# Bhargab Mitra

> Bhargab Mitra is the founder and CEO of Avanseus, a Singapore-headquartered enterprise AI company focused on predictive operations. After senior telecom roles at Ericsson and Nokia, he founded Avanseus in 2015 to help operators anticipate faults, investigate root causes, and act before service is disrupted. The company expanded from telecommunications into data centers and manufacturing, and in February 2026 Accenture acquired its advanced AI solution for use in autonomous network operations.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at Avanseus
- **Organizations:** Avanseus, Nokia, Ericsson
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering
- **Known for:** Founded Avanseus in 2015 and built it around AI-driven predictive operations and maintenance., Led the development and commercialization of software capable of forecasting certain network faults up to 15 days in advance., Expanded Avanseus’s operating scope from telecommunications toward data centers and manufacturing.

## Career timeline

- **2001** — Served as Ericsson’s key account manager for Bharti in India.
- **2005** — Held an Ericsson vice president role in sales support and technical solutions.
- **2011** — Served as Nokia’s global head of managed IT; other Nokia responsibilities included APAC consulting and systems integration and the Vodafone account in India.
- **2012** — Led big-data and analytics innovation as a senior vice president at a regional software startup.
- **2015** — Founded Avanseus and became CEO, focusing initially on predictive maintenance for communications service providers.
- **2018** — Avanseus was selected for Microsoft ScaleUp’s 12th India cohort.
- **2020** — Avanseus was profiled as an Emerging Enterprise Award nominee and described deployments with major telecom operators across Europe, Asia, and South America.
- **2021** — Became a director of Avanseus Technologies Private Limited in India.
- **2022** — Led Avanseus through a proposed business combination with Fat Projects Acquisition Corp; the transaction was later terminated in November 2023.
- **2023** — Avanseus announced an Aarna Networks partnership to integrate predictive analytics with edge orchestration for 5G and enterprise networks.
- **2026** — Accenture acquired Avanseus’s advanced AI solution for integration into its cognitive network platform.

## Achievements

- Founded Avanseus in 2015 and built it around AI-driven predictive operations and maintenance.
- Led the development and commercialization of software capable of forecasting certain network faults up to 15 days in advance.
- Expanded Avanseus’s operating scope from telecommunications toward data centers and manufacturing.
- Led Avanseus through selection for Microsoft ScaleUp’s 2018 India cohort.
- Built deployments across Asia, the United Kingdom, Europe, the Middle East, and South America, according to Avanseus.
- Led the company through Accenture’s 2026 acquisition of its advanced AI solution.

## Latest updates

- **2026-02** — Accenture acquired Avanseus’s advanced AI solution to support prediction, anomaly detection, optimization, and agentic AI capabilities for autonomous network operations; transaction terms were not disclosed.
- **2023-11** — The proposed business combination between Avanseus and Fat Projects Acquisition Corp was terminated.
- **2023-08** — Avanseus and Aarna Networks announced a collaboration combining predictive analytics and edge orchestration for 5G and enterprise networks.

## Links

- Website: https://www.avanseus.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bhargab-mitra-81a93315

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Last updated: 2026-08-18