Tarun Gupta

Co-Founder

Skylo

Jul 2020 - Current (6 years)

Skylo is the only solution that cost-effectively provides 100% connection and coverage across the globe - from space. Skylo invented an entirely new way of networking communications using geo satellites for affordable, broad, and continuous coverage. Supported by some of the largest, most well known players in the world -- Softbank, Boeing, BSNL, Innovation Endeavors. Skylo allows farmers, fisherman, logistics experts, train conductors, and governments, especially in rural areas around the world, to connect and deeply understand what is happening in their business operations, anywhere at any time, all the time. Skylo now covers the entire country of India 100% of the time and collects critical information from millions of sensors - in ev

Head of Strategy & Operations

Google

Apr 2017 - Jul 2020 (3 years 4 months)

- Work with the broader team and cross functionally to ensure launch dates - Help to identify partnerships with third party providers for integrations with the Assistant platform - Identify markets and language priorities and schedule for product launches - Manage overall opex: team, consultants, marketing, and partnership budget - Responsible for overall headcount and resource allocations for the team - Identify and track key OKRs (Objectives & Key Results) for the organization

Google Fiber

Google

Apr 2014 - Jul 2020 (6 years 4 months)

- Hired and grew the team to 24 FTEs and 50 consultants to support Contracts, Controls and Partner - Management for the Engineering, Procurement, Construction (EPC) and Operations work for Google Fiber’s networks across the entire project life cycle (inception, design, construction and operations) - Managed and controlled $4.1B of allocated spend across nine metro markets - Ensured compliance with internal and external audit and finance requirements - Responsible for negotiations and partnerships with our large EPC turnkey vendors, serving as an escalation point and key negotiator for major change orders, changes in scope and new market launches - Implemented a new build business model designed to accelerate deployment and provide cost cer

President

Harmoni Towers

Feb 2011 - Apr 2014 (3 years 3 months)

New startup focused on telecomm infrastructure services and support to the growing needs of the wireless operators - Created and developed Parallel Infrastructure; grew the team from myself to more than 20, including sales, operations, construction, legal, and support staff - Established Parallel Infrastructure as a national brand to the wireless operator community - Grew land under contract by more than 500% in 18 months; expanded ROW’s from Florida to 18 states across the Country - Deployed metro and long haul fiber systems, to be used for cell site backhaul, enterprise connectivity, and dark fiber solutions - Built micro-data centers and colocation facilities in the ROW for shared use

Vice President, Strategic Development

FiberTower

Aug 2007 - Feb 2011 (3 years 7 months)

- Third employee at startup, focused on reducing the backhaul bottleneck for cellular operators in support of their 3G & 4G data centric deployments - Responsible for next-generation architecture and equipment solutions to decrease deployment intervals and increase overall network availability - Drove capex per site down by > 30%, and increased market penetration by > 50% - Managed cross-functional team responsible for providing network solutions and pricing proposals to carrier customers. The cross-functional team included carrier sales, government sales, engineering, IT systems, and finance - Accountable for all network deployment costs and models - Created partnership opportunities to help provide comprehensive solutions to our carrier c

Chief Architect

FiberTower

Jul 2001 - Mar 2011 (9 years 9 months)

Director of Engineering

Teligent Telecom

May 1998 - Jul 2001 (3 years 3 months)

- Managed the complete network design and performance for seven central offices, 3300 customer sites, and 300 nodes, spanning 19 states - Supervised staff of over 60 engineers, coordinators, surveyors and technicians, ensuring on-time delivery of the network - Approved node locations based upon return on investment, capital outlay, cost and future growth potential - Determined optimum network solutions for customers based upon capacity, costs and time to market

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