Twenty years at Ericsson — Brazil, Italy, the US and the UK — then Atos, Sprint, and a turn selling AI infrastructure into the data center. I help technology businesses find the commercial story their engineering already earned, and I back founders doing the same.
Most technology companies don't have a product problem — they have a translation problem. I've spent two decades turning deep network, AI and infrastructure capability into propositions that C-level buyers actually sign — at Ericsson, Atos, Sprint, and selling AI servers into the data center.
5G Core, NFV & cloud, IMS, OSS/BSS, orchestration and private MEC. I led a global private multi-access edge computing portfolio, scaled digital-services businesses inside tier-1 carriers, and opened C-level relationships across Verizon, BT, T-Mobile, Telefónica, Orange and Vodafone.
From keynote demo to deployed outcome. I scaled AI and connected-edge solutions across communications, media, public sector and defence — including IoT computer vision monitoring a global entertainment operator's assets with predictive analytics, sold as an outcome rather than a box.
I helped shape Microsoft Azure's ISV programme for private MEC, led a joint AI and computer-vision programme with Google Cloud that reached industry keynotes, and closed partnerships with Verizon Business, Nokia, Dell and AWS. Partnership architecture is a distribution channel, not a logo slide.
Value propositions, outcome-based selling, pricing and commercial models, pipeline built to 5× target. This is the machinery that took T-Mobile from $2M to $340M in six years, doubled US Cellular / TDS from $90M to $180M, and produced $30M of new UK business in a single year.
Cross-functional teams of 30+ solution managers and architects; 200+ resources coordinated on aggressive customer timelines. Complex negotiation across architecture, legal and procurement, with full P&L accountability.
AI servers, GPU systems and HPC sold into Healthcare, SLED, manufacturing and cloud. I ran that motion at Supermicro — GTM with Engineering, Finance and Program Management for SIs, VARs, OEMs and large enterprise. Data center is where Edge, private 5G and hyperscaler partnerships actually land.
I invest in technology companies — and the reason to take my cheque is everything attached to it. I've spent my career on the buying side of the table your founders are trying to reach.
Twenty years of C-level relationships across tier-1 carriers in North America, Europe, Latin America and APAC. Enterprise telecom sells on trust that takes years to build — I can shorten that to an introduction.
I've built the motion that takes a business from $2M to $340M, and another from $90M to $180M in two years. Not theory: pricing, packaging, outcome-based propositions, and pipeline engineered to 5× target.
ISV programmes, joint solutions with the major cloud providers, and alliances with global network and infrastructure vendors. For an infrastructure or AI startup, the right partnership is a distribution channel — I know how those programmes are really run.
An electronics engineer with a Master's in Electrical Engineering and an AI-focused MS in Computer Science. I can read your architecture and your pipeline in the same afternoon — and tell you which one is the problem.
Afiat MarketPulse Pro is my own product — a real-time market intelligence platform I designed and shipped. I'm not an investor who last wrote a spec a decade ago.
A top-down market intelligence platform for active investors. Built, not outsourced.
A good setup in a bad market is still a bad trade. MarketPulse walks the decision in the order a disciplined process demands — Market, Sector, Industry, then Stock — and reads where the tape sits on the fear/greed cycle from six indices at once.
Access is currently by invitation.
Notes on where AI infrastructure, telecom and cloud actually meet revenue — what I'm seeing in the market, and what I'd tell a founder before they build the deck.
I build and scale enterprise technology businesses. Over two decades at Ericsson and three years at Atos, I grew a strategic account from $2M to $340M, doubled another from $90M to $180M in two years, and delivered $30M in new business across five UK accounts in a single year — always with full P&L accountability.
The work now sits at AI infrastructure, data center, telecom and cloud. I completed an MS in Computer Science specializing in AI and machine learning, and I designed and shipped Afiat MarketPulse Pro end to end — real-time market data pipelines, statistical signal models, and a full analytics front end. That combination is the point: I can hold the architecture conversation and the commercial one in the same meeting.
I've led cross-functional teams of 30+ solution managers, directed 200+ resources on multi-year programs, and turned transactional vendor relationships into partnerships with a shared roadmap — across Brazil, Italy, the US and the UK. In 2015 I was recognized among Ericsson's top 100 sales leaders worldwide.
Afiatpour Corporation is based in Northern Virginia / Washington, DC, and works with clients across the US, Europe and Latin America. Client names are available on request.
University of Colorado Boulder — MS Computer Science, AI & Machine Learning (2026)
Unicamp, Brazil — MS Electrical Engineering
Insper, Brazil — MBA, Marketing, Strategy & Management
Federal University of Pernambuco — BS Electronic Engineering
Tier-1 mobile and fixed carriers across North America, the UK, Europe, Latin America and APAC · Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS · AI infrastructure and data-center vendors · global network equipment makers · media, public sector and defence.
Consulting engagements, angel opportunities, or access to MarketPulse Pro — start with an email.