HITENDRA SONI

Hitendra "Sonny" Soni has 16 years of experience as a sales and business development executive for successful networking equipment startups. With his airtight track record, he has had significant success selling to enterprise and service provider customers worldwide through direct and indirect (OEM and reseller) sales organizations for three successful startups.

Mr. Soni currently serves as Vice President of Global Sales and Customer Service for Omnilux Inc; an ultra broadband wireless equipment company. Prior to Omnilux, Mr. Soni was Vice President of Sales, Business Development and Customer Services at Accelerated Networks, a broadband access equipment company where he was responsible for generating $45M revenue in first six quarters of product availability.

Between 1994 and 1997, Mr. Soni was Director of Business Development and Channel Sales at Xylan, a pioneer in VLAN based LAN/WAN switching, which was subsequently acquired by Alcatel for over $2 billion. Between 1988 and 1994, Mr. Soni was Director of Sales and Business Development for Conexsys, a network integration company in Toronto, Canada, where he focused on providing LAN and WAN infrastructure products to large enterprises and telecom services providers.