Viom Networks, has appointed Sudhir Prasad as Chief Operating Officer. He joins Viom Networks, from Tower Vision. At tower vision, he held the CEO’s role from Jan 2011, prior to which he was the Director – Sales & Business Development. He has also been with RPG Group, and has had a 9 year stint with Siemens Public Communication Networks Ltd. He is an alumnus of IIM A.
The company has been reviewing their business priorities for some time now. In a statement – Syed Safawi said – “From asset growth, we had entered a phase of asset based management and the next stage will be about knowledge management. Our three-pronged strategy aims at becoming an innovative telecom infrastructure solutions provider that sets benchmarks in operational excellence and becomes the industry leader in profitability,”
Viom Networks, a joint venture between Tata Teleservices and Quippo, a Srei Group Enterprise, is one of the leading players in the shared passive telecom infrastructure business. Having pioneered the concept of telecom infrastructure sharing with less than 100 towers in 2005, Viom Networks today has become the world’s largest independent telecom infrastructure company with a portfolio of over 40,000 towers across all 22 telecom circles in the country. The company has by far the highest tenancy of over 2.4x per tower.