Sunil (Neil) Tagare

Chairman & CEO,  
BuySellBandwidth.com
USA


Sunil "Neil" Tagare is the founder and CEO of BuySellBandwidth.com and a seasoned entrepreneur. He developed the concept of the Fiberoptic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) project in 1989 at age 27. As the Executive VP of Marketing and Business Development at NYNEX (now Verizon), Tagare was responsible for breaking through regulatory barriers in some of the most difficult countries in the world such as Spain, Italy, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan. He went on to found a second submarine fiber optics company called Project Oxygen Ltd. in 1997 where he was the chairman and CEO.

He was selected by Wired magazine as one of the "Wired 25" in 1999 and was a finalist at the Entrepreneur of the Year, World Communications Awards event. He was also selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) New York.

Tagare has made dozens of keynote speeches around the world on his lifelong passions: the advantages of lowering prices of bandwidth and creation of a level playing field for the common man around the world.

He obtained a Bachelors degree in Electrical Engineering from University of Mysore, MBA from Texas Christian University and a PMD from Harvard Business School.

You can find Sunil (Neil) Tagare in:
Interview, Sunday 18 January 2009