ARICENT
| ARICENT GROUP |
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| Official Website: http://www.aricent.com |
| Official about page: http://www.aricent.com/about |
| Country: USA : Global |
| Location: HQ: 303 Twin Dolphin Drive, 6th Floor, Redwood City, California 94065 USA |
| Founded: 1994/2006 |
| Business: Designer of IT tech devices/products used for Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), Interception, Integration, Reseller |
| Contact |
| Phone: +1 650 632 4310 |
| Fax: +1 650 551 9901 |
Contents
Background
"The Aricent Group is a global innovation and technology services company that helps clients imagine, commercialize, and evolve products and services for the connected world. Bringing together the communications technology expertise of Aricent with the creative vision and user experience prowess of frog, the Aricent Group provides a unique portfolio of innovation capabilities that seamlessly combines consumer insights, strategy, design, software engineering, and systems integration. The client base includes communications service providers, equipment manufacturers, independent software vendors, device makers, and many other Fortune 500 brands."
"Aricent was created in 2006 when private equity firm Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR), Sequoia Capital, and other investors combined the former Hughes Software Systems/Flextronics Software Division with frog design, bringing together deep domain expertise in communication technologies and software engineering with product design and user experience capabilities."
"frog is known for its ability to envision and design new products, services, and experiences. Founded in Germany in 1969, frog (formerly called frog design) has its roots in industrial design."
Technology Expertise
Mobile Operating Systems
Android Symbian MeeGo Windows Mobile Palm OS Linux Brew MP
Mobile Applications
Location-based services Smart systems and machine-to-machine communications (M2M)
Chipset Platforms
Texas Instruments Freescale AMD ARM
LTE
eNodeB all form factors – femto, pico, micro and macro 4G IP Backhaul Evolved Packet Core (EPC) – including Mobility Management Entity (MME), Serving Gateway (SGW), Packet Data Network Gateway (PGW), and collapsed core nodes
Broadband
Routing Switching Carrier/Metro Ethernet Datacenter Ethernet Security Packet Optical Transport IP-MPLS and MPLS-TP Industrial Ethernet and data communications Optical Networking Residential and SMB networking
WiMAX
WiMAX base stations ASN Gateways
Applications
Mobile messaging Content and entertainment Telephony enterprise services, Utility services Mobile advertising Revenue management Intelligent Network (IN) Machine-to-machine (m2m) applications Value Added Services (VAS)
VoIP and IMS
Back-to-Back User Agent, Media Terminal, User Agent SIP Server Voice Call Continuity (VCC) IMS Call Session Control Function (CSCF) nodes Media Gateway Softswitch Session Border Controller (SBC) Home Subscriber Server (HSS) IP-PBX (Personal Branch Exchange) Application Servers
Digital Signal Processing
eNodeB PHY/Baseband Framework NodeB PHY Framework
Products
nexGen Signaling Platform is interoperable out of the box, eliminating laborious and time-consuming testing. It has been integrated with all major vendors, including Alcatel, Ericsson, NEC, Lucent, Nortel, Siemens, Italtel and Nokia.
Countries using products
GLOBAL
Aricent Locations "36 locations worldwide" [1]
Bangalore
No. 18/1, Outer Ring Road Panathur Post Bangalore 560 103 India
Tel: +91 080 41067000 Fax: +91 080 41266501
Bangalore
5th Floor, Gamma Block Sigma Soft Tech Park No. 7, Whitefield Main Road Bangalore 560 066 India
Tel: +91 080 41069000 Fax: +91 080 41069500
Bangalore
7th Floor, Electra Block 'A' Wing Exora Business Park (PTP-II) Prestige Tech Park Outer Ring Road Bangalore 560 103 India
Tel: +91 080 41067900
Chennai
ASV Chandilya Towers No. 263/3, B1 A1 Door No. 5/397 Rajiv Gandhi Salai (OMR) Oggiyam Thoraipakkam Chennai 600096 India
Tel: +91 44 44225000
Copenhagen
Aricent Technologies Denmark ApS Hannemanns Allé 53 2300 Copenhagen Denmark
