Bio
Chetan Sharma is Founder and CEO 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 9 global mobile operators and operators on all continents. Chetan has worked with major industry players on all continents and is considered a leading authority on the mobile data technologies and consumer trends. Chetan has served or serves on the advisory boards of Ericsson, Telefonica, Kymeta, Opanga Networks, A5G Networks, Smith Micro Software, Zeotap, NextNav, and many other startups. 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, Google, Facebook, Intel, Qualcomm, Microsoft, Orange, Deutsche Telekom, Reliance Infocomm, Telefonica, SAP, ITU, Merrill Lynch, American Express, and Hewlett-Packard.
Chetan’s research work on the Fourth Wave and Connected Intelligence has shaped the industry over the last decade. 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.
Published Industry Resources
Chetan is the author or co-author or editor of fourteen books on wireless including:
- 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 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, Berkeley, and Graduate School of Tokyo University. Chetan has written over 200+ 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.
Speaking Engagements
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, 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 and regularly advises governments and regulators including the White House. Chetan has published hundreds of articles and research papers.
Advisory
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. 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.
Education
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.