Director, Smart Next

(Puru) in his previous role with CISCO led the long term growth initiatives and transformation projects across all the sales verticals in India and SAARC. He was responsible for business verticals of Internet of Everything, Smart cities, India digitization including National broadband infrastructure, education and healthcare, public safety & security, Defence modernization and contact centers.

Puru’s deep expertise and proven ability to close large complex deals helped bring the full power of Cisco to execute on these mega projects and initiatives.

Previously Puru was  Director for the Service Provider segment  Cisco India and SAARC. In this role  he was responsible to drive the strategy and sales operations  for the segment  and worked with Cisco’s SP customers and partners to devise new business models, create and take new value  added services to market, thereby increasing their relevance with their subscriber base.

Prior to Cisco, he has served as Director- Sales at Nortel for 5 years in Service provider domain and prior to that in various sales positions at Lucent Technologies. He is a Post graduate in Business Management from BHU and BE Gold Medal from Punjab Engineering College, Chandigarh.