Biren Mehta

Background

About Biren Mehta

Accomplished digital transformation executive with demonstrated success in running $100M+ P & Ls and accelerating business results. Deep domain expertise in corporate strategy, product/market growth, emerging market trends, and investments. Global business experience in technology scouting, C-Suite consulting, executing strategic initiatives, and consensus-building. Proven success with 18+ years of a track record of technical strategy development, creating new market routes, and business modeling for operator’s (Radio & Cloud) infrastructure, network virtualization, zero-trust security, micro-services architecture, and Analytics/AI at Cisco, Ericsson, and ACCOMPLISHMENTS •Built Network/Security-as-a-Service offers for global SPs accelerating SD-WAN/Security adoption • Delivered 3X sales growth in Nokia’s SD-WAN and Security business • Developed perpetual and subscription licensing offers for Nokia’s SD-WAN and Security business • Established technology incubation group at Ericsson guiding investments and market transitions • Spearheaded product innovations at Ericsson and portfolio companies through strategic investments • Defined, developed, and implemented market strategy for Cisco’s $4B+ service provider portfolio • Designed cross-domain (5G/NFV, WAN, Cloud, DC, Edge) network and security architectures • Managed global team of network engineers, market managers, business development leads, and contractors Specialties: Venture Investment, Product/Market fit, Demand Generation, Sales Enablement, Subscirption & Perpetual licensing models, P&L Management, Technology Alliances & Partnerships Technical Expertise: Access/WAN/DC Fabrics, SD-Security, Micro-segmentation, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, IPSec, ASICS/GPU/CPU/ FPGAs, White Box Engineering, SDN/NFV, Container Networking & Security, K8S, ISTIO, ML/AI Industry Certifications: CCIE #7823