Sanjay Dhawan Email Address

Chief Executive Officer

Harman International is a global leader in connected car technology, lifestyle audio innovations, design and analytics, cloud services and IoT solutions.

A technology veteran and a serial entrepreneur, Sanjay Dhawan is the President of HARMAN's Connected Services division. Previously, as Symphony Teleca’s President & CEO, Sanjay Dhawan was responsible for the day-to-day operations of Symphony Teleca, as well as its overall financial performance. Dhawan joined Symphony Teleca from Aricent, a KKR owned privately held company with global operations in over 25 countries and over 10,000 employees, where he served as the President and Chief Operating Officer. At Aricent, he was responsible for the company’s strategy, sales, marketing and the management and oversight of several high-growth business units and various functional units.Prior to Aricent, Dhawan was the Chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Inkra Networks, a company credited with defining the virtual networking market segment. Dhawan also held chief strategy, development, sales and management roles at Netopia, StarNet and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).Dhawan has authored several networking-related publications and books and has chaired IEEE 802 and ANSI X3T9 standards sub-groups. He holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Brunel University, England, and a BS degree in Electronics and Communications from REC Kurukshetra, India.