Alok Sharma

Alok has contributed for over 14 years to leading public and private companies covering all aspects of telecom, computing and semiconductor industries. Prior to joining Telsima, Alok was the Vice President and General Manager of the Worldwide Cable Business at Juniper Networks. Before Juniper Networks, Alok was the Founder, CEO and President of Pacific Broadband Communications (PBC) which was acquired by Juniper Networks for $200 million in December 2001. Prior to founding PBC, Alok held senior management and technical positions at Hewlett Packard, Fujitsu/Amdahl, Integrated Device Technology and Siara Systems (metro routing company acquired by Redback for $4.5 bn in 1999). Alok holds a Bachelor of Engineering (EE) degree from the Indian Institute of Technology, Roorkee, India and a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.