Vikram Mehta

Recruited by Founder, Chairman & CEO to transform NETGEAR's Commercial Business Unit and expand into new markets. Led NETGEAR's entry and rapid growth in the Audio/Video over IP market, making this NETGEAR's fastest growing business.

As as independent Management Consultant, worked alongside C-suite executives, Board of Directors, Venture & Private Equity firms to transform businesses, enter new markets and accelerate growth.

• Led a transformation effort at the company to address subscriber growth, cost-of-acquisition, and driver churn challenges in the competitive ride-share market.
• During my time as interim CEO, the company secured major enterprise contracts with Qantas, News Limited, Stockland, Pacific National, Transurban, and Sydney University, each against stiff competition from global ride-share companies and incumbent CabCharge.
• During this time, I oversaw the implementation of new data analytics systems that aided the company's most critical decisions; and also led the Board's efforts to recruit a permanent CEO, with deep knowledge of the local market and strong relationships in the payments industry.

• Recruited to lead a venture funded startup (KAAZING Corporation) a pioneering innovator in accelerating the Web for the Internet of Things (IoT). Helped the company improve its capital structure, rebuild a management team and raise new capital at a considerably higher valuation.

P&L responsibility for IBM's newly created System Networking Business Unit, through its 2010 acquisition of BLADE NETWORK TECHNOLOGIES. Led the effort to more than double IBM's Enterprise Networking business, making this business unit, amongst IBM's fastest growing businesses.

Led the spin out NORTEL NETWORKS, Blade Server Switch Business Unit (BSSBU) into an independent company that went on to become the world's number #2 Data Center Networking Company. The company was acquired by IBM, just prior to going public in 2010, providing investors a > 11x return on their capital investment.

• Helped the principals at Garnett & Helfrich Capital (a Private Equity firm, focused on corporate divestitures) spin-out of Nortel's Blade Server Switch Business Unit to create an independent Company - Blade Network Technologies, Inc (BLADE)
• BLADE delivered Garnett & Helfrich Capital and its Limited Partner's the best return (>11x) during the Fund's life.

• Created and led a new OEM-centric business unit within Nortel's Enterprise Group (Blade Server Switch Business Unit), leveraging Intellectual Property NORTEL acquired through its acquisition of Alteon WebSystems in late 2000.

• Global responsibility for developing and managing strategic solution relationships for Alteon's Web Switching products
• Alteon WebSystems was acquired by Nortel Networks for $7.8 billion.

• Led Ensim's efforts to become the leading provider of solutions to automate provisioning, management and billing of physical and virtual servers in data centers offering cloud-based services
• Ensim was acquired by Ingram Micro.

• End-to-end, P&L responsibility for a Billion dollar plus business comprising HP's enterprise servers, across the North America Region (U.S.A and Canada).

• Responsible for marketing, pricing, distribution, product management, new market development, and Asian Development Center for HP's Enterprise Systems, Storage, and Network business across the Asia Pacific Region (a Billion dollar plus multi-product business).

• Responsible for developing HP's Enterprise Data Center business for the Australia/New Zealand market.

• Responsible for developing strategic accounts for HP's Computer Systems business across the Asia Pacific region.

• Responsible for sales of HP Computer systems to large enterprises in Northern India
• Secured a 14 million (U.S) dollar contract to implement a Computer Integrated Design and Manufacturing System for the Rail Coach Factory (Indian Railways) in Kapurthala, Punjab
• This award was (at the time) amongst the largest computer contracts to have been awarded in the country to a foreign information technology vendor.