Roy Chua

  • Founder and Principal at AvidThink
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Roy Chua

Roy Chua, an entrepreneurial executive with 20+ years of experience, is the principal and founder of AvidThink, an independent analyst firm covering infrastructure technologies for carriers and enterprises. AvidThink’s clients include Fortune 500 technology companies, early-stage startups, upstart unicorns, and private equity and venture firms. Roy was previously co-founder at SDxCentral where he ran both the research and product teams.

As an early proponent of the software-defined infrastructure movement, Roy is a frequent speaker at events in the telco and cloud space. Roy and AvidThink have been featured on major publications including WSJ, Fierce Telecom, Fierce Wireless, Mobile World Live, TechTarget, The New Stack, and Light Reading. Roy is a graduate of MIT Sloan (MBA) and UC Berkeley (BS, MS EECS).

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