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Chetan Sharma Consulting is one of the most respected
management consulting and strategic advisory firms in the mobile
industry. We are focused on evolving trends, emerging challenges and
opportunities, new business models and technology advances that will
take our mobile communications industry to the next level. Our
expertise is in developing innovation-driven product and IP
strategy. Our clients range from small startups with disruptive
ideas to multinational conglomerates looking for an edge. We help
major brands formulate winning, profitable, and sustainable
strategies.
Chetan Sharma
chetan at chetansharma
dot com
Chetan Sharma is Founder and President of Chetan Sharma Consulting
and is one of the leading strategists in the mobile industry.
Executives from wireless companies around the world seek his
accurate predictions, independent insights, and actionable
recommendations. He has served as an advisor to senior executive
management of several Fortune 100 companies in the wireless space
and is probably the only industry strategist who has advised each of
the top 6 global mobile data operators. He is considered a leading
authority on the mobile data technologies and consumer trends. Some
of his clients include NTT DoCoMo, Disney, KTF, China Mobile,
Toyota, Comcast, Motorola, FedEx, Sony, Samsung, Alcatel Lucent,
KDDI, Virgin Mobile, Sprint Nextel, Skype, AT&T Wireless, Reuters,
Juniper, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Reliance Infocomm, SAP, Merrill Lynch,
American Express, and Hewlett-Packard.
Before starting his consulting
practice,
he was founding Director of Emerging Solutions practice at Luminant Worldwide.
Prior to his leadership of the R&D group, Sharma served as founder and
Director of Luminant's wireless practice. In this role, he oversaw
global client engagements, provided vision and strategic direction,
conducted wireless research and development, and established
partnerships with leading industry players such as IBM. Prior to that, Chetan was
a systems engineer and product manager, focusing on mobile
communications, at Cellular Technical Services, where he worked on
creating RF
Fingerprinting solutions to prevent wireless fraud. His work was
instrumental in making a big dent in the $1B industry-wide fraud
problem. He also worked at
Philips Consumer Communications - a joint venture between Lucent and
Philips.
Chetan is the
author or co-author or editor of ten books on wireless:
Wireless Internet
Enterprise Applications,
VoiceXML: Strategies and Techniques for Effective Voice Application
Development,
Wireless
data services: Technologies, Business models, and Global markets,
Mobile Advertising: Supercharge Your Brand in the Exploding Wireless Market ,
and
Wireless Broadband Technology: Conflict and Convergence. He
is also the editor of
Mobile Future Forward Book series published by Chetan Sharma
Consulting. His books have been adopted in several corporate
training programs and university courses at New York University,
Stanford University, and
Graduate School of Tokyo University. Chetan has written over 125+
articles and papers covering various topics on wireless. Chetan has
patents in wireless communications, is regularly invited to speak at
conferences worldwide, and is an active member in industry bodies and
committees.
Chetan is interviewed frequently by leading international media
publications such as Time Magazine, NY Times, WSJ Interactive, MIT
Technology Review, WIRED, Information Week, Japan Media
Review, InfoWorld, Wireless Data News, Mobile Communications
International, GigaOM, etc. and has appeared on NPR and CNBC
as wireless technology expert. He
frequently addresses several telecommunications industry trade
delegations to the US such as executive teams from Japan, Korea, and
Finland. He served on the US advisory committee of Korea-Pacific US
States Joint Conference on wireless and multimedia. Chetan has
published several articles and industry reports on topics ranging
from wireless multimedia to WLAN to UMTS. Chetan was also a
contributing analyst of one of the most preeminent wireless print
magazines -
Wireless World and
has published several cover stories and articles for the same.
Chetan is
one of the leading strategists on IP matters in the wireless
industry. He has advised clients with some of the biggest patent
portfolios in the world and worked with players across the wireless
value chain. He has been retained as an expert witness and advisor
for some of the most prominent legal matters in front of the
International Trade Commission (ITC) such as Qualcomm vs. Broadcom
and Ericsson vs. Samsung.
Chetan is also the chief curator of the popular
Mobile Breakfast Event Series
and the
Mobile Future Forward
Executive Summits.
Chetan is advisor to CEOs and CTOs
of some of the leading wireless technology companies on product
strategy and IP development. He serves on the advisory board of many
startups. In addition, Chetan also advises some of the largest
financial institutions on wireless technology and companies in the
sector. Chetan is regularly invited by various US government
agencies to speak on wireless data and security related matters. He is a senior member of
IEEE, IEEE Communications Society, and IEEE Computers Society.
Chetan has MSEE
from Kansas State University and BE from Indian Institute of
Technology (IIT), Roorkee. He loves travel, history, and is an avid
sports fan. He was captain of the university (IIT Roorkee) badminton
team and has won university championships in India and the US.
Sarla Sharma
Sarla Sharma is
Vice President of Operations at the firm. She has several years of experience
working with KPMG and Arthur Andersen. Her
experience includes regulatory compliance, process
re-engineering, risk management, cross-group project management,
financial statement audit, financial analysis, development and
implementation of policies and procedures. Sarla has worked for
Fortune 500 companies in various industries such as Wireless and
Telecom, Banking and Financial Institutions, High Technology,
Insurance, Retail, Healthcare, and Entertainment. Her clients
include T-Mobile, AT&T Wireless (Cingular), Western Wireless
(Alltel), Clearwire, Microsoft, Getty Images, Washington Mutual,
Costco, Nissan, aQuantive, and others.
Sarla
has managed regulatory compliance and risk management projects for
large wireless carriers, some of the biggest financial institutions,
and other fortune 100 companies such as Microsoft. She has won
several recognition awards for her client work. Sarla is a published author of research papers in the
wireless industry. She is a Six-Sigma Green Belt.
Sarla
has a BS from University of North Carolina and Masters
in Economics.
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