Deepak Kumar

About Deepak Kumar

Deepak is Founder Analyst at B&M NXT. His focus areas include strategic business consulting & advisory, strategic communications, sales enablement and capacity building. He carries around 25 years of experience, of which 18 years have been pertaining to the ICT domain. He is widely quoted in business, news and trade media. Among the leading publications where he has been quoted include Economic Times, CIO & Leader, Times of India, Business Standard, The Hindu, Deccan Chronicle, CIO, Voice & Data, ITNext, Business World and Light Reading. He has also appeared on CNBC’s show Storyboard. His columns have regularly appeared in Deccan Chronicle and Asian Age in the past. His analyst commentaries appear in Economic Times/ETTelecom and Light Reading.He was earlier Research Director at IDC India, where he spearheaded research and advisory programs across segments such as telecom, mobile devices, and LAN and WLAN networking, among various other things. In earlier roles, he also headed IDC’s India Client Computing, Peripherals, Channel research practices. He also provided advisory services to service providers on contemporary topics such as Cloud, Managed Services and Data Centers.He has been speaker at various events and seminars, including IDC\'s flagship events Directions and Predictions and Bicsi’s annual events, among other industry events. Prior to IDC India, he worked with Reuters, Voice & Data and Dataquest in editorial, analysis and other associated fields.Specialties: strategic business consulting & advisory, strategic communications, sales enablement, capacity building, green tech & sustainability and public speaking.

Experience

1. Executive Editor

   Bitstream Mediaworks Cio Axis Ciso Connect

   Jan 2018 — Present · Bengaluru, IN

Education

• Bhagalpur University

  Bachelor's degree, Mathematics

  1982 — 1985

• YMCA Center for Mass Media

  Post Graduate Diploma, Journalism

  1989 — 1990

Skills

• Analytics
• Business Strategy
• Management Consulting
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Public Speaking
• Management
• Secondary Research
• Telecommunications
• Product Development
• Analysis
• Mobile Devices
• Program Management
• Content Development
• Segmentation
• Strategic Communications
• Business Development
• Competitive Analysis
• Market Intelligence
• Crm
• Strategy
• Team Management
• Marketing Research
• Cloud Computing
• Market Analysis
• Market Research
• Content Strategy
• Competitive Intelligence
• Strategic Business Advice
• Marketing Strategy
• Primary Research
• Customer Insight