Nikhil Batra is a Research Manager for the regional telecommunications team in IDC Asia/Pacific. Based in Australia, Nikhil focuses on Telecom Operator Strategies and Managed Cloud/ICT Services across the AP region. As the Research Manager, Nikhil works with the regional telecom teams to produce intelligence reports, market insights, and contributes to various consulting projects.

With about 8 years of experience in the Telecom Industry, Nikhil has worked with some of the industry giants like Verizon, IBM and most recently YTL Communications. As a Business Analyst & Consultant at YTL Communications, he has provided crucial assistance to the business owners to define their telco roadmap, conceptualize solutions for new products/initiatives, as well as to define their business strategy. Prior to this, Nikhil had a fruitful tenure at Verizon spanning over 4 years developing and enhancing their legacy billing systems and then spent about a year with IBM on Mainframe OS development.

Nikhil is a qualified Telecommunication Engineer with an MBA in Information Technology from SP Jain Global School of Management, Sydney