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As Nuiva’s Chief Executive Officer, Labib Shalak leads the company to drive product innovation and provide unrivaled service to our telecom network operator customers around the world. Prior to Nuiva, Labib founded Mobinets, an innovative provider of Next Generation OSS software solutions, in 2003 and co-founded SETRAM (latterly Optimi), a telecoms consultancy, which was acquired by Ericsson. He has more than 25 years of experience in telecoms, software and services industries having held senior positions at Mobile Systems International (MSI), Siemens, Nortel Networks and Gemalto (Thales Group). Labib holds an Engineering degree from the American University of Beirut and a Masters in Radio Mobile degree from École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris in France. Away from work Labib loves to be in the great outdoors and can be found scuba diving, hiking, and snowboarding whenever he gets the chance.

Rida Hodroj is the Chief Financial Officer at Nuiva, and leads all aspects of accounting, finance, IT and human resources for the organization. He is responsible for developing and executing Nuiva’s finance strategy including accounting, reporting, budget management and cost controls as well as recruiting and people management. With over 17 years of commercial finance experience, Rida has held a number of senior finance roles at IBC Corp and RDS. Most recently he was Head of Accounting and Finance at Vivacell, one of South Sudan’s leading mobile operators. Mr Hodroj holds a degree in Accounting & Auditing from Al-Jâmi’ah Al-Lubnaniya University. Rida is a massive sports fan and especially enjoys playing soccer and supporting his beloved team - Al-Nejme.

Chris Pupia is the Chief Commercial Officer at Nuiva, with responsibility for all worldwide sales, business development, and marketing activities for the organization. A proven commercial and sales leader with over 25 years of experience, Chris is laser-focused on developing deep relationships with our customers and partners, positioning the long-term benefits of our differentiated NGOSS and advanced cloud and security innovations, and helping them succeed by reaching the maximum value from their Nuiva solutions. Chris has held senior sales and leadership roles at Kurmi Software, Ericsson, Metaswitch Networks (now Microsoft), Genband (now Ribbon) and Nokia. Most recently he held the post of Senior Vice President of Global Sales at Skyvera where he developed and led their multi-level go-to-market plans. When not at work, Chris is likely to be found snow skiing, walking in a park, or enjoying a good book, concert, series, or movie.

Tarun Verma is Nuiva’s Head of Delivery and General Manager – India. He is responsible for all aspects of software and services implementation, management and delivery to our leading network operator customers around the world. Tarun is also the leader of our India-based software development, Telecom analyst, System Integration, services, and support teams. With over 20 years of experience in strategic customer-centric and commercially focused roles across a range of technology organizations and industries, including IBM, Aricent Technologies and Siemens, Tarun is ideally qualified to deliver on our customer-first commitment. Most recently he was Director and co-founder of GenieDoc, a provider of digital healthcare solutions for healthcare provider institutions. Mr Verma holds a B.Tech. degree in Computer Science from the J.C. Bose University of Science & Technology. A keen photographer, Tarun also loves to play badminton and works out in the gym as part of his fitness regime.