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Terry is the Chief Financial Officer for Mavenir, responsible for all financial operations and processes within the company.  Previously, he was the Chief Financial Officer for Imagine Communications Corp. where he was responsible for the day-to-day oversight of Imagine’s financial operations and planning. He has over 40 years of business experience, principally in telecommunications. He served as the Chief Financial Officer at Mitel Mobility Inc. (formerly known as Mavenir Systems, Inc.) from April 2008 through April 2015. He served as the Chief Financial Officer of Navini Networks, Inc. and prior to Navini, Terry also served as Vice President of Corporate Planning with Spatial Wireless Inc., where he led the successful merger transaction with Alcatel. Prior to Spatial, Terry successfully held a number of senior finance and controllership positions, both domestically and internationally, including that of Chief Financial Officer for Nortel Networks Corporation, where he has guided and supported business growth and development, defined business structures and led projects that improved overall liquidity of Nortel Networks, in operations and capital structuring. He began his finance career with Peat, Marwick Mitchell, Chartered Accountants and Imperial Oil Limited, both in Canada. He has served as a valued member of various boards of directors and sub-committees. He serves as a Member of Advisory Board at Centina Systems, Inc. and Orchestra Technology. Terry holds a Diploma in Accountancy from Saskatchewan Polytechnic in Canada and is a Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA).

Chuck is the Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Mavenir, responsible for the company’s global legal function, including litigation oversight and strategy, commercial contracts, legal compliance, and certain corporate governance, intellectual property and M&A matters. With extensive public company, private equity, M&A and securities experience, Chuck has served as the chief legal officer/general counsel of both publicly traded and private equity-backed technology companies. Most recently, Chuck was the Chief Legal Officer for MediaKind (f/k/a Ericsson Media Solutions), in connection with Ericsson’s divestiture of that business. Prior to MediaKind, Chuck was the EVP and Chief Legal Officer of Imagine Communications responsible for the global legal function, where he negotiated several multimillion-dollar recoveries, closed multiple multinational acquisitions, enhanced the governance and compliance framework, led from a legal perspective the company’s global rebranding, and successfully quarterbacked various litigation matters and favorable settlements. Prior to Imagine Communications, Chuck was the SVP and General Counsel of SourceHOV (now part of Exela Technologies Inc.). While at SourceHOV, Chuck was responsible for the full legal function and led from a legal perspective numerous acquisitions and other transformative transactions. Prior to SourceHOV, Chuck was a partner in the corporate security section of Jackson Walker LLP, a Texas-based law firm, where he represented both public and private clients in M&A, securities and other transactional or regulatory matters. Chuck received his Bachelor of Science in Physics from the University of Texas, and his J.D. with honors from the University of Texas School of Law.

Ramnik Kamo serves as Mavenir’s Chief Information and People Officer. In this role, he is responsible for leading Mavenir’s Corporate Functions: Human Resources, Information Technology, Quality, Supply Chain, Sourcing, Procurement, Real Estate, Travel, and the Corporate Program Office. Prior to this role, he was Mavenir’s EVP Global Operations and CIO leading Customer Delivery and Support Services. Prior to Mavenir, Ramnik led Global Operations and Services for Mitel Mobile. He joined Mitel from Imagine Communications where he held Chief of Staff and CMO positions. Prior to Imagine Ramnik was SVP, Product Management at Genband, where he launched the company’s first and pivotal enterprise cloud services and SaaS business and ran it as its General Manager. Ramnik has also held numerous leadership positions at Nortel and served in various countries, markets and product verticals. Ramnik is an electronics and communications engineer with 2 MBAs. Additionally, Ramnik is a certified Lean Six Sigma Master Black Belt.

Stefano has been spending almost three decades in the Telco industry and brings leadership in technology vision, innovative IP solutions in the mobile and convergent communication and also operational excellence in major technology transformation cycles and introduction in the overall Telecommunication market worldwide. Stefano as EVP, Strategic Business Development at Mavenir is responsible for helping Mavenir expand its market share as a partner of choice for its global customer base, and ensuring that Mavenir continues to drive innovation that provides value to customers and agility to their technology. Most recently, Stefano was driving the Network and IT strategy for O2 UK and defining the Virtualisation Strategy in the Telco Cloud project. Previously, Stefano was CTO and R&D Vice President of Acision and at Huawei in UK as Vice President of Carrier Networks for UK and Ireland, and at Vodafone, where he was responsible for the network engineering and operations, transforming the infrastructure and launching 3G and internet services together with a lot of innovations to give agility and leadership position. In addition, Stefano has held senior roles at Bulldog, Vodafone Italy, Ericsson, Siemens Telecomunicazioni, AT&T Network Systems, and Lucent Technologies. Stefano graduated in Milano at the Politecnico of Milano in 1988 for Electronic engineering.

