Kishen Mangat

Kishen currently leads the policy management product line within Cisco’s service provide mobility business.

In 2003, he co-founded BroadHop, next-generation real time network service management software infrastructure vendor. He was instrumental in developing the Company’s product and go-to-market strategy leveraging the global Cisco sales and delivery channel. He led the Company’s international expansion and channel development while bringing the platform to more than 70 telecom operators in over 30 countries. This strategy and business growth culminated in an acquisition by Cisco in 2013.

From 2001-2003, Kishen served as President and Managing Director of Application Media, a professional services practice engaged in creating mobile and broadband application solutions with an impressive Fortune 500 customer roster including Disney, Starwood Hotels, Sprint, Cisco Systems and Microsoft.

In 1998, Kishen co-founded STS HotelNet, the first vertically oriented online media platform in more than 150,000 hotel rooms, which was acquired in 2001 by CAIS Internet, a KKR Company. Prior to this he pioneered a global ISP channel at, WebMessenger, a global Internet telephony platform.

A distinguished alumnus of Colorado College, Kishen graduated with honors in 1996 with a bachelor’s degree in American Political Economy. He is active in the Colorado non-profit community and is an accomplished mountaineer having completed numerous challenging ascents in Alaska, Africa, Yosemite and throughout the American mountain west.