Arun Sobti graduated from Punjab Engineering College and moved to US in 1967 for masters in electrical engineering from University of Kansas. He also did his PhD there and is currently in the board of University of Kansas. A renowned personality in the communications infrastructure industry, Sobti holds 18 patents and has served on a variety of industry standards committees. A visionary, Sobti has a well deserved reputation as an innovator who gets results and has worked for 3G, broadband, and communications infrastructure.

The promise of IP telephony helped Sobti to join IP Unity, an emerging leader in voice infrastructure products as its chairman and CEO in 2000. With Sobti at the helm, the company has gone from strength to strength. In January 2002, the company announced its Harmony 6000 Media Server which forms the core of IP Unity’s application services platform, and allows carriers to quickly and cost effectively offer revenue generating services.

Prior to joining IP Unity, he was senior vice president of ADC and president of ADC’s Broadband Access and Transport Group (BATG) whose revenue was to the tune of US $1 billion in 2000. Under his leadership, ADC purchased Pairgain Technologies and Broadband Access Systems, the company’s largest acquisition to date. Before ADC, Sobti was at Motorola for 24 years and led Motorola’s efforts towards participation in the third-generation wireless technology. He serves on the boards of Onotologent Networks, Black Storm Networks, Many Streams Networks, and others. n