Vish Nandlall

Vish Nandlall is the Vice President of Technology Strategy and Ecosystems at Dell Technologies. Previously, he served as CTO for Ericsson NA, designing the regional market strategy and technology roadmap. In this role, he developed and executed a plan to deliver five emerging business organizations - Cloud, SDN, OSS/BSS, Video and Mobile Enterprise – collectively these businesses realized an annualized $2 billion in new revenue at a time when the NA market revenue was $9 billion total. This success hinged on Vish’s ability to develop a portfolio through R&D prioritization, M&A planning and management of the service and sales support recruiting and training.

Vish began his career at Nortel Networks, where he started in 1995 by leading the design of the world’s first distributed call processing platform. Over the next ten years, he went on to pioneer 10Gbps IP forwarding, act as a key contributor and author of the Verizon A-IMS specification, and led the industry’s first LTE trial system. In 2005, Vish was named Nortel’s CTO for the Carrier Network Group as well as a Nortel Distinguished Engineer for his technical leadership across the firm’s IP, optical, and wireless products.

Nandlall holds a Bachelor of Science in Engineering, First Division, with a focus in Electrical Engineering from the University of New Brunswick. He has been published several times, holds multiple patents, and has been listed by Wireless World as one of their Global 100 Wireless Experts.