Adviser

Idris T Vasi

Idris Vasi is currently the Vice President of Nokia’s Cloud and Network Services business
for Asia Pacific & Japan. He leads all sales and commercial activities for the business
group in the region and is responsible for driving business growth.
Idris has over 30 years of global experience across telecommunications, internet, mobile
& cloud technologies, including software as a service (SaaS). He specializes in incubation
of new business, and has a proven track record of profitably scaling businesses in new
markets and technologies for both startups and multinational corporations.
Before joining Nokia, Idris held senior leadership positions in companies across Asia,
Europe and the US. He previously held Asia-Pac leadership roles at Juniper, Guavus,
Viptela, Mavenir and Cisco.
Idris spent his early career at Siemens and Cisco before becoming the CEO of DST, a
leading mobile communications service provider in Brunei. He co-founded iRam
Technologies, an IoT/M2M startup, and has advised startups in FinTech and Digital Media
such as SQ2 Fintech and iDisplay Systems.
Based in Singapore, Idris has a Master of Science in Computer Engineering from Florida
Atlantic University, and a Bachelor of Engineering from the State University of New York
at Stony Brook.
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