Manish is a well-respected industry leader with over 25 years of experience and specializes in wireless networks. Manish is currently the CTO of the telecom systems business at Dell Technologies. Before joining Dell, Manish was at Meta, formerly known as Facebook, where he headed the wireless ecosystems program for open RAN and open core networks. He was heavily involved with the O-RAN Alliance and Telecom Infra Project. He currently serves on the ATIS Board. For three consecutive years, he also served on the board of the Small Cell Forum. Manish is a thought leader with a good balance of technology depth and business acumen. 

Before Meta, Manish was VP of network services at Tech Mahindra. Before that, Manish served as Radisys’ CTO where he spearheaded the company’s strategic initiatives in SDN, NFV and VoLTE (Voice-over-LTE). Before Radisys, Manish was the VP of product management at Continuous Computing, where he led the startup’s spectacular growth in Small Cells and DPI. During his career Manish has held various management and architect positions at Intel, Trillium Digital Systems and C-DOT. 

Manish holds an MS degree from I.I.Sc. Bangalore.

Manish routinely features as a keynote speaker at leading industry events. He is a thoughtful writer with numerous published papers, books and articles. Manish holds multiple patents in the fields of computing and communications.