Tel: +45 48 44 76 89
East Brunswick
197 State Route, 18 South Suite 3000, South Wing East Brunswick, NJ 08816 USA
Tel: +1 732 514 6654 Fax: +1 732 514 6711
Espoo
Keilaranta 4 02150 Espoo Finland
Tel: +358 9 25166241 Fax: +358 9 8550167
Gurgaon
Electronic City, Plot 31 Sector 18 Gurgaon 122015 India
Tel: +91 12 4409 5888 Fax: +91 12 4409 5880
Ho Chi Minh City
Level 3 & 4, Building B, Lot D.01 Tan Thuan Street Tan Thuan Export Processing Zone Tan Thuan Dong Ward District 7, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam
Hyderabad
Level 8, Phase IV (Block Capella) The V-Ascendas IT Park Plot No. 17 Software Units Layout Madhapur Hyderabad 500081 India
Tel: +91 40 6627 7000
Kista
Aricent Technologies Sweden AB Torshamnsgatan 28A (Box 86) Kista 16494 Sweden
Tel: +46 455 544 28 Fax: +46 8 601 3701
Namur
Avenue Prince de Liège 95 B Jambes 5100 Namur Belgium
Tel: +32 81 23 52 14 Fax: +32 81 23 52 99
New York
590 Madison Avenue 18th floor New York, NY 10022 USA
Newbury
Pear Tree House Pear Tree Lane Newbury West Berkshire RG14 2LY United Kingdom
Tel: +44 1635 582101
Nürnberg
Thurn-und-Taxis-Straße 12 D 90411, Nürnberg Germany
Tel: +49 911 25270 Fax: +49 911 2527 100
Paris
9 Allée de l’Arche 92671 La Défense Paris France
Tel: +33 1 84 16 73 20 Fax: +33 1 84 16 73 25
Redwood City
303 Twin Dolphin Drive 6th Floor Redwood City, CA 94065 USA
Tel: +1 650 632 4310 Fax: +1 650 551 9901
Seoul
ASEM Tower, 30th Floor 159-1, Samsung Dong Gangnam Gu Seoul 135 798 Korea
Tel: +82 2 6001 3510 Fax: +82 2 6001 3519
Shenzhen
Liming Network Building, 2nd Floor South Hightech Park Nanshan District Shenzhen 518057 China
Tel: +86 755 86133300
Singapore
80 Raffles Place Level 36 UOB Plaza 1 Singapore 048624
Tel: +65 6248 4792 Fax: +65 6248 4531
Taipei
No. 6, Section 1, 5th Floor JhongSing Road Wugu Township, Taipei Hsien 248 Taiwan R.O.C.
Tel: +886 2 89771667 Fax: +886 2 89769722
Tel Aviv
7 Rival Street Tel Aviv-Yafo 6777840 Israel
Tel: +972 52 854 4673 Fax: +972 3 696 6464
Tokyo
Shiodome Building. 3rd Floor 1-2-20 Kaigan, Minato-Ku Tokyo 105 0022 Japan
Tel: +81 03 6721 8083 Fax: +81 03 3436 2558
FROG OFFICE LOCATIONS
Amsterdam
Van Diemenstraat 200 1013 CP Amsterdam Netherlands
Tel: +31 20 520 3600 Fax: +31 20 52 3601
Austin
101 W. 6th Street, Suite 200 Austin, TX 78701 USA
Tel: +1 512 477 3764 Fax: +1 512 477 3792
Boston
1 Broadway, 14th Floor Cambridge, MA 02142 USA
Tel: +1 212 965 9700
Johannesburg
260 Surrey Avenue Ferndale Randburg, 2194 South Africa
Tel: +27 11 348 3300 Fax: +27 86 660 9330
Kyiv
Vasylkivska 14, 3rd Floor Kyiv 3040 Ukraine
Tel: +38 044 494 26 00 Fax: +38 044 494 26 01
Milan
Via Ugo Bassi, 21 20159 Milan Italy
Tel: +39 02 898 25900 Fax: +39 02 898 25901
Munich
Leopoldstraße 55 80802, Munich Germany
Tel: +49 089 232397 0 Fax: +49 089 232397 111
New York
325 Hudson Street, 7th Fl entr. Vandam New York, NY 10013 USA
Tel: +1 212 965 9700 Fax: +1 212 965 9779
San Francisco
660 3rd Street, 4th Floor San Francisco, CA 94107 USA
Tel: +1 415 442 4804 Fax: +1 415 442 4803
Seattle
413 Pine Street, 2nd floor Seattle, WA 98101 USA
Tel: +1 206 876 3900 Fax: +1 206 876 3901
Shanghai
3F building 6 No. 800 Changde Road Shanghai 200040
Tel: +86 21 6157 7188 Fax: +86 21 6157 7199
Vinnytsya
600-richchya Street, 15 3rd Floor Vinnytsya 21021 Ukraine
Tel: +38 0432 55 09 55 Fax: +38 0432 55 09 00
Reports
Tech & Business Partners
TECH PARTNERS
ConceptWave is a leading provider of lifecycle management solutions that allow global multi-play communications service providers (CSPs) and operators to rapidly introduce new market offers. Aricent is a global partner, reseller and system integrator of ConceptWave Order Care Suite, and has developed a Centor of Excellence around the ConceptWave suite of products. The CoE includes fully trained integration teams involved in multiple integration projects. ConceptWave's software is also fully integrated into our Integration and Innovation Solution Center (IISC). We can demonstrate end-to-end order flows for WiMAX and Triple Play Orders including interfaces to other COTS products.
