Sanjay Nayak, is the Co-founder & CEO of Tejas Networks, Bangalore. Tejas is apioneering telecom product company from India which has successfully grown tobecome the market leader in India and a global player in optical networking and packetproducts.
Sanjay is a technocrat with over 25 years of experience ranging across Telecom,Networking and Electronic Design and Semiconductor industry- both in India as well asthe US. Prior to founding Tejas Networks, Sanjay was Managing Director of SynopysIndia, a global leader in Electronic Design Automation.
Sanjay is well regarded thought leader in the Indian telecom and electronics industryand is sought after for his views on technology, innovation and entrepreneurship.He received the “Technovation Sarabhai Award” in 2013 for his contribution to theIndian industry from Indian Electronics and Semiconductor Association (IESA), the“Electronics Man of the Year 2011”, from ELCINA, and was selected as one of the“Top-20 Stars of Indian Telecom Industry” by Aegis Graham Bell Awards in 2012.He is the Regional Chairman (South) of India’s Telecom Export Promotion Council(TEPC), is a member of the CII National Committee on ICTE, is a member of KarnatakaICT Group 2020 and is also a member of various Government of India committees,including the National Telecom Manufacturing council. He is also a Trustee ofDeshpande Foundation for Social Entrepreneurship.
Sanjay has a M.S. degree in ECE from North Carolina State University and B.S (E&CEngg) from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, where he was the Gold Medalist of hisgraduating class.