Sudip Nandy
Chief Executive Officer

Sudip has a long history of building internationally successful, high growth businesses. He joined Aricent as CEO in October 2008, with a rich track record and deep domain expertise in the communications and outsourcing industry.

Previously, Sudip was the president of the technology media and telecom business unit at Wipro, overseeing more than 18,000 people and a revenue run rate of US $1.3 billion per annum. He held a number of positions including Chief Strategy Officer globally responsible for the successful completion of nine merger and acquisitions, and joint venture transactions over a two year period. In addition, Sudip headed up the Wipro European Sales and Operations, growing development centers in the United Kingdom and Sweden. Prior to that, Sudip was Vice President of product development and marketing at a Silicon Valley semiconductor start-up, which was folded into Wipro. Sudip holds a Bachelors Degree in Physics with Honors from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur and another one in Electrical Technology and Electronics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. He also has an MBA from the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. Sudip has been an active member of the Institute of Directors, and is an active participant in the Global Executive Forum of the Economist Intelligence Unit.

Sanjay Dhawan
President and COO, Communications Engineering Division

Communications Engineering Management Team

Sanjay demonstrates the rare ability to recognize and realize new business opportunities when markets and technologies are in transition. He has driven the success of both large companies and start-ups, and he is a highly successful serial entrepreneur. As President and Chief Operating Officer of Aricent's Communications Engineering group, Sanjay is responsible for its software business units, sales organization, strategic business initiatives, and a variety of corporate functions.

Sanjay was named President and Chief Operating Officer in October 2007. He joined Aricent in 2006 as its Chief Strategy Officer, a role in which he was responsible for company strategy and several business units. Prior to joining Aricent, Sanjay was Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Inkra Networks, which defined the virtual networking market segment through its highly acclaimed product lines. Before starting Inkra, Sanjay was Vice President of Business Development at Netopia, a leader in DSL access products. He fueled rapid growth at Netopia by focusing on sales to service providers in Europe and Asia. Sanjay joined Netopia when it acquired StarNet Technologies, which Sanjay co-founded and led as its President and CEO. StarNet was the pioneer in Voice-Over-DSL technology. Prior to building StarNet, Sanjay oversaw the Systems Engineering Business Unit at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). Sanjay has authored several networking-related publications, including two books on data networking. He has led several industry consortiums and has chaired IEEE 802 and ANSI X3T9 standards sub-groups. Sanjay holds a masters degree in Electrical Engineering from Brunel University, England, and a BS degree in Electronics and Communications from REC Kurukshetra, India.

Doreen Lorenzo
President and COO, frog design

frog design Management Team

Doreen has been a driving force in improving the way people worldwide experience products and services. For over a decade, she has been critical to frog design's success and growth, both organizationally and financially.

Prior to becoming President and COO in September 2006, Doreen was Chief Operating Officer of frog design. In this role, she was instrumental in transforming frog design from a traditional design boutique to the world's leading creative consulting firm. Under Doreen's leadership, frog established broad-based relationships with AT&T, Disney, General Electric, HP, Microsoft, Motorola, Nextel, T-Mobile, and many other Fortune 500 clients. Previously, Doreen was Director of Marketing Communications and Internet Marketing for Power Computing, where she built an online marketing division that brought in millions of dollars a day in product sales-long before Internet retailing was commonplace. Before that, she spent many years as a communications consultant in the Bay Area, where she worked with a variety of top tier clients. Doreen holds a BA from the State University of New York, Stony Brook (USA) and an MS from Boston University's School of Communications.

Shawn Soderberg
Senior Vice President, Legal

Ms. Soderberg is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Aricent. At Aricent, Ms. Soderberg is responsible for managing the legal and tax department and corporate development activities.  Prior to Aricent, Ms. Soderberg held the position of Managing Director for H&Q Asia Pacific (HQAP), a private equity firm engaged in  investments in buyouts, recapitalizations and control transactions in various industries throughout Asia.  Prior to joining HQAP,  Ms. Soderberg was employed at Oak Technology, an embedded solutions provider for the optical storage and the digital home entertainment market, as Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary.  Ms. Soderberg was engaged in various business development activities Oak Technology, including launching the Oak Venture Fund.  Prior to joining Oak, she was Vice President and General Counsel for Microtec Research, Inc., a software provider for embedded systems. Ms. Soderberg holds a B.S. in Accounting from the University of Santa Clara, a J.D. from Seattle University and an L.L.M. in Taxation from New York University.

Alexander Oustach
President and COO, Aricent Eastern Europe

Alex has been an innovator in software development and an expert in launching new businesses in emerging markets for over 17 years. He is a serial entrepreneur with the rare ability to transform start-ups into sophisticated, large organizations. Alex became President of Aricent Eastern Europe in the summer of 2006.

Prior to becoming President of Aricent Eastern Europe, Alex was General Manager of Flextronics Design Ukraine, a division formed when Flextronics acquired the company AUCT in 2004. As the leader of Flextronics Design Ukraine, Alex grew his team from 200 to a mature software organization of nearly 700 people. Previously, as the founder and Chief Executive Officer of AUCT, Alex built a team with industry-leading expertise in speech and language technologies, embedded software, networking software and communications applications. The group's unique skills led to a roster of top-tier clients located in the United States, Europe and Israel. Prior to launching and growing software businesses, Alex was engaged in scientific research in the area of high performance computing. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science and a MS in electrical engineering from Vinnitsa Technical University (Ukraine).

David Freedman
Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Aricent

David brings over 30 years of diverse finance experience to his CFO role. He is the key figure driving Aricent’s financial operations including financial management, treasury operations and taxation planning along with establishing next generation of financial control accounting and management reporting systems.

Prior to Aricent, David was the Executive Vice President and CFO at KGB (formerly Infonxx) where he spearheaded multiple acquisitions to expand the delivery footprint of services to Asia and Europe, including a US$100+ Million acquisition of a major European competitor. He also led the team that filed KGB’s S1 and led discussions with SEC while exploring an IPO. Further, he successfully negotiated new loans worth $600M and developed the financial infrastructure needed to support the move to becoming a public company. Previously, he was the CFO of Iowa Wireless, a joint venture between Iowa Network Services and T-Mobile. Between 1994 and 1998, he served as the VP & CFO of Jotan Inc, where he was instrumental in driving a successful IPO for the company, including handling the SEC filings, preparation for SOX compliance and more. He also oversaw the acquisition of a company six times larger than Jotan. David has an MBA from Nova University.