Tapan K. Patra has over 20 years of experience in telecom. Started his career with C-DOT and worked there for ten years. In C-DOT, he was in Sr. Program Manager Role. Then he moved to HFCL R&D unit in Gurgaon and worked for three years. Later he joined Kring Tellabs, an offshore telecom product development & support centre of Tellabs and was instrumental in setting up the Offshore Development Centre (ODC) from scratch and worked for seven years. He was heading the ODC in Gurgaon and many telecom products and subsequent feature packs were delivered/ deployed in telecom network across all major global telecom operators under his leadership. 

Tapan holds B.Tech degree in Radio Physics & Electronics from University of Calcutta and currently working as Director in ACTO.