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Microscan ropes in Samson Jesudas as Business Head – ISP, Strengthens the focus on Indian ISP Market
MUMBAI: In a move to strengthen the commitment, focus and investments in Indian ISP market, “MICROSCAN” has roped in Samson Jesudas as Business Head to lead the ISP domain in India.
Microscan today provide over 20 premium services in the IT & Telecom Industry. We have scaled new heights to become a preferred service provider for telecom infrastructure and value-added many telecom companies like Tata, Airtel, Vodafone etc.
Samson will be based at Mumbai and will oversee the business development activities for ISP penetration & growth in the Indian ISP market and will report to Sandeep Donde – Founder & MD.
The mission of Microscan is to provide technically-advanced, consistent network and data connectivity solutions through efficiently optimized network architecture. Microscan proudly own extensive self-healing rings that provide redundancy ensuring undisrupted connectivity.
High speed internet is a necessity in the modern day. It is one of the important means of access to the information required for everyday personal and business function. Microscan is an Internet Service Provider which enables a range of cost-effective broadband services ensuring reliability through our 100% fiber optic network. Microscan ensures that you enjoy a high speed and reliable connectivity for all your internet needs. Microscan offers various broadband services with value added features for all our customers under the Microscan and Vovinet brand.
Microscan provides the facility of Bulk bandwidth to ISPs. Local ISPs share the purchased bandwidth among various users to provide internet services to their customers. For such ISPs who look forward to providing their service in a new region or to expand their service area, Microscan offers a Bulk bandwidth option which enables the local ISPs to divide bandwidth to their customers. Various bandwidth requirements for pure internet, blended internet or region-specific internet can be taken care by Microscan’s Bulk bandwidth services.
Microscan also offers premium network interconnection services which facilitates ISPs to peer with major Internet Exchanges (IX) in India like Extreme IX and get inter-connect to all major content providers across globe like Akamai, Limelight, Fastly, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Netflix, Apple etc. Partnering with Microscan facilitates peering solutions for ISPs which envisages business benefits in terms of fastest routes, low-latency and optimal internet bandwidth utilization.
“The Indian Digital Population is booming with an incremental internet penetration in urban and rural sector. This has indeed created a tremendous opportunity in market and Microscan is geared up to serve more customers. We felt the need to strengthen our ISP presence and hence roped in a professional like Samson Jesudas to drive our ISP division. Samson has established goodwill amongst the cable fraternity and will add value in striking profound deals with LCOs thereby ensuring the reach to last mile”, said Sandeep Donde.
Before joining Microscan, Samson was MD & CEO at Hathway Bhavani and EVP @ Hathway cable & datacom. He was also a board member of various Hathway JV companies like GTPL Hathway, Hathway Sonali, Hathway Sai Star, Hathway Rajesh etc. He has also served as a VP @ ZEE Turner ltd. and Regional Manager with Star TV in the past.
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Tessolve lands a semiconductor veteran to drive its next big push
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, who started his career at ISRO and has spent 35 years building chips and companies, joins the Bengaluru-based firm as president and chief operating officer
BENGALURU: Tessolve has never been shy about its ambitions. The Bengaluru-based engineering services firm already counts 18 of the world’s top 20 semiconductor companies among its clients, employs more than 3,500 engineers across 12 countries, and last year pocketed a $150m investment from TPG. Now it has hired the executive it believes can turn those assets into something bigger. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, a 35-year semiconductor veteran who once built satellite payloads for ISRO and has since scaled engineering organisations across three continents, joins as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
THE MAN AND THE MANDATE
The appointment is, by any measure, a serious hire. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu comes to Tessolve after senior leadership stints at HCL Technologies, Altran and Wipro, where he managed large profit-and-loss portfolios and oversaw cross-regional teams. Over the course of his career, he has been instrumental in bringing more than 1,000 new products to market across the high-tech, energy and manufacturing verticals. Before the private sector claimed him, he began his working life as a scientist at the Indian Space Research Organisation, contributing to research and development in charge-coupled device technology and satellite payloads, a foundation that shaped everything that followed.
In his new role, he will lead Tessolve’s global growth strategy: expanding its engineering capabilities, deepening customer relationships and accelerating innovation across semiconductor and high-performance computing domains. The brief is broad, but the context is specific. Tessolve operates in the $550 billion global semiconductor market, and its recent moves, the acquisition of Germany’s Dream Chip Technologies and the TPG funding round, have sharpened both its reach and its expectations.
Srini Chinamilli, co-founder and chief executive of Tessolve, is characteristically direct about why Ravi Kumar Chirugudu was the choice:
“As we scale our global semiconductor and system engineering capabilities, Ravi’s appointment marks an important step forward. As global semiconductor demand continues to accelerate across industries, it is creating significant opportunities across the semiconductor lifecycle, from design, packaging, validation and systems integration. Ravi’s deep knowledge and leadership in this ecosystem brings the right mix of industry expertise, customer connect and execution capability, which will play a key role in strengthening our position as a trusted global engineering partner and reinforcing our market leadership.”
THE NEW ARRIVAL SPEAKS
Ravi Kumar Chirugudu, for his part, frames the move in terms of timing and culture, two factors that veteran executives tend to weigh as heavily as title or compensation:
“I am happy to join Tessolve at a time when the industry is rapidly evolving towards more complex, AI-driven systems. What stands out to me is its strong people-first culture and its commitment to bringing value to its customers. The strength of its global team, combined with its deep expertise in semiconductor innovation and next-generation product engineering, creates a solid foundation to build differentiated, scalable solutions. I look forward to working closely with the team to drive strategic growth and strengthen its role in shaping the global semiconductor ecosystem.”
The reference to AI-driven systems is not incidental. The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a structural reshaping, driven by the insatiable compute demands of artificial intelligence. For engineering services firms like Tessolve, which offers end-to-end capabilities from silicon design to packaged parts and invests in high-performance computing, high-speed interfaces, photonics and 5G, the moment is both an opportunity and a test. The company says it is well positioned to capture the next wave of industry growth. Ravi Kumar Chirugudu is now the person who has to prove it.
He came in from outer space, literally, and spent three decades learning how the semiconductor industry works from the inside out. Now Tessolve is betting that accumulated knowledge can help it cross the next frontier. In the $550 billion global chip market, the gap between ambition and execution is measured in engineering hours and leadership quality. Tessolve has just gone shopping for both.
