Formerly executive vice president of Reliance Communications, India, Motwani held leadership roles network, enterprise business, and data centres.

Specifically, he managed business development teams across regions and has a proven track record of consistently achieving sales targets for data, voice and managed services. He is also credited with playing a pivotal role in winning major deals for Reliance Communications.

‘Harish has a strong reputation in the Indian telecom industry as a technical and business leader of

Enterprise Telco Business,’ said Dr Ragula Bhaskar, CEO of FatPipe Networks. ‘His passion for technology with strategic insights makes him best suited for leading FatPipe Strategic Business. With Harish, Praveen and Phil, we have the industry’s winningest team.”

A member of the Indian Telecom Services of the Government of India, Motwani will join FatPipe’s global sales management team along with Phil Hinson, the former vice president of technical sales at AT&T, and Praveen Shinde, the former global head of sales for Reliance Communications.

‘I am delighted to help lead FatPipe’s strategic push in India. It is an exciting opportunity to leverage the power of FatPipe’s highly-rated SDWAN to provide the best to Indian Telcos, Enterprise, and Government customers,’ said Motwani.

‘FatPipe was technologically the best product amongst all SDWAN products during rigorous testing, which paved the way for it to become the chosen SDWAN partner for a Global Telco. I am sure FatPipe will contribute significantly to the network transformation journey of India.’

In February of this year, FatPipe Networks announced the availability of FatPipe SD-WAN Multi-Function VNF on Ciena’s uCPE platform.

Leveraging Ciena’s 3906 platform, FatPipe’s SD-WAN solution enables enterprises to replace traditional hardware-based appliances with SD-WAN connectivity, advanced firewall/UTM capabilities and WAN optimisation features hosted on a single, reliable and secure Ciena host platform.