Leadership Team

AGNITY is founded by a team of experts from telecom and enterprises domain who bring their years of experience in tier-1 companies such as Motorola, Microsoft, Lucent, SWIFT, etc. and know the operator’s environment and challenges, inside and out. The strength of leadership team includes deep understanding of the domain, core skills in VOIP, IMS, and Multimedia technologies, defining and leading the SIP Servlet and JSR standardization activities, first hand experience of delivering products and deploying them in carriers worldwide, extensive experience of product development across global development centers, 24x7 support to carriers worldwide and strong process orientation.


Sanjeev Chawla, President and CEO
Sanjeev comes with 25 years of experience in Senior Management in Telecommunication, Networking and Mobile Computing Industry. Sanjeev serves on the Board of Directors of IMS Forum and Advisory Board member of multiple startups. Prior to founding AGNITY, Sanjeev was CTO of GENBAND – provider of IMS compliant Media Gateway and Applications, Founder, CTO and EVP Engineering operations of BayPackets – provider of IMS compliant Service Delivery Platforms and Applications. Sanjeev also architected and managed development of S.W.I.F.T - the world’s biggest financial network. Sanjeev holds Masters degree in Computer Science from George Washington University and Bachelors degree from Indian Institute of Technology, India.


Dr Atul Varshneya, VP Technology
Dr. Atul Varshneya is Vice President, Technology. He leads the technology initiatives in the company and runs the Enterprise Vertical Solutions business unit. Prior to this, Dr. Varshneya was the Chief Architect, Multimedia Applications, at Genband, Inc., and Assoc. VP/Chief Architect  BayPackets. In these roles he envisioned and architected  NGN Service Delivery Platforms and  applications for the Tier-1 and Tier-2 carriers as well as enterprises based on industry. Prior to this, as a Principal Architect at Motorola he had developed Reference Architecture for Motorola’s PCS products. Dr. Varshneya is a member of expert groups in standards bodies and industry forums, and a frequent speaker at various trade shows. He has a Ph.D. degree from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.


Nasir Khan, VP Engineering
Nasir Khan brings wide-ranging industry experience spanning over 14 years in Telecommunications, Networking and Engineering to his role, leading product development, professional services and R&D efforts at AGNITY. Before joining AGNITY, Nasir led the development of BEA Weblogic SIP Server as the Architect at BEA Systems. He also led the standardization effort for SIP Servlet 1.1 technology as Specification Lead for JSR 289 while in BEA. Currently he serves as Expert group member of JSR 289.  In his role as Specification lead he won several awards, notable amongst them are the “Most outstanding Spec Lead award for 2007” and “Star Spec Lead award for 2007”. Prior to BEA, Nasir performed Engineering management for SIP Servlets based application server, NSP (an IP SCP) and several next generation applications. Nasir also worked at Indian Oil Corporation developing scientific and financial applications. Nasir holds a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-Roorkee and Masters degree in Management and Systems from IIT-Delhi.


Uday Choudhury, VP Product Management
As Vice President of Product Management, Uday Choudhury is responsible for the product strategy and direction setting for AGNITY’s product portfolio. In this role, he is also charged with shaping up products for various AGNITY clients and customers. Uday brings 20 years of industry experience in building large scale telecom software infrastructure in legacy, next-gen and IMS multimedia applications domain. He joined AGNITY from GENBAND, where he was responsible for the product line management of SDP and Applications portfolio, and managed product deployments at tier-1 accounts in Domestic and CALA regions. Prior to that, Uday served as AVP of Product Management for BayPackets, a leading supplier of a carrier-grade communications platform and converged applications for IP, Wireline and Wireless carriers. Uday had a long career with Lucent Technologies. Uday holds a Masters degree in Computer Science from University of Louisiana, Louisiana.