Satish Murthy

Satish Murthy is Avaya’s Networking R&D Leader for India. With 23 years in the industry, Satish has worked in large multi-nationals as well as startups, driving engineering innovations and bringing them to customers.

Satish brings a leadership style that is ambitious in vision, creating strategies to convert them into reality by building leaders who deliver through bold execution. At Avaya, Satish is focusing on converting his team into a lean and mean innovation engine that can take on the world, and brings to fore the full force of R&D support to India Sales teams. Avaya’s Bangalore based Networking R&D team builds SPB fabric based switches, WLAN products, IP Office, UC Collaboration Environment and SDN/Cloud and Network Management products.

Prior to Avaya, Satish worked at Cisco, Sanovi, NEC and other organizations. At Cisco, Satish was the Site lead for Network Management Technology Group, leading strategic planning for manageability for Cisco business priorities, especially Voice Manageability, and Cloud. At NEC, Satish did an internal startup, taking a lab prototype to enterprise middleware product, driving go to market with customers and partners across US.

Satish loves technology, especially those related to complex IT infrastructure – networking, middleware, and enterprise applications. Combine that with a keen eye for what the customer wants, and a business sense that is grounded, Satish brings a rigor and energy that has helped him in his efforts.

Teamwork is the key to success, and an engaged workforce can do wonders. Employee development, creating an environment for innovation, and a respectful ethos that transfuses a sense of purpose and fulfillment, is a passion for Satish.

Satish is currently based in Bangalore, but goes wherever work or life takes him.

To relax, Satish heads to the mountains, whether it is the Redwood forests of California or the Western Ghats in India. An avid reader, he reads non-fiction on natural and social sciences