Speakers 2026
Rajesh Pazhyannur, CEO, Ataya
Rajesh Pazhyannur is CEO and Co-Founder of Ataya, where he leads the design and commercialization of cloud-native Private 5G and edge networking platforms for enterprise and industrial environments. At Ataya, he has driven the development of Harmony and Chorus—solutions that integrate 3GPP-compliant 5G core functions, edge compute, and cloud management to support secure, low-latency, and scalable enterprise deployments.
Prior to founding Ataya, Rajesh served as Chief Technology Officer for enterprise networking at Ruckus (CommScope), where he was responsible for product architecture and innovation across wired, wireless, and cloud-managed networking platforms. Earlier, he held senior technical leadership roles at Cisco, contributing to the design and evolution of large-scale networking systems and next-generation network architectures.
With over 30 years of experience spanning telecommunications, enterprise networking, and distributed systems, Rajesh brings deep hands-on expertise in building and deploying Private 5G solutions that bridge network edge, cloud, and industrial applications.