Highly Skilled Industry Veterans, Engineers and Specialists
Rishi
Chief Executive Officer
Rishi Ghare brings over 24+ years of rich and diverse industry experience in which he has worked in multiple disciplines ranging from product development, engineering, client engagements, strategy and business development.
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Sohail
Chief Technology Officer
Sohail brings 16+ years of leading edge research and development experience in wireless, security and networking and leads product research and development, technical strategy and technical marketing at Indio Networks.
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Vishwanath
VP Strategy and Operations
Vishwanath brings over 25 years of multi-domain IT global experience in Networking, IT infrastructure and DevOps from some of the leading brands like Infosys, Dell/EMC and Motorola.
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Deepak
VP Products
Deepak is responsible for product development and technology innovations at Indio. He brings over 16 years of programming, software development and product engineering in the field of networking, IOT and Cloud.
Santosh
Sales Head (India & Middle East)
Santosh is responsible for sales of Indio products for Indian subcontinent and Middle East.
Umesh
Sales Head (Africa & Emerging Markets)
Umesh handles sales and business development for whole of Africa and Asian countries.
Manjusha
Finance Lead
Manjusha is responsible for all the finance, vendor management and audit related activities for Indio networks.
Pramod
QA Lead
Pramod is responsible for maintaining quality of Indio products and ensuring that latest quality improvement processes are followed within the organization.
Murray
Advisor
Murray Freeman brings 40 years of industry experience in which he has worked in chip design, computer design and applications engineering for industry pioneers like Mostek and Cypress Semiconductor based in Brussels.
BioRishi Ghare - Chief Executive Officer
Rishi Ghare brings over 20+ years of rich and diverse industry experience in which he has worked in multiple disciplines ranging from product development, engineering, client engagements, strategy and business development. Rishi founded Indio Networks in 2005 with a vision to provide the best wireless experience to the customers. He was instrumental in developing the first version of the product and since then led the business development initiatives, customer acquisition and setting up strategic partnership for the company.
Prior to founding Indio Networks, Rishi led the product engineering group at Wifi-Texas, Inc in Austin, Texas. He played a critical role in helping the company raise $6 million and its merger with Airimba Wireless, a nationwide wireless operator for the MDU market. Rishi has also worked with IBM, Computer Associates and Avaya before joining the WiFi industry.
Rishi holds M.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Texas at Austin and B.Tech. in Computer Engineering from College of Engineering, Pune.
Sohail Ahmad - Chief Technology Officer
Sohail brings 11+ years of leading edge research and development experience in wireless, security and networking and leads product research and development, technical strategy and technical marketing at Indio Networks.
He has worked for several wireless networking and telecom companies such as Aricent (f.k.a Flextronics), AirTight Networks, Juniper Networks, WCCS-BelAir. Prior to joining WifiSoft, he was working on his own venture where he successfully developed and launched Cloudifi-a cloud defined vendor neutral wireless networking solution for small and medium enterprises.
Sohail holds M.Tech. in Computer Engineering from IIT-Rourkee and B.Tech. in Computer Science from Aligarh Muslim University.
Vishwanath A - VP Strategy and Operations
Vishwanath brings over 25 years of multi-domain IT global experience in Networking, IT infrastructure and DevOps from some of the leading brands like Infosys, Dell/EMC and Motorola.
Diversified Management and Technology background, spans across various industries & domains. Adept at building, scaling and delivering mature program teams with strong operational, financial and quality metrics. Managed teams with consistent success, improving overall performance while optimizing costs, delivering value through Vision, and executing strategy through people. Experience with customers across North America, Europe and APAC.
Vishwanath holds B.E. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering from Karnataka University, Dharwad.
Murray Freeman - Advisor
Murray Freeman brings 40 years of industry experience in which he has worked in chip design, computer design and applications engineering for industry pioneers like Mostek and Cypress Semiconductor based in Brussels. Returning to the USA, as a venture partner for Sevin Rosen funds and serial entrepreneur founded WiFi-Texas in 2001 to monetize new technologies.
Murray's focus is on highly reliable WiFi installations – operating widely distributed networks with high user counts and very few tech support calls. Clients have included Airimba Wireless, Emerson Process Management, Matrix Networks and Swisscom Hospitality with 35,000 access points. For Swisscom – he was able to reduce the customer tech support calls by 65% while increasing daily connections by 20% at the same time.
Murray has a BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago.