Shikhar Ghosh is the MBA Class of 1961 Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business School.
He was selected by BusinessWeek as one of the best Entrepreneurs in the US,[3] Forbes as one of the ‘Masters of the Internet Universe’ and Fortune as the CEO of one of the 10 most innovative companies in the US.
Shikhar left BCG in 1988 to become CEO of Appex, an early-stage venture backed company that built the inter-carrier infrastructure for the US mobile phone industry.
Appex provided centralized services that enabled independent mobile carriers to operate as a single seamless network.
By the time Shikhar left in 1993, Appex's revenues exceeded $100m with an order backlog of over $1 billion.