HP
Aricent has a joint offering with HP to do system integration services around HP Open View Network Management tools and solutions based on the HP platform.
IPTEGO
Provides next generation network optimization for use by communications service providers. Aricent provides end-to-end integration expertise to carriers based on IPTEGO's Palladion platform, which monitors and analyzes IP traffic. Aricent is a global value added reseller for IPTEGO products.
Monolith Software
Monolith Software is the leading provider of operationally-focused technology management software for network operations centers. The company provides next generation management and monitoring solutions for real time insight into the health, performance and availability of mission critical systems and applications. Monolith is the only fully integrated product on the market today. The Aricent Group is a global reseller of the Monolith software suite.
Multi-Service Business Gateway Alliance
Aricent is a co-founder of and the first communications applications software provider in the Multi-Service Business Gateway (MSBG) Alliance. MSBGs simplify communications equipment needs for small and medium businesses by combining voice, video and data in a single broadband platform.
QNX Software Systems
The industry leader in real-time, microkernel OS technology. The inherent reliability, scalable architecture and proven performance of the QNX Neutrino RTOS make it the most trusted foundation for future-ready applications. Aricent has a joint offering to provide software stacks, integrated solutions and outsourcing services on the QNX OS.
Symbian
Symbian is a software licensing company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market leading open operating system for advanced, data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones. Aricent is a Platinum Partner of Symbian, and has a source code licensing agreement. Aricent has aligned its Symbian OS development roadmap with Series 60, Series 90 and UIQ platforms.
TOA Technologies
The leader in Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions for customer-focused mobile workforce management. TOA and Aricent have worked cooperatively on a number of projects, and Aricent is a system integration partner for TOA solutions in the North American Market.
Trade Wings
Trade Wings is a global software and services partner to the world's largest telecom manufacturers, carriers and operators, transforming supply chain efficiency and sustainability through profitable reuse strategies. Aricent is a global partner, reseller and system integrator of Trade Wings Re:source Visibility. Visibility is a critical component of Aricent’s Inventory Lifecycle Management™ solution and the ability to offer Communication Services Providers a complete end-to-end view of their network assets from acquisition to disposition.
Visonael
Visionael Corporation is a global software company that allows telecommunications service providers, network outsourcers, enterprises and government organizations to automate the rollout of network services over IP networks and to accelerate time-to-revenue or productivity. With Visionael software, network operators can more quickly design, provision, and activate next-generation services-including voice, data, mobile and video offerings — all while reducing the complexities of managing large, advanced networks. Aricent is a global reseller of Visionael software suite.
Wind River
Wind River is the worldwide leader in embedded software and services. It is the only company to provide market-specific embedded platforms that integrate real-time operating systems, development tools and technologies. Aricent has a joint offering that provides software stacks, integrated solutions, and outsourcing services on Wind River's VxWorks OS.
PMC
PMC (Nasdaq:PMCS) is the semiconductor innovator transforming networks that connect, move and store digital content. Building on a track record of technology leadership, we are driving innovation across storage, optical and mobile networks. Our highly integrated solutions increase performance and enable next-generation services to accelerate the network transformation. Aricent partners with PMC to provide integrated routing and switching software for its WinPath3 Network Processor chipset.
Clients include,
Alcatel-Lucent
Aircell
AT&T
Bharti Airtel Limited
Cisco Systems
Comverse
Disney
Garmin International Inc
GE
HP
HTC Corporation
Infineon Technologies
Inmarsat
Italtel
Juniper Networks
LG Electronics, Inc.
