Bimal Dayal

Qualcomm India and South Asia

Bimal Dayal is vice president of business development and country manager for Qualcomm India and South Asia. Mr. Dayal is responsible for all operator-facing business development and marketing operations for the region. In his role, Mr. Dayal drives adoption of Qualcomm technologies and solutions such as 3G (WCDMA/HSPA, CDMA2000/EVDO), Connected Computing, Location Based Services and others with all service providers. He has more than 20 years of international sales and business development experience, coupled with strong relationships in the telecom industry across countries like Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka and Sweden.

Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Dayal was vice president and key account manager at Ericsson, responsible for positioning Ericsson’s entire portfolio of products and services for Bharti Airtel. During his 12-year tenure with Ericsson, he held key defining roles ranging from general manager of sales and marketing, senior business manager for WCDMA and PDC systems, as well as managing director of Ericsson, Sri Lanka. In his last assignment as vice president and key account manager for Ericsson India, Mr. Dayal led the company’s largest key account – Bharti Airtel – where he was responsible for managed services and managed capacity for Bharti’s 15 circles across India.

Mr. Dayal started his career with Tata Telecom, where he spent eight years and was responsible for driving the complete profit and loss portfolio for the company’s operations in the state of Karnataka. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree specializing in electronics and telecommunication from Delhi College of Engineering and a Bachelors degree in Law from Delhi University.