Karthik Sethuraman is the Regional Product Head at Tata Communications, responsible for Core Connectivity Services products in the Americas region. As the co-chair of the MEF Commercial and Business Committee, he actively drives NaaS initiatives and co-edits the MEF NaaS Customer Experience whitepaper.
With over 20 years in the telecom industry, Karthik has established himself as a product and technology strategist. He previously served as the technical product manager for 5G Open Virtualized RAN and was a member of the 5G/6G technology strategy team at NEC. Before that, as a principal software architect, he architected and designed cutting-edge SDN Control software and Service Management Orchestration (SMO) systems.
Karthik holds a degree in Computer Science and Engineering and began his career in AI systems research.