LSI
Marvell Semiconductor
Microsoft
Motorola
NEC Electronics Corporation
Nokia Siemens Networks
Nortel Networks Corporation
Qualcomm
Palm
Panasonic
Polycom
Samsung Electronics
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications
Sprint Nextel
Tekelec
Texas Instruments
Vodafone
- In addition, find other clients in the Case Studies
People Responsible
Board Members[2]
Frank Kern, Chief Executive Officer and Director
"Mr. Frank Kern has been Chief Executive Officer of Aricent Group since October 8, 2012. Mr. Kern has a long career starting in sales and continuing in positions of increasing responsibility with the IBM Corporation. He led Global Business Services, a $19 billion business unit with 110,000 employees that encompassed consulting, systems integration, and application capabilities, and supported clients around the world in all major industries. Previously, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Distribution, leading IBM's worldwide sales organization, with responsibility for over $100 billion of corporate revenues as well as client satisfaction in 170 countries. Mr. Kern was located in Shanghai, China, and Tokyo, Japan, where he led the Asia Pacific region from 2003 to 2008. Prior to his work in Asia, Mr. Kern was located in Paris, France, from 1998 to 2003, and managed the operations of IBM's Global Business Services unit for Europe, Middle East & Africa. From 1995 to 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of IBM Global Services in Australia. He serves as Director of Aricent Group. Mr. Kern is a graduate of Bucknell University and received an MBA degree from Syracuse University."
Nathaniel Taylor, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
"Mr. Nathaniel H. Taylor is a Member, Private Equity and Director at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. (KKR). Previously, Mr. Taylor served as Principal of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. from November, 2005 to December, 2008 Mr. Taylor joined KKR in 2005, and is a member of the technology industry team. Mr. Taylor also helped establish KKR's Indian operations. Prior to this, he was employed at Bain Capital, Inc. where Mr. Taylor was involved in the execution of investments in the retail, health care and technology sectors, including SunGard Data Systems. Mr. Taylor has been a Director of Toys “R“ Us Inc. since January 27, 2011 and of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co. (“KKR“) since December, 2008. He serves as a Director of Aricent Group Academy, Toys 'R' Us, and U.S. Foodservice. Mr. Taylor holds a B.A., magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College, and a M.B.A from Stanford University where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar."
James Greene Jr., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
"Mr. James H. Greene, Jr., Jamie, serves as a General Partner of KKR Associates LP since 1996. Mr. Greene serves as Advisory Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. He served as Senior Advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. Previously, he served as a Member, Co-Head of Industrials at the firm and served as its Head of Industrials Industry Team - North American Private Equity. He joined Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP in 1986 and served as its Head of Industrials team and Co-Head of Technology Industry Team. He is involved with numerous portfolio companies. Mr. Greene served as an Associate of KKR from 1986 to 1993. He was a General Partner of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. LP from January 1, 1993 to January 1, 1996. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Greene had 14 years of banking experience as the Vice President of Bankers Trust Company, where he was involved with management buyout financings, merger and acquisition advisory assignments, and other corporate finance activities. Mr. Greene served as the Chairman of Accuride Corp. from April 2005 to December 2006 and GL Trade Overseas, Inc. He serves as a Director at Western New York Energy, LLC, KKR Millennium Limited, KKR Europe Limited, KKR Europe II Limited, KKR 1996 Overseas Limited and KKR III GP LLC. He has been a Director of SunGard Data Systems Inc. since August 2005 and Aricent Group since 2006. He has been a Director of SunGard Capital Corp. II and Sungard Capital Corp. since 2005. Mr. Greene has been a Director of NuVox, Inc. since March 2007. He serves as a Director of Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. since 2005, Birch Telecom Inc., Randall's Food Markets Inc., NewSouth Holdings Inc. and NuVox Communications. He serves as a Director of TASC, Inc. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Intermedia Communications, Inc. from February 2000 to 2001. He served as a Director of Sun Microsystems Inc. (now Oracle America, Inc.) from May 1, 2008. He served as a Director of Avago Technologies Finance Pte. Ltd. from December 2005 to March 26, 2010. He served as a Director of Avago Technologies Limited (alternate name is Avago Technologies Inc) from December 2005 to March 26, 2010. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Reltec Corporation (now Marconi Communications, Inc.) from June 1995 to June 30, 2010. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Zhone Technologies Inc. (formerly, Tellium Inc.) from November 1999 to 1999. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Bruno's Supermarkets, Inc. (a/k/a BFW Liquidation, LLC) from August 1995 to 1998. Mr. Greene served as a Director of The Vons Companies, Inc. from 1993 to 1997. He served as a Director at Accuride from January 1998 to 2007 and as its Lead Independent Director since January 2007. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Shoppers Drug Mart Corp. since February 4, 2000. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Alliance Healthcare Services, Inc. (formerly, Alliance Imaging Inc) from 2003 to May 2006. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Amphenol Corporation since April 2003. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Safeway Inc. from December 17, 1987 to October 21, 2004. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Owens-Illinois Inc. from 1987 to 2005. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Union Texas Petroleum, Inc. since December 1992. Mr. Greene served as a Director of Ardent Communications Inc. (formerly CAIS Internet, Inc.) since February 2000. Mr. Greene served as a Director of NewSouth Communications, Inc. He served as Chairman of Compensation Committee of Prescient Markets, Inc. He served as a Member of Compensation Committee at ZTI Merger Subsidiary III Inc. since November 1999. He is a Member of Athletic Advisory Board at the University of Pennsylvania. He was Chairman of the Alexis de Tocqueville Society of the United Way of the Bay Area. He is a Director of US Lacrosse Foundation. Mr. Greene holds a B.S. degree in Economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1972."
