Dr. Surendra Saboo has more than 28 years of telecommunications executive management experience. Surendra has come full circle and now leads Inteliquent as President. Prior to this role, Surendra served as the EVP and COO of Onvoy, starting in 2015, shortly after leading the Telecom Services Division of Transaction Network Services (TNS) as CEO. Preceding TNS, Surendra was the President and COO of Inteliquent where he was responsible for Sales, Product Management, Network Engineering and Operations, Service Delivery, Customer Care and Information Technology.
Surendra started his career with AT&T in 1986 as a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories in Holmdel, NJ and then spent the next 14 years in a variety of operating areas, including research and development, engineering, product management, strategy, systems development and operations. He was instrumental in launching AT&T into local services after the Telecommunications Act of 1996.
After AT&T, Surendra was the Chairman, CEO and Founder of Teledigm, an e-CRM software product company in Dallas. In June 2000, he joined Comcast as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Broadnet, a pan-European subsidiary of Comcast based in Brussels, where he was responsible for launching broadband services in six EU countries. In 2002, he returned to the U.S. and became the Vice President of Product Development and Operations for Comcast's voice business. In this capacity, he was responsible for launching the VoIP-based Comcast digital voice service and ended his tenure at Comcast as the Vice President of Voice Services.
Surendra holds a B.S. degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology, India, and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering from the Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. He has also completed the Advanced Management Program from University of Hawaii.