Rishi Bhaskar

Rishi Bhaskar is the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Global Verticals and Partnerships for Syracuse, New York-based JMA Wireless. Rishi joined the company in November 2021.

Bhaskar is a business leader living at the crossroads of 5G, Enterprise, cloud, and Software as a Service (SaaS), responsible for strategic alliances and global verticles. He previously lead the Global Hyperscale business at Ericsson, spending six years there in various leadership roles as his realm of responsibility grew. He joined Ericsson to lead all Public Sector business and then expanded to full profit & loss responsibility for Ericsson’s Energy and Public Sector verticals. Rishi oversaw strategy development, solution development, sales, marketing, delivery, alliances, and go-to market execution.

Before joining Ericsson, Rishi was responsible for strategy development and execution of Public Safety broadband go-to market plans across Motorola’s North America customer base including State and Local Government, Federal Governments, and Utility customers. Rishi was responsible for double digit growth in Motorola’s LTE business.
Prior to his tenure at Motorola Solutions, Rishi served as an Assistant Vice President of Alliances and Business Development at Alcatel-Lucent. Rishi led all indirect sales and business development for Alcatel-Lucent’s non-carrier markets focusing on Government, Energy, and Transportation.