Kiran Hosahalli has over 20 years of diverse experience in telecom and networking industry. He currently works as a Product Manager at Verizon. Earlier, he worked as a Business Operations Manager at Cisco Systems defining organization’s strategy, outcomes and future focus initiatives, and as a Business Development Manager in the World Wide Systems Engineering Organization. In his role as a Virtual Service and Support Manager with the services organization, he managed end-to-end customer experience for Americas Service Provider major accounts. Kiran, also, worked as a Senior Engineer in the Engineering organization developing operating systems for Cisco IOS routers. Prior to Cisco, Kiran worked in Bell Labs and successful start-ups such as Teltier Technologies and dynamicsoft.

Kiran is an Adjunct Professor teaching technical and business courses at North Lake College. He volunteers at Hillcrest animal shelter and Dallas Golden Retriever foundation.

Kiran received MBA from University of Texas at Austin (McCombs School of Business) and also, has a BS in Computer Science from Bangalore university. He is PMP, ITIL expert, PROSCI - Professional Change Management and Professional Scrum master certified.