Raman Sharma

Experienced professional with 20+ years of experience in Sales, Pre-Sales, Technical Support, and Team Management across organizations like Nokia, TCS, and Mavenir, primarily in the Telecom sector. Currently Director, Sales Engineering at Mavenir, responsible for overseeing key accounts in India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Nepal, Bhutan, and Myanmar. These accounts include VI, TATA, JIO, Axiata, Telenor, GP, Robi, as well as IP vendors such as Indus, ATC, ACES, iBUS, and CE.

• Closed First O-RAN Deal with Indian Tier1 Customer for NSA network in circle (Site Live on Air in Commercial network).
• Closed Biggest ever Small Cell (Active IBS) deployment deal in 3 months’ time frame with one of the leading Indian IP vendor.
• Technical BOQ closer ongoing for 3 year Multi Circle O-RAN deployment deal, It is swap for Chinese vendor for 4 LTE layers.
• Delivered first ORAN deal with India Tier 1 customer & working for large scale Circle level swap of traditional RAN to Open RAN.
• Supported as solution sales manager for Large Merger contracts between India`s top 2 operators (Vodafone, Idea Merger deal).
• Done 5G Trials with global level telco company (TATA communication).
• End-user service road-maps for Digital Services – AI as a service, Security, IoT & Cloud.
• Developed partner eco-system for the Internet of Things (IoT) opportunities with start-ups in sectors – IT, Agriculture and Manufacturing.

• Date of Birth: 02/02/81
• Nationality: Indian
• Marital Status: Married

• Primary Pre Sales, Sales support for Business Development, Client relationship management for large communication service providers & enterprise.
• Transformation & Innovation: Helped multiple clients across telecom industry to determine the best-fit proposal as per new demanding technology, use cases, products, solution (5G, ORAN, Cloud RAN). Worked extensively with Strategy team of tier 1 operators, technology leaders and ecosystem partners on topics of transforming legacy, Cloud adoption and digital transformation.