Joe Forehand Jr., Ph.D., Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co.
"Dr. Joe W. Forehand, Jr., Ph.D is a Senior Advisor of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. Dr. Forehand served as an Interim Chief Executive Officer of First Data Corp. from March 31, 2010 to October 1, 2010. He has been a Director at First Data Corporation since October 2009. Dr. Forehand has been Chairman of the Board of First Data Corporation since March 31, 2010. He served as Managing Partner of Accenture Inc. Dr. Forehand has been with Accenture for 34 years. He joined Accenture Ltd. in 1972 in the Atlanta office and became a Partner ten years later. Dr. Forehand served as the Chairman of Accenture Ltd. from February 2001 to August 31, 2006. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Accenture Ltd., the General Partner of Accenture SCA from November 1999 to September 1, 2004. Dr. Forehand served as Senior Advisor at KKR & Co Guernsey LP until March 2010. From June 1998 to November 1999, he was responsible for Accenture Ltd.'s Communications & High Tech operating group. From September 1994 to June 1998, Dr. Forehand was responsible for Accenture Ltd.'s Products operating group. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of the Communications and High Technology Operating Group. Dr. Forehand has been Chairman of the Board of Aricent, Inc., since December 2008. He has been a Director of Aricent Group since October 2006. He serves as a Director at Auburn University Foundation. He served as a Director of Accenture Ltd., since August 31, 2006. Dr. Forehand is a frequent speaker at international business and technology conferences, including the World Economic Forum. He is a member of the Business Roundtable, a public policy organization of Chief Executive Officer's from leading U.S. companies, and the G100, a group of Chairman and Chief Executive Officers from the world's leading public companies. In 2001, Consulting magazine named Dr. Forehand as the most influential consultant and credited him with leading Accenture “to the outer edges of consulting's frontier.“ That same year, he was named one of the 15 most inspirational figures in the information technology industry by InformationWeek magazine, VARBusiness magazine chose him as one of its top visionaries, and CRN magazine named him one of its top 25 executives. Dr. Forehand has received many honors for his visionary leadership. In November 2003, he was awarded the Carl S. Sloane Award for Excellence in Management Consulting, and in June 2003 he was awarded The Morgan Stanley Leadership Award for Global Commerce, sponsored by the Computerworld Honors Program. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate of Management from Purdue University. Dr. Forehand received an M.S. degree in Industrial Administration from the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University in 1972. He graduated from Auburn University in 1971 with a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering."
Arun Sarin KBE, Tarana Wireless, Inc.
