Ravi brings more than 20 years of telecom/wireless industry experience in guiding business strategy along with hands-on experience in engineering mobile networks. At Heavy Reading, he covers cloud and next-generation mobile networks, which includes tracking industry disruption such as SDN and NFV.

Prior to joining Heavy Reading, Ravi worked for more than five years at Cisco Systems as a strategy advisor for its service provider business, helping with key market trends, data and competitive intelligence. He also worked with Huawei's CTO office as a strategy guide, covering North American service provider strategy, tracking U.S. regulatory environment and providing competitive intelligence. Ravi also held a similar role at Nortel's Strategic Marketing team, covering market intelligence in the mobile access domain.

Ravi has an Engineering degree in Electronics & Communications and an MBA from the University of Texas. He is based in Dallas, Texas.