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Satish Dhanasekaran

President, Chief Executive Officer & Director, Keysight Technologies

Search every verified Satish Dhanasekaran interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Satish Dhanasekaran, President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of Keysight Technologies, has been in his role since May 2022, following a 17-year tenure with the company. At Keysight's 2023 Investor Day, he outlined the company's strategy for profitable growth, including raising long-term revenue growth expectations to 5-7 percent, operating profit targets of 31-32 percent, and over 10 percent EPS growth. He also announced a $1.5 billion share repurchase authorization approved by the board, and discussed the company's focus on expanding software and solutions content, moving up the technology stack from physical layer tools to protocol and application layers. In earlier appearances, Dhanasekaran frequently discussed 5G technology and its market trajectory. He described 5G as still in early stages with significant momentum, noting close to a million base stations deployed and over 150 million handsets by 2020. He characterized Open RAN as a business model transformation with potential to accelerate innovation, while acknowledging it still had development ahead. He also emphasized Keysight's role in enabling the 5G ecosystem through collaborations with chipset makers, device companies, and operators, and highlighted the importance of global standards collaboration. In a 2021 podcast, he discussed leadership lessons, including the importance of explaining the rationale behind decisions to teams.

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