Rakesh Bhasin, CEO Colt Group Rakesh Bhasin has been Colt’s CEO since December 2006. He has been central is creating a unique position for Colt as Europe’s information delivery platform, enabling its customers to deliver, share, process and store their vital business information. By bringing together computing and network services, Colt now offers customers a smarter, integrated end-to-end communications experience. Today, Colt provides major organisations, midsize businesses and wholesale customers with a powerful platform that combines data centre infrastructure, IT managed services and expertise in integrated computing and network services. Rakesh now leads an organisation that operates a 21-country, 33,000km network that includes metropolitan area networks in 39 major European cities with direct fibre connections into 17,000 buildings and 19 Colt data centres. Prior to joining Colt, Rakesh was President and Chief Executive at KVH Co. Ltd, a Fidelity Asia-focused telecom and network solutions provider headquartered in Tokyo. He continues to be a non-executive Chairman of KVH Co. Ltd today. Prior to joining KVH, Rakesh served in senior positions within AT&T, including head of AT&T Asia Pacific’s managed network services business from 1993 – 1997 and President, AT&T Japan, Ltd. He was also Senior Managing Director, Japan Telecom Company Limited. Rakesh received a Bachelor of Science degree in electronic engineering from George Washington University. He also attended the Berkley Executive Program at the University of California at Berkeley and the Advanced Management Program at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. In addition, Rakesh is looking to share with the students: • Colt’s strategy • Our business challenges and how we work to overcome these • Detail on our Colt India organisation (1300 employees) and the part it plays in the business • Rakesh’s personal career challenges and the challenges he faces daily as the CEO of an organisation with 5,000 employees in 74 offices, in 16 countries • And the potential challenges he foresees for the newer workforce in the uncertain economic climate