Raju, is well respected in the Indian business fraternity and our senior management consists of 30+ professionals from diverse industries like FMCG, Entertainment, Information & Technology, Telecom, and Retail. We are backed by True North (Formerly known as India Value Fund Advisors), a premier private equity investment fund and TA associates, a Global Growth private equity firm with over $17 billion of invested capital. In the past, True North has supported many successful ventures like Biocon, Radio City, HDFC Bank, Meru, Mahindra Hinoday, and TTK Healthcare, among others. TA's investments in India include several successful companies like Billdesk, Dr Lal's Pathlabs, Fractal Analytics, Micromax, Rategain and Tega Ind. We’ve always believed in giving our customers the very best, and our vision is for every Indian home to have access to world class internet services.


Headquarters

Bangalore, India

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5,001-10,000

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