Vijay Mhaskar

Vijay Mhaskar is Sr. Director R&D at Avaya India. He is also the site leader for Avaya’s R&D center at Pune. His role is to ensure Avaya’s long-term success by providing leadership to the engineering team and harnessing regional innovation.

Vijay has over 20 years of experience in the software industry, working in India and the U.S. in senior engineering management positions. He has vast experience from leading technology companies including Symantec, VERITAS, Saba, Sun Microsystems and Godrej & Boyce. Most recently he served as Vice President Engineering at Symantec India where he was responsible for providing leadership to the engineering teams to develop and deliver Symantec’s data protection, archiving, and eDiscovery products.

Vijay has built world-class engineering teams for Enterprise products, growing up to 70% of the engineering strength of global organizations. He has held global responsibility for products developed in geo-dispersed organizations, and has led R&D teams to broaden their responsibility and establish a credible track record to take ownership of strategic whole product development.

Vijay holds B.E. Electrical (University Gold Medalist) degree from Mumbai University and a M Tech (2nd Rank) degree from IIT Mumbai.