As EVP – Emerging Business, Partnerships and Channels, Aniruddho Basu (Ani) is responsible for creating business opportunities across new markets, segments, and solutions, as well as establishing a robust ecosystem of strategic partners and channels to strengthen, scale and deploy Mavenir’s extensive portfolio, across the globe. He is based in Stockholm, Sweden. Ani holds an MBA in International Business and a BE in Electronics and Communications and brings to the role over 25 years of experience in the ICT sector at multinationals and Fortune 500 companies, including Ericsson AB, Telstra and Tata groups, HCL and Ascom AG. He has held roles spanning the entire business lifecycle from Strategy, Sales and Business Development, Product and Portfolio Management and Operations.

Sachin is the SVP and GM of RAN business unit at Mavenir. He is an engineer at heart, and passionate about driving strategic and innovative solutions. He has been part of Mavenir for over a decade and half, and has led the R&D of IMS, Messaging and Unified communication products. He has played a crucial role in the development of the industry’s first VoWiFi and VoLTE solutions and more recently he was responsible for leading the research and development of world’s first cloud native, 5G ORAN SA FDD solution.

Prior to his work at Mavenir, Sachin held various positions at Motorola, including a role in the development of GSM/UMTS Softswitch products. He also has a diverse range of experience in telecom and embedded systems from his previous roles at Motorola/Winphoria Networks, Wipro/Cisco, and Dexcel Electronics.

Sachin holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering with a specialization in Real-time Embedded Systems from Coventry University UK, as well as a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronics from the University Visvesvaraya College of Engineering Bengaluru.

Brandon Larson is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Mavenir’s Multimedia Business Unit. He joined Mavenir from Tango Networks, where he served as their Chief Strategy Officer. He is also a former employee of Mavenir, having previously run the Sales Engineering organization for America’s region where he was instrumental in many key Mavenir projects including the world’s first IMS VoWiFi, VoLTE, and RCS 5.0 service launches. Brandon has diverse experience having held roles in sales, marketing, product line management, and program management in his previous companies, Nokia and Ciena. Brandon started his career as a Nuclear Engineering Officer in the United States Navy. He is a graduate of Navy Nuclear Power School and received his nuclear engineer certification from the Department of Naval Reactors. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering with High Honors from Rutgers University.

Sandeep as the Senior Vice President and General Manager for Mavenir’s Digital Business Enablement is responsible to lead the global rollout of Mavenir’s Business & Operational Support offerings for Enterprise and Consumer domains. Sandeep spent almost two decades in the Telco industry and brings leadership & technology vision in BSS/OSS domain. He has leadership experience in building strategic & innovative service monetization and business solutions for the Enterprise, consumer mobility, and convergent communication verticals. He is proficient in optimizing business processes for telco operators during major technology transformation cycles. Sandeep is based in Dallas TX. He previously enjoyed a distinguished career in Ericsson, Alcatel, and OpenNet serving some of the world’s largest telco operators. Sandeep’s career progression ranges from hands-on Product Development, System Integration, Product and Technology Consulting to Direct Sales and Account Management in a highly competitive and cutting-edge technology domain. Sandeep graduated from Delhi College of Engineering (India) as an Electrical Engineering major.

Job Benson is the SVP & GM Radio Business Unit at Mavenir where he is responsible for P&L, Portfolio Roadmap, Strategy, Design, Development and Test for the Radio Business. Additionally, he leads the joint product development programs between Mavenir and Radio partners. At Mavenir, he launched the OpenBeam portfolio – the widest portfolio of O-RAN compliant radios covering Micro & Macro RRU and, mmWave & Sub-6Ghz Massive MIMO AAU products.

Job has extensive experience in launching new products to market and evolving the portfolio to improve performance and total cost of ownership. He has worked on several generations of Radio evolutions over the past 20+ years spanning 2G to 5G.

Ilia Abramov is the VP and General Manager of the Security Business Unit at Mavenir. He has focused on security, fraud detection and revenue assurance in mobile networks for the last five years. Ilia is a member of The GSM Association’s Fraud and Security Group (FASG), participating in various discussions on security improvements within the industry. Under Ilia’s leadership, Mavenir has developed and successfully deployed new generations of products leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning principles significantly increasing the efficiency of fraud detection, network protection, and revenue recovery. Prior to Mavenir, Ilia was with Xura/Acision, where he began forming the security proposition and held various positions in R&D and Product Management. Prior to working in the telecom industry, Ilia was a business consultant and solution architect at IT Co., focusing on process automation and industrial applications. Ilia holds a Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Moscow State University.