Seasoned technology visionary, businessman and marketer with a rare combination of expertise in Big Data (Hadoop/Spark/Business Intelligence), Cloud (OpenStack), NFV, SDN, OpenFlow, OTT, IPTV. Founder at Big-Data-Gurus (consulting), TellyTopia, CanadaFlix, and held leadership positions at Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR), MomentumSI, C-COR (NASDAQ:ARRS), Lantern. I am the leader of Ericsson's North America Big Data Analytics team consulting/developing/delivering products and services in Big-Data Analytics: - IoT Analytics stack (connected cars) built using cutting edge open source (Hadoop/Spark) - Cloud analytics stack built using open source (Graph DB, neo4j) - TV/Multimedia analytics for connected TV platforms using AndroidTV, STB data - Carrier Grade WiFi Analytics for MSOs, venues, etc. Prior to this, I had founded OTT pioneer TellyTopia in 2006. Together with my global team - I built a cutting edge product that we were all proud of. We deployed to more than 1.5 million TV sets worldwide. TellyTopia was acquired by Concurrent (NASDAQ:CCUR) in 2010. Previously, I was part of the leadership team at Lantern Communications. I was the software architect and lead IEEE activity - later I was instrumental in selling Lantern to C-COR, while running the Business Development and Technical Marketing side of the Transport business. Business skills: Consultative Sales • Technology Sales • Building Sales pipelines • Technology Marketing • Business Development • Raising Capital • Building Teams • M&A Technologies: Big Data • Hadoop • Spark • Lambda Architecture • Storm • Kafka • OpenStack • SDN • NFV • DevOps • Continuous Integration and Continuous Development • OpenFlow • Virtualization • Cloud • IP routing / IP Video • Web Video • Telco / MSO Architectures • TV/online Advertising • VoD Streaming Video • IPTV • OTT Frequent Speaker at technology events. Chief Live Blogger at #ONS2014 - chief live blogger at #IoTWorld, 2014 and 2015,

Head, Big Data Consulting Practice at Ericsson @ Driving Big Data Analytics consulting engagements at Ericsson. Helping customers define big data strategies, implement Big Data Analytics and BI solutions to leverage their data. Some of my efforts include: - TV analytics (including smart TV, Android TV, etc.) - IoT (Internet of Things) and Big Data Analytics for connected cars - WiFi and Cellular network data analysis - Transformation from traditional Business Intelligence to Big Data - Real time Big Data (Spark) and offline Big Data (Hadoop, HDFS, Hive) - Complex Event Processing (Storm, Kafka, Samza, etc.) strategies From October 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) CEO and Lead Consultant @ Leading an all-star team of software experts doing implementation and strategic consulting on: - Big-Data (the Hadoop ecosystem) - Lambda Architecture (Storm/Kafka/Samza in parallel with offline processing using Hadoop/Spark) - Complex Event Processing and log analytics, especially from network devices - Insights and Data Science as well as machine learning using R - Visualization using Tableau - SDN and NFV using OpenFlow - the OpenStack Cloud. We perform OpenStack/Hadoop implementations - high quality cost-effective Cloud/Big Data work - onsite in North America I head up Sales and Delivery for Big-Data-Gurus. I am also personally leading the technical marketing and evangelization efforts for SDN and NFV at NEC America as a consultant. I have written over two dozen high quality technology marketing pieces in 2014 on Big-Data/Cloud/SDN/NFV. From July 2012 to Present (3 years 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaVice President @ Leading the charge on expanding MomentumSI's reach on the West Coast. I specialized in solutions that were focused on Big Data (Hadoop, Cassandra), Cloud Computing (OpenStack, AWS) and DevOps (Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, etc.). I have done business with companies as varied as Overstock, Nike, Shenick, and many others. From January 2013 to January 2014 (1 year 1 month) Head of CDN Sales @ Complex, Strategic Sales cycles require a sustained technology focus and customer-centric approach. I specialized in working with customers to ensure the right product is being built at the right time, and in winning the customer's trust and their business. I went above and beyond the call of duty to make sure customers were happy. I built the business side of new technologies in the CDN space from scratch - building mindshare with a concept stage product until it was accepted in customer labs, leading to