Dr. Brijesh Kumar is Chief Operating and Strategy Officer at Rapidsoft Systems Inc. , a leading software development and IT outsourcing company. He has led development over 350+ software development projects including over 100+ mobile applications.

In his career spanning over 2 decades, Dr. Kumar has held many senior engineering and R&D management positions with major fortune 500 corporations (Panasonic, Motorola, Glenayre Techs., Digital Equipment) and technology startups (Ennovate Networks, Corona Networks, LS AudioLabs etc.) in the USA and Canada. He has also taught at several leading universities in the US and UK.

His research interests are in Wireless Communications, Network Security, IP Networking, Protocol Security and Software Engineering. He has led development of numerous successful products in the technology industry.

Dr. Kumar has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from University College London (UCL) / University of London, U.K, and is an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) alumni. He got his BSEE and MSEE in Computer Science from IIT (Roorkee) and IIT (Delhi) respectively.
Dr. Kumar has published numerous technical papers, filed several patents, and contributed to several important standard documents in IETF, IEEE, WAP Forum, and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) International Standards bodies.

He is a reviewer of IEEE and ACM professional journals and has been a Technical Planning Committee (TPC) member, and session chair at many professional and industry conferences and seminars.