Jitin Bhandari is CTO and Vice President of the Cloud and Network Services (CNS) business group at Nokia. Jitin leads software technology strategy and disruptive innovation for the mid & long-term horizon, accelerating transformation of networks, operations, analytics to cloud native, 5G and beyond. He is known as a communications visionary with end to end expertise of networks, operations and services with a unique ability of big picture strategic focus and proven ability to deep dive and execute.

Jitin has 20+ years of experience in the software / IT / telecom industry. A sport fanatic keeping true to his New England base, he loves to run and is known for his unique ability of big picture strategic focus and proven ability to deep dive and execute with his lineage at two startups.