AXON Networks names Kumar Vishwanathan as Chief Product Officer
AXON Networks’ Vision is to Shape the Future of Broadband Connectivity. In that spirit, we have recently welcomed Kumar Vishwanathan to our Executive Team as Chief Product Officer.
Kumar will guide AXON’s innovation across our entire product portfolio from Orchestration to our edge and access network products and drive our solutions deeper into Enterprise networking, expanding our ability to become the leader in Operator-as-a-Service (OaaS).
“I have known Kumar for 10 years and was lucky enough to work with him as a strategic customer while he worked at Verizon where we made IPTV & Broadband products together. I have personally hoped for an opportunity for us to work together again and am thrilled that time has come,” said AXON Networks founder and CEO Martin Manniche. “Kumar joins AXON Networks as not only a technology expert but also as a thought leader who shares AXON’s vision for the future of broadband networking and our commitment to empowering ISPs to deliver the best quality of service to their customers. His strategic vision and deep industry knowledge will play a crucial role in driving our company forward as we continue to innovate and deliver cutting edge solutions for our customers around the world.”
“AXON Networks has an impressive culture of delivering bold innovation and a customer-centric approach to its product strategy,” said Kumar. “I’m excited to join the talented team at AXON and I look forward to collaborating with them to build on the company’s portfolio of software-defined networking and real-time network orchestration solutions to meet and exceed the evolving needs of our customers.”
Kumar is a seasoned product and technology development professional with more than 30 years of experience working in the Security, Networking and Telecom industries. Previously, he served as the CTO for Privafy, a leading white label security-as-a-service company with security solutions from IoT, public & private clouds as well as large enterprise networks. Prior to Privafy, Kumar held senior roles at Verizon, including being one of the core founding members of Verizon Labs, the company’s nucleus of technology and product strategy, where he served as VP of Engineering & Chief Technologist. Prior to that, Kumar was the VP of Worldwide Engineering at Sonus Networks (Ribbon) and was responsible for architecting the transformation of the voice network from TDMA to IP for several major telecom carriers across the globe. In previous years, Kumar successfully co-founded three technology startups, one of which was acquired by Motorola.
Kumar is based in Boston, MA.