Arun is an expert advisor, business coach and investor. His is currently VP at Cartesian, a specialist TMT management and strategy consultancy. He founded and ran a specialist boutique advisory business, Red Dawn Consulting specialising in TMT & Finance, which has merged into Cartesian. Arun sold his initial consultancy business, Redbox Consulting to Analysys Mason, and headed up its Telco Business unit. He served on the Board & was their Sales Director. Arun’s vision is to implement emerging digital strategies, a market underserved by “generalist” consultancies. Arun has a passion for propagating his industry wisdom to clients across the globe. His deep insights stem from a 30 year career in TMT & finance, starting from his days as a qualified Chartered Accountant in the London office of PWC. Following this, Arun held key industry roles within BSkyB & Orange, becoming the Head of Revenue & Pricing, then Head of Controlling for Orange Switzerland. Arun joined CSMG Adventis (now Cartesian), a Boston based strategy consultancy in 2000, before building his own consultancy business. Arun leads global research, strategic, implementation projects & has held interim CCO and COO positions, at Ministry of Sound, Colt, Teleena etc.
Significant client engagements Arun has managed include BT (UK), Barclays (UK), Orange (Global), Etisalat (Abu Dhabi), Telenet (Belgium), ONO (Spain), Glocell (S Africa), MTN (S Africa), Verizon (USA), O2 (UK), Wireless Logic (Europe), Vodafone (Ireland), ACI (Europe), Disney (USA), Opet (Turkey) and Earthlink (USA). Arun won the award for ‘The Most Inspirational & Influential Wholesale Executive’ at the Global Carriers Community awards in Berlin in June 2018. Specialties: Telecoms, Media & IT Strategy, Financial Control, Pricing & Tariffing, Sub-Branding, MVNO, Fintech, AI, Sales and Distribution, Market Entry Strategy, Consumer & Enterprise Solutions, Managed IT, M&A, Due Diligence, Managed Networking, KPI Development, Operational Control Frameworks, Financial & Organisational Transformation, Leadership.