"Mr. Arun Sarin, KBE, serves as a Senior Advisor at Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. L.P. Mr. Sarin serves as an Advisor at Tarana Wireless, Inc. Mr. Sarin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Accel-KKR Telecom since July 2001. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Vodafone Global Enterprise Limited and Accel-KKR LLC. Mr. Sarin served as the Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Group PLC from July 30, 2003 to July 29, 2008 and Vodafone India Limited until July 2008. He served as Chief Executive Officer and President at Blucora, Inc, from April 2000 to January 2001. Mr. Sarin served as the Chief Executive Officer of the USA/Asia Pacific Region of Vodafone AirTouch PLC from June 1999 to April 15, 2000. He served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of AirTouch International from April 1994 to February 1997. From February 1997 to June 1999, he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer at Vodafone Americas Inc. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of American Internet Corporation. He served as Chief Executive Officer of Vodafone Group Plc at Vodafone Ireland Limited until July 30, 2003. Mr. Sarin held a variety of positions, including Vice President and General Manager of Bay and Regional Markets, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Controller and Strategy of Pacific Bell and Vice President of Corporate Strategy of Pacific Telesis Group from March 1993 to April 1994. He joined Pacific Telesis Group in 1984. He has been a Director at Devicescape Software, Inc. since February 19, 2013. Mr. Sarin has been an Independent Director of Blackhawk Network Holdings, Inc., since August 2009, Safeway Inc., since August 25, 2009. He has been Director of Cisco Systems Inc., since September 9, 2009, Aricent Group since February 2010 and an Independent Director of The Charles Schwab Corp. since October 22, 2009. He serves as a Director of Accel-KKR LLC. He served as a Vice Chairman of InfoSpace Inc., since May 2000 and Vodafone Americas Inc. from July 1995 to January 1997. He served as a Vice Chairman of Vodafone Essar Ltd., until July 29, 2008. He served as a Director of Accel-KKR Telecom. He served as a Director of Cisco Systems, Inc. from September 1998 to 2003. He served as a Representative Director of Cellco Partnership, Inc. since July 2003. He served as a Non-Executive Director of Bank of England from June 1, 2005 to May 31, 2009. He served as an Executive Director of Vodafone Group PLC from June 1999 to July 29, 2008. He served as a Director of Vodafone Americas Inc., from July 1995 to 2000. He served as a Director of Vodafone Essar Ltd., until July 29, 2008. He served as a Director of InfoSpace Inc. since April 2000. He served as a Director of InfoGear Technology Corporation. He served as a Director of AirTouch, PLC since July 1995. He served as a Director of GAP Inc., from 1999 to 2003. He served as a Director of Growth Networks, Inc., NetSys Technologies and PipeLinks, Inc. and American Internet Corporation. He holds an M.B.A. and an M.S. in Engineering, both from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor of Technology degree from IIT, Kharagpur."
Management Team
Frank Kern, Chief Executive Officer
Frank Kern was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of the Aricent Group in October 2012. Frank has had a long career starting in sales and continuing in positions of increasing responsibility with the IBM Corporation. In his most recent role, he led Global Business Services, a $19 billion business unit with 110,000 employees that encompassed consulting, systems integration, and application capabilities, and supported clients around the world in all major industries. Prior to that position, he served as Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Distribution, leading IBM's worldwide sales organization, with responsibility for over $100 billion of corporate revenues as well as client satisfaction in 170 countries. Frank was located in Shanghai, China, and Tokyo, Japan where he led the Asia Pacific region from 2003 through early 2008. Before his work in Asia, he was located in Paris, France, from 1998 through 2003, and managed the operations of IBM's Global Business Services unit for Europe, Middle East & Africa. From 1995 through 1997, he served as Chief Executive Officer of IBM Global Services in Australia. Frank is a graduate of Bucknell University and received his MBA degree from Syracuse University.
C.P. Murali,President and Chief Operating Officer
C.P. Murali has been with the Aricent Group since 1994, and has been instrumental in restructuring the company from a captive software development firm to a strong global technology innovation organization. C.P’s’s strong customer focus and organizational skills have helped the business unit develop solutions for telecommunication equipment manufacturers facing daunting development and deployment challenges. Before joining Aricent, C.P. served at the Center for Development of Telematics (C-DOT), New Delhi, where he was part of the pioneering software engineering team that designed and developed indigenous Digital Switching Systems for the Indian market.
