Amitabh Singhal
Amitabh currently sits on the Board of .ORG, the Public Interest Registry, based in Reston, Virginia. He is the Director of Telxess Consulting Services Pvt. Ltd. He was a Founder and former President of Internet Service Providers Association of India, where he helped frame the original ISP license conditions, successfully advocated the opening of international gateways and review of bandwidth pricing, amongst many other regulatory initiatives. He also was a Founder, Board Director and CEO of National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). He helped conceptualize and set up NIXI as a public private partnership between ISPAI and Department of Information Technology, Government of India and was involved in restructuring of NIXI as an autonomous Registry of the .IN Domain (Indian ccTLD), including its commercial launch, drafting and implementing the INDRP, and appointment of Registrars, etc. 3 Root servers were installed in India during his tenure. He is also associated with Internet Governance Group of the Department of IT.
He represented and was the spokesperson of India’s ISP industry, since the time of inception for well over a decade. He contributed many articles over the years in various publications and journals, and was a speaker & presenter at various forums, including the IGF, INET and other national, regional and international forums. He helped shape public policies in the telecommunication sphere as a member of various governmental and industry committees, expert groups and panels.
Amitabh Singhal is a Law graduate in addition to holding Post Graduate Qualification in Marketing Management along with his BA (Hons) degree. He also holds a Certificate in Corporate Directorship, where is dissertation was on setting up an Exemplary Board.
Amita Singhal
Amita Singhal has a Masters in English Literature with a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism. She worked with the Press Trust of India, an apex News Agency of the country and her last position was that of Chief Sub Editor of Sports Desk, along with responsibilities for Feature Writing on various subjects.
She was then associated with the Center for Science and Environment (CSE India), an NGO promoting democracy and sustainability. Amita was the Copy Editor with Down to Earth magazine, the flagship publication of CSE in the year 2000-2001, before becoming a full time homemaker.
She is the Co-Founder of Telxess Consulting Services (P) Ltd.
Sandeep Srivastava
Sandeep is CEO & Founder of PeopleFusion & CEO & Founder of Indus Leadership Solutions. He has over 20 years of senior management corporate experience in sales, marketing & executive leadership roles in India & the Middle East. In his last job in 2007, he was the CEO of the Engineering & Technology Services arm of a $8 billion, UK based Construction Company.
Sandeep quit his corporate job in 2007 to form PeopleFusion, a talent search firm with the mission of “Bringing People & Organizations Together”. PeopleFusion has helped companies hire middle, senior & CxO level talent in specialized areas such as PLM; Mathematical Modeling; Business Analytics & Simulation & Analysis. PeopleFusion has also coached & mentored highly experienced people during their job search process.
During his talent search engagements, Sandeep observed that companies were constantly struggling with developing & building leaders & appropriate leadership skills, thus limiting their growth potential. To address this problem, he founded Indus Leadership Solutions in partnership with 360 Solutions, USA to specifically focus on Leadership Development via business consulting, coaching & training, with the ultimate objective of “Enhancing the Value of the Businesses” he engages with.
An Engineer and an MBA from IIM, Lucknow, Sandeep has been a speaker at several national & international conferences. He has also been a guest speaker at the Management Development Program at IIM, Lucknow and the Executive MBA (NMP) program.
Sujata Sharma
Sujata has had a Distinguished career in the Telecom industry, of over twenty-four years, combining outstanding talent and work in strategic management, human resource functions, contract management, project coordination, Sales, Marketing and Business Development.
She is a dynamic senior management professional with diverse professional experience with leading telecom companies, government organisations and MNC’s. Detail oriented and resourceful in handling assignments with strong abilities and skill sets to multi-task.
She has wide Ranging experience in the field of Human Resources, Project Co-ordination, Contracts Management, Marketing & Business Development, Public & Media Relations.
Currently works as Director of Business Development in a global corporation engaged in Telecom Infrastructure projects.
Sujata is a Science graduate and a Certified Masters in Project Management.
