Kishore Raja

Vice President, Commercial Technology Solutions
Federated Wireless

Strong experience in Wireless Strategy, Engineering, Architecture and R&D for Converged Wireless ecosystem. Executive with 21+ years of relevant industry experience with proven ability in transformation, creating & leading multiple departments & teams. Initiating and executing technology architectures, overseeing company’s Neutral host convergence technology vision short & long term. Detail oriented with a proven track record of leadership and execution

Highlights:

• Strategic Planning, people leader, empowering teams, executing technologies, products & services with >$200M revenue

• Board of Directors Member with strong impactful communication and presentation skills

• Relationships with several MNO, MVONO, MSO and Vendor Executives.

• Chair and Vice Chair in technology alliances including WBA, WFA, CTA, HTNG, etc.

• Strong experience managing strategic partners, vendors and stakeholders.

• Experience managing RFPs/RFIs, convergence design, costing, SLAa & KPIs

• Active Keynote Speaker and panelist at MWCA, MWC, WIA, Connected Cities, IoT, WBA, BCE, AWS. Featured in multiple video interviews and webinars.

• In-depth technology experience in Wi-Fi, LTE, 5G, IoT, NFV/SDN, Cloud, LBS etc.

• Published several research papers and hold Technology Patent(s), received multiple awards for innovations, leadership roles and industry contributions.

• CAPEX and OPEX budget forecasting and planning.

• Extensive architecture and execution on several Wireless standards and protocols.

Industry activities:

• Cloud/Telco Keynote – 5G Network Functions Orchestration – Cloud Native World (Virtual, 2020)

• Future of Wireless Convergence (Cloud/Edge) – Asia Telecom Summit (Singapore, 2020)

• (Moderator) Wireless Carrier Track Panel – Wireless Global Congress (Atlanta, 2019)

• Mobile World Live: New Content Experiences – Video Panel (Barcelona, 2019)

• Boingo on boosting Virtualization with 5G - MWC (Barcelona, 2018) Video interview

• Small Cells and Virtualization will enable 5G - BCE (Video interview by Light Reading)

• Impact of 5G on the Control Plane – BCE (Austin, 2018)

• Realizing Smart Cities’ Potential with Smart Network Infrastructure – Connected Cities (Chicago, 2018) – Keynote

• Presentation at AWS ReInvent on Migrating from Enterprise Data warehouse to AWS Redshift (Oct ’15)

• AWS https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/boingo-wireless/

• Inventor/Innovator award at DDS

• System, Method and Apparatus for Dynamic Wireless Network Discovery – (Patent) – US 8,831,660