Education
University of Mysore.
chairman Vice President of Marketing
University of Mysore.
He developed the concept of the Fiber-Optic Link Around the Globe (FLAG) project in 1989 when he was 27 years old. FLAG was the first privately financed submarine fiber optic cable to link several continents around the world. The cost of construction of the first phase was $1.5 billion.
As the executive vice president of Marketing and Business Development at New York-New England Exchange (now Verizon), Tagare was responsible for breaking through regulatory barriers in some of the most difficult countries in the world such as Spain, Italy, Egypt, India, Saudi Arabia, China, Hong Kong, of Korea and Japan.
FLAG was featured in the Guinness Book of World Records as the longest telephone cable in the world and has been instrumental in lowering the cost of international calls to countries like India by an order of magnitude that facilitated the creation of new industries like offshore call centers. Tagare went on to found a second submarine fiber optics company called Project Oxygen Limited. in 1997 where he was the chairman and Chief Executive Officer. Its launch was attended by 300 telecom service providers from 200 countries.
lieutenant was selected as one of the 12 "Cool Companies" by "Fortune Magazine" and is widely believed to be one of the key contributors towards significant decrease in the cost of global bandwidth. Tagare has made dozens of keynote speeches around the world on his lifelong passions: the advantages of lowering prices of bandwidth and creation of a level playing field for the common man around the world.
Tagare has a Bachelor"s degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Mysore, an Master of Business Administration from Texas Christian University and a Program for Management Development from Harvard Business School.
He was also selected as a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum and is a Charter Member of TiE (The Indus Entrepreneurs) New New York