Bala Thekkedath is the Director of Marketing for Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Telecommunications solutions. Bala has over 22 years of experience in the telecoms industry and has previously worked at Ericsson, UTStarcom, Lucent Technologies and Tata Telecom. Bala is deeply interested in evangelizing emerging technologies and innovative business models for telecom services. He has been a regular speaker at SDN & NFV related industry events in the past few years and has authored numerous articles and whitepapers in this domain. Bala
holds MBA and MS in Telecommunications Management degrees from Stevens Institute of Technology, New Jersey, USA & a Bachelor’s degree in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from MS University of Baroda, India.