Ilya Cantor, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Ilya Cantor is Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer at Aricent. He has held this position since November 2013 and is responsible for the company’s overall financial strategy and management. llya has more than 20 years of experience at multinational companies with expertise in raising capital, mergers and acquisitions and investor relations. Most recently, Ilya served for more than seven years as CFO of EPAM (NYSE: EPAM) Systems, a software engineering and IT consulting company. There he oversaw multiple acquisitions, strengthened the company’s overall financial foundation and guided the company through a critical period of rapid expansion. For seven years prior to EPAM, Ilya held positions at Dow Jones & Company including Group Finance Director of WSJ International (1999 to 2003) and CFO of the Wall Street Journal (2003 to 2006). He also served as Executive Director of Operations of the Wall Street Journal, where he was responsible for the highly successful launch of the Weekend Edition and executed a strategic repositioning of the Journal's International Editions. He also led a comprehensive redesign of the newspaper. Additionally, he served for three years as a Board Member of CNBC International, a joint partnership between Dow Jones and NBC. Earlier in his career, Ilya worked for several years in Moscow, first at Coopers & Lybrand (now PriceWaterhouseCoopers) and then at Independent Media (now Independent Media - Sanoma), one of Russia’s leading publishing houses. Ilya holds a Bachelor of Science in Accountancy from California State University at Long Beach.
Amit Shashank,Executive Vice President - General Counsel & Secretary, Legal
Amit Shashank is Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary at Aricent. He joined the Company in October 2013 and is responsible for the company’s overall legal strategy. Prior to joining Aricent, Amit spent almost a decade as Executive Vice President, General Counsel at ExlService Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: EXLS), a multinational business process solutions company that provides outsourcing and data analytics offerings to Fortune 1000 clients. In addition to working with clients to close several complex services and licensing contracts, he spearheaded the company’s IPO and NASDAQ listing, was the executive sponsor of the legal support outsourcing business line and executed on a series of acquisition transactions – and was instrumental in taking EXL from a $40 million to a $475 million business. Before joining EXL, Amit practiced corporate law for seven years at the New York law firm of Shearman & Sterling LLP. Amit holds a Juris Doctor from The University of Michigan Law School; a Master of Arts from Oxford University where he was a Rhodes Scholar; and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Delhi University in India.
Hari Haran,Chief Sales Officer
Hari Haran is the Chief Sales Officer at Aricent and joined in December 2013. He is responsible for growing the business by building exemplary client relationships by bringing the best of Aricent to them. Hari has more 25 years of globally recognized expertise in technology sales and marketing in a wide array of telecommunications-related areas, from wireless and broadband to convergence and professional services. He has built strong relationships with such diverse and high-profile companies as Samsung, Hewlett-Packard, AT&T, Cisco, IBM, and Vodafone. Before joining Aricent, Hari was President and Head of Global Sales and Marketing of Persistent Systems, a provider of outsourced software product development services. During his five years at Persistent, the company grew to become one of the leading product engineering solutions providers. Hari has held CEO positions at several start-up companies in the engineering services and software space including Penbase and Longboard, and sales and marketing leadership roles at Openwave Systems, Littlefeet and Lucent Technologies. Hari completed the executive management curriculum at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He received his Master of Business Administration from the University of Louisiana, Monroe, and holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India.
René Link,Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer
René Link is Aricent’s Chief Marketing and Demand Officer, since June 2013. Starting in 1988 as an engineer for NYNEX Mobile Communications and then Bell Atlantic Mobile (both now Verizon Wireless), René has built his entire career in the telecom and wireless industry. Most recently, René was Vice President of Marketing & Solutions at Juniper Networks, where he led global marketing, strategy, and go-to-market efforts for the company’s $3 billion service provider sector. René also held positions at VeriSign as Vice President of Industry Marketing for the Global Telecom division and then as Vice President of Global Strategy, Corporate Development, Product Marketing & Business Development for VeriSign’s Messaging and Mobile Media Business. He had been Vice President of Marketing and CIO at inCode Wireless (a Sequoia Capital company) for five years prior to the company’s acquisition by VeriSign in 2006. As a member of the executive management team, he oversaw all areas of global marketing and the development of wireless solutions. René holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Master of Business Administration from the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College-CUNY.
Eric D. Buhrfeind,Senior Vice President and Global Head of Human Resources
Eric D Buhrfeind is an accomplished talent management leader. He has more than two decades experience in global human resource management; leadership development and coaching; change management and organizational change, including client consulting. With a track record of successfully building high performing, globally dispersed teams, Buhrfeind has deep expertise in designing and deploying complex talent strategy and processes on a global scale including a strong focus on key emerging markets. Before joining the Aricent Group, Buhrfeind held various global HR leadership roles at Accenture. Buhrfeind holds a Master of Arts in Psychology (Honors) and a bachelor’s degree in German from Southern Methodist University, Dallas, US.
Investors
"The company’s investors are Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., Sequoia Capital, The Family Office, Delta Partners, and The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board." [3]
Major Shareholders
Other Info
IP & Servers
