Cognitronics Corporation is headquartered at Danbury in Connecticut. In 1998, when Sharma joined two other IT veterans and friends, Ravi Narayan and Shridhar Ramachandran, to start NexTone, HTCM recognized its potential. We did not have to invest in the infrastructure. And his initial success has been considerable. Sharma and his co-founders looked to employ people who like them were frustrated and bored with the pace and the bureaucracy of large organizations, and yearning for change.
People have to be able to live with the uncertainty.
Sharma has more than 16 years of experience in IT and marketing fields. He holds degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, and also has an MBA degree from the Stern School of Business in New York.