STL strengthens leadership team to boost business

STL announced the appointment of telecom industry veterans Srinivas Jagadeesan, Keith Rowley, Anjan Das and Saikat Mitra, to expand its capabilities to offer end-to-end solutions for digital networks.
STLThese appointments span across domains and global markets in STL’s core areas of network services, software and 5G/broadband ecosystems.

Srinivas Jagadeesan is head, Wireless Product Development at STL.

Keith Rowley is chief delivery officer, Network Services, United Kingdom.

Anjan Das is chief policy advocacy officer at STL.

Saikat Mitra is chief operating officer, Network Software at STL.

These appointments are in line with STL’s strategic intent of delivering technology-led solutions for next level of business growth.

STL is strengthening its virtualised cloud-based access solutions portfolio, which is key to STL’s Wireless and Wireline Access plans. Srinivasan will focus on strengthening STL’s open RAN & pFTTx hardware portfolio. Prior to STL, Srinivasan was associated with Altran (Aricent), a CapGemini company as AVP-Engineering, where he managed semiconductor systems and embedded software.

Keith will help STL drive the growth of technology-led network services in the UK market.  In his last role, he was the Chief Delivery Officer at Flomatik Network Services – UK Wide, where he was responsible for the service delivery and operational functions of the company.

Anjan brings decades of experience in policy shaping and will drive STL’s engagement with the country’s digital ecosystem. Prior to joining STL, Anjan worked as executive director at Confederation of Indian Industry (CII), where he conceptualised and led commissioning and implementation of many institutional mechanisms, policies and schemes.

Saikat will be responsible for driving the company’s network software business, a key piece of STL’s solutions, with a special focus on technology innovation, customer engagement and delivery. He joins STL from Dynacommerce India (acquired by Tech Mahindra), where he worked as Global Head of omni-channel Solutions. Saikat has previously held key leadership positions in organisations like Redknee, Nokia Networks and Siemens Communications.

“I am excited to welcome Srini, Keith, Anjan and Saikat to the STL family. These are very exciting times for STL as we are looking to build our repertoire of end-to-end capabilities and enter the next stages of growth,” said Anand Agarwal, group CEO of STL.