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Pardeep Kohli

Flower Mound,TX

Summary

Enjoy starting new businesses, growing them and provide above average return on investment to investors. Have significant experience in raising funds and have raised over $3B in last 24 years through private and public markets

Overview

34
34
years of professional experience

Work History

President & CEO

Mavenir Systems Inc
12.2016 - Current

1. Grew company from $300M to over $500M revenue

2. Grew addressable market from $1B to over $9B through new products development.

3. Mavenir is now recognized leader in OpenRAN space. Also, only NA vendor with complete end to end software portfolio for Mobile Operators.

4. Raised over $2B of debt and equity for primary and secondary purposes in multiple rounds. Pretty much raised money through debt or equity almost every year. Key investors: Nvidia, Qualcomm, Intel and

Koch Industries.

President & CEO

Ranzure Inc
01.2016 - 12.2016

1. Closed $13M series A with investment from Love Oak Ventures, Mitel and small seed investors

2. Built World's first prototype for Open RAN standards based RAN systems

3. Company acquired by Siris Capital and merged with Mavenir.


President & CEO

Mavenir Systems
07.2006 - 12.2015

1. Grew the company from zero to over $130m revenue

2. Raised four rounds of funding through VCs including Austin Ventures, North Bridge, Alloy Ventures and August Capital. Total VC funding around $40M

3.Took company public on NYSE under symbol "MVNR". Raised over over $70M

4. Led sale of MVNR to another company Mitel for over $540M

5. Ran Mavenir as a mobile division under Mitel for a year

6. Started Ranzure with seed investment from Mitel

7. Helped Mitel in selling MVNR assets to Siris Capital


Co-founder, President & CEO

Spatial Wireless
01.2001 - 06.2006

1. Started company with seed investment from Austin Ventures

2. Raised four rounds of additional funding ( Total $56M) from VCs including Sequoia Capital, Vantage Point, Qualcomm

3. Grew company to $40M revenue

3. Sold company to Alcatel for $325M in 2004

4. Ran company within Alcatel and grew it to over $100M revenue.

Sr. Director

Alcatel
07.1997 - 12.2000

1. Led development of mobile network products

Sr. Manger

Pacbell Mobile Systems
12.1995 - 06.1997

1.Let deployment of first large scale GSM based mobile network in US

Manager

Digital Switching Corportaion
08.1992 - 10.1995

1. Led development of Wireline switching products

Member of Technical Staff

NEC Corporation
08.1990 - 03.1992

Software development for Wireline switching products

Education

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Oklahoma
Norman, OK
07.1990

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Punjab Engineering College
Chandigarh, India
07.1986

Timeline

President & CEO

Mavenir Systems Inc
12.2016 - Current

President & CEO

Ranzure Inc
01.2016 - 12.2016

President & CEO

Mavenir Systems
07.2006 - 12.2015

Co-founder, President & CEO

Spatial Wireless
01.2001 - 06.2006

Sr. Director

Alcatel
07.1997 - 12.2000

Sr. Manger

Pacbell Mobile Systems
12.1995 - 06.1997

Manager

Digital Switching Corportaion
08.1992 - 10.1995

Member of Technical Staff

NEC Corporation
08.1990 - 03.1992

Master of Science - Computer Science

University of Oklahoma

Bachelor of Science - Electrical, Electronics Engineering Technologies

Punjab Engineering College
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