Farooq Azam
Head of Commercial, TASMU Platform
An experienced Entrepreneur and ICT Consultant who has worked with Telco, B2B Enterprise and Smart City customers across Europe, North America, S. Korea and Middle East. He have successfully combined Technology, Business and Operations experience gained at multi-nationals like TELUS, Nokia and Ericsson to help customers drive business outcomes from Digital Transformation technologies including IoT, Private Mobile Networks, 5G, Network slicing, Cloud SDN/ NFV and AI/ ML Data Analytics. Farooq has been fortunate to have co-founded three business ventures in IoT Smart City, AWS Cloud and Telco B2B Consulting. Bluestack Cloud, founded in 2016, is an AWS and AZURE professional services company that continues to help customers develop and optimize their IT/ TELCO workloads in the public cloud. This entrepreneurial experience has proven unique in now helping customers commercialize their investments. He is passionate about using Technology for Good i.e. solving sustainability and social problems and have been offering pro bono consulting to Development organizations. My functional strengths include:
1. Strategy and Go To Market commercial launch
2. BD, Consultative and Solutions Sales
3. Digital Transformation Program Mgt
Key Achievements:
1. Telco B2B (TELUS, Telenor, Etisalat, Ooredoo, Zain)- Enterprise 5G IoT use case commercialization, Private Networks Sales & Go To Market, Cloud IaaS/ SaaS solutions launch for Industry verticals, IoT Digital Operating model design (Org, Process, Technology), SDN/ NFV impact assessment and OSS/ Orchestration Technology strategy for Telcos
2. Enterprises/ Gov (Maersk, Pfizer, Dubai RTA, Toyota) – ITS/ Connected Car Feasibility over Private/ 5G networks, Roadmap, smart meter PoC, Solution Architecture connected patient mgt, Smart factory/ Industry 4.0 Partner ecosystem mgt
3. Smart Cities (Istanbul, Dallas, Morocco, Saudi) and Engineering cos (Parsons, Sweco) – ICT use cases for smart waste/ water/ energy mgt, City Lab, Onboard solution partners, City sensor network design, Energy efficiency modeling