Abhi Dugar
About Abhi Dugar
Key Competencies, Skills & Experience: Strategic Thinking: ability to identify, evaluate, and prioritize new vectors of growth and monetization opportunities, and develop pragmatic strategies to capture business opportunities Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to work collaboratively with a diverse set of functional and business leaders, quickly establishing credibility at the executive level and driving decisions to move forward. Building and maintains strong relationships with key internal and external stakeholders Problem-solving: Strong problem-solving skills, including the ability to define complex challenges, create structured approaches for solving them, and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams to develop innovative solutions Communications skills: ability to develop clear, compelling, executive-level narratives and to deliver tailored messages grounded in rapport and credibility across the organization Results-Driven Approach: Combining business acumen, team leadership and creative thinking with extensive experience in trends analysis and market modeling to deliver evidence-based market intelligence and insights for strategic and tactical decisions including: * Corporate initiatives such as M&A, IP licensing, IPOs, and strategic partnerships * Sales motions such as customer and industry ecosystem "sell to" and "sell with" priorities * Competitive analysis and external messaging/positioning * Product roadmaps, business plans, opportunity sizing, scenario planning, and risk analysis * Operations and long-range financial planning Defined and launched several new product lines in product management & marketing leadership roles encompassing business planning & sizing (TAM/SAM/SOM analysis), financial modeling and forecasting, establishing strategic multi-million dollar partnerships and alliances, M&A due diligence, and IP licensing. Current Focus: Public, Private, Hybrid Cloud, Colocation and Telco Datacenter Infrastructure, Edge Computing, 5G, Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things (IoT), Compute and Network Virtualization.