Dr. Arvind Sharma

Job: Vice President Business Development, responsible for Product Management, Presales Support and Project Management Departments

Joined ECT: in November 2005

Hobbies: Golf and teaching

In what language do you answer the telephone? English

What’s the best call you have ever recieved? The one confirming my admission to The Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi.

What’s your favorite communications feature/ aspect? The possibility to be able to place one party on hold and consult with a colleague or even to be able to hold a conference with another colleague. This has made communication very rich, extending today to multi-party conferences or even tele-seminars.

If you could call anyone, real or imagined, dead or alive, whose number would you dial? Mahatma Ghandi.

What music would you expect to hear for his/ her ring back tone or music-on-hold? Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree. (He believed in forgiveness and had a good sense of humor).

What would you discuss when he/ she answered? How to use modern technology to help the masses?

What televoting campaign would get you to vote? A campaign to promote education as a means of eradicating misconceptions, ill will and hatred within society.

Would you prefer to be in a hunting group, a pickup group or just roaming? Roaming.

Press 1 for…? The music of your choice.

What is on your wish list? I have been blessed with a good education and would like to offer education to the underprivilieged, using the advances of communication, so far as to reach even the remotest areas.