Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
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Hemant Sabat serves as the Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Coscend Communications Solutions. He brings the uncommon combined expertise in building telecom and IT businesses as well as multi-shore software operations experience that are required to build Coscend. Most recently, he served as the General Manager of Telecom and High-Technology Software Applications business unit at Perot Systems Corporation. At Perot Systems, Nortel Networks, Sabre and Fannie Mae, he has incubated and scaled up high-ROI businesses into global operations, helped gain strategic footprints, evangelized visionary industry trends, expanded customer base, and helped strengthen corporate brand.
He has built global businesses by:
- Leading organizations that built seven next-generation wireless and wireline businesses worth over $2 billion;
- Leading an outsourced organization that helped build a six-person startup into a $250 million acquisition;
- Executing product and business development programs that generated over $1 billion revenue;
- Building a $10 million global telecom-IT operation with a 35% operating margin in less than six months; and
- Leading the transformation of a $6 billion telecom business during the last recession.
As an active industry leader and brand ambassador of organizations, he has evangelized the industry's visionary trends by:
- Presenting, as an industry visionary and keynote speaker in the U.S. and Europe, how to transform and build next-generation telecom businesses;
- Serving as an industry advisor to telecom company boards in the U.S., the U.K. and Canada;
- Serving as an honored guest at industry events; and
- Serving as a member of nine intellectual property rights review boards.
Marquis honored him as being a global leader both in the General category as well as in the category of Field of Science and Engineering in 2010, and, in the U.S. in 2009-2011, for outstanding achievements in his Field of Endeavor and for Contributing Significantly to the Betterment of Contemporary Society. In 2004, the U.S. Government recognized him as a business leader with 'Extraordinary Ability', ranking his contributions as being in the top 1% in the telecom and IT industries. He received a national award in 1992 and was honored by a former President of India. His leadership has received over 500 recognitions and citations globally.
This leadership has been published, as best practices, in 35 books and trade journals by the world's largest media companies. These publications have been incorporated in a few MBA curricula in the U.S. and the U.K. Hemant has served as a Visiting Professor in the University of Dallas MBA program as well.
Hemant has earned a Master of Business Administration with two majors, two minors and three certifications from Indiana University Kelley School of Business (U.S.). He graduated first in the university summa cum laude with Bachelor and Master (GPA 4.0) of Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (India).
A former tennis and field hockey player, Hemant has hiked six 20,000-foot peaks in the Himalayas in 15 days, and is conversant in seven languages. He jogs five miles daily.
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