Naresh Shah
President, ESSN India R&D, Hewlett Packard
Naresh Shah joined Hewlett Packard recently as President, ESSN India R&D. Naresh serves as the local HP ESSN executive responsible for site management, as well as aligning customer-facing strategies, assisting in product deliverables, optimizing operational efficiencies, and promoting collaboration across all ESSN business units in India.
Prior to this, Naresh served as MD of Novell India Development Center and VP, Global Engineering Strategy with overall responsibility for all aspects of the IDC&rsquot;s product development activities. Naresh joined Novell US in 2006, as VP of the Global Engineering Strategy. In 2007, he was assigned additional responsibility as Managing Director of Novell’s India Development Center in Bangalore and moved with his family from New Jersey to Bangalore.
Prior to joining Novell, Naresh spent more than 20 years at AT&T and its spin-off Lucent Technologies where he held various management positions in engineering, product management and sales, primarily in the US. During his tenure, Naresh also completed an assignment in India where he managed Lucent’s R&D centers in Bangalore and Pune.
Naresh holds a B.Tech. in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT, Kharagpur and M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the Ohio State University, Columbus. He has also completed Novell&rsquot;s accelerated leadership development program in partnership with the Harvard Business School, and Executive Education programs at Tufts University, University of Richmond, and Thunderbird.
Naresh is married with two children. His hobbies include following sports and current events.