Deepak Karpoor is a seasoned telecom and digital infrastructure executive with over 25 years of experience transforming emerging technologies into profitable, scalable businesses. As Founder of Karagrey, he helps telcos, data center providers, and sovereign platforms evolve into AI-ready digital infrastructure providers, bridging the worlds of context, connectivity, and intelligence.
At Verizon, Deepak led Product for Network APIs & Marketplace, shaping how one of the world’s largest telcos brought programmable network capabilities to developers and enterprises. Today, as Chair of Mplify for the Middle East & Africa, he is advancing global Network-as-a-Service (NaaS) standards adoption to enable interoperable, programmable networks that fuel AI-driven innovation.
Deepak’s work focuses on solving what he calls the “AI Last Mile Gap” — helping enterprises move ideas from sandbox to scale by connecting people, places, things, and legacy data to intelligence through secure, programmable networks. He is a frequent contributor to Telecom Review and global MEF initiatives, and is passionate about building cross-ecosystem collaboration between telcos, traditional and emerging intelligence platform providers, security services, and global standards bodies to drive sustainable transformation and growth.