Rakesh Bhasin - CHAIRMAN
Rakesh Bhasin is a private investor and involved as a Non-Executive Director in many organisations and some of them are non-profit.
He was the CEO and member of the Board of Colt, a telecom and technology services company for nine years. During his tenure at Colt, he restructured the business, increased profitability, eliminated regional silos, launched new services, expanded globally and created a consistent, customer-centric operating model around the world.
Prior to joining Colt, Rakesh was President and Chief Executive at KVH, an integrated data centre and communications services business, with headquarters in Tokyo and operations in Hong Kong, Seoul and Singapore.
Before that, he served in senior positions within AT&T, including head of AT&T Asia Pacific's managed network services business and President, AT&T Japan, Ltd. He was also Senior Managing Director, Japan Telecom Company Limited.
Rakesh received a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering from George Washington University. He also attended the Executive Program at the University of California at Berkeley and the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Rakesh is married and a proud father of three children. Loves wild life and cricket. Focused on investing in education and getting young people happily employed.