Quad Investors Network Announces Nokia’s Nishant Batra as New Advisory Board Member

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today the Quad Investors Network (QUIN) announced Nishant Batra, Chief Strategy and Technology Officer (CSTO) of Nokia, has joined the QUIN’s Advisory Board. The QUIN’s Advisory Board is composed of representatives from the Quad nations and sets the agenda for the network, provides strategic guidance, serves as the lead for working groups, spearheads investments, and engages with governments across the four Quad nations.

“Nishant will be an important addition to our Advisory Board,” said Karl Mehta, Chairman of the Quad Investors Network. “His industry experience and technical leadership in critical and emerging technologies such as AI and next-generation 6G networks is extremely valuable. QUIN is expanding capital and partnership opportunities across the Quad, and Nishant’s insights into the business and technical issues facing the four Quad countries will be enormously beneficial.”

The QUIN aims to be the leading technology network for investors, industry, and innovators from across the United States, India, Japan, and Australia. The QUIN brings together public, private, and research stakeholders to promote cooperation, collaboration, and co-investment in vital technologies and supply chain resilience to create innovative solutions for the most pressing economic and security challenges in the Indo-Pacific region.

“I am honored to join the QUIN’s Advisory Board,” said Batra. “I look forward to collaborating with fellow Advisory Board members and partners to drive innovation and identify new opportunities in critical technology areas, such as AI and next-generation networks. As we enter the 6G era, collaboration and investments across the Quad nations will be essential for building a broad ecosystem that can unlock new capabilities through AI and handle the demand that future applications, services, and devices will put on network infrastructure.”

Batra has broad experience in strategy and technology development and portfolio management across the telecom and enterprise sectors. He has been involved in bringing cutting-edge products to market across industry domains and has a deep understanding of the silicon, software, and system requirements necessary for innovation. At Nokia, he is responsible for corporate development and strategy, technology architecture and leadership, and pioneering research at Nokia Bell Labs; Nokia's information technology (IT) infrastructure and digitalization initiatives; centralized security domains; and Nokia's venture capital activities. His function lays the path for Nokia’s future technology innovation and identifies the most promising areas in which Nokia can create new value.

The full list of the QUIN Advisory Board is available here.

About The Quad Investors Network

The Quad Investors Network is a charitable initiative dedicated to building a more prosperous, resilient, and innovative Indo-Pacific region. Through joint investment, technical collaboration, and strategic partnership, the Network works to accelerate the development and manufacture of critical and emerging technologies across the Quad nations. Major investors, industry leaders, and public institutions in Australia, India, Japan, and the United States have joined the QUIN in this mission. For more information, visit https://www.quadinvestorsnetwork.org/

About Nokia

Nokia creates technology that helps the world act together. As a B2B technology innovation leader, the company pioneering networks that sense, think and act by leveraging our work across mobile, fixed and cloud networks. In addition, it creates value with intellectual property and long-term research, led by the award-winning Nokia Bell Labs. Service providers, enterprises and partners worldwide trust Nokia to deliver secure, reliable and sustainable networks today – and work with us to create the digital services and applications of the future. For more information, visit https://www.nokia.com/.