Redknee appoints Sanjay Sharma as Regional VP and Head for South West Asia

Redknee Solutions recently announced an appointment of Sanjay Sharma as the Regional Vice-President and Head for the South West Asia region. Sharma will be responsible for sales, solutions, consulting, marketing and executing Redknee’s professional managed services business, throughout the region.

Sanjay Sharma, Redknee’s new Regional Vice-President and Head of South West Asia, commented, “Redknee’s business is going through an exciting growth phase, where the company is looking at significantly enhancing its presence in the South West Asia region within the communications sector. Redknee has a great opportunity to leverage its software platform to drive value to CSPs by supporting them to monetize and deliver new services, business models and content. Furthermore, Redknee’s solutions enable CSPs to provide superior quality of service to their customers.”

Marc Veelenturf, Head of APAC & MEA Region, Redknee, commented, “Sanjay’s appointment will give a fresh impetus and a new direction to Redknee’s business in the South West Asia region. The company will benefit from Sanjay’s rich experience in India and overseas, and we look forward to having him spearhead the company’s growth strategy going forward.”

Based in India, he will work closely with Redknee’s sales and marketing teams to drive strategic client development and growth across South West Asia.

“My focus at Redknee will be to attain and improve our leadership position in OSS/BSS, real-time policy control and enhancing the customer experience through our innovative solutions. Also to utilize Redknee’s world-class products created through working with some of the world’s leading services providers, to drive innovative new business revenue stream solutions for our customers and help them advance their operations to deliver an enhanced experience to their customers,” said Sharma.

With over two decades of experience in the telecom and IT industry, Sharma has held a number of executive roles within global organizations, including Amdocs, IBM Global Services, Huawei and Samsung. Prior to his appointment at Redknee, Sharma was heading Amdocs business for the South West Asia region, and before Amdocs he was heading the carrier software and core network business unit of Huawei Telecommunications for the region. He also spent ten years at IBM Global Services working on various solution sales and marketing activities for telecom customers across the Asia-Pacific region.