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Sanjiv Ahuja


Sanjiv Ahuja is a telecommunications executive, the Chairman and CEO of Tillman Global Holdings.

On June 15, 2016 his company, Apollo Towers Myanmar, began drawdowns on a $250 million loan from the United States Overseas Private Investment Corp. to build cell towers in Myanmar. The firm hopes to build 2,000 additional towers in the country; it has already worked with Telenor, an international provider of mobile connectivity, to construct 1,700 towers in Myanmar in 2014 and 2015.

Ahuja has a degree in electrical engineering from Delhi University, India, and a master's degree from Columbia University in New York. He lives in NYC.

Ahuja began his career at IBM in 1979 as a software engineer. From 1987 to 1990 he managed IBM’s strategy for transaction processing, and from 1990 to 1994 he was responsible for IBM’s distributed network and systems business, leading IBM into the telecommunications software market globally.

After IBM, Ahuja served as the President of Telcordia Technologies (formerly Bellcore). and led the turnaround and sale of Bellcore to SAIC. He was responsible for growing Telcordia from an RBOS centric business to a global entity with over 40% of its sales coming from outside North America.

Ahuja's experience includes non-executive directorships of Telenor S.A. Cadbury, Williams Sonoma, Network Appliance, SAIC,

Ahuja was the Chief Executive Officer of Orange S.A – one of the world's leading telecom operators– for three years from March 2004 – April 2007. Prior to that he was the company's Chief Operating Officer from April 2003 to March 2004. After stepping down as CEO of Orange S.A, Sanjiv was Chairman of Orange UK until September 2008.

Under his leadership, Orange increased the number of countries in which it operated from 17 to 23, including 14 countries in Africa, and more than doubled its mobile customers from 48 million to over 100 million worldwide. Orange S.A also saw a significant and continuous improvement in revenue, market share and cash flow under his leadership. Sanjiv oversaw the successful extension of the Orange brand from mobile origins to embrace France Telecom's broadband, fixed line and IPTV services in its largest markets.

Ahuja founded and is the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Augere, a broadband company formed in 2007 that provides wireless broadband internet services in Bangladesh and Pakistan under the brand name Qubee.


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