Ari joined UTStarcom in April 2006 as Chief Information Officer. Prior to this Mr Bose was was vice president and chief information officer with 3com with global responsibility for the company's IT organization. During his tenure Information Week selected 3Com as having the top High Technology IT organization for 2005. Previously Ari was director of strategy architecture and advanced development at Nortel Networks and Director of Information Systems at Claris. He also held management and technical positions at Quantum; Pacific Telesis Group; Systems Consultants Pte Ltd. of Singapore; and Engineers India Limited. He received a B.S. from Delhi University in India and holds an MS in software engineering from National University San Diego.