About

Naveen Hemanna is an Associate Vice President for IoT Security Solutions at Subex, a digital security company. His primary responsibility is to develop a partner ecosystem in Eastern Europe, Africa, and the Middle East region across industries, governments, and telcos to position IoT/OT security solutions, drive revenue, and deliver value. Naveen has 15.87 years of relevant experience in the field of telecoms, IT, and media industry research and consulting. Naveen has a strong track record of managing multi-million dollar portfolios of accounts comprising major group telecom operators, banks, OEMs, and software vendors in the region. He has a thorough understanding of upcoming and latest trends in the telecom, IT, and media industry and can interpret, analyze, and associate those trends to the relevant region. Naveen has built very strong relationships with CXOs and VPs of product, strategy, market intelligence, marketing, digital services, commercial team across operators, software/enterprise application providers, system integrators, OEMs, etc. Naveen has worked as a Sales Director, Middle East, at Subex, where he managed a portfolio of accounts, including STC group, Etisalat group, Du, Ooredoo Group, Batelco Group, Jawwal, Paltel, Omantel, MTN Syria, syriatel, Korek Telecom, and Alfa. He has also worked as a Senior Account and Sales Manager at Ovum, where he handled new business and existing relationships with telecom operators, software vendors, banking, system integrator, government entities, and OEMs across GCC, South Africa, and India for research and consulting business. Naveen holds a PGDBM in Marketing and Systems from the Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode. He also has a bachelor's degree in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Biology from National College. Naveen completed his schooling from Vijay High School, Jayanagar, Bangalore. Naveen's tech stack includes mobile, big data, research scientist, and senior software engineer. Subex Secure, the digital security arm of Subex, was ranked as the IoT security solution of the year by Compass Intelligence in 2019 and was also ranked among the top 5 cybersecurity companies of the year by the Data Security Council of India, a cybersecurity industry body operating under NASSCOM, India in 2019. Forbes called out their unique cyber protection methodology in