Sharad Sanghi

Sharad Sanghi is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Netmagic. Sharad has over 25 years of extensive experience in datacenter, cloud services and internet backbone infrastructure. Sharad founded Netmagic in 1998 with the singular vision of becoming India’s leading managed hosting service provider. He is considered a pioneer in the Indian cloud computing space, and his vision has helped Netmagic become a leader in the Public Cloud services market in India. Under his leadership, Netmagic saw 3 successful VC funding rounds with Nexus Venture Partners, Fidelity, Cisco Systems and Nokia Growth Partners. In 2012, Sharad led the acquisition of the company’s majority stake by NTT Communications Japan.

Prior to Netmagic, Sharad worked for Unified Network Management Architecture Group at AT&T Bell Labs, the Backbone Engineering Group of NSFNET (ANS) and the Router Systems Development Group of Advantis (IBM Global Network). He has also helped organizations like Merrill Lynch and Bankers Trust design and deploy Wide Area Networks.

Sharad earned his bachelors degree from IIT-Bombay and holds an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Columbia University. Mr. Sanghi is also part time Director (in an advisory capacity) on the Board of Bharat Electronics Limited, a Government of India Maharatna company.

Last year, global giant NTT, announced the merger of three of its business entities namely NTT India Pvt. Ltd., NTT Com India, and Netmagic into a single organization. It also named Sharad Sanghi as the Leader of India business effective 1 January 2021. Sharad Sanghi today is the CEO–Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India) of NTT (also known as NTT-Netmagic). In an exclusive interaction with Express Computer, he shares with us the key advantages of the integration, and how NTT Ltd India plans to play a major part in the data center ecosystem.

Technology services provider NTT Ltd. on Thursday announced the merger of three of its business entities namely NTT India Pvt. Ltd., NTT Com India, and Netmagic into a single organization. The integration will be effective 1 January 2021.

Furthermore, it has also named Sharad Sanghi as the Leader of India business effective 1 January 2021. Sanghi is the CEO–Global Data Centers and Cloud Infrastructure (India) of NTT Ltd. (also known as NTT-Netmagic). He has more than two decades of experience in developing internet backbone infrastructure and ensuring internet services.

Netmagic, an NTT Communications company, already has data centres in Mumbai, Bangalore, Noida and Chennai

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