potential major deployments with Tier 1 customers. I have done business with: - MSOs such as Cox, Videotron, Cogeco, Rogers etc. - CDNs such as Level 3, Verizon, Limelight, AT&T, Akamai, Internap etc. - running into the tens of millions of dollars From September 2010 to December 2012 (2 years 4 months) SVP Emerging Technology, New Ventures @ Concurrent Computer Corporation acquired key assets and technologies from TellyTopia Inc. I started a new business for Streaming, OTT and Mobile video, putting together a world class "startup" team in the heart of Palo Alto, implementing a blazing hot new product, bringing it to the exec team and Board. This was a state-of-the-art product, and was built to create disruption in the OTT streaming space. From September 2010 to July 2011 (11 months) CEO, CTO and Founder @ TellyTopia was a Private company that I founded. It was acquired by Concurrent in 2010. TellyTopia created a set of cutting edge video delivery products, changing the consumer's video experience. I raised financing, put together a world-class team, built products and had deployments that companies with ten times more financing have not managed to reach! I did everything from CEO/CTO activities to Product Management, Business Development, and personally opened an outsourcing office in India, hiring resources, setting it up and making it the most successful outsourcing effort! From October 2006 to September 2010 (4 years) Technology and Business Development Leader @ Reporting to the President of C-COR's A&T Business Unit, I headed up strategic technology, Product Line Management, Business Development & Technical Marketing activities for the IP Transport and Access products for C-COR. Key Customer engagements, leading efforts in breaking into major accounts, helping the team assess and respond to RFPs, RFIs, Product Strategy and Roadmaps. System Architecture definition. Business development partnership development,Tradeshows, PR, etc. From May 2004 to January 2006 (1 year 9 months) Founder, CEO - CanadaFlix @ We invented the online DVD rental concept - yes, we were the first! I took Canadflix from concept to reality. Created the entire online portal for a DVD rental site targetted at a niche audience. Ran the company from day one till the end. Performed Feature Film DVD Authoring, Non Linear Editing, Web Site Development, Marketing, Sales, Customer Services, Financing, Procurement, etc. From September 1996 to June 2004 (7 years 10 months) Sr. Director, Sr. Architect, Sr. Manager, Technical Marketing & System Architecture @ At various times from 2000 to 2004, I was - Senior Manager for S/W Development (Control Plane - MPLS/IP/OSPF and Data Plane - 10G Network Processors) - Senior Architect, (responsible for System Architecture, IEEE & MEF standards bodies, etc.) - Director, System Architecture - Senior Director, Technical Marketing (Customer presentations, direct sales, VAR/OEM/Channel partner programs, Marcomm, White papers, Tradeshows, PR etc.) - Co-Founder (leading VC funding round, VC pitches, leading M&A activities successfully, etc.) From 2000 to 2004 (4 years) Manager, IP/MPLS Routing Protocols @  Software design team manager and project manager - MPLS for Terabit IP and MPLS Router  Software Architect for ensuring Routing stack works well with other major components  Implemented OSPF-TE, RSVP-TE, LDP control planes  Architected solution to support standard MIBs and OA&M  Selected and ported key parts of solution from Bay Networks and Phase 2 implementations  Followed IETF standards work in order to plan future efforts.  C/C++ implementations on Linux based systems, Posix communications From 1995 to 2000 (5 years) Sr. Software Designer @  Designed and implemented various reliable embedded subsystems for the SS7 telecom system  Architected Posix like solution for multi-threaded task delivery, implemented scheduler  Designed, developed and tested the congestion avoidance and congestion clearance system  Developed end-to-end architecture of the standards based routing for congestion control  C implementation on Unix and VAX/VMS, with real time extensions From 1991 to 1993 (2 years)

M.Sc. @ University of Victoria From 1993 to 1995 B.Engg. @ Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology From 1986 to 1991 Marshalls school, Dehradun Kshitij Kumar is skilled in: Product Management, Start-ups, Mobile Devices, Telecommunications, Cloud Computing, IPTV, System Architecture, IP, New Business Development, Product Development, VOD, Business Development, Product Marketing, Streaming Media, Big Data