VP, Technology and Sales Operations, Presales, PCCW Global

Divesh Gupta is the VP Technology and Sales Operations within the presales department at PCCW Global. In his current role, he is leading a strategic initiative to introduce cloud, mobility and eBonding solutions targeted for sales & presales teams and also for the wholesale carrier partners worldwide. The solutions are aimed at improving productivity & efficiency of the bid response team. Divesh is also actively engaged with the SDN & NFV initiatives within the company.

In his past assignment, Divesh was leading a team of solution consultants and telecom design specialists. This team was responsible for supporting sales to secure revenue by combining off-the-shelf and third party products & services to offer best-of-breed solutions developed through consultative interaction with the customers. He has extensive experience in designing and implementing telecom solutions for both the enterprise and wholesale carrier customers for PCCW Global – these include Enterprise Voice & Video, MPLS VPNs, IP Transit, IPLC and dedicated Ethernet solutions among others. His responsibilities also included skilled negotiation and procurement activities with strategic partner, access and vendor management.

Divesh attained his MBA from University of Iowa, Tippie School of Management in May of 2006 and majored in Marketing & Entrepreneurship. Divesh is an active member of the MEF and has recently attained the MEF-CECP 2.0 certification. Previously, he completed a Bachelors of Engineering degree in Electronics and Communications from the Manipal Institute of Technology, India.