Raghu Rau

Raghu Rau is a creative, global management professional with strong operational, marketing and strategic leadership experience and relationships in the technology industry. He has an impressive record of bringing disruptive technologies to market and invests and advises start up companies in the Internet, mobile video and telecommunications space, internationally.

Rau was a Senior Vice President at Motorola Inc. until 2008, holding positions of increasing responsibility since 1992, in the USA, Europe and Asia. He won the coveted CEO Leadership Award in 2007 for his many accomplishments.

As the Chief Strategy Officer of Motorola's $13b Networks and Enterprise business, he directed the business to industry leading levels of profitability and leadership positions in new technologies such as WiMAX. He was involved in multiple acquisitions of both small and large companies, developing strategic industry alliances and optimizing multi billion dollar R&D investments.

As the Chief Marketing Officer of Motorola's Networks business he marketed its wireless and wire line solutions to carriers world wide, dramatically transforming the value proposition by changing the focus from Radio Access Network products to complete network solutions that included: packet core networks, soft switches, service delivery platforms and high value services. He also designed and successfully executed strategic marketing programs, new product launches and integrated communications plans using traditional and new media, winning industry awards.

Rau also led the Canopy Wireless Broadband business and doubled its revenues two years consecutively, while delivering double digit operating margins. He also led the centralized professional services organization substantially growing global revenues to about $ 1 b. He was also instrumental in winning over 55% market share for Motorola's infrastructure business in India when licenses were first awarded in 1994. Based for three years in London, he also helped in the significant turnaround of the networks business in the Europe, Middle East Africa region.

Before joining Motorola, Rau was the General Manager and Co founder of a telecommunications services company in Qatar and prior to that was the General Manager of a multinational in India.

Rau has served as the Chairman of the Quest Forum, the leading quality standards organization in the global telecommunications industry, the Board of the Center of Telecom Management at USC and the Motorola France Telecom partnership Board.

Rau has authored case studies on Global Marketing that have been taught at leading international universities and is a sought after speaker at industry and technology forums.

Rau has a Bachelors degree in Engineering and an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad.