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Abhi leads the mobility applications and industry consulting team for the Industry and Mobility Application Solutions group within AT&T. His team works with Line of Business, IT and vertical industry executives to define, design and deploy business solutions that help corporations or government agencies wirelessly enable their business applications. These applications cover a wide range of business functions; including field service, sales force automation, public safety, logistics, fleet management, and other vertically specific business processes. His teams are also responsible for creating business centric machine to machine solutions and business to consumer marketing applications for the enterprise customers. These solutions are created and delivered through a combination of assets from AT&T and a select set of bestin- class ecosystem partners. Prior to this role, Abhi led the Business Solutions marketing and products organization, overseeing wireless data products and marketing programs for business customers. His team was responsible for all industry marketing, managed all PDAs and data centric Smartphones and developed the strategy for all laptop connectivity products such as modem cards and WiFi. Abhi also had primary responsibility for the launch of next generation wireless technologies such as EDGE and UMTS/HSPA into the overall business data market. Prior to AT&T, Abhi was VP of marketing at Collation, an enterprise software company eventually purchased by IBM, where he was instrumental in formulating the business plan and launching the company. Prior to Collation, Abhi was VP, Marketing and Product Management at Covad Communications, a DSL-based provider of high speed internet access where he built the Covad brand, grew revenues from $5 m/quarter to $100 m/quarter and played a key role in a successful financial restructuring. Abhi spent several years at McKinsey and Company where he served technology, consumer package goods and financial services clients on strategy, marketing and sales engagements. Abhi is a regularly featured speaker and panelist at key CIO, mobility and industry specific conferences. . Abhi has an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School. He earned his BA with high honors in Computer Science and Mathematics from Oberlin College.