Ravi Visvesvaraya Sharada Prasad is a highly influential individual in the telecommunications industry, having been ranked by the UK-based Onalytica as the 19th most influential person in the sector worldwide in September 2015. He has extensive experience as an entrepreneur and consultant in the high technology industries, with 30 years of experience in the United States and India. Prasad is an alumnus of Carnegie Mellon and IIT Kanpur, and he advises several corporations in India and abroad. He is an expert in assisting high technology companies with marketing their products and services in India, entering into joint ventures, and obtaining regulatory approvals from central and state governments. He also has considerable experience in obtaining export orders for Indian software development companies.

Prasad has a wealth of contacts among politicians, civil servants, and journalists, making him an invaluable asset to any corporation seeking success in the Indian high technology marketplace. He is a prolific writer on technology policies, defense, and security for various newspapers and magazines, including the Times of India, Hindustan Times, and Economic Times. Additionally, he is a frequent guest on Doordarshan, Lok Sabha TV, Rajya Sabha TV, CNBC, CNN, and NDTV.

A certified Lead Assessor with honours from the European Union ESPRIT BOOTSTRAP Institute EEIG, Prasad co-founded and co-manages 7GTech, a company dealing with business analytics, digital transformation, and Cloud adoption. He was also the consulting editor for Current Weekly and Realpolitik Magazine and a distributor and dealer at Quality Assurance Institute (QAI) India Ltd, among other positions.