Arun Seth has been the Non Executive Chairman of Alcatel India since May, 2011. Alcatel-Lucent, with global revenues of USD 20 billion, is the leader in mobile, fixed, IP and optics technologies globally and a pioneer in applications and services. The company is home to Bell Labs, one of the world’s foremost centres of research and innovation in networking and communications technologies.

Alcatel-Lucent has been present in India since 1982. Since then it has offered complete solutions that help Indian telecom service providers and customers in transportation, defence etc. to realise the potential of a connected world. Today, half of India’s fixed and CDMA wireless lines are powered by Alcatel-Lucent technology. More than 18 percent of India’s total wireless subscribers are in Alcatel-Lucent powered and managed networks. India is one of the major hubs for Alcatel-Lucent’s global R&D ecosystem. India R&D has over 3,000 engineers and scientists working from 650,000 square feet of world-class fully connected labs across four cities—Gurgaon, Noida, Chennai and Bengaluru.

According to Arun, having successfully driven the BPO sector for NASSCOM a decade ago, he intends to pursue the GreenIT dream and focus on the nascent software product industry. In his view, NASSCOM’s Product Conclave was a resounding success and will help create a new wave of IT companies and entrepreneurship. Committed to fight global warming and finding sustainable development solutions, he feels as part of NASSCOM’s EC, he would like to work with the government, TERI, CII etc. in this area.