In his new position, Tikku will be responsible for leading strategic business development and growth initiatives across the region.
Tikku enters the role with more than 20 years of experience, with a successful track record of driving revenue growth, leading sales teams, managing strategic relationships and identifying high potential. which are new business opportunities.
“Nitin joins us at the right time, with organizations looking to network infrastructure as a key means of delivering connectivity and enabling business transformation,” said Noah Drake, president and managing director, Telstra Americas.
“His experience and leadership will help us build relationships that will help us scale new areas of growth and drive innovation.”
Prior to joining Telstra, Tikku held technical and sales leadership roles where he successfully designed, secured and managed multi-million dollar contracts with US federal government agencies, global system integrators and Fortune 500 companies.
Most recently, he served as senior director of sales at AT&T where he was responsible for business management and growth for one of AT&T’s largest customers, a global systems integrator.
“Businesses are re-examining every aspect of their operations to identify new efficiencies and methods to offer customers and employees a world-class experience and, as a result, need they are new connectivity and infrastructure options,” Tikku said.
“Telstra is uniquely positioned to meet this ever-evolving demand with a diverse mix of technologies and products.”
In related news, last month Telstra, in partnership with Ericsson completed a 100km long-range 5G data call on a mid-band Time Division Duplex (TDD) Advanced Antenna System (AAS) radio in a live commercial network.
The extended range feature enables Telstra to extend the benefits of 5G Massive MIMO AAS radios to more rural and regional areas, delivering 5G capacity and downlink speeds to more customers.
